Arcserve Backup vs Veritas Backup Exec

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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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

Arcserve Backup

Veritas Backup Exec

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

A solid reliable backup solution with a proven track record.
Great functionality that allows monitoring and provides alerts.
A cost-effective solution, especially for smaller sites.
Restoration when needed, has always been able to give us the data required without failure.
Product support has always been excellent when needed.

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Professional in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 1001-5000 employees

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The license/agent deployment feature in Backup Exec facilitates effective and speedy population within your data center.
Veritas Backup Exec's feature rich job creation is intuitive and simplifies backup strategies.
Customizable views in the Administrator console allow you to view your backup environment to maximize visibility.

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Christopher Stark

Division Network Support Specialist

The Salvation ArmyNon-Profit Organization Management, 501-1000 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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The user interface can sometimes be sluggish and hang between options.The minimum spec is 2Gb but if running on a dedicated server I think 4Gb is recommended
As more companies seem to be entering the backup software market, Acronis is very aggressive on pricing and even offer discounts if you are replacing other backup solutions, the Backup Exec pricing plans have become a more expensive
Our version is an older 2014 version and has inadequate support for VM backs

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Administrator in Information Technology

Consumer Goods Company, 201-500 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Arcserve Backup 10.0

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.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Corporate

Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Veritas Backup Exec 7.3

Based on 2 answers

Overall I believe my customers who purchase Symantec products are 100% satisfied. It's rare that I get a call that they want to replace it with a competitor.

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Account Manager in Sales

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

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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.

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Hiroki Nakazato

IT SYSTEMS ANALYST SR.

Makita USAConstruction, 501-1000 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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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 501-1000 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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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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Michael Hylek

IT Specialist

Epstein Architecture, Engineering and ConstructionArchitecture & Planning, 201-500 employees

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Arcserve Backup vs Veritas Backup Exec

Arcserve Backup

Veritas Backup Exec

Feature Rating Comparison

Data Center Backup

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

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Cons

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Alternatives Considered

Return on Investment

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

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