We performed a comparison between IDERA SQL Safe Backup 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 compression, because it drastically reduces the disk space."
"It has reduced our backup time and simplified our backup processes across all the servers."
"Good graphical user interface. It's easy to create policies and to do installs."
"The main thing I like about NetBackup is CloudPoint. You can take a snapshot of the endpoint and back it up with CloudPoint. The data backups are the most important."
"It covers all kinds of different architectures. Plus, it's very user-friendly and it is very reliable"
"We were evaluating other products and getting confused between Commvault and Veritas NetBackup. The one reason that we started with Veritas NetBackup is the pricing of the license. There's no other reason from a technical perspective or even operation or capability of the two software. The main reason we chose Veritas NetBackup was that in our use case it is more cost-effective."
"The documentation is good."
"I like NetBackup's accelerator feature. You can take a full backup with incremental speed and integrate it with block tracking."
"AIR and duplication, overall management and troubleshooting."
"The most valuable features are the ability to create a trust relationship and historical reports."
"Make sure you check your backups on a regular basis. Backups do get missed with this tool, for whatever reason."
"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."
"The ability to use different disk appliance brands as Pure Disk (not OST), such as EMC Data Domain ."
"System administrators would be more efficient in NetBackup if the number of tools and command lines was reduced."
"Enhancing reporting across the board would be beneficial."
"The backup operation interface is not as mature as those of Veritas's competitors and has room for improvement."
"There have been issues with performance and some features."
"Planning for the implementation takes a lot of time."
"The interface should be improved."
"We faced so many backup configuration issues. And from the Veritas side, they couldn't fix that issue. So we started from scratch, purchased everything, and then we configured everything. Therefore, the support could be better."
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IDERA SQL Safe Backup is ranked 72nd in Backup and Recovery while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 110 reviews. IDERA SQL Safe Backup is rated 5.0, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. 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 NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". IDERA SQL Safe Backup is most compared with Rubrik and IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Azure Backup, Veritas NetBackup Appliance and Veritas Backup Exec.
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