We performed a comparison between Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup and Veritas NetBackup Appliance 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 initial setup was simple and easy. Anyone without prior experience can install, configure, and use it."
"Reverse Delta is Altaro proprietary backup deduplication technology. With Reverse Delta, the latest version of a file is always made available in its entirety, not as a delta file."
"The intuitive interface allows you to set up and perform backups and restores easily."
"The interface is user-friendly and even if our tech isn't onsite, we can work with the owners to confirm that the data will be restored with no issues."
"The CDP backup feature is very nice, as it allows you to take backups at high frequencies and with application consistency."
"Valuable features for us include quick recovery, compression, and deduplication."
"The product has many valuable features for handling backup needs, including replication, live migration, and incremental disaster recovery."
"The ability to test the backups without having to manually mount the VHDs after restore allows us to check the integrity of the backups."
"The reporting is very good compared to other tools."
"The solution uses minimal resources."
"It has a lot of very good features. The virtual tape library (VTL) feature is most valuable. Overall, it is easy to use."
"NetBackup Appliance's most valuable feature is the duplication encryption standard feature."
"The most valuable feature is that the backup and restoring process is very fast."
"Veritas NetBackup Appliance's most valuable feature is information backup."
"The initial setup gets easier the more you do it."
"We rarely need their help. I would give their technical support an 8.5 out of ten. We are satisfied."
"Basically, how it works is that you have a single local drive, and then you have a cloud backup. It'd be nice if you could rotate the single local backup drive. As of now, you can't."
"It would be nice to be able to recover the items to their original location."
"The application could include a feature to install a set size of data, such as the ability to store a single application with all its registry information for easy transfer."
"To improve Altaro, I would like to see the ability to choose more than one backup location at a time."
"The initial set up was complex, and I was not able to do the set up myself."
"Backup speed and comparisons between versions used to be slow on big VMs but that was improved greatly later on."
"Improvement areas for Altaro VM Backup include enhancing backup and deduplication solutions for continuous operation and offering an all-in-one solution for hardware backup."
"The cloud backup and VMware support (now available in the latest releases), could do with some improvement."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration and security."
"I would like the ability to recover a single folder within the backup of a virtual machine."
"The scalability isn't great. Every time you want to add storage, you can't just add a little bit, you need to add a lot."
"With technical support, it feels like they aren't well trained and it takes forever to get answers out of them."
"They could simplify the process of installing, and provide more space for data during the process."
"Veritas NetBackup Appliance needs to improve its security. It needs to ensure that it is 100 percent protected against cyberattacks."
"The configuration can sometimes be tricky during implementation."
"The reporting feature can be improved."
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Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is ranked 54th in Backup and Recovery with 29 reviews while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is ranked 20th in Backup and Recovery with 46 reviews. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is rated 8.6, while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup writes "Offers a comprehensive feature set offered at a competitive price". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup Appliance writes "Offers good connectivity, easy to use and stable solution ". Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup and Datto Cloud Continuity, whereas Veritas NetBackup Appliance is most compared with Veritas NetBackup, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), DD Boost, ExaGrid EX Series and HPE StoreOnce.
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