We performed a comparison between Rubrik and Veritas NetBackup Appliance 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 feature that I found most valuable is Live Mount. You can either mount a virtual machine from a snapshot, or you can mount a volume from the snapshot. You can mount one disk to the server to retrieve data, or you can mount the whole VM, rename it, and use it as a test VM. If your VM gets corrupted, you just mount one from the snapshot, and you have your production VM's backup. So, Live Mount is definitely the best feature for me as an end-user."
"When it comes to saving time managing our backups, Rubrik has saved us a lot of time compared to what we were using. It feels like it has saved us lifetimes of time because the process used to be difficult. It's not just the day to time savings. When something goes wrong, that's where the real time savings comes into play. We are able to get back to where we need to be more confidently and with much fewer steps."
"One platform for instant recovery."
"Rubrik is stable and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature has been the Live Mount feature."
"Rubrik, when compared to Cohesity, Dell, and Veritas, was the best of the four."
"I value the options it has for storage tiering (i.e. whether it should be a flash, SSD, or pushed to the cloud) depending on the data provided."
"The web-based approach is the most valuable feature."
"The product enables me to recover the information of the appliances in the organization."
"The solution is very scalable."
"If you use the NetBackup Appliance you do not need to have separate media servers and hardware. You can configure the same storage as a media server and master server as well as a storage port. This helps to reduce the hardware costs of the media server."
"We can add multiple appliances to the product."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it can be used in many different kinds of systems."
"The solution is very stable...The solution is very scalable."
"I can confidently say that I have managed more than 30 or 50 appliances over different time periods, and yet I never had a single hardware failure."
"Installing this solution is very simple and takes perhaps five or ten minutes."
"I would like to see the entire Office 365 product suite backed up by Rubrik. For instance, they do SharePoint and Exchange online, but they don't back up Microsoft Teams. So, I would like to see more of the Office 365 suite added into their backup capabilities."
"They should give more access to the backend capabilities. From a customer point of view, you do not have access to all the features on the system. You have to engage their support to perform some of the tasks. It would be helpful for an experienced engineer to be able to go and do some of those tasks prior to contacting the support."
"There is room for improvement through a further extension of their Office 365 backup platform. In addition, it's still a bit cost-prohibitive to backup NAS. Those would be the two primary areas for improvement."
"The price of Rubrik is too high, especially when you are considering a change in the total backup solution."
"User interface could be improved."
"When errors do occur, it can be a somewhat painful process to get to the bottom of issues."
"I would love to be able to just get from the dashboard to a file that I need, or a system that I need."
"Capacity reports could definitely be improved. It's hard to determine what is using the space and why. For instance, you can see that some host is using 2 TB on the Rubrik node and the disk space on that host is 400 GBs. It's hard to explain how there can be 2 TBs of data on local storage when nothing has changed on the host for the past three days."
"This solution has to have better integration with the cloud, as well as with other solutions such as Business Intelligence products."
"In terms of implementing the solution, it's quite technical. You need to be knowledgable in order to pull off a successful deployment."
"Veritas NetBackup Appliance can improve by having a more direct connection to the cloud. It should have the technology to be able to directly communicate with the cloud."
"It's hard to get to the backups. There are too many tabs."
"It would be a better solution if we were able to make more reports in regards to the backup system."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration and security."
"The upgrade process of the solution needs to be improved since it is extremely complicated, especially without the benefit of a support person who can guide one through it."
"They could improve the interface a bit."
Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 82 reviews while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is ranked 20th in Backup and Recovery with 46 reviews. Rubrik is rated 9.2, while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup Appliance writes "Offers good connectivity, easy to use and stable solution ". Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Zerto, whereas Veritas NetBackup Appliance is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas NetBackup, DD Boost, ExaGrid EX Series and HPE 3PAR StoreServ. See our Rubrik vs. Veritas NetBackup Appliance report.
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