Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery
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Highlights
Commvault Complete Backup and Recovery and Veritas NetBackup are both Data Center Backup Solutions designed to archive and restore business data. Veritas NetBackup is used by many large enterprises due to its scalability. In contrast, Commvault Complete Backup and Recovery is popular with mid-sized to large businesses. This may be because Commvault Complete Backup and Recovery is designed to handle large, complex data infrastructure, even if it lacks the scalability Veritas offers.
Features
Commvault Complete Backup and Recovery and Veritas NetBackup both include essential data center backup features such as virtual machine snapshotting, but they each have some unique features that set them apart from each other.
Commvault Complete Backup and Recovery includes endpoint protection in addition to virtual machine snapshotting and recovery. The addition of endpoint protection makes Commvault Complete Backup and Recovery a good choice for businesses looking for a data protection tool that covers a wider range of security needs. Additionally, Commvault Complete Backup and Recovery offers a wide variety of integrations that fits into most IT infrastructures.
Veritas Netbackup is able to deploy rapidly, allowing businesses to very quickly implement containerized data protection. Quick deployment could be important to businesses that do multiple backups a day and do not want to waste time on lengthy deployments. Additionally, Veritas Netbackup includes self-service support to all users, so businesses will be able to troubleshoot any problems without issue.
Limitations
Although Commvault Complete Backup and Recovery and Veritas NetBackup both include data center backup features, they also have a few limitations that are important to be aware of.
Commvault Complete Backup and Recovery deploys slowly compared to Veritas NetBackup. If your business value rapid deployment, it may be worth considering Veritas NetBackup. Additionally, Comvault Complete Backup and Recovery does not include self-service support out of the box. Lack of self-service support could be an issue for businesses that expect to need heavy support.
Veritas NetBackup provides robust data center backup features but doesn’t provide endpoint security. Businesses looking for a wider variety of features beyond simple data center backup may consider other options. Additionally, Veritas Netbackup doesn’t have as many out of the box integrations as Commvault Complete Backup and Recovery, so businesses with many third-party solutions that need support may consider an easier to implement option.
Pricing
Commvault does not provide exact pricing for Commvault Complete Backup and Recovery, though interested businesses can reach out to the vendor for a quote.
Pricing for Veritas NetBackup depends on the license chosen, but users can expect to pay around $189.00 per month for the software.
Provided by the TrustRadius Research Team
Published on May 22, 2020
Likelihood to Recommend
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery

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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
Pros
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery
- Commvault is the Swiss Army knife for data protection in an Enterprise environment. You name the environment and Commvvault has something to protect it. Very helpful in this on-prem/off-prem world that is developing into a DevOps world.
- Improves our Disaster Recovery
- Starting to utilize for data migration for VMware in places where Zerto is too expensive

Veritas NetBackup
- 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

Cons
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery
- Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery has developed the concept of plans that work great in smaller institutions but can hamstring large enterprises by the limited flexibility. There are situations where plans appear to be forced into decisions. Ideally, providing the ability to disable plans would be beneficial.
- The security model is granular in respects to permissions and ability to implement it for a single object (client, user, job). Implementing the correct collection of permissions can sometimes feel like opening a padlock. This appears to be a great place to implement a wizard for guiding administrators through desired behaviors and building the appropriate security role.
Veritas NetBackup
- 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.
Likelihood to Renew
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Usability
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Reliability and Availability
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Performance
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Support Rating
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In-Person Training
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Online Training
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Veritas NetBackup
Implementation Rating
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Alternatives Considered
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery

Veritas NetBackup
Scalability
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Return on Investment
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery
- The ease of use and reliability of Commvault have enabled us to support the entire environment with less personnel than other products. We can support hundreds of clients and 500TB of protected systems with a single person.
- Their per TB pricing can get rather expensive often forcing you into an agent based pricing model and that can be less that ideal to mange.
Veritas NetBackup
- 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.