We performed a comparison between Rubrik and Veeam Backup & Replication based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Rubrik and Veeam Backup & Replication have a similar user rating regarding ease of deployment, features, service and support, and ROI. In terms of pricing, Rubrik users thought the solution was expensive yet worth the price, while Veeam Backup & Replication users gave its pricing mixed reviews.
"It works with VMware and Hyper-V without agent installation."
"Rubrik is very simple to implement and setup. "
"Rubrik is an easy and automatic solution that needs no manual intervention."
"The fact that the API is so available to us with the playground — there's an internal and public playground — is also valuable. We can write API calls — and although I'm sure there's a way we could hurt the data — we write those calls with a lot of certainty that we won't be destroying anything. We write these API calls using really easy mechanisms and generate automation a lot faster."
"Rubrik is a faster unit from a hardware perspective. Things, like Live Mount, mean we can bring services back straightaway, then have them transition back into the live storage in the background. Because we can use Live Mount to do instant restores, a restore is now a five-minute job. Then, the rest of it is done in the background, rather than doing something for an hour before you actually get the restore back."
"Disk mount that lets a restore happen immediately, no need to re-hydrate."
"Rubrik is stable and easy to use."
"There is a live-restore feature, their Live Mount, and the way it works we can instantly recover a VM, a past backup, to be directly attached to our VMware environment. Rubrik will act as a disk for it. It's like an instant restore. Within a few minutes our VM is up and running. And then, if we want to restore it, we can just migrate it to our actual storage."
"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."
"I'm pleased with the ability to search for documents; it's very useful."
"In Veeam backup, the most valuable feature for me is the recovery. It allows me to recover almost immediately while I continue fixing the problem of the affected machine."
"Simple and stable."
"Veeam Backup Replication's snapshotting and cloning are the most valuable features."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its back up and recovery. It is a simplified backup because you can do both databases - VM and HyperV. It's a faster backup than the conventional methods because it takes up the bare metal."
"Its backup capabilities in general are great."
"The product is very simple in its design. We don't need it to perform complicated tasks."
"The Polaris piece could use improvement. When you get a report and you have events that are suspicious, you cannot drill down and find out why it's suspicious. You only know it's suspicious, but you don't know the root cause. Other than that, everything works well."
"Global management of multiple systems is lacking, as is reporting across multiple installed units."
"The solution could improve by having fewer VM Stuns."
"Rubrik is expensive."
"I would like to have a built-in index searching ability of files/system files within the Rubrik interface to determine if a file or item exists, rather than just recovering it, and then doing a search for the file afterwards."
"I don't like Rubrik's user interface because it's not intuitive, and I find it hard to get the information I need."
"It is a lot more expensive than other solutions, but you get what you pay for."
"I would like to see more information on encryption with the next release."
"The solution needs more detailed reporting."
"I would like to see better features for exporting to cloud-based repositories."
"The initial setup can get complex."
"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."
"There is some complexity we have experienced when using the solution that should be simplified."
"It is always nice to get products cheaper."
"The remote SQL server has had multiple sizing issues within the logs and SQL backup space and sharing with other database apps."
"The pricing could be improved."
Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 82 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 328 reviews. Rubrik is rated 9.2, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". Rubrik is most compared with Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Azure Backup, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Veritas NetBackup, Zerto and NAKIVO Backup & Replication. See our Rubrik vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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I would choose Untrends all day long as it provides fully automated DR testing so when you need to recover from an incident you select the most recent validated copy in minutes.
The appliances (Physical, or Virtual where you have the storage and compute already) index blocks locally so there is less to pull back down from the cloud reducing data repatriation costs and they are the only single vendor solution that is fully integrated and 100% compatible with single-pane management for backup, DR/BC (replication and archiving), for M365, Google Workspace, AWS/Azure Workloads, DTC for home workers.