We performed a comparison between Veritas Backup Exec and Veritas NetBackup Appliance 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."Once the solution is integrated with the Exchange, you just click Exchange to back up that file."
"The solution is good for small and medium-sized businesses."
"I like that Backup Exec integrates with Microsoft Exchange. We can retrieve backups from the email boxes."
"The flexibility is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface."
"It's quite stable, and so far, we have had no technical issues with Veritas Backup Exec."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"The product is good in a small environment when looking to a backup on a tape."
"The most valuable feature involves VMware Instant Recovery, which allows one to do restoration within seconds."
"Compared to a homemade installation, this appliance is very stable."
"The reporting is very good compared to other tools."
"If you use the NetBackup Appliance you do not need to have separate media servers and hardware. You can configure the same storage as a media server and master server as well as a storage port. This helps to reduce the hardware costs of the media server."
"The policy-based backup feature is very helpful."
"Veritas NetBackup Appliance's most valuable feature is information backup."
"It is very capable of scaling and very good for heterogeneous environments."
"I can confidently say that I have managed more than 30 or 50 appliances over different time periods, and yet I never had a single hardware failure."
"One area that needs improvement is SQL backup. Backup Exec doesn't support higher availability."
"It is currently missing the dynamic backup feature for virtual machines, which is available in NetWorker. I can create politics in NetWorker to add virtual machines with specific tags, but I cannot do this in Backup Exec, which is a minus point for me. Currently, a user has to send a request to the Backup administrator to add a machine to the backup, but I should be able to create rules to automatically add a new machine to the backup. This kind of functionality is very important in current times, especially when we are using cloud solutions. I should be able to create more than one stream in a policy and specify how many streams I want to run in parallel in one policy. Currently, I have to manually create more policies to backup more than one virtual machine at the same time. Their support can also be improved in terms of response time."
"I would like to see this solution improve on faster restoration. Currently, it takes a long time to restore my data."
"We've experienced some performance issues with Backup Exec. The backup jobs take too long to complete."
"The solution could improve and adapt to new applications in the market so we can integrate Veritas Backup Exec with them to facilitate backup processes within these applications."
"I would like to be able to create a restore task that can be scheduled so that the same restore action will be performed automatically."
"We need to have duplication and better compression."
"The initial installation needs some effort."
"The configuration can sometimes be tricky during implementation."
"We had some problems with the backup of the physical server."
"The reporting feature can be improved."
"The tool's pricing is expensive and could be lower."
"In terms of implementing the solution, it's quite technical. You need to be knowledgable in order to pull off a successful deployment."
"The scalability could be improved."
"The technical support services could be better."
"The upgrade process of the solution needs to be improved since it is extremely complicated, especially without the benefit of a support person who can guide one through it."
Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is ranked 20th in Backup and Recovery with 47 reviews. Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8, while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup Appliance writes "Offers good connectivity, easy to use and stable solution ". Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery, whereas Veritas NetBackup Appliance is most compared with Veritas NetBackup, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), ExaGrid EX Series, DD Boost and HPE StoreOnce. See our Veritas Backup Exec vs. Veritas NetBackup Appliance report.
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