We performed a comparison between Veritas NetBackup and Veritas NetBackup Appliance 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."We can easily expand the ability of the solution."
"The most valuable feature is its stability."
"Logs are very easy to read, parse, and use for diagnostics."
"The reporting is very good, with all of the details highlighted and very clear."
"The most valuable feature of Veritas NetBackup is the protection policies or protection module."
"The tool provides recovery. The support for their legacy software is very good."
"Specific features that I could not do without are SLPs for replication and duplication control and AIR which makes DR easy."
"I like NetBackup's accelerator feature. You can take a full backup with incremental speed and integrate it with block tracking."
"It has a lot of very good features. The virtual tape library (VTL) feature is most valuable. Overall, it is easy to use."
"It is easy to use and the performance is good."
"There are a lot of new features that operate to protect the data from ransomware attacks. They launched the Veritas/Appliances to protect our data. Veritas has been doing its job well."
"The policy-based backup feature is very helpful."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it can be used in many different kinds of systems."
"Veritas NetBackup Appliance is a total backup solution. We don't have to buy other applications to do it."
"It has been our go-to product for backup."
"NetBackup Appliance's most valuable feature is the duplication encryption standard feature."
"Enhancing reporting across the board would be beneficial."
"The speed of restoring data could be improved."
"We had some issues with the hardware backup appliance."
"NetBackup is a very old product, and it is based on Linux, which is not user-friendly."
"Veritas NetBackup is an expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved."
"The HTML interface is a web application that does not offer all the features."
"There is room for improvement in the implementation of Power servers."
"It needs support for Kernel-based Virtual Machines (KVMs)."
"The technical support services could be better."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration and security."
"The product should provide more AI and ML features."
"We had some problems with the backup of the physical server."
"NetBackup Appliance's pricing is reasonable, but it could be lower."
"The NetBackup software is based on Red Hat Linux, but we should have multiple software options for that. We should have more OS options. Also, there are too many tools and intermediaries. Everything should be built into an all-in-one solution."
"The scalability isn't great. Every time you want to add storage, you can't just add a little bit, you need to add a lot."
"The hybrid model is not that efficient if we want to off-site data; it takes a lot of time to upload the data on a regular basis."
Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 112 reviews while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is ranked 20th in Backup and Recovery with 47 reviews. Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2, while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup Appliance writes "Offers good connectivity, easy to use and stable solution ". Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Azure Backup, Veritas Backup Exec and Dell NetWorker, whereas Veritas NetBackup Appliance is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), DD Boost, ExaGrid EX Series, HPE StoreOnce and Veeam Backup & Replication. See our Veritas NetBackup vs. Veritas NetBackup Appliance report.
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