We performed a comparison between Barracuda Backup and Veritas Backup Exec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The solution’s scalability is good because its space is unlimited. We can start in Office365 with one terabyte bit of information and leverage through an enterprise solution of 1000 users."
"The dashboard was good. I loved to see the maintenance dashboard every time I logged on. That was my first screen because it always gave me a reminder of how many days before my next renewal."
"Setting up Backup Exec is straightforward. It took less than two weeks to get it up and running. You need maybe two people at most if you have a Veritas-certified engineer."
"The solution is very scalable. Whenever we grew, it was just a matter of adding new licenses, so it's easy to grow."
"Recovery via Active Directory is painless and much easier than the complicated setup procedures of other products."
"The backup solution comes in different versions to support different platforms."
"The solution is good for small and medium-sized businesses."
"One nice feature with Backup Exec is mainly that disaster can happen to any server and the disk image can be destroyed very easily. It's also easy to fully email the backup image and restore the server."
"It is one of the most stable backup solutions."
"An improvement is required in reports and backups for sharing on Linux and Unix."
"The scalability could be improved even though the solution is targeted to small customers."
"The solution could improve by having better documentation."
"We've experienced some performance issues with Backup Exec. The backup jobs take too long to complete."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"There are some issues with the Backup Exec Library and the random picking of tapes."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high."
"Something within the software itself isn't quite right. There may be a bug or glitch. It will work fine for weeks and then all of a sudden it just tanks."
"I would like to see this solution improve on faster restoration. Currently, it takes a long time to restore my data."
Barracuda Backup is ranked 39th in Backup and Recovery with 3 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Barracuda Backup is rated 8.6, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Barracuda Backup writes "An enterprise solution for backup and ransomware protection". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Barracuda Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery.
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