We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect, Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL], and Veritas Backup Exec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Replication processes with container storage pools allow reduction of storage space and network bandwidth, using deduplication and compression."
"From a tech perspective, utilizing deduplication is one of the most valuable features."
"The backup is very good. In other backup systems, you need a lot of storage to gain the same backup policy."
"The most valuable features are compression and de-duplication."
"It is scalable beyond anything my customers ever aspire to."
"Incremental forever: This feature helps us reduce backup time and backup storage space."
"The main feature of this product is a flexible architecture and functionality that allows you to solve problems of any complexity and scale. Most importantly, it is not just a product that simply makes a backup, but it restores and saves a large number of services in critical situations. By the way, it works fine with different types of clouds, supports S3."
"Space efficient data reduction, using progressive incremental forever in combination with deduplication and compression."
"It's powerful and user-friendly."
"The solution is useful for taking backups for end-user laptops and end-user workstations where data is involved."
"Technical support is good."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It was very easy. Deployment only took about one hour with configuration and everything considered."
"If you have windows machine at home and you'd like a backup, you can always download their free edition and plug in an external hard disk, and do a full backup of your laptop."
"The most valuable feature is that it's a VMware environment."
"The interface of this solution is quite good."
"Application awareness is very good and the speed of this solution is good."
"One of the valuable features is the instant recovery for VMs. It reduces the RTO (Recovery Time Objective) drastically."
"I have found the overall features of the solution very good and there is the option to backup to the cloud."
"The beauty of the solution is that you can rely on it. It offers a quick recovery time when it's backing up items. The way it recovers data is excellent."
"The solution is very scalable. Whenever we grew, it was just a matter of adding new licenses, so it's easy to grow."
"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."
"It is a good backup tool."
"Backup Exec 2012 R2 is a very good product for the Windows file system and SQL backups. It is very user-friendly, but the next version Backup Exec 2014 that is released and the other next versions of Backup Exec product is not so friendly."
"It is responding very well, and its performance is good. It has a lot of options. For backup, you can connect it to a cloud or a physical hard drive. They also provide an API for integration with different platforms and products. However, we have not integrated it with another product."
"Anytime you are not very current and call in with an issue, it is hard to get it resolved. It will depend on how far back you go though."
"Any feature that is compliant with virtualizing the application should be improved."
"We need everything cloud. Strong support for cloud services. S3 connectivity, which is mandatory for us in the future along with this integration of Spectrum Copy Data Management or Spectrum Protect services together with these Spectrum Protect Plus functionalities, e.g., hardware, snapshots, and Copy Data Management. They should come together in one solution."
"This product should be more user-friendly for newcomers."
"In a future release, it would be a benefit to have the ability to add an application as a storage target, as a storage pool. Additionally, they should add more functionality to the administration for the Operation Center."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is not a very user-friendly tool."
"The product should be improved to save more space."
"Integration with some applications in the healthcare field could be added, as that is a big part of our business."
"I've found a lot of difficulties on the initial setup and especially in terms of credentials. We really need a Window OS. It doesn't like the domain admin account. it's a primary permission issue."
"If you are doing an AIX backup then you have to use the CLI because it doesn't appear on the console, the way that Windows and Linux jobs do."
"Some customers have Oracle databases and Veeam does support back up of Oracle databases."
"An area that this solution could be improved would be with the licensing."
"There are not many options available for AIX backup. They provide the agent for AIX, but it could be more mature."
"I would like to see the ability for incremental backups and reverse backups."
"I would like to see the capability for remote installation of third party applications added( Like installing WinRar MS Office etc..) , and Firewall for servers."
"It is not always easy to update this solution to the newer version, so the update process needs to be improved."
"The solution is too heavy and complex with 1,000 menus and options that make it messy rather than lightweight."
"Whenever a job fails, it would be a great improvement to be able to resume the job from that feature. Suppose a job was started this morning and that it is going on while there are interruptions like network issues, server restart issues, server connectivity issues, services stopping, etc. For some reason, let's assume that the job failed or that it was mistakenly canceled by another person. It will be a great improvement if that failed job can be continued."
"The licensing packet is confusing. If Veritas could do a better job of clarifying it, that would be helpful."
"Better integration with non-Microsoft products would be an improvement."
"It is currently missing the dynamic backup feature for virtual machines, which is available in NetWorker. I can create politics in NetWorker to add virtual machines with specific tags, but I cannot do this in Backup Exec, which is a minus point for me. Currently, a user has to send a request to the Backup administrator to add a machine to the backup, but I should be able to create rules to automatically add a new machine to the backup. This kind of functionality is very important in current times, especially when we are using cloud solutions. I should be able to create more than one stream in a policy and specify how many streams I want to run in parallel in one policy. Currently, I have to manually create more policies to backup more than one virtual machine at the same time. Their support can also be improved in terms of response time."
"I would like to see this solution improve on faster restoration. Currently, it takes a long time to restore my data."
"The price of this solution is very high."
"It could be improved in the area of reporting and ease-of-use."
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