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Veritas Backup Exec Primary Use Case

Pawel Augustyn - PeerSpot reviewer
System Advisor at CRIF SpA

I have been using Backup Exec for over seven years for a customer. It is used to back up data with a simplified interface, stability, performance, and cost-effectiveness. The price is essential for its function, as we do not have another solution. For me, it is a direct copy to type.

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Sarang  Nagmote - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Vice President - IT at TransUnion

I have used Veritas for managing the backing of business data, completion of critical databases, IT data, and board data. Everything has been covered effectively.

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MK
Manager at Fractalio Data Pvt Ltd

We are system integrators, and we have end users using different backup software solutions such as NetVault, Veritas, CommVault. If we have any requirements from users looking for Veritas or anything, we will look into it.

The main use cases for Veritas NetBackup appliance are not applicable as we actually use Veritas Backup Exec, which is a different product.

The main use cases for Veritas Backup Exec involve normal file system backups, and they are facing some issues with image backup, particularly in case of a hardware failure of any client systems, regarding how to recover it.

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Sameer Pansare - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Management Forensics and Tapes Expert Services. at Consilio

Our primary use case for this solution is preliminary data restoration from tape media, disaster recovery, or recovering any data backed up to tapes.

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OmobolajiOlaloku - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Enterprise System Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Veritas Backup Exec is used to backup data. We backup databases, FLAC files, and Exchange databases.

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ZH
Manager, Information Technology Security at Nesma

Our company is a construction company. We use the Veritas solution for our own company's work.

We schedule full server backups daily, biweekly, and monthly for our data from different locations. We have some projects, and we schedule backups to our head office. So far, the solution has worked perfectly.

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Ahmed Mohsen - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre-Sales Specliast at Quadratech

We use the backup solution.

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ESLAM ELSAYAAD - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Architect at ICT Misr

The primary use case for Veritas Backup Exec in our environment is for small and medium businesses (SMBs). It covers a moderate workload, making it suitable for organizations with smaller-scale IT infrastructures.

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MI
Enterprise Solutions Architect at 0

Our primary use case for the product is managing backups for our centralized data center and distributed storage systems. 

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reviewer914436 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Our company uses the solution to provide virtual and physical backups for our clients. Most of our clients are small businesses and our team of five engineers capably manages their projects. 

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Burak Pehlevan - PeerSpot reviewer
SaaS Infrastructure Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is primarily used for the usual database backups, virtual machine backups, and file backups.

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Ramprasad Yalavarthi - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Solutions Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The solution is integrated with the Exchange, so it's an online backup.

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GC
Senior Manager at Datamatics Global Services Limited

We use this solution for data backup on premises, for data servers and file servers.

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VM
Senior Manager IT at Canara Robeco

I use the solution for a complete backup of the infrastructure on tape. I have one tape drive which is connected to our server. We have a limited use case.

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Piyush Umap - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Engineer at Vintech Electronic Systems Pvt.Ltd.

It's very easy to administer so the IT team doesn't need a dedicated backup administrator. An IT admin can manage the backups. It's easy to deploy and doesn't require a lot of resources on the client machine. 

So the customer doesn't need to purchase high-performance servers or enterprise-level solutions. This reduces costs for the client in terms of hardware and IT management resources. It also integrates with virtual machines and environments, allowing customers to back up their databases and applications.

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AN
Chief Technology Officer at EITBS Ltd

It is for backup and business continuity. You have a technology in there that allows you to start virtual machines on the backup set of data, which is really cool stuff. It also allows you to have an image of your environment. You can drop an image onto a virtual machine and just spin that environment up.

It supports cloud and on-prem deployments. If you have the infrastructure in the cloud, you can deploy it there. If you want an on-prem solution, that also works. The cloud provider is usually Amazon, but it doesn't really matter.

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CM
System Administrator at blois.fr

We use Veritas Backup Exec mainly to backup virtual machines (about 120), and also Exchange mailboxes (about 1500).

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RJ
Solution Architect at IT Solution

We use the product for data backup purposes.

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Pawel Augustyn - PeerSpot reviewer
System Advisor at CRIF SpA

We use this solution to backup MS SQL databases, backup NAS servers, backup virtual machines, and directly backup clients ( on windows servers).

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SP
Senior System Engineer at Vintech Electronic Systems Pvt.Ltd

We have 200 users working with this solution. Our primary use case of Veritas Backup is to backup, at a fine level, our Windows-based, small SMB level clients.

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RG
Product Brand Manager at Epsidon Technology Distribution

We deploy Veritas Backup Exec for customers where they have a production site with between 10 terabytes and up to 50 terabytes of data where they then backup the data to their local storage and then replicate it to their site or to the cloud.

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SG
Director at F1 INFOTECH

We have been deploying this solution for our customers. They use it for the backup of their physical and virtual servers.

We are using its latest version. We recently renewed it for a customer.

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MA
Service Engineer at a performing arts with 201-500 employees

We primarily use Veritas Backup Exec for backup.

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SH
Senior Data Center Administrator at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

Veritas is used for standalone servers. such as physical servers We also use it for backups.

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reviewer1218573 - PeerSpot reviewer
Desktop Support Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's great for the kind of customer who doesn't have a dedicated database environment. They only use it for file folders or a NAS system backup, or a few files or folder-level backups for the system.

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VV
Head Of IT Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use the solution for the backup capabilities of our whole system, including our applications. We don't use it as a VM backup, however. We're able to handle daily backups of everything and we tend to back up quite regularly.

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reviewer1441236 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Network Analyst at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

I use the solution daily for daily backups and weekly for full backups and monthly for the stuff that gets sent off-site.

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SJ
Manager - Backup & DR Global Infrastructure at TMF Group

Our primary use is that we are using it for backup mostly with Hyper-V service.  

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MG
Senior Network Administrator at MapnaBE

I use it in many uses, for example for Microsoft Exchange and for databases, for active directory and file servers. I use Backup Exec because it has agents for different software and is based on your infrastructure.

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NT
Operations Manager at Cybernaptics

We have two use case types. We do onsite and offsite. Onsite, we need some conversion and backups. Offsite, for example, similar to Symantec, it is based on the volume, and we sell this solution to clients. 

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Pawel Augustyn - PeerSpot reviewer
System Advisor at CRIF SpA

This is our backup and recovery solution.

We are using the on-premise deployment model to backup virtual machines, NAS resources and MS  SQL databases on always ON.

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reviewer1451388 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees

We use Backup Exec to back up our virtual machines. 

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AG
Software Directeur BU at AITEK

The solution was primarily meant to be used for securing data. 

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reviewer1424883 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a retailer with 201-500 employees

The solution is good for small and medium-sized businesses. It's easy to manage and deploy. It works in many environment, such as Microsoft Windows. It is friendly and can be easily deployed to all servers. 

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reviewer1287537 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

I do not know which version we are currently using, as I am a sales manager and, consequently, cannot expand too much on the solution's technical aspects. 

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SA
Project Manager at Szar Solutions Sdn. Bhd.

I am a consultant and reseller. We use this solution for a client.

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KO
Chief Technology Officer at a tech company with 11-50 employees

We are a solution provider, and some of my clients are using this solution.

The primary use case is to back up system applications such as SQL databases and Microsoft Exchange. It is also for backing up the user's files, which are kept on the server.

This solution will back up your server, and it will work on both Windows and Linux.

My experience is with an on-premises deployment model.

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it_user1439361 - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We are a solution provider and Veritas Backup Exec is one of the backup and recovery solutions that we implement for our clients. This product is used to implement a backup repository to the cloud.

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RC
Tape Library Associate at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use this solution for file backups. We use it for Veeam, Exchange, and Sharepoint.

Within our organization, roughly five people had access to this solution.

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reviewer1252020 - PeerSpot reviewer
CAD Engineer at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

My primary use case for this solution is as backup for our file servers, SQL, things like that. We're a customer of Veritas and I'm a CAD engineer. 

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SQ
Technical Services Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Primarily we use the solution for our ERP, databases, and applications. 

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it_user801057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Our primary use for this solution is replication.

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AS
IT Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

We're using the on-premise version.

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AD
Virtualization Specialist at Digikala

We have an on-premise deployment with a master server and five media servers. There is also Tape Libraries included and the maturity of the solution let us backup everything with assurance. 

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it_user973848 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Our primary use case is for authentication, we check for authentication issues. The app allows users to only access the network according to the policy that the organization provides.

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AN
Chief Technology Officer at EITBS Ltd

I sell this solution to my customers, based on their needs.

The deployment model for my customers is more commonly on-premise. 

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it_user991605 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees

We primarily use the solution as thumbprints for backups.

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it_user828366 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a non-tech company

We use this solution for backup and recovery.

The deployment model for this solution is on-premise.

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RG
Pre-Sales Technical Engineer at Kolaly technology

We implement digital solutions for our customers and this is one of the products that we help them with. It handles their backup and recovery.

In most cases, our customers use a private cloud deployment model.

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ServiceE328e - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Engineer with 501-1,000 employees

We use this solution for backing up our network servers. This includes our Oracle SQL databases, Windows backup, Direct Control, Active Directory, and our Exchange server. 

We are using the on-premise deployment model.

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MA
System Administrator at Abdullah Al-Othaim Markets

Our primary use case for Veritas Backup Exec is to take the emails from all the servers and for backing up the files. We require administrative control of that process. 

We use Veritas for incremental backups for all the servers. It is an automated process. Lately, we have taken advantage of the full backup facilities provided by the product.

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it_user966060 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I primarily use this solution as a backup service. I have used it for more then 10 years. It is a good backup tool. 

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MS
Analyst - Microsoft Technologies at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

When I joined my company, they had already purchased Backup Exec. We use it as a backup solution.

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DR
Network Administrator with 51-200 employees

We use it for backing up all servers and user data.

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DK
Pre-Post Sales Engineer at Exclusive Networks Asia

Veritas Backup Exec is one of the most dominant software based backup solutions in the industry. It is a reputed and well known product.

This solution is suggested for small- to medium-sized enterprises. 

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KO
Chief Technology Officer at a tech company with 11-50 employees

We have about 500 devices, so we want to make sure they are backed up online and protected from attack. Another use case is to back up a client's SharePoint platform. It's SharePoint 2019 SQL. We use Backup Exec to back up that application and the server and restore after a disaster.

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reviewer1290435 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Technology Specialist at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Veritas Backup Exec is used for backups and disaster recovery.

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reviewer2198595 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I am using Veritas Backup Exec for backups of Oracle, VMs, and Nutanix.

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Buyer's Guide
Veritas Backup Exec
June 2025
Learn what your peers think about Veritas Backup Exec. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: June 2025.
861,390 professionals have used our research since 2012.