We performed a comparison between Rubrik and Veeam Backup & Replication based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Rubrik and Veeam Backup & Replication have a similar user rating regarding ease of deployment, features, service and support, and ROI. In terms of pricing, Rubrik users thought the solution was expensive yet worth the price, while Veeam Backup & Replication users gave its pricing mixed reviews.
"Rubrik is stable and easy to use."
"This is a centralized tool where we are able to schedule backups and perform monitoring."
"The file search feature across all backups has been helpful."
"The solution's technical support team is very responsive and proactive."
"Also, the web interface is really great. The design, from a user-experience standpoint, is really straightforward and easy to use... they nailed it. Usually, from the very first panel, the dashboard that you land on after login, you've got most of your functionality right around where you need it to be. You've got your new items on the left, you've got your support on the top right. Nothing really seems out of place or just stuck in someplace."
"Mounting recent backups to create new servers rather than cloning servers in VMware drastically cut down required time."
"I haven't encountered any bugs or glitches using the solution."
"I value the options it has for storage tiering (i.e. whether it should be a flash, SSD, or pushed to the cloud) depending on the data provided."
"Veeam Backup Replication's most valuable features are the ease of use and the interface is very configurable for the users. It's a very familiar solution in Algeria."
"The product could be improved if they wrote more PowerShell scripts for controlling Veeam."
"The direct SAN backup feature perfectly integrates with our 3PAR storage infrastructure."
"The product is very simple in its design. We don't need it to perform complicated tasks."
"The fast backup and restore feature is the most valuable."
"Provides lots of reporting and visualization of how much data has been transferred."
"The most valuable aspects are the latest features in version 12.1, which introduced enhanced security features."
"The backups we have been receiving from Veeam Backup Replication on-premise have been good."
"There could be better reporting and better filtering."
"The price of Rubrik is too high, especially when you are considering a change in the total backup solution."
"I would like to see Rubrik better integrate with Microsoft Active Directory. Instead of just backing up a full domain controller, I would like the solution to have Active Directory object knowledge so we can restore specific objects in Active Directory versus restoring the whole domain controller."
"The open source database needs to be supported."
"We would like to be able to do granular restores directly from Exchange. Also, more granular management of VM backups would help."
"The licensing cost is quite high. That is something that needs to be worked out, because so many times it happens that the team does not have the budget or there are other issues at that time. Cost has become an important factor in deciding whether to continue with the Rubrik solution."
"Rubrik's disaster recovery capabilities could be improved."
"I hope to see enhancements in areas like data governance and the incorporation of new features in future updates."
"The more features the solution has the more complex it can be to set up. Veeam Backup & Replication can be complex."
"The SME that helped us with the implementation would probably have more insight because he used it way more than we have. We just use it for making sure that our backups are done daily, and the replications are being performed between sites. We haven't had any issues at all with it other than the fact that there is a slight process to acquire additional licenses if we want to expand our number of hosts. That's because it is based on the number of cores and threads that are used."
"When in a domain, the virus can easily attack the Veeam server, something which happened to us."
"We would like to see support for some additional storage systems."
"Cross-hypervisor replication can be improved."
"It would be ideal if users could know that their data is backed up and have some security functionality where you can actually use the backup to spin up a new cluster and take it from there."
"I would like for them to develop the ability to fix the way it does backups. We can't pick a backup for one database. We have to do a backup on the whole Exchange VM. I'd like for them to change it to where we can do individual backups."
"The Veeam portal should be better integrated with all the parts of the new release. But there's always a workaround to replicate the new solution. I'd like to have better integration with other solutions like SAP."
Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 82 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 328 reviews. Rubrik is rated 9.2, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". Rubrik is most compared with Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Azure Backup, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Veritas NetBackup, Zerto and NAKIVO Backup & Replication. See our Rubrik vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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I would choose Untrends all day long as it provides fully automated DR testing so when you need to recover from an incident you select the most recent validated copy in minutes.
The appliances (Physical, or Virtual where you have the storage and compute already) index blocks locally so there is less to pull back down from the cloud reducing data repatriation costs and they are the only single vendor solution that is fully integrated and 100% compatible with single-pane management for backup, DR/BC (replication and archiving), for M365, Google Workspace, AWS/Azure Workloads, DTC for home workers.