Kevin

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Industry: Information Technology & Services
Company size: 2–10 Employees
Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Reviewing Veritas Backup Exec

Reviewed on 2023/11/26

Great of the existing clients we have so long as the annual subscription doesn't continue to climb...

Great of the existing clients we have so long as the annual subscription doesn't continue to climb well in excess of inflation.

Pros

great console, relevant features and easy of deploying agents across a network.

Cons

the product has become un attainable for most SME's with the start cost in excess of £1K

Jesus

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Industry: Information Technology & Services
Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
Used Daily for 2+ years
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Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Veritas Backup Exec work all time

Reviewed on 2024/11/19

Very nice experience to backup files, DBs, and Virtual Machines

Pros

-Big compatibility with storages and tape libraries.
-We can list a big quantity of backups and see what backups failed or not.
-We can backup a complete VM to restore in a specific point.
-We can send a lot of backups with a high volume of data and still work without problems.
-We can see the backups in real time and see with file is backing in real time.
-A lot of specifications to restore data (path, permissions, overwrite, etc...)

Cons

The support is bad and very frustrate because to open a ticket the support team request a big information to start to help us.

Russell

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Industry: Wholesale
Company size: 51–200 Employees
Used Daily for 2+ years
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Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Veritas Backup Exec is a backup product that, when we used it, was not without flaws.

Reviewed on 2024/08/05

We used Backup Exec for several years to push backups to tape and to physical hard disks. Failures...

We used Backup Exec for several years to push backups to tape and to physical hard disks. Failures were frequent and frustrating.

Pros

Once configured the product ran well enough to create good backups and was not difficult to setup.

Cons

Backups had frequent failures and issues, support was not what it should have been for an enterprise level product.

Zalman

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Industry: Apparel & Fashion
Company size: 51–200 Employees
Used Daily for 2+ years
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Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Why I left Veritas

Reviewed on 2024/01/21

It served me well for 25 years. However, I don't know what the current version can do. They were...

It served me well for 25 years. However, I don't know what the current version can do. They were not able to show me a demo. In the end I bought Veeam. There are a few features that I use. There is the normal backup and restore. Replication on to the cloud. The 2 capabilities that I found important was (1) an IMMUTABLE Backup. It is a local secondary backup that can't be over written. Good protection against ransomware. It requires a Linux OS. (2) If the server crashes, I can bring up a backup and have people continue working until a new server is created. The only issue is that this can't be backed up while being accessible to the end user. Unitrend offers (2),but not (1). They only have Cloud Backup.

Pros

I used it for years and it was always reliable. However, I can't recommend the product any more. Read the cons.

Cons

In July & Aug 2023, I tried for 2 months get a demo of the latest version. I only had one return phone call and the person didn't follow up. No reply to emails even though I had this persons email address. I was totally ignored. The sales agent said that they are understaffed because of COVID from the last 2 years. It wasn't possible to see a demo of the latest version. I gave up after 2 full months. I had older versions that stopped working once the server NetframeWork was upgraded. Veritas said one could only buy a newer version. They were not going to fix the older versions.

Theint Zarchi

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Industry: Computer & Network Security
Company size: 201–500 Employees
Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Data Recovery Zone

Reviewed on 2024/04/04

Pros

Cost savings
Less storage and bandwidth
Enhanced backup security
Fast recovery

Cons

Upgrading version
Full and incremental backup sizing is the same suddenly

Taryn

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Industry: Information Technology & Services
Company size: 51–200 Employees
Used Monthly for 2+ years
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Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Veritas Backup Exec is most suited to Small / Medium Businesses.

Reviewed on 2022/02/14

Veritas Backup Exec is a good choice for small to medium businesses with a relatively simple set up...

Veritas Backup Exec is a good choice for small to medium businesses with a relatively simple set up , not requiring many different agents to be backup up, and without excesses amounts of data.
The licensing model is complicated and can be expensive, but I have seen great changes in the options supplied now - such as the Per VM model

Pros

Its great that Veritas Backup Exec has kept up to date with licensing, allowing per VM licensing via subscription.
Ease of installation and use for those businesses without a very technical and dedicated IT Team.
Compatible with most, if not all, tape libraries.
Integrates well with Vmware

Cons

The licensing model is more complicated than others, ie Veeam - each agent needs to be licensed - makes for a complex licensing model.
Backups are relatively slow.
The dashboard is not as intuitive as its competitors interfaces.

Alternatives Considered

Acronis Cyber Backup

Reasons for Switching to Veritas Backup Exec

Veritas remained in these environments as it was doing its job. The customers own the licensing, and are simply paying renewal each year, so it makes no sense to move to another product, when the current system is working and paid for.

Girish

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Industry: Computer & Network Security
Company size: 10,000+ Employees
Used Monthly for 2+ years
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Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best in class Backup & Recovery Solution for any workload !!!

Reviewed on 2023/04/13

Overall I have been very satisfied with the product.Deployment is superfast and interface is user...

Overall I have been very satisfied with the product.Deployment is superfast and interface is user friendly

Pros

Ability to manage different environment from single interface .Flexibility of protection of SaaS application , Virtual , Cloud etc.

Cons

Ability for MSP to manage multiple customer will be a good add on

Verified Reviewer

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Industry: Automotive
Company size: 10,000+ Employees
Used Daily for 2+ years
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Value for Money
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Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Backup Exec is good product to backup servers for small, mid & large level of company.

Reviewed on 2022/04/07

Pros

I like below services,
1. it use snapshot technology for backup.
2. we can schedule job for full backup, incremental and diffractal backup as per the requirement.
3. we can also encrypt data through software.
4. it provides data compression.

Cons

There should be available tape test tool.

Celeste

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Industry: Information Technology & Services
Company size: 201–500 Employees
Used Daily for 2+ years
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Value for Money
Ease of Use
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Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Veritas Back

Reviewed on 2022/03/01

Smooth transition and works well

Pros

Use friendly and quite easy to manage dash board easily accessible and looks and feels great , great alerts

Cons

Updated dont happen often the process is quite long not so easy to perform

Fazal Ur Rehman

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Industry: Information Technology & Services
Company size: 11–50 Employees
Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Ease of Use
Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Backup and recovery solution for SME

Reviewed on 2021/11/20

Pros

Since our enterprise data was not that much initially, we got Backup Exec. It was easy to use. Offer3

Cons

The limit on using the tape drive is a major disadvantage. The slow backup is another one.

Grant

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Industry: Information Services
Company size: 201–500 Employees
Used Daily for Free Trial
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Ease of Use
Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Backup Exec Review

Reviewed on 2022/03/07

Pros

It does decent backups, and when testing restores I haven't had a single failure.

Cons

UI needs a bit of work - it feels clunky and outdated.

Kuberan

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Industry: Information Services
Company size: 201–500 Employees
Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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Value for Money
Ease of Use
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Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

A Very Veritas Reivew

Reviewed on 2022/03/07

Pros

The tool is easy to setup and trial.
Backups ran without issue

Cons

Not much integration Office 365 and other management tools such as Manage Engine

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