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Veritas Backup Exec vs vRanger [EOL] comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 26, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Veritas Backup Exec
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
78
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (29th)
vRanger [EOL]
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
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Featured Reviews

MuhammadNabeel - PeerSpot reviewer
Account Manager at Axelliant
Reliable backups have protected critical office data and support daily recovery needs
Veritas Backup Exec offers a range of features that cater to the needs of businesses looking for a comprehensive data protection solution. The advantages include ease of use, comprehensive coverage, automated recovery, scalability, integration, and technical support. Veritas Backup Exec especially helps our organization because it is designed to remedy complexity by delivering a simple backup and recovery solution that meets all protection needs with a host of powerful features that can help save time and money, increase reliability, and improve recovery time objectives.
it_user411396 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
It's easy to use and restore. Tech support is also good.
Easy to use and restore. Restoring when there is issue. Backup bigger virtual machines (VMs). Six years. No. Some big servers don't seem to backup well. Good. Straightforward. It's easy to use.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We are using this application as a corporate standard and we feel it's a better application compared to the others."
"The platform has significantly improved our backup and recovery processes by efficiently managing data protection and supporting tape drives. It has also provided reliable data recovery solutions."
"Veritas is good for small environments."
"Its reliability and the fact that we have all the skills that we need for Veritas Backup Exec are the most valuable."
"I highly recommend using Veritas Backup Exec for backup as it is very easy to use, easy to deploy, and the support is also very nice."
"Excellent backup tool for doing disk to disk to tape."
"I like that Backup Exec integrates with Microsoft Exchange. We can retrieve backups from the email boxes."
"The Exchange restore is the most valuable feature; the restore granularity that the product offers is great, right down to the individual emails, saving a ton of time and effort for the admins and resulting in far less frustration for the end user, which equates to more time for admins to address more pressing issues and increases employee productivity."
"Easy to use and restore."
 

Cons

"We are not able to initiate our endpoint device backup on it."
"The image backup functionality needs to be examined, because I know a few customers who are using Veritas Backup Exec find it difficult to take a proper image backup and perform image restoration in case of a hardware failure of the client."
"The solution could improve and adapt to new applications in the market so we can integrate Veritas Backup Exec with them to facilitate backup processes within these applications."
"They can improve the reporting component. The reports aren't user-friendly at all. You have to download them to Excel to get statistics."
"I would like to see this solution improve on faster restoration. Currently, it takes a long time to restore my data."
"It's not so scalable. If you need flexibility and scalability, you probably need different products."
"The integration with SaaS applications like Office 365 needs to be improved."
"In terms of improvements, I think the pricing model could be improved. They charge you by port, for every port that you have even if you're not using all of them."
"Some big servers don't seem to backup well."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is a mid-range solution on the pricing scale."
"The product is affordable."
"We are satisfied with the price of this solution."
"The product is inexpensive compared to enterprise software."
"There is an evaluation license available to test this solution."
"The price of Veritas Backup Exec could be reduced and we pay annually for the license. However, compared to other solutions, such as Veeam, it is less expensive."
"I think, at least for the price I've seen, it could be lower compared to other products."
"The pricing can be improved."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
13%
Construction Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
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Small Business36
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise29
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Questions from the Community

How do the backup solutions of Veeam and Veritas compare?
Technically, Veeam is best for hyper-v & VMWare replications, snapshots, HA failover, also support for file system backups inside VMs., support for tape library & FC too. But Veritas Netbac...
What needs improvement with Veritas Backup Exec?
While Backup Exec has dedicated user-based system administrators, IT professionals frequently point out several areas where the platform could be modernized and improved.
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Also Known As

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