We performed a comparison between Veeam Backup & Replication and Veritas NetBackup based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Veeam Backup & Replication comes out on top in this comparison. According to its users, it is easier to set up and more user friendly than Veritas NetBackup.
"It is a good product, in regards to performance, as well as data protection."
"It is a flexible, simple, and scalable software-based solution. It has agentless functionality with specific hypervisors and agent-based functionality with specific operating systems. It gives you the flexibility to use your own hardware and back up physical Windows, Linux, IBM AIX, and Oracle Solaris systems as well as VMware VMs, Hyper-V VMs, and Nutanix VMs from one console. It also has integration with major applications that most companies are using, such as Active Directory, SQL, Exchange, or SharePoint. It has integrations, not just for the backup on the image, host layer, or hypervisor, but also for performing an application-consistent backup. It is helpful in backing up to the tape, cloud, DR site, etc. It is really flexible. It is really amazing that you can restore any backup on VMware, Azure, or AWS. As compared to the other solutions in the market. Veeam has really integrated a lot in the past years. It has the best performance and perfect replication."
"Its ease of use for restore is really good. For Exchange, the Exchange Active Directory is great."
"The most valuable feature of Veeam Backup & Replication is the ease of use."
"The integration with some storage systems like HP or Nutanix and great support are the most valuable features. You get productivity support. You get a response within one hour, even in the evening or night. The functionality of the whole software is good."
"For virtualization it's perfect."
"Its simplicity and the fact that it just works are most valuable. We kind of set it up and generally forget about it. It does what we need it to do in the background, and it doesn't involve a lot of management."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"This is the best solution that I know of."
"I have found it to be the simplest solution to the market. It gives us a complete end to end solution. We are using this solution, Veritas Appliance and another one for access archiving. It is convenient to have all the support from one vendor."
"The features are good."
"The solution has been very good over the years at fine-tuning various aspects of the product so that it is continuously made better."
"It is important, when we chose a solution, that the customer service/technical support team could help us when we needed it, but the support was good."
"There's a very nice central console for the administration of all of the instances."
"It's a good product, it does what we want it to do."
"Veritas NetBackup is a reliable, easy-to-use, and easy-to-deploy solution."
"CDP also requires a lot of development, because there are a lot of restrictions now for CDP. There is a chance to improve CDP and make it much easier for the customers."
"It would be nice to see more affordable training options for individuals who want to enhance their skills. Some people I know have been interested in training courses, but they found them too expensive."
"Veeam doesn't have the reporting part quite right. Its data visualization isn't as slick as other solutions like Veritas. For example, in Veritas, you can see a calendar that shows you which days are backed up. Veeam lacks features like that."
"Pricing can be improved."
"Multithreading of health check process: This can take too much time to process on large jobs and/or large VMs."
"Recovery speed is slow. Full recovery on large machines (1TB+) takes too long"
"The price could be lower."
"They fixed everything that I was hoping for. It is pretty good. There were a few things in 9.x that I was wishing for, and they came true in version 10. We were looking for retention without having to make a copy job. We're getting ready to migrate m365 to the cloud. I haven't dived into it to make sure, but I wish the m365 backup would integrate into the current console so that we don't have to use two different consoles."
"It would be better if it had a cloud integration feature. I would like to use a single product for the cloud instances and the on-premise instances. The price could also be better."
"Licensing costs are quite high."
"I would like to have support enabled for cloud backups."
"I also think they could improve the reporting. They use a web-based software application OpsCenter for the reporting and I see that they haven't made any changes in years."
"Data restoration from Veritas NetBackup is quite slow. I would also like documentation that I can share with my technical team."
"The product must enable data migration from on-premise to the cloud."
"I do not really like NetBackup as it is coming from a mix of other software packages."
"It gets a lot of new features, but improvements in basic functionality are often sacrificed for a shiny new bullet point to put on sales presentations."
Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 329 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 111 reviews. Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and NAKIVO Backup & Replication, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Azure Backup, Veritas Backup Exec and Dell NetWorker. See our Veeam Backup & Replication vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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