We performed a comparison between Arcserve UDP 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."One of the things that I do like about it is that it has a very good deduplication feature."
"It's simple to set up."
"Global deduplication is the best feature of this solution."
"It allows us to back up all the servers and centrally manage them."
"It is very stable."
"The ability to switch between different hardware platforms and utilization tools are some of this solution's most valuable features."
"The product's deployment process was straightforward."
"The data protection functionality is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The one thing for the last 12 months which has been very good for Veritas was the instance-based license. This means that you're able to license per instance, not only per physical server."
"Once the solution is integrated with the Exchange, you just click Exchange to back up that file."
"Compression is the most valuable feature."
"We are satisfied with the stability of the product."
"It gives us the ability to locate and restore critical files which users may have intentionally or unknowing deleted a while ago."
"Good open file option feature, SQL agent, and EM agent."
"Veritas is good for small environments."
"The most valuable feature of Veritas Backup Exec is the ease of use."
"Backups are very slow and time consuming."
"We have to use a Microsoft hypervisor for installation which is expensive."
"StorageCraft ShadowProtect can improve by making one console that can control backups of all desktops and servers in one place. Additionally, the recovery process of the backups is very slow and could improve. It's very slow when we went to recover a complete disc but to recover one file is very fast."
"The solution can use a lot of bandwidth when the scheduling is not done, it should auto-schedule itself. For example, if there are 50 users connected in the network at 12 o'clock and the backup is not scheduled. At this time the network offices are going to have performance issues when it is doing a backup. Having a feature to auto-schedule a time when the network is not being used often would be beneficial."
"The solution could improve by being more user-friendly. It can be difficult to assign destinations and choose which files and folders we need to back up. There are some aspects that are unclear."
"I don't know whether the tool has VMware integrations. It would be good to cover this area if it doesn't have those."
"The technical support of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"We could not go into granular details of retrieving backup information."
"The pricing could be improved."
"Maybe they could improve reporting capabilities and predictions."
"The cost is quite high. Along with the general costs, the supposed agents that you have to buy for the various options that you want to use ends up driving the costs higher as well."
"The scalability could be improved even though the solution is targeted to small customers."
"More stable environment in a WAN infrastructure."
"The integration with SaaS applications like Office 365 needs to be improved."
"It doesn't support the AIX platform."
"I would like to see this solution improve on faster restoration. Currently, it takes a long time to restore my data."
Arcserve UDP is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 40 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 16th in Backup and Recovery with 68 reviews. Arcserve UDP is rated 7.6, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Arcserve UDP writes "Global deduplication, stable, and flexible licensing options". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Arcserve UDP is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Rubrik and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas Alta SaaS Protection. See our Arcserve UDP vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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