Veritas Backup Exec Reviews

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. 

The pricing could be improved. 

I have been using Veritas Backup Exec for four or five years.

The solution is stable. 

I do not have direct experience with tech support. 

The initial setup is quite straightforward. 

The solution could be more cost-effective. 

I do not know how much the solution costs on a monthly or annual basis. I do not possess information concerning the price. 

We do the integration of the solution. 

At present, there is only one user, a backup administrator, making use of the solution. 

One of our customers in New York City made preparations for a DR site, but the project they had planned for this year was delayed by a year or two owing to COVID-19. It seems to me that the customer likely needed the same solution in the DR site. 

I rate Veritas Exec Backup as a five or six out of ten. 

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.

The solution is very stable.

The flexibility is very good. 

We find that the solution is very easy to use.

The initial setup is very easy. It doesn't take too long to deploy everything. 

The technical support is very helpful.

We are not able to initiate our endpoint device backup on it. For the endpoint devices, I have to depend on the DLO. 

We need more integration capabilities. There needs to be an integration process of the endpoint devices so that we don't have to redo everything for different products.

I've been using the solution for about seven years or so. I've used it for a while. 

We have found the stability to be quite good. there are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable and the performance is great.

We have about 35 to 40 people who use the solution. It's good for companies with a smaller infrastructure setup.

Technical support is great. We're satisfied with the level of service they provide to us. 

The initial setup is not complex or difficult. It's very straightforward. A company shouldn't have any issues with the implementation process. 

The installation takes maybe two or three hours. It's pretty fast.

We have the same team that handles deployment and maintenance. 

I handed the implementation myself. I didn't use an integrator or consultant. 

We are currently not paying for a license. 

We are using the solution for mid-range customers or customers that have a very small infrastructure setup.

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. Overall, we've had a great experience with its capabilities. 

I'd recommend the solution to others. Of course, it needs to be as per the customer requirements. In many environments, we are currently recommending the NetApp Backup or this Backup Exec. It's completely dependent on the customer environment.

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

Veritas Backup Exec is easily managed.

The pricing is an area of improvement and the mode of marketing it.

I have been using Veritas Backup Exec for more than five years. I began using it before it became Veritas, it was previously a product under Symantec.

Stability is one of the best features of Veritas Backup Exec.

Veritas Backup Exec is a scalable product.

Most of our clients are medium and enterprise-sized organizations.

The technical support is okay.

We don't use the support frequently, only when there is a problem.

We have worked with other solutions before Veritas Backup Exec.

The initial setup is easy and quite user-friendly.

The pricing can be improved.

I would recommend purchasing this solution and try it yourself.

I would rate Veritas Backup Exec a seven out of ten.

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.

This solution allows my clients to restore a backup from a specific point in time.

This solution creates a differential backup to reduce storage requirements.

This solution is not complex and you do not have to be too technical to use it.

Veritas offers granular restore, which is an option that many other solutions do not have. It allows you to restore, for example, a single SharePoint document, rather than an entire site.

The price of this solution is very high. It has a lot of features, but it is still kind of expensive for emerging markets, for example, in Africa. The problem comes from the fact that it costs more to back up the data than it is actually worth. A client may ask: "Why should I spend ten thousand dollars to back up data that is worth only two thousand?" They need to have a customizable license, or a different license for countries with emergent markets, such as Nigeria. Nigeria is a very big market, with a population of two hundred million, but it is also a competitive market and products need to be priced competitively in order to remain.

I would like to see an unlimited appliance that does not have a backup limit. If I have a customer who chooses to use the backup appliance then they should not be limited to, for example, ten terabytes.

This solution is very stable.

This solution scales very easily. As soon as you add a new server, it backs it up immediately.

Technical support for this solution is very good. When you run into a problem you can call them at any time. They respond very quickly and are ready to assist you.

The initial setup of this solution is not difficult. It takes between forty-five minutes and an hour to set up.

I deploy this solution for my clients, and I contact Vertias if I have any trouble. They ensure that you have a successful implementation.

Depending on the size of the environment, the deployment can take two or three days.

The number of people required to maintain this solution depends on the complexity of the environment, but I would say that one or two people is sufficient.

When my customers see the price of this solution, they are unsure whether they will ever see a return on their investment.

There is an evaluation license available to test this solution.

My clients have used Micro Focus Data Protector (when it was called HP Data Protector), and they were not satisfied with it.

Depending on the size of the data being backed up, it can take a couple of hours to complete.

This is a solution that keeps evolving with technology. They know the trend of cyber attacks, so Veritas try as much as possible to build up their backup solution to combat whatever attack is in trend. They recently sent me a document that shows that their data protection can mitigate against ransomware. This is good for enterprise clients because it shows that they are thinking of their customers.

A lot of organizations today are afraid of ransomware, and Veritas is ensuring that they are strengthening their data protection to combat or mitigate such attacks. It is something that any enterprise needs to embrace.

I have used other data protection solutions and I see Veritas as one of the best in the market. This solution also has options, such as granular restore, that are not available in other products.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

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.

This is a very flexible product, which allows you to back up not only the physical environment but also the cloud environment. It has a lot of system and application support.

It would be better if it were possible to maintain the information that is in the cloud. The integration with SaaS applications like Office 365 needs to be improved.

We have been selling Veritas Backup Exec for a few months, and Veritas NetBackup for 14 years.

This is a stable solution.

Veritas Backup Exec is a scalable product. This product is used for smaller customers, whereas NetBackup is used more as an enterprise solution.

I have not had end-user experience with the Veritas technical support.

We also work with Veritas NetBackup.

I am not familiar with the installation process, but my understanding is that it's simple.

This product is priced for smaller customers.

Veritas Backup Exec is a product that I can recommend to others.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

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.

The ease-of-use in general is great.

What I didn't like about it is that sometimes, even though it says that it's successful, there are some bugs in it — it's not really successful. Sometimes, I would do a backup and it would say that it was successful but then when I tried to restore it, it's not in the catalog to restore. Then I have to go digging into my email to see if I have a copy of that catalog, then go and find it and restore it. In short, I think there is an issue with the cataloging.

Other than that, it runs pretty fine. If you keep it for too long and the catalog gets really big, the application tends to move slowly because of how big the catalog and the database is getting. We kept on upgrading to the newer version; after a while, it just began to move slow, even if we updated and imported the catalog and the data.

I have been using Veritas Backup Exec since 2015.

Veritas Backup Exec is quite stable.

For small enterprises, Backup Exec works flawlessly; However, they were trying to push us to their bigger enterprise backup, which was NetBackup. When I left my previous company, we were actually in the phase of implementing NetBackup. They recommend NetBackup for larger enterprises.

Overall, It scales up, but only to a certain point. If you want something bigger, you should look into NetBackup.

I would give the technical support a rating of seven. Sometimes it feels like their reps are not trained enough.

The initial setup was quite straightforward. I didn't try to make it any more complex than it already was.

Deployment is really quick; It took us less than one day.

It's very easy to use. It's easier than all of the other backup solutions available. In terms of ease-of-use, Backup Exec is the most straightforward one that I have dealt with.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give this solution a rating of eight.

Its reliability and the fact that we have all the skills that we need for Veritas Backup Exec are the most valuable.

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 have been using Veritas Backup Exec for five years. 

It is stable.

It is scalable.

They have always been good. 

Its price is reasonable. 

We are very happy with Veritas, and we work with them consistently for our servicing. We are a reseller, and we have been their Value Added Reseller of the Year three times. 

This solution has been good for us. We have had good support. It is very stable, and it works for our customers. Only the reporting feature needs to be fixed. 

I would rate Veritas Backup Exec an eight out of ten.

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

It allowed us to step up to a better backup routine from the previous product we were using.  

The most valuable features for me are the ease of restoring the data and the backup window.  

I think that the one place the product could improve the most is in user-friendliness. If you compare it with Veritas' NetBackup, for example, that difference is pretty clear. They could take a lesson from their own products.  

Capability-wise the Backup Exec product is very good, but the lack of user-friendliness means people struggle to find and use some of the interesting features that would otherwise benefit from. They will miss utilizing those capabilities.  

Reporting capabilities are not up to the standard of other products. If you compare the reports which we get from NetBackup, those contain a lot of information that we need and do not get with Backup Exec. By comparison, the Backup Exec reports are pretty simple.  

Better reporting capability and a more user-friendly design would greatly improve usability.  

We have been using Veritas for backup for close to five years now.  

We have not seen any glitches in the product's function. It has always been stable and reliable.  

It is easy to scale the solution. There is a limitation to the size or complexity of the environment that it will be optimal for, but it is scalable.  

The technical support is pretty good. We have reached out for Backup Exec and we have gotten the support that we needed.  

We were using Data Protection Manager prior to Backup Exec. We switched to Veritas because we saw by comparison that it was a better product for our situation with more capabilities.  

The setup was simple. I do not really remember exactly how much time it took to set up because it has been quite some time now, but I know that we did not have issues getting it up and running.  

The setup was done by a small team from within our company without the help of a vendor or integrator. The team was mostly made up of engineers within the company. The product has remained in place for about five years.  

It requires maintenance from our side. Usually, it is mostly the admins managing it, so that is about four people in our case.  

The cost of Veritas is really mid-range for this class of product, I would say. Everything is included in one license and there are no additional, hidden costs.  

My advice to anyone considering this product would be to know how many servers have to be covered and the complexity of the environment as well as the capabilities of Backup Exec. Veritas cannot handle a complex environment very well. It is really only designed for a simple environment.  

On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I can rate Veritas Backup Exec as somewhere around eight. It has some very good capabilities but limitations with system complexity, user-friendliness, and depth of reporting.