Arcserve Backup vs Veeam Backup | TrustRadius

What users are saying about

Arcserve Backup

Veeam Backup<a href='https://www.trustradius.com/static/about-trustradius-scoring#question3' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Customer Verified: Read more.</a>

Arcserve Backup

Score 7.4 out of 10

Based on 19 reviews and ratings

Veeam Backup<a href='https://www.trustradius.com/static/about-trustradius-scoring#question3' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Customer Verified: Read more.</a>

Score 8.9 out of 10

Based on 149 reviews and ratings

Add comparison

Feature Rating Comparison

Arcserve Backup

8.9

Veeam Backup

9.1

Universal recovery

8.8

8.9

Live recovery

8.6

9.2

Recovery verification

8.9

9.3

Business application protection

8.8

9.2

Multiple backup destinations

9.3

9.0

Incremental backup identification

8.4

9.5

Backup to the cloud

8.8

9.1

Deduplication and file compression

9.3

8.8

Snapshots

8.4

8.7

Flexible deployment

8.9

9.0

Management dashboard

9.3

9.2

Platform support

8.9

9.1

Retention options

8.9

9.2

Encryption

9.6

9.0

Pros

Backup of Virtual and Physical Machines
Replication
Instant Virtual Machines
Copy to Tape
Automatic testing of Disaster Recovery environments
Virtual standby automatic restore of VM's and Physical machines
Backup using hardware snapshots
Backup of Exchange 365

Read full review

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Corporate

Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees

View all 4 answers on this topic

Quick backups
Easy restoration
Ability to replicate backup files

Read full review

Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Legal Services Company, 11-50 employees

View all 33 answers on this topic

Cons

File System Archive is limited without stubbing
Virtual Standby is limited to Windows only

Read full review

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Corporate

Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees

View all 4 answers on this topic

Free version has limited functionality - The free version of Veeam Backup & Replication offers only very basic backups, and doesn't work well with free versions of VMware ESXi as a result.
Cost goes up with lots of cores - While generally quite affordable on the lowend, Veeam can get costly if you're backing up a large number of ESX hosts with a large number of CPU's and cores, especially with the Enterprise and Enterprise Plus versions.
Can require a dedicated admin in larger environments - Veeam is very hands-off for many installs, but some Enterprises with a large number of VM's and ESX hosts may require a dedicated admin to manage Veeam.

Read full review

Lead Desktop Analyst

Fidelity & Guaranty LifeInsurance, 201-500 employees

View all 33 answers on this topic

Likelihood to Renew

Arcserve Backup10.0

Based on 1 answer

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.

Read full review

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Corporate

Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

Veeam Backup8.7

Based on 2 answers

We really like the product and can't really complain about its performance at this point. We've also had it deployed for years and it would be difficult to migrate to another solution, not to mention hard to justify the cost of a new solution when this one is working as well as it is.

Read full review

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

View all 2 answers on this topic

Usability

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Ask the community to sound off

Veeam Backup9.0

Based on 2 answers

Overall we have been very pleased with the solution for our virtual infrastructure. I would not give it 10 because I am not really happy with the troubles we get into while backing up our physical servers directly.

Read full review

Senior Oracle Database Administrator

CGIInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

View all 2 answers on this topic

Support

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Ask the community to sound off

Veeam Backup10.0

Based on 1 answer

When I needed support I was able to call and get assistance from a live person very quickly. They were very helpful with all aspects of the software from installation and configuration issues to recovery and everyday maintenance issues

Read full review

Helpdesk Support Technician

Rogers Machinery Company, Inc.Civil Engineering, 1001-5000 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

Implementation

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Ask the community to sound off

Veeam Backup10.0

Based on 1 answer

Just follow the instructions and the software is super simple to install.

Read full review

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

Alternatives Considered

It is easy to deploy and manage. Solid data recovery and good notification option. We need to backup to tape to retain 7 years thus D2D2T is a good option to have.

Read full review

Hiroki Nakazato

IT SYSTEMS ANALYST SR.

Makita USAConstruction, 501-1000 employees

View all 4 answers on this topic

While Backup Exec is a good product, it isn't nearly as robust or easy to use as Veeam. It isn't ideal for backing up large numbers of VM's, and it also requires that an agent be installed in each VM, which can be both problematic and intrustive to user experience

Read full review

Lead Desktop Analyst

Fidelity & Guaranty LifeInsurance, 201-500 employees

View all 33 answers on this topic

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.

Read full review

Senior Systems Administrator

New Mexico Department of AgricultureHigher Education, 201-500 employees

View all 4 answers on this topic

Helped standardize backups - Veeam helped us achieve consistent, reliable backups at a fairly reasonable cost. Having dependable backups is very important.
Increased executive faith in IT - With backups being more consistent and readily available, executive trust in IT's recovery and disaster recovery increased substantially.
Easier Disaster Recovery - Veeam makes disaster recovery, especially across data centers, fairly painless. It's easy to restore a VM that lived in one datacenter, to another datacenter. This is critically important when outages occur.

Read full review

Lead Desktop Analyst

Fidelity & Guaranty LifeInsurance, 201-500 employees

View all 33 answers on this topic

Pricing Details

Arcserve Backup

General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Additional Pricing Details

—

Veeam Backup

General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Additional Pricing Details

—

Rating Summary

Arcserve Backup

Arcserve Backup

Arcserve Backup

Arcserve Backup

Arcserve Backup