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Altaro VM Backup for MSPs vs Veritas Backup Exec comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Altaro VM Backup for MSPs
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
MSP Backup (7th)
Veritas Backup Exec
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
78
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (29th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Altaro VM Backup for MSPs and Veritas Backup Exec aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Altaro VM Backup for MSPs is designed for MSP Backup and holds a mindshare of 5.6%, down 5.8% compared to last year.
Veritas Backup Exec, on the other hand, focuses on Backup and Recovery, holds 1.3% mindshare, down 1.4% since last year.
MSP Backup Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Altaro VM Backup for MSPs5.6%
N-able Cove Data Protection15.0%
MSP360 Backup11.7%
Other67.7%
MSP Backup
Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Veritas Backup Exec1.3%
Veeam Data Platform5.6%
Commvault Cloud3.2%
Other89.9%
Backup and Recovery
 

Featured Reviews

Anthony Linder - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Application Specialist at a government with 10,001+ employees
An incredibly stable product with a great user interface
Improvements are needed in the solution since it might get difficult if you just drop a technical person who doesn't necessarily have a lot of experience with Altaro VM Backup for MSPs. A technical person who hasn't received any dedicated training or hasn't gone through the documentation part of the solution may find the product to be a little non-intuitive at times. In Altaro VM Backup for MSPs, if you expect something to be somewhere else or when you expect a certain part of the user interface to function in a specific way, it doesn't happen so since the functionality that you expect to be there in the product isn't present on that screen and you need to go somewhere else for that piece. I think that is the case with the most complex tech products. I would like to be able to store a full cluster environment inside of Altaro VM and make sure that the cluster communicates inside of the product, presuming that we have the necessary backup drive in our company. Altaro VM already can test individual VM restores, but one can't really go beyond that scope, at least with the version of the solution that we have in our company right now.
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Granular restoration is extremely useful in Altaro VM Backup for MSPs since it is something that we make use of the most in our company."
"It is one of the most stable backup solutions."
"It is a simple and flexible solution to work with."
"The beauty of the solution is that you can rely on it. It offers a quick recovery time when it's backing up items. The way it recovers data is excellent."
"We've used the solution for ten years, and everything has worked very well."
"We are very happy with Veritas, and we work with them consistently for our servicing."
"Symantec Backup Exec 2012 is a feature rich tool for data protection and recovery."
"It provides our daily backups and restores, giving us the ability to locate and restore critical files which users may have intentionally or unknowingly deleted a while ago."
"The product is good in a small environment when looking to a backup on a tape."
 

Cons

"A technical person who hasn't received any dedicated training or hasn't gone through the documentation part of the solution may find the product to be a little non-intuitive at times."
"Expanding is difficult because if I want to add, for example, a terabyte of data, then I have to buy a disk shelf and it will cost me a lot."
"Compared to other vendors, there are features that you will find not included in Veritas."
"It would be nice to improve the backup acceleration and the fast restoration required."
"The pricing could be improved."
"There are some issues with the Backup Exec Library and the random picking of tapes."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high."
"Veritas Backup Exec's dashboard feature could be enhanced."
"It is currently missing the dynamic backup feature for virtual machines, which is available in NetWorker. I can create politics in NetWorker to add virtual machines with specific tags, but I cannot do this in Backup Exec, which is a minus point for me. Currently, a user has to send a request to the Backup administrator to add a machine to the backup, but I should be able to create rules to automatically add a new machine to the backup. This kind of functionality is very important in current times, especially when we are using cloud solutions. I should be able to create more than one stream in a policy and specify how many streams I want to run in parallel in one policy. Currently, I have to manually create more policies to backup more than one virtual machine at the same time. Their support can also be improved in terms of response time."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It is cheap compared to the other backup technologies. It all depends on the requirements."
"There is an evaluation license available to test this solution."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"I rate the product's pricing a six out of ten."
"I rate the price of Veritas Backup Exec a four out of five."
"We are satisfied with the price of this solution."
"It is not an expensive product."
"It is a mid-range solution on the pricing scale."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Construction Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business36
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise29
 

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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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Backup Exec, Symantec Backup Exec
 

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