We performed a comparison between Azure Backup and Veritas NetBackup based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Backup slightly nudges out Veritas NetBackup in this comparison. Azure Backup is a more straightforward solution to learn, use, and manage, and provides some impressive next-gen cloud capabilities. Veritas is very complex to learn and manage. Additionally, it is lacking in some basic cloud functionalities, which makes the solution seem a bit dated.
"The best aspect of the solution is its backup functionality."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Backup is the native backup capabilities."
"We are happy with this product and have not found any issues while using it."
"Our client’s infrastructure is protected by the tool."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Backup is the file recovery and file vault."
"With a couple of buttons, we can configure a VM for a backup and use the wall service, the storage wall service, pretty seamlessly."
"This solution allows me to restore either the VM or the data, depending on what is needed."
"The most valuable feature is the ease in which it backs up our data."
"It is essential. We can't do without it."
"AIR and duplication, overall management and troubleshooting."
"Veritas NetBackup is very stable and scales out very well."
"Deduplication is the most valuable feature as it reduces the backup time and provides backup of a single copy of data"
"Disaster recovery primarily involves backup usage. We employ it for both backup and recovery purposes. The backup and recovery processes have been executed multiple times, even restoring data from backups created three to four years ago."
"The most valuable features are the VMware VADP backups and the support for data domains."
"The documentation is good."
"Specific features that I could not do without are SLPs for replication and duplication control and AIR which makes DR easy."
"We faced some issues synchronizing the information in Azure when the storage was changed."
"Azure Backup could improve by offering better integration for Oracle databases and enhancing features like granular restore and backup compliance capabilities."
"Azure Backup is limited to certain workloads. It would be helpful if Microsoft focused on enabling backups for Oracle and other unsupported databases."
"The extensibility onto hybrid environments needs a bit of tweaking for those on-prem."
"The compression ratio of the backup data should be improved."
"Technical support can be slow to respond at times."
"I would like to see better pricing."
"The support for Office365 backup is atrocious and is something that has to be improved."
"The solution could improve by having a feature to backup iSeries workloads."
"The deployment time is longer than it is with other products."
"In the next release, I would like to have a better way to protect against ransomware attacks and a better way of logging issues where you don't have to enable the verbose logging to capture the problems."
"Licensing costs are quite high."
"It is a very expensive solution. They should have a different scheme for selling it. They should also make it easy for us to switch from Solaris to Linux. We are having some trouble in migrating our actual catalog from Solaris to Linux."
"There is room for improvement in the implementation of Power servers."
"Netbackup can backup MySQL via Oracle policy, to be honest, this is not completely native support and this method has a few limitations. In fact, you can buy from Veritas (or Zmanda) clients for MySQL or PostgerSQL from Zmanda to backup MySQL or PostgreSQL on Linux."
"They need to work on the GUI. It has been the same for the last 10 years."
Azure Backup is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery with 51 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 112 reviews. Azure Backup is rated 7.8, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Azure Backup writes "Straightforward to set up and manage and allows us to monitor all backups in one place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Veritas Backup Exec and Dell NetWorker. See our Azure Backup vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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