We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Veeam Backup & Replication based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: When searching for the best Backup and Recovery Software solution, PeerSpot users feel Veeam Backup & Replication is the best choice. Veeam offers great integrations, scales easily, is very easy to use and is very cost-effective. Many users feel Dell Avamar is outdated and requires a significant learning curve, making it a less desirable solution.
"The solution is very stable."
"The solution is very stable."
"Quick incremental backups and product replication are the two highlights of the product. Once you capture a full backup, incrementals are pretty quick. It is fairly efficient from that perspective."
"Centralization is Avamar's biggest advantage. It moves data to a central location from various geographical locations."
"Dell EMC Avamar is easy to work with and is user-friendly."
"We've found the product to be stable."
"The stability is okay."
"It's stable and offers good performance."
"Simple and stable."
"Its portability and being able to back up between different platforms are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of Veeam Backup Replication is application awareness. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly and it has been working very well."
"If you have a lot of central sites and remote sites, you can easily set up the replication and make it easier."
"One of the most valuable features is the integration. Another good feature is the instant recovery."
"Veeam's file monitoring capabilities are strong and consistent."
"The technical support is excellent. It's one of the best I've met so far."
"It is a straightforward solution. There is no need for a dedicated technical person to do the backup and replication. Veeam is very straightforward when it comes to doing the replication."
"The user interface still needs to have some level of improvement. It could be more user-friendly and intuitive."
"When you get down to doing certain things, such as somebody wants a particular file restored, the process by which you do that is stupid. You kind of have to know exactly where to look for in order to find it. Even on older backup products that I've used, I didn't have that kind of problem. If we were looking for a file with a particular kind of a name, the solution would find that file anywhere irrespective of where it resides within the backup system. So, we didn't have to know the name of the specific server, the specific timeframe, almost all the characters of the file name, and all kinds of data in order to find a file. In Avamar, we got to know these details. We've gone around and around with them on that, and their attitude seems to be that it is working just fine. There is nothing for them to improve. The organizational system of other products that I'm working with, such as Zerto and Cohesity, seems to be centered around the tasks that you would most commonly do and want to do, as opposed to we've laid it out in a really neat technical hierarchy."
"The stability could improve, a lot of scheduled backups failed at one time."
"Avamar needs a greater emphasis on storage targets. If it's going to keep pace with the times, it needs more ability to leverage cloud storage."
"Dell hasn't done a good job at handling these upgrades, or the way EMC used to handle them."
"If you need to pull data out of it to offload to tapes, that's messy. You have a mechanism for it, but it is painful."
"It's very slow to backup and store information. It has two consoles and an application which are more difficult to use than a solution like Veeam."
"The solution should improve its tape-connectivity features."
"The replication functionality only works for VMware environments. Veeam has a backup agent for AIX operating systems, and we will like to see the replication functionality available for the AIX operating system. Additionally, if the backup functionality for AIX to be included in the Veeam console would be an advantage."
"The pricing could be improved."
"We have had problems with some jobs. For example, when we have a VM with a large SQL Database, sometimes we cannot adjust the time for transaction logs to back up and overlap time."
"I would like a solution for SAP systems to be included."
"If a single file is corrupt then the restoration of the entire backup will fail."
"We struggled to stabilize the application. We had an incident which resulted in a loss of data and have terminated this solution due to lack of support from the Veeam team."
"This is an expensive solution."
"The replicating from Veeam Backup Replication to Azure cloud could be improved."
Dell Avamar is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery Software with 37 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery Software with 155 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell Avamar writes "Unlimited scalability, very stable, and ties very well with VMware API". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Dynamic and reliable backup solution". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA), Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Rubrik, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Azure Backup, Rubrik, Acronis Backup, Nakivo and Zerto. See our Dell Avamar vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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