We performed a comparison between NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup & Replication, and Veritas Backup Exec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."I could install and configure the trial version in maybe half an hour and had a successful backup of our file server on the same night."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is a cheaper price and user-friendly."
"The ability to use a variety of cloud providers rather than being tied into one is a huge bonus."
"It has saved us numerous times from power outages and server failure."
"The backups, especially of the incremental type, are really quick (ranging from five to 10 to 45 to 50 minutes depending on the size of the VM)."
"For my purpose, I find VM Backup to be the most useful, as it gives me the ability to create image-based, incremental backups of VMware, Hyper-V, and Nutanix AHV VMs."
"It is easy to manage all of the individual backup jobs, check the status every day, and it can even send an email to keep us informed."
"It is fast, simple, powerful, and has a price without competition."
"It lets you verify a backup with the least amount of effort."
"I enjoy the ability to quickly search for VMs through the Veeam console."
"Instant recovery, ease of use, and integrations are some of the valuable features."
"Before Veeam, we had backup infrastructure sprawl. Veeam was able to reduce our overall backup windows while reducing our dedicated backup infrastructure."
"One of the most valuable features of Veeam is that the restoration is easy and reliable."
"The most valuable features I have found to be Instant Recovery, quick restore and rollback, and asynchronous copy. It is a complete solution for our needs."
"The features I find most valuable are probably the VMware snapshot backups and the Veeam replication. Their replication is very good. It can easily be used for disaster recovery in a number of situations."
"I like Veeam a lot because it solves problems, is stable, and runs very well."
"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."
"In the global business world, Veritas has a very good name. I think they have a good solid product, and they are always trying to improve it, and update it. ;They know what the client actually needs, and they are up to the challenge of satisfying those needs."
"It is easy to set up and use for daily processes and a good solution for preserving crucial data."
"The solution is good for small and medium-sized businesses."
"It is a good overall suite of products."
"The disk-to-disk paid backup feature is quite good, and file locking is a very important feature."
"Good open file option feature, SQL agent, and EM agent."
"I like that Backup Exec integrates with Microsoft Exchange. We can retrieve backups from the email boxes."
"One of the things I liked least about this software is when an update was pushed to one of the servers we had, somehow we didn't receive the update and needed some quick troubleshooting."
"In the future, I would like to see support for backing up data to more cloud platforms, besides Amazon."
"Updating VM Tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"From our experience, the main factor that could be improved is adding more cloud services that are supported as a backup repository."
"Nakivo's implementation documentation could use a little beefing up."
"I think it is important to work not only in replicating the virtual machines in Amazon AWS, but in other cloud systems."
"The backup speed needs improvement."
"In terms of what could be improved for the next release, I would probably answer better documentation and licensing models."
"The deduplication feature could be improved by changing to global deduplication."
"The initial setup of Veeam Backup Replication is straightforward. The process took approximately two days. The setup could be streamlined to take less time."
"It is efficient but can improve security-wise."
"When in a domain, the virus can easily attack the Veeam server, something which happened to us."
"The cloud backups from Veeam Backup Replication have not been good. Addiotnaally, the backups of Office 365 and the overall performance can always be improved."
"It needs to offer an automatic check for backups."
"The whole graphical user interface is very easy, but the details are hidden deeply and aren't easily visible. You cannot easily see the details and explore or choose the settings. We should be able to easily explore various settings and options. If you can see more details while choosing the settings or setting it up, it helps in getting the software running easily. For example, in Microsoft Office, you can see much more in the interface than in Veeam Backup & Replication. It is a complex software. It is not easy to use, and you must know what to do and where to do. The user manual has more than a thousand pages. They should give some direct information through the software and improve the software. On their website, they can have some videos and step-by-step information to make us come straight to our goals."
"Some support replies for a broken backup task have been "rebuild the job from scratch" and this is a bad thing to do if you have many VMs and repositories."
"Veritas Backup Exec's dashboard feature could be enhanced."
"I would like to improve their ability to back up the cloud environment. Additionally, it would be nice to have simpler UI."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"It is not a recommended software when it comes to large environments where there has to be a minimal Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and/or Recover Point Objective (RPO)."
"If you keep it for too long and the catalog gets really big, the application tends to move slowly."
"The price of this solution is very high."
"The initial installation needs some effort."
"The scalability could be improved even though the solution is targeted to small customers."