Quest Rapid Recovery vs. Veritas Backup Exec

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Quest Rapid Recovery
Score 7.1 out of 10
N/A
Quest Rapid Recovery is a data backup and restore offering from Dell. It provides virtual standby, encryption, replication, deduplication, and the ability for users to run without restore.
$1,819.99
Veritas Backup Exec
Score 6.8 out of 10
N/A
Veritas Backup Exec is a backup and disaster recovery solution. It works in virtual, physical, and multi-cloud environments and integrates with several third-party software releases and applications.N/A
Pricing
Quest Rapid RecoveryVeritas Backup Exec
Editions & Modules
License + 1 Year 24/7 Maintenance
1,819.99
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Offerings
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Quest Rapid RecoveryVeritas Backup Exec
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Quest Rapid Recovery
Chose Quest Rapid Recovery
Anything is better than Backup Exec. I believe Veeam is a far superior product in backing up VMs. Veeam does not have any agents that get installed on servers which is always a plus. It also connects directly to vCenter.

CommVault to me is the ultimate solution. The ability to …
Chose Quest Rapid Recovery
Quest Rapid Recovery is probably a mid tear backup solution in comparison to its competitors. It is definitely a very good backup solution however is missing some key features and integrations compared to other backup software's. The biggest thing I think it has over its …
Chose Quest Rapid Recovery
I've been using Rapid Recovery for the last 6 years and before that we had used Backup Exec, but it was a different implementation as we were still running backups to LTO3 tapes using the full/incremental backup schemes. So Rapid Recovery (AppAssure at the time) was a big …
Veritas Backup Exec
Chose Veritas Backup Exec
Backup Exec was the cheapest out of all the other options we were looking at.

Chose Veritas Backup Exec
SBE is much better for onsite backups as Carbonite is Cloud based and if you have no network connection to your server there is no way to get files backed up or back online. This is why we went with SBE to handle our tape backups on a daily bases and keep server backed with a …
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Features
Quest Rapid RecoveryVeritas Backup Exec
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Quest Rapid Recovery
8.6
7 Ratings
5% above category average
Veritas Backup Exec
8.6
22 Ratings
5% above category average
Universal recovery6.05 Ratings9.918 Ratings
Instant recovery3.15 Ratings7.517 Ratings
Recovery verification8.05 Ratings8.020 Ratings
Business application protection8.04 Ratings10.017 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations10.06 Ratings6.521 Ratings
Incremental backup identification10.07 Ratings8.022 Ratings
Backup to the cloud10.04 Ratings10.013 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression10.07 Ratings7.516 Ratings
Snapshots10.07 Ratings8.516 Ratings
Flexible deployment8.03 Ratings9.017 Ratings
Management dashboard7.03 Ratings9.020 Ratings
Platform support10.02 Ratings8.519 Ratings
Retention options10.03 Ratings8.518 Ratings
Encryption10.02 Ratings9.912 Ratings
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User Ratings
Quest Rapid RecoveryVeritas Backup Exec
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(7 ratings)
8.3
(25 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
4.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
5.0
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.0
(1 ratings)
3.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Quest Rapid RecoveryVeritas Backup Exec
Likelihood to Recommend
Quest
AppAssure works well for quick access to point in time backups of Windows machines without having to do a complete restore. The virtual standby function is useful as a disaster recovery or high availability solution. Recent upgrades to the product and rebranding to Rapid Recovery look promising. If your Linux machines are mission [critical] make sure your administrators test restores so they can perform them in a timely manner should the need arise.
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Cohesity
Backup Exec works well generally in most environments or situations. The licensing can potentially be a nightmare, but manageable if you have a decent reseller. Backing up and restoring from physical tapes which is not all that common is not as reliable as when backing up and restoring from datastores that reside on hard drives or digital media. It does a good job with large or small backup jobs. Backing up and managing SQL backups requires additional licenses and be a bit clunky. If you are very careful (which you should be anyway) and document as you build these backups you will get better at managing them. Regarding a virtual environment, I have limited experience in that arena, but have done it. Backup Exec can backup VMware environments, but honestly we moved to Unitrends to backup our VM's and are much happier with the backup process. However, restoring a VM in Unitrends can be tedious compared to Backup Exec.
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Pros
Quest
  • Continuous backup with deduplication and compression
  • The P to V function of the software is create. To be able to back up physical machines and create a hot spare on a virtual environment was a great selling point.
  • Can back up physical and virtual (ESX or Hyper-V).
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Cohesity
  • Manage agent based backups - It is easy to schedule and monitor backups. Verifying backups is done for all jobs. Backup performance is excellent.
  • Provide a wide ranging contingent of backup options - Despite providing a dizzying array of backup options, it is easy to schedule individual or recurring jobs.
  • Integrates well with our Active Directory - Restoring even individual Active Directory objects is possible.
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Cons
Quest
  • Support for newer operating systems (Windows, Linux, VMware) is slow to be added. Usually takes 3-6 months from the new version being released for it to be supported.
  • There is no way to automate the testing of the virtual standby which a lot of comparable products are able to do.
  • The software has a backup type called "base image" which is essentially taking a full backup after an unexpected shutdown of the server. If your servers crash and they are very large, this may impact your storage requirements significantly. They do now have synthetic full backups which alleviate this issue a bit but they are not perfect either.
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Cohesity
  • Could provide better license management from an inventory perspective. How many licenses do I have?.. etc.
  • When Backup Exec backs up itself it should not select iSCSI backup targets by default. The result is recursive data backup ending in the loss of storage capacity.
  • I'm struggling to come up with another con.
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Likelihood to Renew
Quest
No answers on this topic
Cohesity
This software is a mess in my brutally honest opinion. I've spent more time babysitting this software while backing up 20 servers than I did with Veeam backing up 600+. I've had multiple jobs run fine for weeks at a time that just randomly fail out of the blue for seemingly no reason whatsoever. There's no intuitive way to chain jobs, so automation becomes somewhat more problematic if certain jobs depend on other jobs. The forever incremental feature feels tacked on since the merge operation merges all your incremental jobs into the most recent backup and doesn't have the option set a limit on how long to keep your point in time restores.
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Usability
Quest
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Cohesity
It can do a lot of things on paper and sounds terrific, but in practice it doesn't do any of them well. It can easily be sold to non-technical minds and C-levels, but of all the backup solutions I've used in the last 15 years of my career, Backup Exec is easily the least fault tolerant. Unless this software is a sunk cost and you're on a shoestring budget, I recommend almost anything else. Jobs fail often with obscure error codes and the KB articles in the Veritas support portal are a mess. Within 30 days of a fresh deployment I've logged more tickets with their support than I did in 3 years with Veeam.
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Reliability and Availability
Quest
No answers on this topic
Cohesity
The weekly error on save needs a manual reload from me. The SDR can't restore the virtual machine of hyperV during a test.
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Performance
Quest
No answers on this topic
Cohesity
No problem for this point it is in the average.
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Support Rating
Quest
In the very few instances we've needed support they have been quick, friendly, knowledgeable, and dedicated to servicing our needs. That has only improved since AppAssure was bought out by Quest.
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Cohesity
In the few instances of having to contact support, our overall outcome was always good. They would have received a better score if the wait time was less, but I attribute this to the timing of support calls - it was during the previous owner's time. We have not had to open a support ticket since Veritas Backup Exec took the product back over.
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Implementation Rating
Quest
Our initial installation really was not optimum. With the help from Dell Profession Services we were able to get our implementation sized correctly and better understand how to get better deduplication results
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Cohesity
It was pretty straightforward.
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Alternatives Considered
Quest
I've been using Rapid Recovery for the last 6 years and before that we had used Backup Exec, but it was a different implementation as we were still running backups to LTO3 tapes using the full/incremental backup schemes. So Rapid Recovery (AppAssure at the time) was a big change for us, backing up to disk instead with base images and changes. I would assume Backup Exec can do this as well, but haven't used it since switching. NovaBACKUP was a lower cost solution that seemed geared towards smaller and simpler configurations
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Cohesity
If your company is looking at changing solutions or currently does not have any, Veritas Backup Exec is the way to go. Do yourself a favor and try the 60 day trial, you won't be disappointed! Very simple to use and has a great GUI, much better than what the competition has to offer.
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Scalability
Quest
No answers on this topic
Cohesity
We only use it on the on-premise version on a single site.
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Return on Investment
Quest
  • AppAssure paid for itself in the first year of usage. A user deleted a major file in our SharePoint sub-site, we used the DocRetriever for SharePoint Console and were able to go back to a particular incremental date and retrieved that file.
  • One of our file shares crashed and we were able to put the physical server on a virtual standby which saved us hours of imaging and restoring of data. This allowed employees to efficiently continue their daily work without much downtime.
  • The offsite replication alone has put an ease on the company in case of any disaster. When Hurricane Sandy hit, we didn't have a solution in place which put us on pins and needles to say the least. But with AppAssure we will be able to have some comfort that all of our mission critical data is being offloaded onto our other sites.
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Cohesity
  • Backups by their very nature are difficult to quantify when it comes to ROI. Any monies spent should be seen more as insurance . If you never have to claim on it then that is the best outcome. Backup Exec gives you comfort that you can meet any downtime recovery targets set by your business and this is how to benchmark your solution.
  • Conduct regular DR tests and your this will be your ROI.
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