Acronis Backup vs Veritas Backup Exec

Acronis Backup

We have used this to recover a folder that was accidentally deleted by a user. Brilliant and works fast too.

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Professional in Information Technology

Entertainment Company, 201-500 employees

Veritas Backup Exec

My rating would have been higher a few years ago, but nagging problems, primarily noticed since the switch back to Veritas, has increased my dissatisfaction. It is still a solid product for the SMB market. It is a wide variety of options that will fit into just about any scenario that you can think of. Licensing complexity continues to be a issue. It offers solid performance, reasonably good support and a decent interface once you are used to it

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Jeff Daniels

Network Engineer

EPMG-Emergency Physicians Medical GroupHospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Acronis Backup

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Veritas Backup Exec

7.4

Universal recovery

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7.5

Live recovery

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7.5

Recovery verification

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7.6

Business application protection

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7.7

Multiple backup destinations

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7.4

Incremental backup identification

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8.1

Backup to the cloud

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6.6

Deduplication and file compression

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6.3

Snapshots

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6.5

Flexible deployment

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7.0

Management dashboard

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6.9

Platform support

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8.1

Retention options

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8.1

Encryption

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8.2

Pros

Acronis backup allows you to set up several backups at once to different locations for redundancy.
It allows you to easily search the local network to find backup locations.
It allows you to set up several different time frames for backups ie: weekly, monthly, daily etc

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Utilities Company, 11-50 employees

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Manage agent based backups - It is easy to schedule and monitor backups. Verifying backups is done for all jobs. Backup performance is excellent.
Provide a wide ranging contingent of backup options - Despite providing a dizzying array of backup options, it is easy to schedule individual or recurring jobs.
Integrates well with our Active Directory - Restoring even individual Active Directory objects is possible.

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Jeff Daniels

Network Engineer

EPMG-Emergency Physicians Medical GroupHospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

Did not work well with our XP machines. Was unable to determine if it was our side or the backup software.

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Brandon Justice

Technical Support

Applied Instruments, Inc.Telecommunications, 11-50 employees

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Very expensive.
Could have more expanded features.

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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Acronis Backup9.1

Based on 2 answers

We have renewed our subscription over the course of a few years now. We used to use Backup Exec and it was tedious and difficult to obtain our backups when needed. Acronis just fits our environment style and the way we prefer to do business and use our third party software.

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Ethan Nick

I.T. Team Leader

JST Corporation / Sales AmericaDesign, 1001-5000 employees

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Veritas Backup Exec7.3

Based on 2 answers

I would have given it a 10 but my organization doesn't currently use Symantec

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Account Manager in Sales

Information Technology and Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Usability

Acronis Backup8.2

Based on 1 answer

I give it a rating of 9 do to its ease of usability. It's ease of understanding how to setup - form - fit - and function. I have no sorrows when having to login to the console in order to setup a new backup schedule or retrieve and recover lost data.

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Ethan Nick

I.T. Team Leader

JST Corporation / Sales AmericaDesign, 1001-5000 employees

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Support

Acronis Backup8.2

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We have only had to contact support a hand full of times. The reason for this 9 out of 10 is do to how quickly and cooperative they have been on the rare occasion we needed to chat with them about our small questions or queries with potential issues do to the nature of our business.

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Ethan Nick

I.T. Team Leader

JST Corporation / Sales AmericaDesign, 1001-5000 employees

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Implementation

Acronis Backup9.1

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I don't have any real key 'insights' per say except that it wasn't difficult at all, and do not be afraid to dabble in its tools and settings. It is quite intuitive with built in common sense. I cannot say enough good things about our companies experience when using this backup software.

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Ethan Nick

I.T. Team Leader

JST Corporation / Sales AmericaDesign, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Windows backup seemed to work just as well. So I did not decide to purchase after the trial

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Brandon Justice

Technical Support

Applied Instruments, Inc.Telecommunications, 11-50 employees

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If your company is looking at changing solutions or currently does not have any, Veritas Backup Exec is the way to go. Do yourself a favor and try the 60 day trial, you won't be disappointed! Very simple to use and has a great GUI, much better than what the competition has to offer.

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Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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Scalability

Acronis Backup7.7

Based on 26 answers

It automates discovery of all devices and virtual machines. No need for multiple licenses in a VM environment.

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Steve Redman

IT Administrator

City of JacksonvilleGovernment Administration, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Saves time and money when a computer has a disk failure. We just push the last image to the new disk and the endpoint is back up and running. No time spent reloading windows and all software.
Lower admin cost because of the easy to use central management
We use our own private cloud for backup storage so we save money by using internal storage instead of paid public storage.

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Vincent Capra

IT Consultant

CPS Computer ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Veritas Backup Exec is good for single file restores. We have had to restore files from a few months back without any problem.
Veritas has saved us money by reverting work that was overwritten by a past employee.
Sometimes tapes can be overwritten by accident when you inventory it for restore, which can be an issue.

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