Barracuda Backup vs Veeam Backup & Replication

• Quickness to deploy. You will not need an expert to get this up and running.
• Extremely intuitive interface: Brand new techs can pick this up without much training.
• Global Accessibility: The cloud interface allows administrators to access their backups from everywhere for quick restores after hours.

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• It is very fast. Disk-to-disk backup is extremely fast.
• Veeam is easy to use. Even someone who hasn't used it before can figure out how to restore a file in a few minutes.
• It uses a standard filesystem style hierarchy for file retrieval, which makes it very efficient when searching for a single file to restore.

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• In some of the older version of the software, drilling down to restore a single files was quite the process. It's still a little slow to this day, but improvements have been made.
• It would be nice to have the ability to spin up a virtual machine directly on the backup appliance in the event of a failed server. At current time you need a Hyper-v or VMWare environment to restore a failed machine to.
• Once you put the device in cloud control mode, some of your options are limited when you log directly into the local appliance. I personally would like to see all the options remain the same so I can administer the device the same remotely and I would sitting in front of it.

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• Errors are often difficult to diagnose with complex error messages that don't mean much.
• Software updates often cause other issues with storage hardware which then require firmware updates.
• Reporting could be better. We currently use a 3rd party tool to report as the built-in reporting doesn't seem to be too good.

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• We've had a couple situations where we've had to pull data back down from the BBS cloud and while it can take a while sometimes, we haven't had an issue where we haven't been able to restore something that we needed. Overall it has been very reliable.
• We've had to implement two other backup systems in addition to Barracuda Backup and dedicate our BBSs to just mission-critical data because we're size-locked in our appliances. Upgrading to larger models is not financially viable at the moment and we can't expand their internal storage or point them to an iSCSI share or likewise. We brought in other systems to handle non-critical and virtual data because of those storage limitations.

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• Having reliable backups has saved us time (which is money) on many occasions.
• Our objective is to educate students, and we need our servers running all the time to meet that objective. Having them backed up properly allows us to do that.
• Peace of mind in knowing we have good backups is always a positive thing.

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