Arcserve Backup vs Veeam Backup & Replication

Likelihood to Recommend

Arcserve UDP is fully suited for small to large size environments that need complete data protection solutions with the ability to run the fastest backups, replications, instant VM and DR.

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C-Level Executive in Corporate

Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees

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We have found that Veeam is very well suited for providing backup and redundancy for cloud based file sharing systems. We use SharePoint sites accessed through teams and groups, and Veeam gives my CEO piece of mind that our critical data is protected multiple different ways. Being able to spread backups across geography and systems has been a real breath of fresh air, given the current state of play regarding cybersecurity.

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Manager in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Arcserve Backup

Veeam Backup & Replication

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

Arcserve Backup has many offerings to fit many business sizes and needs.
It offers excellent features like dedupe, high availability, DR, and BMR.
Arcserve Backup sales and technical support is good to work with.
Very nice reseller program and benefits.

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Robert Guy

IT Analyst II

Diversified Computer Resources, IncComputer Networking, 11-50 employees

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Easy to use front end to manage Backup jobs efficiently and review problems during job execution
Restore capabilities of physical servers to VMs or other physical machines with ease (including bootable media)
Snapshot support and restoring them with just a couple of mouse clicks

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Verified User

Technician in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 1-10 employees

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Cons

Has a steep learning curve to the product, if not experienced in backup solutions.
Windows backup and restore functionality is excellent, however, we have found Linux somewhat lacking.

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Rob Bates

Public & Private Cloud Senior Engineer

CreditsafeFinancial Services, 1001-5000 employees

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I would like to have some more monitoring on backup jobs, e.g. unusual growth of changed data due to ransomware. I know it's available in Veeam ONE but it would like to have it in Veeam Backup & Replication.
Startup time of the management console could be a bit faster.

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Steven Bruinen

Owner

KhepriInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Arcserve Backup 10.0

Based on 2 answers

Arcserve UDP provides our organization lots of benefits and it is much more than a simple backup and restore solution. We use it for cross platform DR, storage agnostic replications, DR solution instead of VMware SRM and more.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Corporate

Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Veeam Backup & Replication 9.9

Based on 16 answers

I really have no complaints about Veeam Backup & Replication. Their service has been excellent and the cost is minimal in comparison to other services I checked out. Implementation wasn't simple and the Veeam Support team was there to help each step of the way.

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George Rodgers-Clark

IT Manager

Skagit Valley Food Co-OpRetail, 201-500 employees

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Usability

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Veeam Backup & Replication 9.0

Based on 14 answers

We've been using Veeam Backup & Replication for several years in our
organization, and we perform backups in all of our environments every
night. It’s one of the simplest yet effective and reliable solutions in
the market for the backup segment. You can check out the free Veeam
agent, so you can get an idea of the full product.

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Guillermo Villamizar

Enterprise Products Chief

Celistics GroupLogistics and Supply Chain, 1001-5000 employees

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Reliability and Availability

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Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5

Based on 3 answers

The Veeam Backup & Replication solution is up and running every time you need it as it was planned. In more than 3 years that we have been using the product every night, it might have failed or presented an error once or twice, so the availability percentage is almost at 100%.

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Guillermo Villamizar

Enterprise Products Chief

Celistics GroupLogistics and Supply Chain, 1001-5000 employees

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Performance

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Veeam Backup & Replication 7.3

Based on 3 answers

To identify a bottleneck in the data path, Veeam Backup & Replication
detects the component with the maximum workload, the component
that works for the most time of the job. For example, you use a
low-speed storage device as the backup repository. Even if VM data is
retrieved from the SAN storage on the source side and transported over a
high-speed link, VM data flow will still be impaired at the backup
repository.

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Guillermo Villamizar

Enterprise Products Chief

Celistics GroupLogistics and Supply Chain, 1001-5000 employees

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Support Rating

Arcserve Backup 9.0

Based on 2 answers

Arcserve Backup support is usually very good. Their chat is usually able to fix most general issues, but will escalate more in depth issues to technical engineers that call you back. Their product knowledge is really good and usually resolve issues promptly.

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Robert Guy

IT Analyst II

Diversified Computer Resources, IncComputer Networking, 11-50 employees

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Veeam Backup & Replication 9.7

Based on 33 answers

Support response can be slow and sometimes tedious if you have a non-generic issue in your environment. Due to my experience with Veeam, I often discover the solutions before support does, but on the rare occasion where I need a higher tier of support, their experience and skill set are excellent. If you truly find something odd in your environment, Veeam Support, Development and their teams of engineers will figure it out and provide custom hot-fixes when necessary.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Implementation Rating

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Veeam Backup & Replication 9.7

Based on 26 answers

(I assume this question should say "Veeam" and not "Crownpeak Universal Consent Platform")Planning is key. Planning your backup schedule, size, data restore points, replication if you're doing that, &c. Testing is also important; make sure you back something up and then do a test restore. Set up alerts so you know if things aren't working (or even if they are, always good to know that too).

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Robert Paul

Technical Administrator

New Hampshire Retirement SystemGovernment Administration, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We use Veeam Backup and Replication at our larger sites where Vmware Virtualization is being used and is our product of choice in this venue. When it comes to our smaller sites, nothing is more affordable and reliable than Arcserve Backup.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 1001-5000 employees

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We used Zerto and CA Arcserve to address these needs without migrating to Veeam Backup & Replication. Zerto is a very successful instant backup and we are still using it now. It does what Veeam application cannot do in instant replication. CA Arcserve, on the other hand, is clearly lagging behind the Veeam Backup & Replication product and does not meet today's requirements.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Retail Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Scalability

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Veeam Backup & Replication 6.4

Based on 2 answers

Scalability can be addressed in many ways, but there is a consequence:
Higher performance and smaller backup windows may put too much stress on
production storage, and therefore, on its performance and Availability
to production workloads. To reduce stress on production storage, version
9.5 introduces a new way of reading VM disks that is optimized for
enterprise storage.

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Guillermo Villamizar

Enterprise Products Chief

Celistics GroupLogistics and Supply Chain, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

Deploying Arcserve UDP with the "copy-to-tape" option allowed us to reuse well over 50 LTO5 tapes used by our previous backup solution. Further, we extended data retention on site (maintaining monthly backups on disk) as well as extending off site data retention on tape.

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Jerry Shakal

Senior Systems Administrator

New Mexico Department of AgricultureHigher Education, 201-500 employees

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We are able to backup some machines that we could not backup with our previous solution
We are able to do an hourly backup now
We will be able to implement immutable backups
We will be able to replicate to the cloud

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CRAIG RHINEHART

CIO (Chief Information Officer)

ROBINSON, GRIMES & COMPANY PCAccounting, 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

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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Arcserve Backup Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$0

Veeam Backup & Replication Editions & Modules

Edition

Backup Essentials	$400¹
Backup & Replication	Contact sales team
Availability Suite	Contact sales team

per year
none

Additional Pricing Details

Veeam sells through channel partners. Contact a partner for detailed pricing and quotes. Resellers or sales personnel are available for assistance.

Rating Summary

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Veeam Backup & Replication

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Likelihood to Recommend

Arcserve Backup

Veeam Backup & Replication

Feature Rating Comparison

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

Arcserve Backup

Veeam Backup & Replication

Cons

Arcserve Backup

Veeam Backup & Replication

Likelihood to Renew

Arcserve Backup

Veeam Backup & Replication

Usability

Arcserve Backup

Veeam Backup & Replication

Reliability and Availability

Arcserve Backup

Veeam Backup & Replication

Performance

Arcserve Backup

Veeam Backup & Replication

Support Rating

Arcserve Backup

Veeam Backup & Replication

Implementation Rating

Arcserve Backup

Veeam Backup & Replication

Alternatives Considered

Arcserve Backup

Veeam Backup & Replication

Scalability

Arcserve Backup

Veeam Backup & Replication

Return on Investment

Arcserve Backup

Veeam Backup & Replication

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Arcserve Backup

Veeam Backup & Replication

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

Arcserve Backup Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

Veeam Backup & Replication Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

Rating Summary

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