We performed a comparison between Unitrends and Veritas NetBackup based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Unitrends has helped us cut down the time that it takes to restore a server to its original configuration."
"The backup feature and recovery option are good because they allow the instant recovery of Hyper-V nodes and files."
"It is a quick and easy way to organize my backups and to keep track of them."
"Being an appliance-based solution, we were able to migrate backup solutions without having to purchase a lot of hardware separately."
"The predictive analytics are great and the reporting is awesome."
"When we talk about a backup point of view, from a backup perspective, it's a good one."
"It is fairly stable."
"VM backup is much faster and more reliable, as I can test my backups with Data Copy Access jobs."
"The main features of this solution are deduplication, compression, ease of use, simplistic user interface, and compatibility with all the backup service systems."
"Specific features that I could not do without are SLPs for replication and duplication control and AIR which makes DR easy."
"It provides us with the versatility to back up everything we require which eliminates the need for a secondary backup solution."
"Unauthorized people cannot log in and execute commands."
"This product is flexible enough to allow for backing up data from physical machines, as well as from your cloud environment."
"It has a very good user interface."
"It saves time for the backup needs of our organization."
"It's a good product, it does what we want it to do."
"I would like to see more storage options for the free version."
"The amount of updates which are being released. Updates should be limited to two or three a year, focusing more on quality instead of a rushed bug release."
"Probably the biggest issue I've had is actually paying for the unit, and part of that problem is that they use a third party for the billing."
"It seems like Unitrends moved away from enterprise customer engagement and moved more towards the managed service provider market."
"It would be great to have the job throttle/limit the max number of backups on a single ESXi host."
"There's a lot that can be made better. For example, it could be more scalable."
"Network-based storage stability could be improved."
"In terms of improvement, the UI, especially in the recovery section, is unclear about which repository it uses."
"The restore tool is not friendly to newcomers."
"There may be a learning curve."
"Once the protection plan is created, we cannot pause or resume via the web administration page."
"I have been involved in upgrades. They have not been straightforward. Some of them have required us to make changes to our architecture and production environment."
"The biggest additional features needed are more cloud capabilities and security from ransomware."
"NetBackup is expensive and should be cheaper. That is why we are moving on to another solution."
"The licensing costs could be more affordable."
"Endpoint backup capability is needed."
Unitrends is ranked 45th in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 112 reviews. Unitrends is rated 7.8, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Arcserve UDP, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Veritas Backup Exec and Azure Backup. See our Unitrends vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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