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Altaro VM Backup for MSPs vs Veritas NetBackup comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Altaro VM Backup for MSPs
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
MSP Backup (8th)
Veritas NetBackup
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
119
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Altaro VM Backup for MSPs and Veritas NetBackup aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Altaro VM Backup for MSPs is designed for MSP Backup and holds a mindshare of 5.8%, up 4.7% compared to last year.
Veritas NetBackup, on the other hand, focuses on Backup and Recovery, holds 1.5% mindshare, down 3.5% since last year.
MSP Backup Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Altaro VM Backup for MSPs5.8%
N-able Cove Data Protection15.3%
MSP360 Backup12.1%
Other66.8%
MSP Backup
Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Veritas NetBackup1.5%
Veeam Data Platform5.8%
Commvault Cloud3.4%
Other89.3%
Backup and Recovery
 

Featured Reviews

Anthony Linder - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Application Specialist at a government with 10,001+ employees
An incredibly stable product with a great user interface
Improvements are needed in the solution since it might get difficult if you just drop a technical person who doesn't necessarily have a lot of experience with Altaro VM Backup for MSPs. A technical person who hasn't received any dedicated training or hasn't gone through the documentation part of the solution may find the product to be a little non-intuitive at times. In Altaro VM Backup for MSPs, if you expect something to be somewhere else or when you expect a certain part of the user interface to function in a specific way, it doesn't happen so since the functionality that you expect to be there in the product isn't present on that screen and you need to go somewhere else for that piece. I think that is the case with the most complex tech products. I would like to be able to store a full cluster environment inside of Altaro VM and make sure that the cluster communicates inside of the product, presuming that we have the necessary backup drive in our company. Altaro VM already can test individual VM restores, but one can't really go beyond that scope, at least with the version of the solution that we have in our company right now.
SunilPanigrahi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees
Unified backups have protected virtual machines and applications and optimize storage efficiency
Regarding automated disaster recovery, we have not used Veritas NetBackup automated disaster recovery because according to the RFP terms and conditions, we are not supposed to have automated failover or failback, as we are a government entity and cannot violate the rules of the RFP. My feedback about granular recovery in Veritas NetBackup is that we have been doing verifications of the backed-up data to restore from point to point and time to time, focusing on file level or database level. When it comes to integration with cloud services, we have not started because we are a government entity and are not allowed to store any data in the cloud at this time. From security concerns regarding what I would improve about Veritas NetBackup, I think you need to look into this because we found only one encryption option available, which is not that very strong. When I initiate a backup from my laptop or server to the appliance or the tape media using Veritas NetBackup, the encryption channels are not strong, and there are not many options available. Whatever is there is by default and not changeable. We cannot modify any encryption facilities, and security is a big concern nowadays, so you need to look into that. Regarding the functionality part of Veritas NetBackup, I think this encryption feature should be stronger and integrated from point to point, not just at specific levels. When I initiate a backup, all the communication channels involved should be encrypted until it reaches the endpoint, meaning from client to server, server to client, and client device.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Granular restoration is extremely useful in Altaro VM Backup for MSPs since it is something that we make use of the most in our company."
"Based on my experience of using enterprise-grade backup solutions for a long time, easy management and deployment generally don't happen for enterprises, but in the end we are able to get features, such as easy management and combined centralized management, with Veritas."
"Veritas NetBackup has assisted our company in securing data, protecting data, and protecting our business."
"What I like most is it is a professional product. It supports all kinds of technologies, and I consider it one of the best backup products available."
"Veritas NetBackup is a reliable, easy-to-use, and easy-to-deploy solution."
"Management interface was simple to use once understood."
"The solution is very easy to use and easy to navigate, with a very nice central console for the administration of all of the instances, and it is stable, scales well, and customer support is very quick to respond."
"I have seen value delivered to customers I sold Veritas NetBackup to because they now have a reliable solution that they can always depend on, allowing CIOs to sleep better."
"The most valuable feature from Veritas NetBackup is the data is very easy to backup. It is similar to VMware. They recently introduced a cloud feature that is useful."
 

Cons

"A technical person who hasn't received any dedicated training or hasn't gone through the documentation part of the solution may find the product to be a little non-intuitive at times."
"I'm not fully satisfied with the product. It's a little bit complex to manage."
"NetBackup is a little costlier compared to other products and backup PSC."
"There may be a learning curve."
"DDBoost."
"Technical support needs to improve, especially with the appliances."
"Scalability is a challenge because it is only available in a fixed capacity of, at least 48 terabytes, which makes it difficult to manage."
"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."
"NetBackup is a very old product, and it is based on Linux, which is not user-friendly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"When you compare NetBackup's software licensing system with Veeam's, which is simpler and based on instances (or how many physical machines or virtual machines you want to protect), NetBackup isn't that competitive for smaller scale companies. However, if you're running many large workloads, then NetBackup may be the better option."
"This is an affordable solution"
"Veritas NetBackup's price could be a problem for small businesses."
"Veritas NetBackup is very expensive, and I think price is the main reason which some customers don't want to use this solution."
"So far I can only say that the license structure could be looked at to be aligned as either capacity-based or traditional."
"If you want to have more scalability you have to purchase more licenses. The license is annually and there are a lot of different licensing depending on the number of terabytes needed. It is not based on per-user, core, or servers. You can backup anything you want using the purchased terabyte space."
"Our license is capacity-based."
"Veritas NetBackup is quite expensive and licensing costs are fixed."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business33
Midsize Enterprise21
Large Enterprise66
 

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What is the best next generation backup tool?
Assuming you have an onprem ecosystem which runs the VMware, physical systems on Win, Linux and Unix and run both traditional DB's and nosql DB's like mongo, then Netbackup (NBU) will be the right ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas NetBackup?
I would rate pricing for Veritas NetBackup around six, as it is neither high nor low.
What needs improvement with Veritas NetBackup?
Regarding automated disaster recovery, we have not used Veritas NetBackup automated disaster recovery because according to the RFP terms and conditions, we are not supposed to have automated failov...
 

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