Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup vs. Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365

For its price the product is very cost effective. For our university it's important to be able to backup students as well as employees and other products tend to have at least limited cost to students. As there are so many students in our university the cost involved with other products would make them too costly. As the amount of data that is involved with M365 is so vast, it's also nice not to have extra cost involved for space used. The product is cloud based, so for some organizations that might be a problem.

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Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 is well suited for anyone using Microsoft 365 for email, OneDrive, and/or Sharepoint. Microsoft offers backup solutions, but their clunky, hard to use, and expensive, not to mention the fact that Microsoft likes to move features around to different admin consoles or different locations in the same admin console. Because of the limited scheduling options, Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 may not be well suited for large enterprises - a backup job from a previous day might still be running when it's supposed to start again, but the new job will not run until the previous job is complete.

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• Creates a cloud backup of all aspects of Office 365
• Retains the backups for as long as we need them
• Allows us to easily locate files, folders, email accounts, or email messages to restore them

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• Allows for granular restore capabilities.
• Comprehensive Microsoft 365 Coverage.
• Predictable pricing. Microsoft pricing is "Pay as you go" based on utilization, which undoubtedly will increase as the tenant grows over time. Veeam is based on per-user.
• Can select which location your data is stored, if you choose.

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• The final output when downloading is a bit bulky and hard to find things based on subject headers.
• Wish there was a range to export out.
• The UI is not as snappy as I would have expected.

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• Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 isn't 'multi geo' aware - this means we have to manually select resources to back up depending on their geo-location.
• Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 doesn't backup Private Channels users create in a Team - there are workarounds for this but it would be nice if this just worked.

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we are pleased about the product. And why change a working software?

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Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 just works so well and is so easy to use. I researched multiple options for Office 365 backup and none seemed to be as easy to setup and use as Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and the pricing was very comfortable to us. I can't imagine any reason why we would change away from Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365.

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The product is very simple to use . That is a good thing and a bad thing as there could be some more advanced view or filtering options if you for example have to restore entire organization units data. There could also me more information from the whole organizations backup status

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The configuration of backups is fairly simple if you follow the recommendations. It took me a few days/cycles to fine tune the backups to make sure they were working. The restore process is also straight forward and if you are only looking for information, you do even need to do a full restore as you can peruse the data. You can also restore a single email or file instead a whole mailbox, OneDrive, or site

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I have yet to need it during any of their scheduled maintenance windows. It's always online.

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We have a lot of data, and pulling backups out of the store sometimes takes a bit of time - but this is within acceptable tolerances. I don't expect restores to be instantaneous, and I can't quantify if the speed is software or data repository.

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The support technicians at Veeam dealing with their Data Cloud platforms for MS365 and Office 365 are very knowledgeable and ready to assist in the event of having an issue. I had issues when I had initially started with the product and they were able to assist in getting these issues resolved, a problem caused by me, and didn’t make me feel bad I had not configured or understood their product well enough.

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in a few clicks the backup was running. The first restore was exiting since we didn't know what to expect.

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Really easy, but we are not a big company. I am not backing up all users, just those that could fire me.

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Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup integrates well with our Barracuda Backups, email protection, and impersonation protection products with a simple portal to interface with all products.

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Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 rides the line of being overly complex and too restrictive very well. Acronis has far too many components for a small to medium business like us, whereas Arcserve requires interfacing with an unappealing graphical interface. Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 gave us a nice application with a single instance to install, nothing more.

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I have had no issues scaling this software as my organisation or data estate has grown. It always does exaclty what it says on the box.

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They are very responsive and technical savvy.

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• Helps me worry a little less that in the worst case scenario, mailboxes & teams are easily restorable to continue with online learning at the very least.
• Whilst we weren't spending any money on backing up our Microsoft 365 data, I would say that it's worth every penny. Especially in a disaster recovery scenario.
• It also proves useful in instances where a user accidentally loses or deletes an important email or file in their mailbox/team. It can easily restore what has been lost.

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• The only real impact is from a compliance standpoint. Our company is expected at a regulatory level to be protecting our data and even though the tenant has little traffic there could still be some regulated data in there. We have to be able to tell an auditor that it's being backed up by an enterprise grade solution, and that's what VDC was intended for.

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