We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, and Veritas Backup Exec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"It integrates well with Spectrum Scale."
"Incremental forever: This feature helps us reduce backup time and backup storage space."
"For initial setup, we started with the blueprints, which were great. The blueprints allowed us to be able to decide if we needed to use small, medium,k or large. Because we are a large environment, we used a large blueprint. Once we followed everything in the blueprint, it was a smooth transition from there."
"The solution is mostly stable."
"It allows us to have one interface."
"The business value comes from the capability to overcome data losses."
"The product helps us do data protection and restoration for disaster recovery (DR)."
"The ability to migrate between media over a long period of time. My customers are long-time users, and they have benefited from being able to move between tiers. They have been able to do this within the product."
"Veeam Backup & Replication is a great alternative to what is out there. Some of the backups just allow an agent backup to the cloud. You can back up a thousand different ways, but this is a great way to keep a customer and a company in compliance in that they've got their data secure onsite and offsite. The data being transferred to the NAS at the customer's location and also the data being sent to the cloud is encrypted in transit and it's also encrypted at rest so that nobody is going to be able to hack into that. No one will have the keys to do that."
"The technical support is good."
"This is easy to use with a simple restore feature."
"It is a stable and scalable solution that's easy to operate and restore."
"The backup and replication features of this solution are most valuable."
"The backup and replication features are most valuable."
"Simple and stable."
"Veeam is highly scalable. In one scenario, we started with 2,000 users and scaled up to 24,000."
"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 interface, dashboard, and pricing are all perfect."
"It gives us the ability to locate and restore critical files which users may have intentionally or unknowing deleted a while ago."
"The interface for this solution is excellent, and it is easy to restore files compared to other solutions."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the easy-to-use intuitive GUI. It is very easy to understand. I have never lost data and I have been able to recover all the data I need."
"The solution is stable."
"We are happy with Veritas Backup Exec's stability."
"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's difficult in terms of the configuration at set up. In our case, it required another admin, one person dedicated to the backup."
"The product should be improved to save more space."
"We would like to see cloud integration."
"When it comes to virtualization in IBM it's not perfect."
"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."
"I want to see better compression than what it currently does."
"I find the Level 1 and Level 2 support spend 80% of the time communicating the same information that I have already provided."
"My customers are not always happy with the Level 1 support. Sometimes, it just takes too long for the response to come, which is probably something that needs to be addressed."
"I would like to see a storage application in the next version of the product."
"In Linux, I suggest you backup for a PostgreSQL database."
"Veeam Backup Replication could improve by having more comparably with other hardware with the immutable copy feature."
"It would be nice if it could be integrated with third-party solutions like ours. It has been supporting just Windows and virtual machines."
"Restoration takes about two to four hours with Veeam. Zerto can restore in about 10 seconds. That's the restoration speed I'm looking for now that we're dealing with ransomware."
"Sometimes Veeam is not that effective when it comes to legacy environments."
"Its import and export processes for information and policies could be better."
"Cross-hypervisor replication can be improved."
"In the future, their console should not be complicated."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"It would be nice to improve the backup acceleration and the fast restoration required."
"We need to have duplication and better compression."
"There's one common issue with tape backups: the tape might have some space left, but Backup Exec says it's not writable and needs replacement. We've encountered this with multiple clients, so it doesn't seem environment-specific. It's likely related to the software. We usually just format the tape and use it again without much investigation."
"Compared to other vendors, there are features that you will find not included in Veritas."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high."
"The EDR should be looked at, as the operating system is too weak."
