We performed a comparison between IDERA SQL Safe Backup and Veritas Backup Exec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The compression, because it drastically reduces the disk space."
"It has reduced our backup time and simplified our backup processes across all the servers."
"Recovery via Active Directory is painless and much easier than the complicated setup procedures of other products."
"It is one of the most stable backup solutions."
"Veritas Backup Exec is easily managed."
"The solution is very scalable. Whenever we grew, it was just a matter of adding new licenses, so it's easy to grow."
"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."
"It has good stability. Its interface is very good, responsive, and easy for restoring data. I use it for backup, encryption, and restore operations, and it works. I am using many agents from VM to LMDP. I also use an agent for SQL Server, which has advanced options because it is the Enterprise version."
"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 very fast. It does not take a long time to backup everything."
"The way the filtering goes, if you filter on your view, there is no indication that you have made a selection."
"I would like to see the pieces that they have put in the web only to be put into the thick client sitting on the desktop client."
"Make sure you check your backups on a regular basis. Backups do get missed with this tool, for whatever reason."
"I would like to be able to create a restore task that can be scheduled so that the same restore action will be performed automatically."
"Initial setup is a bit complex and needs some expertise for troubleshooting when something goes wrong."
"Compared to other vendors, there are features that you will find not included in Veritas."
"Veritas Backup Exec should be more user-friendly. The costs should also be much lower and it should be easier to go through the disaster recovery process."
"If you keep it for too long and the catalog gets really big, the application tends to move slowly."
"At the moment, we have a very complex environment. It would take some time to deploy an environment like ours from scratch."
"We've experienced some performance issues with Backup Exec. The backup jobs take too long to complete."
"The EDR should be looked at, as the operating system is too weak."
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IDERA SQL Safe Backup is ranked 76th in Backup and Recovery while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. IDERA SQL Safe Backup is rated 5.0, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IDERA SQL Safe Backup writes "You can't see any metrics about how long it took you to backup the entire server. We've had a huge reduction in the nightly backup footprint size". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". IDERA SQL Safe Backup is most compared with Rubrik and IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery. See our IDERA SQL Safe Backup vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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