We performed a comparison between NAKIVO Backup & Replication and Veritas Backup Exec 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."They reply immediately to any query raised from us as a technician or consultant and they know the pulse of the market and keep updating the features in such a big way."
"The most important feature besides the easy management of the different backup jobs is the automated e-mail notification functionality."
"Backup jobs are running smoothly every day with job reports sent to email after they finish each job. That gives us peace of mind."
"We are able to take backups on a regular interval and restore data/VMs as we choose making the process work as advertised."
"This product has helped to centralize backups and made it easy to recover data."
"The interface is basic and very easy to use which is what we are looking for."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is a cheaper price and user-friendly."
"The backup and replication are great."
"For us, the main two features that we appreciate in this application are backup and restore. They are the main purposes for which we are using this application."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"One nice feature with Backup Exec is mainly that disaster can happen to any server and the disk image can be destroyed very easily. It's also easy to fully email the backup image and restore the server."
"This solution is not complex and you do not have to be too technical to use it."
"Setting up Backup Exec is straightforward. It took less than two weeks to get it up and running. You need maybe two people at most if you have a Veritas-certified engineer."
"It is easy to set up and use for daily processes and a good solution for preserving crucial data."
"Veritas is simple and easy to deploy. In terms of the presentation and UI, they do their job well."
"The beauty of the solution is that you can rely on it. It offers a quick recovery time when it's backing up items. The way it recovers data is excellent."
"So far, there is no version that supports Polish. If such a version existed, many customers in our region would decide to purchase and implement this solution."
"We are satisfied with Nakivo, but if anything could be improved, I think it would be more real-time as opposed to email support availability."
"It would be helpful to be able to have a custom footprint so that only the required features are installed."
"There is a lack of native (web-based) update functionality."
"It is missing the file and folder backup; however, this product is meant for virtual machine backup and recovery, so that is really outside of the scope of the software."
"Personally, I would like to have the ability to backup older legacy systems on the new versions as well."
"In the press releases, it would be useful to make sure that the manual space reclaim procedure does not have to be performed but that it happens automatically, thus optimizing the use of space."
"Compression and data deduplication are okay, but they could be improved."
"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."
"One area that needs improvement is SQL backup. Backup Exec doesn't support higher availability."
"If you keep it for too long and the catalog gets really big, the application tends to move slowly."
"A web console would be great because nowadays a lot of products are web-based and you can access the console from various environments. So I would recommend bringing this feature in the next solution."
"The solution is too heavy and complex with 1,000 menus and options that make it messy rather than lightweight."
"At the moment, we have a very complex environment. It would take some time to deploy an environment like ours from scratch."
"Doesn't include disaster recovery."
"Whenever a job fails, it would be a great improvement to be able to resume the job from that feature. Suppose a job was started this morning and that it is going on while there are interruptions like network issues, server restart issues, server connectivity issues, services stopping, etc. For some reason, let's assume that the job failed or that it was mistakenly canceled by another person. It will be a great improvement if that failed job can be continued."
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik and VMware SRM, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Bacula Enterprise. See our NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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