Acronis Cyber Cloud for Enterprise vs Veritas NetBackup

Likelihood to Recommend

Acronis Cyber Cloud is well suited in any environment where backup is needed. Whether it is backing up a single workstation, 10 servers, or replicating a Virtual machine to another Virtual Host.

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jesse nanes

Systems Engineer

Imagenet ConsultingInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees

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Like most enterprise backup applications, Symantec NetBackup (NBU) suffers from complexity. Using and understanding advanced features can be challenging at times. Real world experience is needed to know if they are worth the time to implement. On the other hand I have found NBU relativity easy to use with a little training from just a simple backup scheduling and restore perspective.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Acronis Cyber Cloud for Enterprise

Veritas NetBackup

Universal recovery

Live recovery

Recovery verification

Business application protection

Multiple backup destinations

Incremental backup identification

Backup to the cloud

Deduplication and file compression

Snapshots

Flexible deployment

Management dashboard

Platform support

Retention options

Encryption

Pros

Image backup.
File folder backup.
Virtual machine replication.
Workstation backup.
Server backup.

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jesse nanes

Systems Engineer

Imagenet ConsultingInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees

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Upgrades are typically easy and normally have either no issues or very few that are easily resolved (wait a month or 2 before upgrading)
Using accelerator for the vm environment works well, and file level restores have been successful
Full vm recovery has worked every time
Backing up a physical server and restoring to a vm works as described
GRT Exchange backups are pretty easy, to setup
File level restores are simple

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

We would like to see a Virtual Machine test option to test the ability to boot your backups as seen in some competing backup softwares.

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jesse nanes

Systems Engineer

Imagenet ConsultingInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees

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The GUI is very old looking. This does not kill the performance, it just looks to be 10 years old.
Some things need to be done from the CLI(command line interface). if you have not used this before it will take some learning and a good understanding of Linux.

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Jason Stallings

System Engineer 1

Nu Skin EnterprisesConsumer Goods, 5001-10,000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

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Veritas NetBackup 9.0

Based on 1 answer

Veritas continues to keep up with the backup game. There virtual machine backup capabilities are now top notch, and I believe they will prove valuable when our cloud presence demands a backup solution.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Retail Company, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

Acronis Cyber Cloud for Enterprise 9.1

Based on 2 answers

Support has been helpful when we have had to reach out. We have not had to contact support that much so I do not have much feedback on them. I met the support team at the Cyber Summit and they are all very nice, smart individuals.

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jesse nanes

Systems Engineer

Imagenet ConsultingInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees

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Veritas NetBackup 9.0

Based on 3 answers

Veritas support is very prompt and the acknowledgement/followup is hugely appreciable. They go deep to the issue and provide you satisfactory solutions. Creating ticket in portal is also very easy, does not adhere to severity priority, even if Sev2 response is very quick.

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Ratnodeep Roy

Senior System Analyst

StratogentInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Acronis is by far much easier to configure and gain access to cloud resources. Acronis is cloud only whereas Veeam requires an on prem server. We tested both and have found that we were unable to accomplish our goals utilizing Veeam.

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jesse nanes

Systems Engineer

Imagenet ConsultingInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees

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CrashPlan has the capability to sync data with a cloud storage source. This is great for a workstation where data is typically only for one user. However, Netbackup does a much better job for maintaining multiple levels of file restores for Enterprise Servers. Netbackup has a superior management console that does not rely on Cloud services in the event of an internet outage.

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Rick Lupton

Systems Programmer Analyst

East Carolina UniversityHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees

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Return on Investment

Acronis has made our backup process much smoother.
Less tech time needed to configure backups.
Less tech time needed to restore backups.

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jesse nanes

Systems Engineer

Imagenet ConsultingInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees

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We never experienced a significant system or data loss during the time we used NetBackup. We restored individuals files and small databases based upon user mistakes, but we never had to implement a DR plan. From that aspect, it is difficult to evaluate the ROI. Backups are a commodity service. Features are very similar across multiple tools. Once you decide to stay on-prem or move to the cloud, the list of options are narrowed. Then it becomes a matter of price.
From an administration and support perspective, the ROI is low. Vendor technical support is not always responsive. The first two tiers of support are not knowledgeable and their typical recommendation is to read the white paper. My small team spent a lot of time troubleshooting NetBackup, often without much vendor help.

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Joel Gibbons

IT Director and Corporate Compliance Officer

National FFA OrganizationNon-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

Acronis Cyber Cloud for Enterprise

Veritas NetBackup

Acronis Cyber Cloud for Enterprise

Veritas NetBackup

Acronis Cyber Cloud for Enterprise

Veritas NetBackup