Pros and Cons of Arctera Backup Exec 2025

Overview

What is Arctera Backup Exec?

Arctera 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.

Classic Backup Software without bigger flaws

Rating: 8 out of 10

January 30, 2024

Vetted ReviewVerified User

We use Veritas Backup Exec mainly for the Backup of our data and bare metal servers. We use a scenario with a primary backup to disk and then copy to tape, which is then store...

Verified user

Administrator

13 years of experience

Veritas backup exec 20.6 my saving experience.

Rating: 7 out of 10

January 11, 2024

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

We use it to back up our servers with virtual machines on HyperV. The scenario is very simple: save the server on different media for hot and cold storage, plus another one ou...

Verified user

Employee

8 years of experience

Flat pricing (no data tiers) and probably the most intuitive backup solution out there.

Rating: 10 out of 10

January 3, 2024

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

We use Veritas Backup Exec for Disk-Disk-Tape-Cold Storage. Essentially we use Veritas Backup Exec to manage daily backups along with a disaster recovery plan that allows us t...

Mark McCardell

Engineer - Research & Development

Computer Systems Engineer IV

University of Virginia - Center For Applied Biomechanics

13 years of experience

Veritas Backup Exec is smart, flexible and secure backup.

Rating: 10 out of 10

September 16, 2021

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

Veritas Backup Exec has been used in our datacenter to backup our servers, approximately more than 10 servers, including servers with VMWare. We have programmed an automatic b...

Gabriel Silva

Analyst - Information Technology

Analista de sistema

Natura

2 years of experience

Veritas Backup Exec - AVOID! It was great (and about the only choice) 2 decades ago, but it has fallen by the wayside.

Rating: 2 out of 10

June 3, 2021

IncentivizedVetted Review

I consult with multiple companies that at some point in time had Veritas Backup Exec setup as their backup software on their servers.

Michael Craven

Professional - Professional Services

Owner/President/CEO

P.C. 911

20 years of experience

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Pricing

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Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

No setup fee

Offerings

Free Trial
Free/Freemium Version
Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

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Features

Data Center Backup

Data center backup tools send data to a secure storage location after encryption and de-duplication

8.6

Avg 8.4

10
Universal recovery
(18) Ratings
Universal recovery is the ability to restore backups to any machine regardless of the platform
7.5
Instant recovery
(17) Ratings
Instant recovery is the ability to restore operations very rapidly
8
Recovery verification
(20) Ratings
Recovery verification is automated testing and verification of backups
10
Business application protection
(17) Ratings
Protection of all applications running in the data center
6.4
Multiple backup destinations
(21) Ratings
Multiple backup destinations is the ability to backup data to more than one location
8
Incremental backup identification
(22) Ratings
Incremental backup identification is the ability to identify incremental changes since last backup
10
Backup to the cloud
(13) Ratings
Ability to store and back up data to the cloud
7.5
Deduplication and file compression
(16) Ratings
Integrated deduplication and compression capabilities
8.5
Snapshots
(16) Ratings
Ability to take regular snapshots to ensure that Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is met
9
Flexible deployment
(17) Ratings
Deployment on any servers with full support for all applications being used
9
Management dashboard
(20) Ratings
Web-based dashboard allowing configuration and monitoring of all backups
8.5
Platform support
(19) Ratings
Product supports multiple operating systems and applications
8.5
Retention options
(18) Ratings
Provision of best-practice and customizable retention policies with reporting
10
Encryption
(12) Ratings
Data encryption to ensure that data is safe while being backed-up

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Product Details

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What is Arctera Backup Exec?

Arctera 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.

Backup Exec is designed for small to medium-sized business, not enterprise, for streamlining data backup and recovery into one product and interface. It also does not support sending data streams from multiple parallel backup jobs to a single tape drive.

Key Features

Virtual, physical and multi-cloud environment support
Full integration with Azure Site Recovery for data and application availability with minimal RTO and RPO
Integration with most popular third-party software releases, including Microsoft® Server, Microsoft® Hyper-V and VMware® vSphere®
Backup Exec can be seamlessly scaled to the cloud with a range of certified, integrated cloud connectors for various cloud environments, including AWS S3, Microsoft® Azure and Google Cloud Platform Storage
Users can locate and visualize their data estate to support General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other privacy regulations, using Veritas Information Map™
End-to-end deduplication performance to on-premise storage, as well as to public and hybrid cloud

Arctera Backup Exec Competitors

NovaBACKUP

Arctera Backup Exec Technical Details

Deployment Types	Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating Systems	Unspecified
Mobile Application	No

Frequently Asked Questions

Arctera 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.

NovaBACKUP are common alternatives for Arctera Backup Exec.

Reviewers rate Universal recovery and Business application protection and Backup to the cloud highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Arctera Backup Exec are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

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Classic Backup Software without bigger flaws

Rating: 8 out of 10

January 30, 2024

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 201-500 employees

Vetted Review

Verified User

13 years of experience

Pros

Backup to disk
Backup to tape
Fast recovery from disk
Reliability

Cons

The design
The User interface
Files are sometimes hard to find
Endpoint Protection (Clients)

Flat pricing (no data tiers) and probably the most intuitive backup solution out there.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 03, 2024

Mark McCardell

Computer Systems Engineer IV

University of Virginia - Center For Applied Biomechanics (Research, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

13 years of experience

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Pros

Easy to setup storage platforms
Easy to see to which tape sets are in cold storage, associate tapes with backup sets
Agents are easy to deploy across windows and Linux servers

Cons

Initial setup of backup configuration is not suited towards big data. I wish there was a selection that asks: how much data is within scope for initial, daily, weekly, then it would automatically adjust the backup parameters including timeout windows.