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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
6.4
Number of Reviews
77
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (26th)
vRanger [EOL]
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
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Featured Reviews

VijayPandey - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales System Engineer at Eden Infosol Pvt Ltd
Ease of deployment and excellent support ensures seamless data security
I am working with Veritas Backup Exec, and that is the one I use. The value of using Veritas Backup Exec across physical and virtual environments is significant. I had a chance to use Veritas Backup Exec on physical and virtual environments, but not on the cloud. The benefits from the platform support of Veritas Backup Exec are that it works very nicely for physical and virtual environments. Veritas Backup Exec is affordable for my customers. My customers use the solution on-premises and in virtualization. Securing the data for customers is obviously a significant benefit of Veritas Backup Exec. 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. On a scale of 1-10, I rate Veritas Backup Exec a 9.5.
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

"Veritas Backup Exec is a good solution; it can take a little time to get used to the GUI, but once you've understood how it works, it's really great to use and you can quickly do what you want to do or get the information you want."
"The solution is very fast, it does not take a long time to backup everything, and our backup operator and admin can handle all aspects of the solution quite easily while it is very good at allowing us to back up the servers."
"The initial setup is quite straightforward."
"The backup solution comes in different versions to support different platforms."
"The interface for this solution is excellent, and it is easy to restore files compared to other solutions."
"Overall, it's a very good product."
"How does it help our organization? It's the recovery of data and the assurance that we know it's there and it's safe."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the graphical interface, ease of management, and overall ease of use."
"Easy to use and restore."
 

Cons

"I would like to be able to create a restore task that can be scheduled so that the same restore action will be performed automatically."
"The deduplication feature can be improved."
"I would like to see this solution improve on faster restoration. Currently, it takes a long time to restore my data."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"More stable environment in a WAN infrastructure."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"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."
"Veritas Backup Exec's support services could be faster."
"Some big servers don't seem to backup well."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is inexpensive compared to enterprise software."
"It has a good price-value ratio. Its price-value ratio is better than Veeam."
"The price is reasonable for the features it offers."
"Depending on the scenario, it can cost less than half of the price of other methods."
"There is an evaluation license available to test this solution."
"It is affordable, but I hope that the price will come down a lot because of other competitors. It is a good price for the customer, but sometimes, the competition provides a much lower price. There are two ways to license it. You can license it per instance or per terabytes of data that we are mocking up. It is enough because it is not so complex. It is good when you're working with customers."
"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."
"Veritas licensing is somewhat expensive. They have to decrease the price."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
15%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
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Small Business35
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise29
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Questions from the Community

How do the backup solutions of Veeam and Veritas compare?
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What needs improvement with Veritas Backup Exec?
I am not the right person to mention what has to be improved in Veritas Backup Exec as I think they are working very well for the application. The licensing remains the same in Veritas Backup Exec....
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