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Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] vs Veritas NetBackup comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Veeam Agent for Microsoft W...
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Veritas NetBackup
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
116
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (5th)
 

Featured Reviews

Salman Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Functional application availability
There are not many options available for AIX backup. They provide the agent for AIX, but it could be more mature, and they should improve that option. They also provide the AIX agent, which is similar to the Windows and Linux agents. Since we use AIX machines, we need to take backups of those machines. However, the options available in that agent are limited. Therefore, the new version should have improvements in that area.
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

"A full-featured option for managing virtual machines with an instant recovery feature."
"It's straightforward to set up."
"It is easy to deploy."
"Solution provides good security."
"The most valuable features of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows are the backups, ease of use, and report manager."
"We found the initial setup to be quite simple."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility and stability of the product."
"It is a stable solution."
"I like NetBackup's accelerator feature. You can take a full backup with incremental speed and integrate it with block tracking."
"Veritas NetBackup is a reliable, easy-to-use, and easy-to-deploy solution."
"The main features of this solution are deduplication, compression, ease of use, simplistic user interface, and compatibility with all the backup service systems."
"The backup and restore features are helpful."
"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."
"The features are good."
"Logs are very easy to read, parse, and use for diagnostics."
"Its most valuable features are flexibility and reliability."
 

Cons

"It fulfills our needs in terms of features. In terms of improvements, they can maybe improve its documentation."
"I would like there to be more integration with other platforms."
"We need some sort of security for backups and archives."
"There are not many options available for AIX backup. They provide the agent for AIX, but it could be more mature."
"We can't use tape for primary storage on Veeam."
"Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows should improve by having more features, easier deployment, and compatibility with Unix boxes."
"It is not always easy to update this solution to the newer version, so the update process needs to be improved."
"The price of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows could improve."
"The solution must provide a different way to schedule backups."
"Technical support is somewhat slow and is in need of improvement."
"The solution could improve by having a feature to backup iSeries workloads."
"We want a solution that can be scaled-out because our data is growing very quickly, and we aren't able to back it up quickly. It takes one or two days, which is a problem. It is very slow. We just use one backup server. We want another solution with maybe a backup server cluster to back up more data in one day. We want a solution that can be scaled-out to back up our data quickly and efficiently."
"Licensing costs are quite high."
"Once the protection plan is created, we cannot pause or resume via the web administration page."
"Like the other enterprise solutions, Veritas NetBackup isn't easy to implement. It's a little bit hard compared to other solutions like Data Protector for HPE. You have to struggle to learn a lot of features that Veritas NetBackup offers to customers."
"They currently have the Java concept and it should be less intensive and take less load."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing is based on license packaging and duration. Longer term licenses are less per year and license packages also offer a discount."
"We have an annual license."
"We are on an annual license to use Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows. There are not any additional fees to use the solution."
"It is less expensive than one of its variants."
"The pricing model is based on CPU and must be declared as Microsoft or VMware licensing."
"We have a license package."
"We purchased a three-year license, and I think that the prices are ok."
"The solution is free of cost for end users but for enterprise use, a license per user is required."
"Smaller virtualized environments will want to stick to a traditional licensing model if possible. It will likely be cheaper, but it is a pain to manage all the individual licenses for each client."
"So far I can only say that the license structure could be looked at to be aligned as either capacity-based or traditional."
"The price of NetBackup is okay. I think it's a little bit expensive but manageable. It has a lot of features, and the backup is better than most applications, so I think the price is competitive."
"The pricing, of course, can always be better."
"Pricing is expensive, so it could be lower."
"The licensing fees are expensive."
"It is an expensive solution."
"Licensing was very expensive and did not scale well if needed to move between license models."
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Top Industries

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Photography Company
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Performing Arts
13%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
7%
 

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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.
 

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