We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect, Veritas Backup Exec, and Veritas NetBackup 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 amount of data that it protects with very little storage by doing incremental forever is one of its most valuable features."
"Spectrum Protect's best feature is that I can use it practically anywhere, on any platform, and for any servers or clients."
"The solution is very stable. It is one of the most important features that we look for in a product before putting it into the market and when establishing a strategy with our customers."
"It covers all the different operating systems. If you need backup, it can pretty much do everything."
"Every time customers make a change or we have made a change, then they use the product to do a cloning and refreshing. They are happy that they get good performance something changes."
"You can protect your data and keep it for long durations, without it spending too much time on the local disk."
"One of the features which is most interesting in Spectrum Protect is the ability to scale out to great environments. This is something that not many vendors have on the market."
"It's a very stable product, and we've never had any downtime with it."
"This is a very flexible product, which allows you to back up not only the physical environment but also the cloud environment."
"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."
"Its reliability and the fact that we have all the skills that we need for Veritas Backup Exec are the most valuable."
"The solution was stable and reliable."
"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."
"One of the valuable features is the instant recovery for VMs. It reduces the RTO (Recovery Time Objective) drastically."
"Veritas Backup Exec is fully compatible with different tape libraries."
"Synthetic backup is valuable. It gives you the possibility to do a synthesized backup, which means that it combines a full backup and incremental backup data and gives it to you in one stream. So, you don't have to restore the full backup and then later go and restore the incremental backup. You can do that in one go."
"The tool's most valuable feature is backups."
"I like NetBackup's anomaly detection and Linux storage features."
"I like NetBackup's accelerator feature. You can take a full backup with incremental speed and integrate it with block tracking."
"We are quite satisfied with the performance and reliability of the NetBackup product. When it comes to specific features, the most valuable is the Instant Recovery feature, which we call "short-term IR". Instant Recovery allows users to spin up backup images and bring back any VM instantly."
"NetBackup is highly stable. We have more than 1,800 policies that run every day."
"The most valuable feature is flexibility."
"It has been around for so long, and it is very in-depth. It has a solution for everything that you can cover."
"Its most valuable features are flexibility and reliability."
"It should have the ability to break down the data that's being backed up. It should have better reporting."
"Probably educating the virtual group who are not as used to the product. Most of our expertise is with AIX servers and virtual server backups."
"We are still using TSM Manager for many of our projects to administer our platform because the gap was not resolved with the new Operations Center."
"It has a lot of areas for improvement. Its reporting for job completion or incompletion can be improved. It should also provide a granular recovery, ease of operation, data life cycle management, and media management. It should support a backup in such a format that in case of a disaster, one can start the virtual machine out of the backup itself. Its reliability can also be better. It is also expensive, and their support is also poor."
"It can be improved for large file systems with many files. Spectrum Protect can restore large files very well, but if you're restoring millions of little files, it is not as great. At one point, we tried to implement the VMware module with it, and it was awful and terrible. I don't know if that has improved. If it hasn't, this would be one big improvement."
"RTO is a huge gap for us. If we had a disaster scenario and had to recover a bunch of stuff from tape, the RTO would be too long for us."
"Getting technical support all the necessary diagnostic information is still very painful."
"I would like to see the operations center be a lot more functional. It was nowhere near as functional as the admin center, and I'm doing a lot of command line with it."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"If you keep it for too long and the catalog gets really big, the application tends to move slowly."
"Veritas Backup Exec's dashboard feature could be enhanced."
"It's not too stable for client-server architecture. Center Management is not so interactive, and then there are some issues regarding the complex licensing which needs improvement."
"Veritas Backup Exec's support services could be faster."
"There is no training provided, and their technicians are unaware of the features available."
"There needs to be an integration process of the endpoint devices so that we don't have to redo everything for different products."
"Veritas Backup Exec should improve by having a user portal that customers can use."
"GUI needs to be more user-friendly."
"In regards to protecting the physical servers with parameters, it's a long and difficult process."
"The virtual environment, cloud integration, copy data management features need improvement."
"The product needs to improve its GUI. It needs to make use of a web interface."
"I do not really like NetBackup as it is coming from a mix of other software packages."
"In terms of improvement, it's very difficult to make it work with multiple business units. Its security model is too constricted."
"Licensing costs are quite high."
"It's a little bit complex to manage."
