We performed a comparison between Oracle Data Guard and Veeam Backup & Replication 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 most valuable feature is the flashback standby, which allows us to test without scrapping the database."
"If you have a problem with your primary site and can't access your primary database, you can continue working with the database that you have as standby on the other site, by changing its role to primary."
"Oracle Data Guard is scalable. I rate it a ten out of ten."
"Data Guard also improved because customers with an active Data Guard license want to reduce the I/O in a production environment. Some application complaints to it for Oracle reporting purposes. It has a production environment that needs to be enhanced."
"One of the most valuable features is real-time replication. The version we're using is reliable and easy to deploy."
"We have found the replication feature the most useful. We use this feature the most. The ability to recover a database with less effort and the use of Oracle Data Guard Broker to administer the complete environment are also very useful features."
"Backup and application continuity are most valuable."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't experienced any bugs, glitches, or crashes. We find it to be quite reliable."
"I can't think of any improvements yet for Veeam because they are very good. It integrates very well with Microsoft applications. It is very easy to integrate. Micro Focus can also integrate but it's more complex. You have to know the product very well to be able to integrate. While Veeam, it's very user-friendly. You don't need to have certifications or anything to work on Veeam."
"It's relatively easy to use and the ability to recover in a short period of time has been great."
"Replication is the most valuable feature."
"Its backup capabilities in general are great."
"Initially setting up the product is easy."
"Veeam Backup & Replication is a scalable solution."
"I consider the solution's technical support to be excellent, perfect."
"While I do not recall whether the latest version is 10.0 or 11.0 I do know that it allows one to make a back up repository that is very scalable and simple."
"We would like to be able to see the date time stamp when you execute DGMGRL commands."
"The pricing of the solution is quite high. They should do what they can to bring it down so that it is more reasonable for customers like us."
"When the data replicates into the standby database there is a possibility of having a microsecond amount of data loss. The data loss occurs when there is a network disconnection between the primary and secondary standby database located in the data centers or if there is a crash in the primary database."
"The only difficult part is the cost factor, licensing. Another area of improvement is support."
"For every standby server you have, you must pay a licensing fee, which is the main disadvantage."
"One thing that can be improved is the GUI. It would be good to have a very nice GUI to easily configure and administer, providing different presentations to the database administrator. The feature that can be included is the integration with third-party monitoring systems, that is, monitoring systems from other vendors, not only from Oracle."
"It is a rather complex solution, so it could be more user-friendly."
"The implementation is complex for anyone who's jumping into it without any experience. It's all command-line driven implementations. For some, that's a turn-off."
"The deduplication feature could be improved by changing to global deduplication."
"I have a problem with the VM. When we started doing a backup, it takes a snapshot for our virtual machines, but when we try it two or three times, in some cases, our virtual machines go to a consolidated state. I don't know why this problem happens. But I still think Veeam is a top-ranking solution."
"The one downside to Veeam is that they don't have a cloud product of their own."
"They need full cloud integration such that an on-premises backup can be offloaded to the cloud for storage."
"Some of the best practice documentation could be improved."
"The direct SAN backup integration can be perfected by improving the snapshot removal mechanism and process from the storage volumes."
"Veeam needs to have more support for non-Windows systems and other databases. For example, I can do SQL with Veeam but not Informix or Oracle. This is unfortunate because we have many partners with Oracle systems and Informix databases, and Veeam does not yet have the agents we need for specific Oracle and UNIX operating systems."
"Veeam Backup Replication could improve by having more comparably with other hardware with the immutable copy feature."
Oracle Data Guard is ranked 11th in Backup and Recovery with 31 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 328 reviews. Oracle Data Guard is rated 8.4, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Oracle Data Guard writes "Ensures our databases stay in sync between the main and disaster recovery sites". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". Oracle Data Guard is most compared with Zerto, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud, Carbonite Server and AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup and Zerto. See our Oracle Data Guard vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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