Veritas NetBackup Reviews

We are a partner and a user of Veritas NetBackup. As a company, we are using Veritas for our internal data backup and recovery.

Improvements can be made to the service by providing better and more competitive ratios on data backups. The functionality for backups is there with Veritas, but I would like to see them optimize and enhance this feature more.

Technical support from the vendor's perspective has been very proactive. They are very active in responding to customer support requests. Their response times have been good and the people are great to deal with when it comes to troubleshooting and solving problems. Veritas knows what they are doing and they have excellent experience in their own product line.

We were previously using Veritas.

We implemented through a vendor. The vendor was very proactive. The response was great. They were knowledgable and experienced; the team got the job done.

Veritas Netbackup offers affordable licensing.

We were evaluating other products and getting confused between Commvault and Veritas NetBackup. The one reason that we started with Veritas NetBackup is the pricing of the license. There's no other reason from a technical perspective or even operation or capability of the two software. The main reason we chose Veritas NetBackup was that in our use case it is more cost-effective.

My advice is that it is a perfect product. I would rate it an 8 out of 10 overall. I wouldn't give it a ten because it doesn't have the necessary full backup capabilities and because it is missing functionalities like the archiving feature which is not there.

Our primary use case is to backup the databases for our enterprise clients.

It is a very good backup solution that we provide to the majority of our clients as a service.

It is very easy to perform a backup, and then verify whether it has been properly completed or not.

Add endpoint backup capability for a particular appliance. Currently it is server level only.

We use this product daily, and my impression of the stability is very good.

It is scalable. Our clients include fifty to sixty IT managers that are responsible for backing up their company's data. We plan to increase this number as we add new clients.

I have not contacted the product's technical support. We have our own lab set up for testing the product.

I use a second solution, Commvault, in cases where there is no domain. I did not, and still do not use another solution for our primary use case.

The setup, installation, and configuration is not complex. Once the product is configured, it is very easy to use.

For this solution, we handle the system integration for our clients. It takes approximately ten to fifteen days to deploy the backup solution.

I think that the pricing and licensing for this solution is good. It is affordable.

I have not had any issues or problems when using this solution. It has been working perfectly for our primary use case.

I would rate this solution eight out of ten.

I used the product to back up all of the major servers at my location, including operating systems: UNIX, Linux, and Windows. 

There are a little more than 100 individual systems with around 1.2 PB of which at least 250 TB is continuously backed up with this product.

It has performed as advertised and I have used it for more than 18 years without any major loss of data or problems.

The support of a large number of different operating systems and applications.

Better ways of backing up larger filesystems with many, millions of small files.

The application is used for backing up our complete infrastructure including Microsoft Exchange, Oracle EBS, local shared files and folders, and a couple of SQL servers.

The application is very complex and we failed at integration with most of the applications on Oracle Linux.

It has a long backup journey but fortunately, application awareness is very good starting from MS products, database, etc.

The application needs more flexibility and reliability should be the top priority of the enhancement.

It saves time for the backup needs of our organization. 

It is less bulky. 

The interface should be improved. 

It is fine.

I do not have experience with their tech support.

I have previous experience with Veeam and NetApp Backup. 

We looked at Veeam and Veritas NetBackup. 

The primary use case is for archiving.

The most valuable feature is that it is basically a replica of our SAN data. We archive the SAN data for recovery, if there is an issue on the fence.

I think that the licensing model needs improvement. 

The stability is fine.

As it scales, it becomes expensive.

Our experience with tech support is mostly positive. But, we had some repeat issues and tech support was not entirely responsive to our needs.

The licensing model is cost-prohibitive as you scale out. 

No, we did not evaluate any other options. We only tried this solution in our environment.

I would advise not to use this tool. I think between the licensing issues and the older solution mentality it is not a great solution. They really have not kept up with the times. 

It is for backing up servers. It has performed well.

It is essential. We can't do without it.

Its most valuable features are flexibility and reliability.

• It needs support for Kernel-based Virtual Machines (KVMs).
• Some of the hardware is out of support. 
  
• The product is not able to keep up with other competitors in the market.
  

Stability is very good.

Scalability is very good.

Their support is pretty good.

I have been involved in upgrades. They have not been straightforward. Some of them have required us to make changes to our architecture and production environment.

We are currently evaluating EMC Avamar and NetWorker.

I would recommend the product. It is a good product.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: The product does what it says it does and it supports all our needs.

• Ease to use
• Friendly interface
• Logs are very easy to read, parse, and use for diagnostics.

Backup for over 10,000 jobs with a failure rate under 0.5%.

I am not interested in any features because I have worked with all of the backup solutions that are now available in the market.

The restore tool is not friendly to newcomers. It takes some of our storage and backup admin/support a long time to wrestle with it, but then they have enough knowledge to work even with NetBackup competitors.

We have encountered some issues when upgrading to 8.1 due to data which could not transfer in plain (non-encrypted over network). However, it has now been resolved.

Fully scalable.

Almost all issues can be resolved by experience admins, even though some really difficult problems have to be raise with vendors.