We performed a comparison between BackupAssist and Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."I have found that the backups are usually very successful."
"The most valuable features of BackupAssist are ease of use, configure is simple, and more importantly, ease of recovery. If you needed to do a complete system recovery or another recovery it is straightforward."
"We can configure the notifications themselves so that the right people get the notifications. This is very helpful. It allows key stakeholders to know if backups have happened and to remind each other to check the backups if something is not right."
"I get my reports. It is generally very reliable. Unless there is a major change, it doesn't stop backing up. I've got my server room set up with everything connected to the same power, and I never have power issues or failures of backups because a sub-site has gone off."
"The interface of this solution is quite good."
"Veeam is very useful for the Hyper-V environment."
"Application awareness is very good and the speed of this solution is good."
"It's straightforward to set up."
"This is a reliable system that supports Veeam backup and recovery for Windows."
"The most valuable feature is that it's a VMware environment."
"It is easy to deploy."
"The user interface is good. It provides a lot of information."
"Many solutions become stagnant over time. However, BackupAssist has been consistent in updates but they must continue to innovate and improve to avoid stagnation."
"The solution needs a dashboard or some form of central control from which you can manage all backups."
"In the future I would like to see more support for Linux."
"Many solutions become stagnant over time. However, BackupAssist has been consistent in updates but they must continue to innovate and improve to avoid stagnation."
"It stopped doing my backups after I did the last update on it."
"If they could let you can do replication to physical servers - a backup from physical servers and a replication to physical servers - that will be better."
"I would like there to be more integration with other platforms."
"The backups can go slow."
"Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows should improve by having more features, easier deployment, and compatibility with Unix boxes."
"The solution could use some updates to minor details omitted from current reporting."
"It fulfills our needs in terms of features. In terms of improvements, they can maybe improve its documentation."
"There are not many options available for AIX backup. They provide the agent for AIX, but it could be more mature."
"Maybe in the future, they could do something better with the user interface and the performance, but so far it's a really good, efficient solution."
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BackupAssist is ranked 27th in Backup and Recovery with 5 reviews while Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Backup and Recovery with 40 reviews. BackupAssist is rated 8.8, while Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of BackupAssist writes "Provides ransomware protection, does good reporting, and is close to perfect for our use case". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] writes "Functional application availability". BackupAssist is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication and Acronis Cyber Protect, whereas Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell Avamar, Acronis Cyber Protect, AWS Backup and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager.
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