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N2WS Backup & Recovery vs Veritas NetBackup comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

N2WS Backup & Recovery
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
42nd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Backup (32nd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (23rd)
Veritas NetBackup
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
116
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of N2WS Backup & Recovery is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas NetBackup is 3.5%, down from 5.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Hitesh Jethwa - PeerSpot reviewer
User-friendly, easy to deploy, and stable
I give the solution a nine out of ten. We require one engineer for maintenance. I would highly recommend N2WS Backup & Recovery, as I have had no issues and the sales and technical support teams have been excellent. They keep in touch with us every three to six months via email and phone calls.
Wesam Qashou - PeerSpot reviewer
A mature backup solution, with many features, and great support
Veritas NetBackup is the first line of defense when disaster strikes. Before performing disaster recovery, we must have a good backup of our image that is also protected from ransomware. This way, we have a golden image that is resilient to ransomware attacks. We saw the benefits of Veritas NetBackup within the first three months.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The initial setup is easy."
"The backup and restore functionality is very easy to use and manage."
"The backup and recovery are the most valuable features. So, our developers can work with confidence."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The product is successful with the SMB market."
"The recovery time is fantastic and proven. Also, by providing a simple interface, the solution lowers the cost."
"N2WS Backup & Recovery is very easy to use and configure backup for AWS instances."
"Provides easy, one-click functionality and flexible backup policies and schedules for AWS workloads."
"I like the virtual server backup."
"The solution offers a lot of really great features that organizations can utilize and take advantage of."
"Could be used for both of Physical and Virtual Environments."
"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."
"Deduplication is the most valuable feature as it reduces the backup time and provides backup of a single copy of data"
"It is very easy to back up and recover files compared to other products."
"What I like most is it is a professional product. It supports all kinds of technologies, and I consider it one of the best backup products available."
"We believe that everything Veritas NetBackup offers, including backups, snapshots, deduplication, and replication, is valuable."
 

Cons

"The GUI has room for improvement."
"Additional features I would like to see are the ability to restore to different vendors, AWS and Azure, and/or the ability or take the information out of the AWS cloud."
"The UI is a little dated and hard to use. Some of the buttons are a bit small. You have to go into the menu to get the settings you want."
"There is room for improvement in stability."
"The solution has the option to take backup on-prem servers, but it's not very efficient."
"The GUI could be slightly improved."
"More documentation would be helpful, especially some step-by-step documents for recovery scenarios."
"It's a global feature that the customer thinks they don't have enough tools to manage, to copy, to delay, and to classify the object file in the backup directory. So they need more tools to manage files in object directory."
"Updates were not always consistent."
"They need to work on the GUI. It has been the same for the last 10 years."
"The SQL Server backup features are not up to date."
"Within their product lineup, they need to consolidate down to one product. Veritas doesn't have one product that does everything. So, Veritas can do everything, but you basically need to run two products. I would like them to combine all the capabilities into one release."
"I also think they could improve the reporting. They use a web-based software application OpsCenter for the reporting and I see that they haven't made any changes in years."
"Veritas could simplify the firmware recovery in terms of the deployed. The process shouldn't be dependent on the agents. It should be completely agentless."
"We would like the Java console to be updated."
"When the customer is using SaaS applications like Office 365, the integration falls short and needs to be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is not cheap, nor is it costly."
"It has very good pricing per instance and comes with three options, for both small and large environments, to fit your needs."
"AWS adds more features and offer things for free, or cheaply. Therefore, we will be evaluating AWS Data Lifecycle Manager, because it will probably do backups. Thus, make sure the product that you are using is competitive or adds more value than AWS."
"The purchasing process through the AWS Marketplace is easy. Just click the button."
"It's very economical and worth the cost."
"The pricing and licensing on AWS is fine, because you can do it for smaller tiers depending on your number of instances, so it's not that scary."
"The licensing model is cost-prohibitive as you scale out."
"Pricing is pretty costly as compared to the other products but worth investing for the long term and high ROI."
"Price-wise, most of the backup products are similarly priced, and NetBackup is the same."
"The licensing model for this solution is very powerful."
"If you have a source size of one terabyte then they will charge for a one terabyte license, although what is actually being stored is much less."
"When you compare NetBackup's software licensing system with Veeam's, which is simpler and based on instances (or how many physical machines or virtual machines you want to protect), NetBackup isn't that competitive for smaller scale companies. However, if you're running many large workloads, then NetBackup may be the better option."
"Annual licensing fee."
"Veritas Netbackup offers affordable licensing."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
8%
University
8%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about N2WS Backup & Recovery?
N2WS Backup & Recovery is very easy to use and configure backup for AWS instances.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for N2WS Backup & Recovery?
I used the free version. I don't have much experience with the paid version. But I'm trying to compare the pricing between different options.
What needs improvement with N2WS Backup & Recovery?
N2WS Backup & Recovery efficiently takes cloud backups on EC2 instances. The solution has the option to take backup on-prem servers, but it's not very efficient.
What is the best next generation backup tool?
Assuming you have an onprem ecosystem which runs the VMware, physical systems on Win, Linux and Unix and run both traditional DB's and nosql DB's like mongo, then Netbackup (NBU) will be the right ...
What do you like most about Veritas NetBackup?
The most valuable feature of cloud integration is the ability to send data outside of your location. This can be achieved by integrating cloud tier options or other object storage solutions.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas NetBackup?
The product is cost-effective, and I would rate its pricing as an eight out of ten. The pricing model is based on the amount of data transferred, making it manageable for us.
 

Also Known As

N2WS Cloud Protection Manager
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Sample Customers

Coca-Cola, tecRacer, Cloudar, Goodwill
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