Veeam Data Platform Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction Reviews & Insights

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#1 most frequent

Health Care and Social Assistance

19.2%

5 installations of 26

“We use Veeam Data Platform to replicate on premise data backup to the cloud and able to save the cost and achieve our data resiliency requirements”
— Sr Enterprise Architect, Cardinal (10,001+ employees)

#2 most frequent

Public Administration

15.4%

4 installations of 26

“the job template”
— Lead Technician, Mairie de FREYMING-MERLEBACH (51-200 employees)

#3 most frequent

Manufacturing

15.4%

4 installations of 26

“No single management console. Veeam Data Platform, Veeam Data Cloud (for M365/Azure/Salesforce), plus add‑ons like ONE and DR orchestration, feels like a collection of related products rather than a single, seamless platform.”
— Sr IT manager, Noah Medical (201-500 employees)

#4 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

11.5%

3 installations of 26

“Financial losses due to outages: Every minute of server downtime costs money. Veeam enables instant recovery of a virtual machine (Instant VM Recovery), turning hours of waiting into minutes.”
— SysAdmin, ADR (201-500 employees)

#5 most frequent

Retail Trade

7.7%

2 installations of 26

“We use Veeam to back up our data and replicate our VMs onsite, offline, and in the cloud to S3 storage.”
— Systems Administrator, AOne Supermarkets Ltd (201-500 employees)

#6 most frequent

Educational Services

7.7%

2 installations of 26

“We use Veeam Data Platform to backup the servers at our school, both physical and virtual.”
— Technology Coordinator, Crow-Applegate-Lorane SD (51-200 employees)

#7 most frequent

Information

3.8%

1 installation of 26

“Peace of mind that servers are being consistently and completely backed up”
— Information Security Manager, TrackCore (51-200 employees)

#8 most frequent

Transportation and Warehousing

3.8%

1 installation of 26

“All our profit is focused on intelligently moving and archiving data to the cloud to protect our on-premises infrastructure.”
— Encargado Datacenters, GPC (1001-5000 employees)

#9 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

3.8%

1 installation of 26

“We use it for vmware backup and replication for all test and production servers.”
— SYS ADMIN, IB (51-200 employees)

#10 most frequent

Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction

3.8%

1 installation of 26

“Veeam Data Platform is our backup virtual infrastructure for all servers in all locations.”
— Infrastructure Analist, AES Dominicana (1001-5000 employees)

#11 most frequent

Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services

3.8%

1 installation of 26

Overview

Synthesised from 5 reviews | Last Published June 9, 2026

Veeam Data Platform serves the Mining, Quarrying, and Oil/Gas Extraction sector by providing foundational data protection for critical operational data across diverse and often remote environments. In TrustRadius reviews, IT and operations teams leverage it to safeguard virtual infrastructure and centralize backup strategies for geographically dispersed assets, ensuring resilience for production data, safety records, and environmental monitoring logs. Its ability to manage expanding virtualized environments and integrate new physical assets is a key advantage for this industry.

Reviewers note the platform's cloud capabilities enhance data resilience, with 2 of 5 reviewers explicitly using cloud storage for backups to modernize from legacy tape systems. While specific weaknesses were not prominently cited, the primary focus remains on core backup and recovery. Overall sentiment suggests the platform is a robust solution for maintaining operational continuity in challenging, distributed environments.

Pros

Safeguarding critical operational data across remote and geographically dispersed sites
Centralized backup management for complex virtual and physical infrastructure
Flexibility to protect expanding virtualized environments and new physical assets
Leveraging cloud storage for backup modernization and enhanced data resilience
Enabling robust disaster recovery for operational continuity in distributed settings

Cons

No significant product limitations reported by reviewers

From 5 reviews | Last Published June 9, 2026

Why it matters:

Cloud backup storage is gaining traction within the Mining, Quarrying, and Oil/Gas Extraction industry as a means to enhance data protection and adhere to best practices like the 3-2-1 rule. Reviewers indicate a move towards leveraging cloud as an additional layer of data security, with some actively replacing traditional tape backups for greater efficiency and reliability. While not universally adopted yet, the potential for offsite, accessible storage is highly valued for critical operational data.

“Maintain the 3-2-1 rule in the backup cloud infrastructure.”

Why it matters:

For Mining, Quarrying, and Oil/Gas Extraction companies, cloud disaster recovery capabilities are crucial for ensuring business continuity in the face of infrastructure failures, especially considering the often remote locations of their assets. Three of five reviewers highlight the importance of being able to restore systems from the cloud when local backups are unavailable, demonstrating a strong interest in leveraging cloud platforms like Azure for robust recovery plans. This capability is seen as essential for minimizing downtime and maintaining critical operations.

“The restore is simply to choose the cloud location for the restore.”

Why it matters:

In the Mining, Quarrying, and Oil/Gas Extraction industry, robust backup and replication are essential for maintaining operational continuity and protecting critical data generated at often remote and harsh sites. Veeam Data Platform serves as the primary solution for virtual infrastructure backup across all server locations, as noted by 40% of reviewers. This comprehensive approach to data protection helps mitigate risks associated with system failures or data loss in environments where physical access for recovery can be challenging and downtime costly.

“Veeam Data Platform is our backup virtual infrastructure for all servers in all locations.”

Describe how you use Veeam Data Platform in your organization. What are the business problems the product addresses and what is the scope of your use case?

From 5 reviews | Last Published June 9, 2026

Summary

For operations within the Mining, Quarrying, and Oil/Gas Extraction sector, ensuring the resilience and availability of critical operational data across diverse and often remote environments is paramount. Veeam Data Platform is identified by a segment of reviewers as a foundational component for achieving this, specifically for its capabilities in backup and replication. Two out of five reviewers explicitly highlighted the platform's role in safeguarding their virtual infrastructure across multiple locations. This focus on comprehensive data protection is critical for an industry where system downtime can lead to significant operational losses and compliance issues, particularly concerning production data, safety records, and environmental monitoring logs. The platform's ability to centralize backup strategies for geographically dispersed assets appears to be a key benefit, addressing the inherent challenges of managing IT infrastructure in extraction sites.

Veeam Data Platform Reviews

21 Reviews

Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas ExtractionMining & Metals8Oil & Energy13

Reliable Backup solution

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 8, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use Veeam Data Platform for Backing up our virtual machines

Pros

Fast backups
Reliable recovery
User friendly gui

Cons

Better fsx retention policies
Improved interface with
Aws services
Veeam one better tuning of dashboards

Likelihood to Recommend

Counted on Veeam Data Platform for critical restore operations and it didnt let us down.

Paul Garbett

Cloud infrastructure eng in Information Technology at Engie (Oil & Energy, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

Wonderful mature platform for essential backup needs.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 4, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Veeam Data Platform to back up our critical Virtual Machines on VMware ESXi hosts. These include our domain controller, app server, file server, and database server, all running on Windows Server 2019. Veeam backs up all system disks and file data. We have multiple schedules in place based on our need for backup resilience. If our Dell servers ever experience a major issue or data loss, we can restore to any available host via the Veeam Data Platform rapidly. It also serves as a failsafe in case any major changes corrupt or render any of these servers inoperable. We can always go back to a previous point in time where things were working normally.

Pros

Install process is super easy. Dependencies are easily installed.
The user interface in the platform is super easy to understand and go where I need to go.
The backup engine is quick and efficient. It accounts for all kinds of network variables.
Backup files are easy and quick to view what is contained within them.
The platform provides security recommendations that adhere to best practices and help keep your data safe.

Cons

Errors in backup jobs could be easier to understand and help you to fix the problem all within the console.
The process for submitting logs for support could be contained within the console.

Likelihood to Recommend

The Veeam Data Platform is certainly the de facto standard in virtual machine backup solutions. They've been leading the market for years, and their platform's maturity and resilience show it. They've expanded to back up other areas in the cloud and integrate it all into a single flow, allowing me to back up to local storage or any number of cloud storage options. The flexibility is wonderful, and the platform works wonderfully for our needs.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (Oil & Energy company, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Veeam Data Platform is the way to go

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 12, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Veeam Data Protection for backing up of critical workloads. This protects our business and production workloads for US Steel

Pros

Instant Recovery
Protection of multiple workloads
Surebackup for verification of backups

Cons

It would be nice if, restoring, there were better prompts to put into production

Likelihood to Recommend

Veeam Data Platform is capable of backing up all our workloads. VM's, Physicals, SMB/NFS Shares. It's ability to scale with our environment, and the addition of new features, really keeps our business running. New features like inline scanning, and app aware workloads, are really useful. Veeam's ability to work with any platform, VMware, HyperV, Nutanix, makes it versatile.

Verified User

Administrator in Corporate (Mining & Metals company, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

healthy platform

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 8, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Veeam Data Platform Backup and replication. Use Backup and replication.

Pros

BAckup
Replication
Restore

Cons

Cyber securtiy
AI securtiy

Likelihood to Recommend

I find it easy to use and successful. We haven't had any problems so far. We are satisfied with the product. We are waiting for progress in security and AI development. More intensive development platforms are needed for this purpose. Changes in pricing policies would be more appropriate. We haven't experienced any problems with support either.

Ozgur Guden

IT manager in Information Technology at HES HACILAR ELEKTRIK A.S. (Mining & Metals, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

15 years of experience

Cool features

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 16, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Veeam Data Platform is our backup virtual infrastructure for all servers in all locations. The business problems this application resolves are restoring virtual machines to the production environment, backing up all infrastructure, and replicating data across infrastructures. The last scope is a backup for the probe backup file and a test of the disaster recovery option.

Pros

backup
restore
replication
sure backup
immutable backup
backup encriptation

Cons

license cost.
Immutable in all storage.
Sure backup.

Likelihood to Recommend

Scenario 1: replication between infrastructure from Cisco Hyperflex to Dell, with 0 downtime for the locations Mexico and Panama. All the jobs were created for priority, and the virtual machine was stopped in the source; the replication process was started, and the virtual machine was started in the new infrastructure. Scenario 2, less appropriate: restore a physical server from the Veeam agent at a remote location; the process was slow due to the communication link.

Welington Jose Contreras Rodriguez

Infrastructure Analist in Information Technology at AES Dominicana (Oil & Energy, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Veeam Backup: best for virtual infrastructure.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 23, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are backing up our whole virtual infrastructure around the world. With Veeam we can use several other devices to save our backups, like tape or external ransomware-proofed storage devices. Even saving backup in the cloud via "Veeam Cloud Connector" is possible and not bad. You can just create real backup jobs to certain devices and then copy the backup over to another media without touching your live infrastructure again.

Pros

Application-based restores are great & quick.
I like the idea of having several states of backups on different devices.
Copying existing backups to different types of media without touching the actual infrastructure is great.

Cons

Creating different types of jobs sometimes gives you a headache.
The way of creating a retention policy is very hard to understand at the beginning.

Likelihood to Recommend

I have used some other backup products in the past (like Symantec BackupExec, DELL vRanger, Acronis...) but none of them is as good as veeam is. The guys from Veeam are really doing a great job developing more and more features everytime they release a new major update. So I really like the product and its features (even when its harder to understand as with some other products, because you have way more features here), but I dont like the support. Luckily we have a great IT regional supplier who is helping us everytime we're having issues using Veeam, but every now and then they can't solve issues, so we have to open cases with Veeam. Unfortunately I cant tell one single case which was solved by them... Bottom line: 1. the product is great 2. get a training when starting to use it 3. most important: get a great IT supplier having Veeam experience or even better being a Veeam partner.

Marc Weigl

Head of IT Intrastructure in Information Technology at INTERTEC-Hess GmbH (Oil & Energy, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

Veeam is Awesome - Has helped us clean up backups for our entire org

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 21, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used to have a very fragmented data backup situation. Our desktops were not being backed up regularly, and our servers would use Backup Exec to a tape library. We weren't sure if our backups even succeeded with Backup Exec, and the cost to store large amounts of data with Backup Exec were high. We have an old install of Veaam for backing up certain VMs, but it had been neglected and the version was very old.

We decided to turn off Backup Exec completely, and invest in a subscription to Veeam so we could upgrade to the latest version. We now have all desktops and server backing up daily, and have integrated our tape library backups with Veeam, which are also automated now. We also have monitoring going with VeaamOne so we know when backups fail and can't react.

Pros

Automates Backups
Provides visibility to backup health and storage appliance space
Writes data to tape for offsite storage

Cons

UI changes frequently...sometimes hard to find where features have moved
Didn't eject tape after writing to tape library...this has now been fixed

Likelihood to Recommend

It's well suited to any environment where you have many devices requiring backup and would also like off-site redundancy. It may not be suitable for very small environments where the overhead to manage the system may not be justified for only a few machines.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (Mining & Metals company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Veeam - A powerful tool so you don't have to be

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 21, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Here we use Veeam to give us a powerful backup solution. We utilize an on-premises solution and also have Azure backups through Veeam. This product is quite amazing and allows you to have peace of mind within your organization. I have roughly 30 something VM's that are backed up nightly and never have issues with this product. I came from a few other environments where I had hundreds of VM's and multiple locations all with Veeam. It was fun to learn and see how it scales at that size. I'm fairly confident that this product can scale to any size company with great efficiency. I even use it at home in my own lab environment and it works amazing there as well. Granted I have expensive hardware tossed at it, but either way, this is one awesome product. Recommend to everyone in need of a backup solution. If you are broke, they have a community edition you can use for 10 machines at the least! Couldn't ask for a better product.

Pros

Scales to any size environment.
Works with almost any network or cloud device.
Allows many levels of automation.
Gives an organization peace of mind that their stuff works.
Amazing customer support.
Crushes every product out there for backups. There IS nothing better.

Cons

Sometimes different backup methods using different tiers can be challenging. Typically have to work with support on that as the documentation is pretty good, but it's also too much at times. I think they'd do better if they did more visual examples. It's their product, they'd benefit.
Every now and then it doesn't clean snapshots from VMware and then keeps creating them until you can't anymore. I would highly suggest they work right with VMware to fix that. Been a problem for long enough.
The last area Veeam can improve is being able to cook and clean for me. If Veeam could do that, I surely wouldn't need to waste my money on an expensive wife and kids.. Those things are overrated anyway, all they do is eat your food and complain. Veeam could definitely beat that if it made food, just sayin..

Likelihood to Recommend

I worked for a publicly traded company and they didn't have ANYTHING for backups. I was blown away and could not believe that. All they did was take manual, not even automated, snapshots in their AWS tenants and Azure tenants. This company literally had themselves in the worst spot ever if they got hit with an attack. This was one company that could have greatly benefitted from Veeam. I tried to push it to them, but ultimately I ended up leaving as there was too much else not right there..

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (Oil & Energy company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

An excellent product with flexible licencing.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 6, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We recently moved from another product to veeam, as a small company we were looking for an affordable and robust disaster recovery solution. The pricing on our previous solution had become an issue for us. We use the product to protect several windows workstations and 35 hyper-v guests.

We found the initial set up to be very easy and it is simple to test backups to ensure confidence in the product

Pros

Protecting virtualised workloads
Test restores to verify backups
Flexible Licencing

Cons

Clearer error messages when there are issues.
Documentation could be fuller

Likelihood to Recommend

Perfect for virtualised environments although you can protect workstations and physical servers.
For protecting NAS the solution works well but pricing is less exceptional.

For those who need to verify backups regularly the test restores are very easy and give confidence in the product.

The licencing model gives good flexibility as business requirements change.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (Oil & Energy company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

11 years of experience

Veeam Backup & Replication - market leader with excellent customer support.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 2, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

While working in IT/OT industry for 20+ years I have experience working with a number of backup software vendors - Arcserve, BackupExec, Netbackup, etc. I found Veeam Backup & Replication is different from pretty much every perspective (in a good way =). First - customer support is on another. Starting with extensive, constantly updated Knowledgebase and best practice library, followed by huge community and forum 24/7 monitored by Veeam Backup & Replication employees and great, local to you, professional support. If you open the case you can make sure person assigned to the case listen you, trying to understand the problem and even level 1 support can do more then level 3 for some vendors. Second - approach to software releases. Last v12 being polished for longer then a year and I do appreciate it as I can be sure I don't need to wait for half a year after release waiting for all initial issues will be fixed. Last but not least - functionality of the product in most of the cases covering all possible DR scenarios you can imagine.

Pros

Workload replication
Immutable backups
SAN integration

Cons

Windows Failover Cluster backups
Flexibility in Tape backups
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Likelihood to Recommend

From my point of view it may suit any scenario - from tiny business with free Community edition to Enterprises with Enterprise Plus version

Alexey Goncharov

Snr OT Infrastructure Engineer in Information Technology at AGIG (Oil & Energy, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Veeam - A powerful tool so you don't have to be

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 21, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Scales to any size environment.
Works with almost any network or cloud device.
Allows many levels of automation.
Gives an organization peace of mind that their stuff works.
Amazing customer support.
Crushes every product out there for backups. There IS nothing better.

Cons

Sometimes different backup methods using different tiers can be challenging. Typically have to work with support on that as the documentation is pretty good, but it's also too much at times. I think they'd do better if they did more visual examples. It's their product, they'd benefit.
Every now and then it doesn't clean snapshots from VMware and then keeps creating them until you can't anymore. I would highly suggest they work right with VMware to fix that. Been a problem for long enough.
The last area Veeam can improve is being able to cook and clean for me. If Veeam could do that, I surely wouldn't need to waste my money on an expensive wife and kids.. Those things are overrated anyway, all they do is eat your food and complain. Veeam could definitely beat that if it made food, just sayin..

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (Oil & Energy company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience