Barracuda Backup vs Veeam Backup & Replication | TrustRadius

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Score 8.9 out of 10

Based on 48 reviews and ratings

Score 9.1 out of 10

Based on 238 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Barracuda 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

The Barracuda Backup is simple to install, setup, and administer. At the same time gives you plenty of options to customize your setup to fit your needs.
The restore process is much more simplified than many of the other backup solutions we've utilized.
The alerts, and reporting features and second to none. We'll often time know when a backup has failed, and have the issue corrected long before the customer brings it to our attention.
Barracuda's support team is great. Their intelligent, well versed in the product, and incredibly efficient.

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Josh McClelland

IT Consultant

Americom Imaging Systems, Inc.Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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It creates forever incremental backup by standard, this feature will keep your back-up windows as small as they can be.
It supports Nutanix AHV, to us it's very important to have a backup software that makes backup at hypervisor level.
Restoring files and object is fairly easy with Veeam, we get various questions about restoring files, also from older restore points, depending on the retention it's always fairly fast and helps users with their ongoing work.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Cons

On the restore functionality, I'd like to be able to see multiple folders revisions. Its hard to explain, but the restore function of drilling down to get certain files instead of having to download an entire folder.
To be able to see file / folder sizes before downloading so I could have a better idea of download times and such.

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Dustin Williams

Network Administrator III

Millar Instruments, Inc.Medical Devices, 51-200 employees

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I would like some sort of manifest of backed up files to search through before attempting to find the file through the interface.
Rather than selecting the backup to restore from, I'd like to select the file, see all of its versions, and then decide which version to restore.

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Senior System Analyst

CymSTARDefense & Space, 201-500 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Barracuda Backup 10.0

Based on 2 answers

Love the units

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Senior Network Engineer

The Spence SchoolEducation Management, 51-200 employees

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Veeam Backup & Replication 8.8

Based on 8 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

Barracuda Backup 9.5

Based on 2 answers

The front-end webpages are basic without to much clutter which makes finding what you are trying to do fairly easy.

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Sr. Programmer/Analyst

PCS Receivables Corp.Financial Services, 11-50 employees

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Veeam Backup & Replication 8.8

Based on 7 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

Barracuda Backup 7.0

Based on 1 answer

No answer on this topic is available.

Veeam Backup & Replication 9.0

Based on 1 answer

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

Barracuda Backup 9.0

Based on 1 answer

No answer on this topic is available.

Veeam Backup & Replication 8.0

Based on 1 answer

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

Barracuda Backup 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Best support in business class

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Senior Network Engineer

The Spence SchoolEducation Management, 51-200 employees

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Veeam Backup & Replication 9.0

Based on 6 answers

Veeam has a pretty decent knowledgebase with articles relevant to all sorts of possible issues (I'v eonly had a few). There's also a forum with searchable answers. Beyond that, submitting a ticket or calling support is easy and they're prompt. We had a licensing issue once and they helped us resolve it within a few hours, even though it wasn't strictly critical.

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Technical Administrator

New Hampshire Retirement SystemGovernment Administration, 51-200 employees

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Implementation

Barracuda Backup 8.0

Based on 1 answer

Work on a backup agent for Mac OS X or any Apple OS.

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Senior Network Engineer

The Spence SchoolEducation Management, 51-200 employees

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Veeam Backup & Replication 8.5

Based on 6 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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Technical Administrator

New Hampshire Retirement SystemGovernment Administration, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Barracuda does very well for data that needs to be sent offsite. That's our main use for it. It's reliable and easy to configure, though it is storage-limited. What you buy in the appliance is what you get, period. We brought in CrashPlan to be able to utilize our own storage so that we could back up anything and everything, though we don't push offsite with CrashPlan. We brought in VEEAM to back up our virtual environment to our own storage again, because while the BBS was able to back up virtual machines, it didn't have the storage internally that we needed. VEEAM utilizes our own storage and we push across down to another of our own storage systems for remote backups, so we're going around the BBS appliance and only using it for data that we need to have stored somewhere geographically distant from our main datacenter.

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IT Director/CIO

Green Clinic Health SystemHospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees

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I have looked at other solutions like Symantec (Veritas), which I used to use at a previous job, and Unitrends, and while they may have great features, and might perform "just as well" as Veeam, none of them have given me a compelling reason to switch away from Veeam. Since it does everything I want and seems to do a great job at it, it is hard to find a reason to switch.

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Network Administrator

Goshen Community SchoolsEducation Management, 1001-5000 employees

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Scalability

Barracuda Backup 7.0

Based on 1 answer

No answer on this topic is available.

Veeam Backup & Replication 8.0

Based on 1 answer

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

Incremental backups allow us to fee safe when restores are needed in a hurry.
Backup to cloud offers us the security of knowing our data is safe in multiple locations.
Compliance is easy with Barracuda by making multiple backup pathways and restore capabilities.

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Infrastructure Manager

AccruePartnersComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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The yearly price we pay in support and maintenance for Veeam hasn't come close to the amount of times we've used Veeam to restore critical aspects of our infrastructure during emergencies or user-error.
The ability to test backups immediately after they are created, receiving a report from the software on the success/failure of the virtual machines being restored and powered up has provided our team peace of mind and given the company confidence in it's backups.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Industrial Automation Company, 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

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

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