Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery vs Veritas NetBackup

• You can do backups of your servers, PC, and virtual environments in just one console.
• The policy setup is very granular, so you can do almost whatever you need.
• The compression and duplication really save you a lot storage space, which means less hardware.
• The backup time are really good, so the maintenance window for each backup is fast.

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• Upgrades are typically easy and normally have either no issues or very few that are easily resolved (wait a month or 2 before upgrading)
• Using accelerator for the vm environment works well, and file level restores have been successful
• Full vm recovery has worked every time
• Backing up a physical server and restoring to a vm works as described
• GRT Exchange backups are pretty easy, to setup
• File level restores are simple

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• The management console still uses Java and often has compatibility issues. I would dump java in favor or a HTML5 web console.
• CommVault is a huge solution capable of managing the most complex environments. It could benefit from some simplification and wizards to make it more approachable to smaller IT shops.

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• The GUI is very old looking. This does not kill the performance, it just looks to be 10 years old.
• Some things need to be done from the CLI(command line interface). if you have not used this before it will take some learning and a good understanding of Linux.

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• With a successful DR test, Commvault has proven that our most critical systems could be recovered in a very short amount of time. Since these Tier One systems are the money makers, it is a relief to know they can be up and running within the SLA provided by the business.
• With the large amount of client agents used for backups, we are backing up databases that we couldn't before with NetBackup. Right now, our environment is the most protected it has ever been.
• Even though we have increased the amount of data we are backing up by a very large margin, the success rates have allowed us to work on other things than having to worry about backups not working. Productivity has certainly increased.

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• We never experienced a significant system or data loss during the time we used NetBackup. We restored individuals files and small databases based upon user mistakes, but we never had to implement a DR plan. From that aspect, it is difficult to evaluate the ROI. Backups are a commodity service. Features are very similar across multiple tools. Once you decide to stay on-prem or move to the cloud, the list of options are narrowed. Then it becomes a matter of price.
• From an administration and support perspective, the ROI is low. Vendor technical support is not always responsive. The first two tiers of support are not knowledgeable and their typical recommendation is to read the white paper. My small team spent a lot of time troubleshooting NetBackup, often without much vendor help.

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