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Veeam Data Platform
Formerly Veeam Backup & Replication

Overview

What is Veeam Data Platform?

Veeam’s® premier product, Veeam Backup & Replication™, delivers availability for all cloud, virtual, Kubernetes and physical workloads. Through a management console, the software provides backup, archival, recovery and replication capabilities.

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8 out of 10
March 09, 2024
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Popular Features

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  • Multiple backup destinations (172)
    9.9
    99%
  • Incremental backup identification (178)
    9.4
    94%
  • Deduplication and file compression (166)
    9.4
    94%
  • Recovery verification (161)
    9.4
    94%

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Pricing

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Veeam Data Platform Essentials

$428

On Premise
per year per 5 instances

Veeam Data Platform

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On Premise

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

Data Center Backup

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

9.1
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

What is Veeam Data Platform?

Built on the principles of Data Security, Data Recovery, and Data Freedom—Veeam Data platform is designed to provide confidence that a business is secure against cyberattacks.


Data Security:
Keeps data secure with multi-layered security

  • Pinpoints threats with SIEM integration

  • AI Powered malware detection engine

  • 24/7 monitoring for malicious acts.


Data Recovery:
The Veeam Data Platform provides instant recovery

  • Single files

  • Application objects

  • Orchestrated recovery of production workloads at-scale


Data Freedom:
Protection for all of an organization's data

  • Anywhere, any way, with zero lock‑in.

  • In the cloud, on premises or at the edge

  • Support for hybrid- and multi-cloud infrastructure


Veeam Data Platform Features

Data Center Backup Features

  • Supported: Universal recovery
  • Supported: Instant recovery
  • Supported: Recovery verification
  • Supported: Business application protection
  • Supported: Multiple backup destinations
  • Supported: Incremental backup identification
  • Supported: Backup to the cloud
  • Supported: Deduplication and file compression
  • Supported: Snapshots
  • Supported: Flexible deployment
  • Supported: Platform support
  • Supported: Retention options
  • Supported: Encryption

Veeam Data Platform Screenshots

Screenshot of Veeam Backup Community Edition can be used to migrate a live VMware VM to any host or data store—even if clusters or shared storage are not used.Screenshot of Reduces storage needs by eliminating redundant VM data, with Veeam data deduplication.Screenshot of To enable WAN acceleration, the user needs to deploy a pair of WAN accelerators in the backup infrastructureScreenshot of SharePoint items can be located and restored to the original or new SharePoint site, sent by e-mail or saved to the specified locationScreenshot of The user can restore virtual and physical machines from Veeam backups directly to Microsoft Azure.Screenshot of The user can restore Microsoft SharePoint items in a couple of minutes.Screenshot of The user can configure a "global" media pool that can use several tape libraries or standalone drives.Screenshot of Veeam Backup & Replication does not back up "dirty blocks" on VM guest OS.Screenshot of The user can even restore the database to a specific transaction.

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Veeam Data Platform Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

Veeam’s® premier product, Veeam Backup & Replication™, delivers availability for all cloud, virtual, Kubernetes and physical workloads. Through a management console, the software provides backup, archival, recovery and replication capabilities.

Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI, and Cohesity are common alternatives for Veeam Data Platform.

Reviewers rate Universal recovery and Multiple backup destinations highest, with a score of 9.9.

The most common users of Veeam Data Platform are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

Veeam Data Platform Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)10%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)50%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)40%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Haroon Kareem | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using Veeam Backup & Replication as we have manual backup issues and difficulty doing manual backups and storing them on multiple storage locations. Veeam Backup & Replication solves all of our problems, we can schedule backups and set different storage locations like local, network, or cloud. It generates alerts for completion of backups and it is very easy to manage backups.
  • Backup of virtual machines as per schedule timings and generate alert on email.
  • Restoration of machine from backup is very easy and simple.
  • We can backup data to multiple locations location, network, and cloud.
  • Backup of Xen Server VMs not supported.
  • Difficult to restore backup on new physical machine.
  • Creation of multiple backup copies in same process.
In all scenarios where we have Vmware, Hyper V, or physical machines setup of Linux or windows, Veeam Backup & Replication is best suited in all those scenarios. Where you have Xen Server hypervisor base deployment, Veeam Backup & Replication is not much suited, we need to use agent-based backup.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to backup servers and computers that contain mission-critical information. We have a server that runs as the main point and then a Synology NAS that handles the storage side of things. Veeam Backup and Recovery allows us to do full image backups along with incremental backups that allow for us to be more disaster-ready.
  • Emails status of backup
  • Can't really think of much I like about Veeam, sorry.
  • The GUI is terrible and seems unorganized. Feels like I'm still in the 90s.
  • The error reporting is abysmal and unhelpful
  • Constantly has issues with needing to resync with the repository
Veeam is well suited for people that have time to babysit their backups every day. If you want to continually hunt down why a backup failed or what caused it to not work one day but worked the day prior, it's perfect for you. Every single day, it's a matter of guessing which backup is going to have failed and then having to figure out how to resolve the cryptic error provided. A perfect example would be when it says it is waiting for a rescan so you perform a rescan on the backup and it fails and states it is waiting for a rescan. Makes absolutely no sense. Tons of these issues pop up throughout the entirety of the software and feels like I'm running a beta variant of the software.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Veeam Back & Replication is our enterprise-wide backup product. We use it to backup all of our production and development servers, running Windows and Linux. We also use it to backup Oracle and SQL Databases and a number of other applications that are critical to our organization's needs.
  • Easy to use single pain of glass enterprise backup and recovery product
  • Replication of backup data to our DR datacenter and into AWS
  • Immutable storage of backups to guard against a ransomware attack
  • Mixing of License Types - We currently have to run two servers, one for socket licenses and the second for universal licenses
  • Oracle backups took a while to get working
Veeam Backup & Replication is well suited for most organizations' enterprise-wide backup and recovery needs. We've had good results using it to backup and restore systems running Windows, Linux, and a number of different appliances. We've used it with good results to backup and restore applications and databases running Oracle and SQL. It's well-tailored to provide both local and close-based backups and protect those backups against ransomware attacks.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Veeam Backup & Replication to back up almost all of our virtual machines. Before we were using Veeam, for a lot of the virtual machines there was no backup of we were using Windows Server Backup. This also meant that we hadn't had a good overview of what virtual servers we made backups off and which ones we didn't. To get an overview and backup of almost all of our machines we started to look for a good backup software provider to use for our environment. Personally, I had deployed Veeam at a few other companies I work to add and had a good experience with it. We started a trial and the results were promising. We bought the most basic version at the time of Veeam and have been using it without any problems since that time. The license is converted to another version during our license terms and currently, we're using the Enterprise Plus Edition (Essentials). In a few months, our license is up for renewal and my guess is that we're gonna renew and extend our license to backup even more of our virtual machines.
  • Providing a fast and reliable backup
  • Get an simple overview of our backups
  • Making a restore of a server very easy
  • Making it easier to correct an instance license problem with agents
A couple of months ago we had one of our older servers getting bad sectors on its disk. We tried to move the VM but it was giving errors during the process that the disk couldn't be read properly. The backups of that machine had failed for a few days too which we didn't notice directly. We tried to replicate the virtual machine and that failed with the same error. Eventually, we were able to make a backup of the VM and got it successfully restored on another server. The VM has been happily running since. In another scenario, I started migrating VMs from Xen to VMware and the initial process we were using wasn't easy. One of my colleagues suggested that we could try Veeam Agent to Veeam B&R backup and restore the VM to a VMware host from there. We tried that and it worked flawlessly. At the moment we've migrated almost all of our Xen VMs to VMware using this process and all are running without a problem on VMware now.
Hasan ŞAHBAZ | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are designing an energy monitoring system for the customer. This system has many physical and operating system components. To increase the reliability of the system, we use backup software. We are installing Veeam Backup & Replication on a virtual system, and it is taking of backup all system components to where we want, like storage or where it is installed. Also, it has to recover plan functions. We use it for emergency purposes.
  • No need recover all the operating system to recover one folder or file
  • Useful user interface to reach required backup object
  • You can create a recovery plan for emergency case
  • User input is understandable to create correct backup configuration
  • License mechanism should change
  • Management interface should be accessible via web browser
  • There should be best practices for backup plan to advise to user
It has a free version for the physical environment. And you can get all backups of the system in one environment. You can trust your backup and test it easily. it is possible to create a flexible plan like full or incremental. Also, a full backup of the system is not taking up full space. It is decreasing the size of actual disk size, so you don't need to have big backup storage.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
After attempting to use another backup solution from a SaaS provider and partner, we decided that we needed to explore an option that allowed our team to manage backups, restorations, and data storage ourselves. As a financial institution, we are tasked by our board of directors to self-host as much of our data infrastructure as possible, and the idea of having our data stored in the "cloud" was not appealing to them. We worked with one of our partners to evaluate and deploy Veeam, and we could not be happier with the outcome. We are able to control our backups and data storage, and maintain control of the backup locations. We have implemented immutable storage with another of our partners and would highly recommend Veeam, as well as Red Hat Enterprise Linux coupled with immutable storage as a long-term solution for storing essential data and ensuring that it is not compromised by a malicious actor attempting to compromise your stored information with ransomware. Installation and deployment was well documented and streamlined, and we are up and running with minimal management and engineering oversight. An excellent product and team, and we could not be happier with the final outcome.
  • Unattended backups and replication
  • Leveraging snapshots for rapid recovery
  • Working with immutable storage solutions to prevent ransomware.
  • Backing up over the internet to on-prem servers.
We use Veeam Backup & Replication for our individual workstation and laptop backups and replication. We have also found it to be a valuable tool in restoring servers following incomplete updates or upgrades. The ability to work with multiple virtualization platforms, like Nutanix and Hyper-V gives us the flexibility to deploy to our entire private cloud.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We rely on Veeam to create and manage backups for all production databases and application servers. In the past, before using Veeam, we once lost 2 months' worth of production data that had to be reworked. Thanks to Veeam, we're able to achieve a recovery time of fewer than 15 minutes on our most critical production databases. We have proprietary data that has been generated and maintained over the last 40 years, and Veeam helps ensure that data is protected at all times. As the head of the IT department, Veeam helps me stay confident that our data is safe, even in the worst-case scenarios.
  • Backup storage management/inventory
  • Replication
  • Backup Chain Migration
  • Success/Fail Reporting on completed backup jobs could provide more information
Veeam is best suited in server environments where often file-level restores or full machine restores are needed. Veeam's licensing cost does not make it very efficient for endpoint backups when compared to other solutions.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Veeam Back & Replication is our enterprise-wide backup product. We use it to backup all of our production servers, running Windows and Linux. We also use it to backup Oracle and SQL Databases and a number of other applications that are critical to our organization's needs. Both locally and at our remote sites. We have recently implemented Cloud storage in which the ability to do so was included within our current pricing model
  • Ease of Use
  • Large Feature Set
  • Good Support
  • Log reporting can be clunky, should be available for each job via the job
  • Reporting is an additional feature (Veeam One) backup reporting overview should be visible within VB&R
Veeam Backup and Replication offers a quick restore and is used numerous times whether it be for a user deletion, file deletion or to restore a full server, restores are quick, seamless, and also easily followed by other members of staff who is not as involved with the product
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Veeam Backup & Replication to back up our critical on-premise and remote workloads to on-premise storage and replicate to AWS for disaster recovery purposes. Veeam Backup & Replication protects our virtual infrastructure in our Colocation DC and two regional warehouses.
  • The application-aware processing is something we use heavily. We rely on it to protect numerous MS SQL server instances with very aggressive schedules to capture transaction logs during our workday. This gives us the ability to perform granular restores of SQL data with no loss.
  • Veeam Backup & Replication is very quick to perform backup and restore operations using commodity hardware, which is much more economical than specialized platforms.
  • The license application could be overhauled to pull information from the Veeam customer portal.
Veeam Backup & Replication works very well for simple VM backups, more advanced backups of application data such as Active Directory objects, on-premise Exchange, and MS SQL. It allows us to use a very common process and interface to protect multiple workloads. I would like to see Veeam Backup & Replication be able to backup hosted Exchange mailboxes, such as Microsoft365 accounts or even Dropbox.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I currently use Veeam to supplement our backup environment and archive VMs as a backup to another product. Veeam provides a more intuitive backup interface and the gzip compression saves a ton of space on our secondary backup server. Our other product does not offer the same level of compression and lacks features.
  • Compression of VMs
  • User Friendly Interface
  • Quick deployment
  • Make it easier to extract backup files. Allow users to grab exact files and folders that are needed.
Really great product to create base VMs for long-term storage. The free community edition works well for a small office environment that has a low budget and small IT infostructure.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Provides a high quality backup simple backup solution for 2-3 workstations on a daily basis. It’s simple/intuitive and easy to setup/administer. Requires minimal to no active management of software to perform its function. Meets and exceeds expectations.
  • Easy to install/configure
  • Easy restoring of systems
  • Just works
  • Nothing at least in our current environment
SMB organizations for backup of physical workstations and servers both physical and virtual.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Veeam Backup & Replication to backup our entire Hyper-V infrastructure. It has saved us on many occasions and has been a robust and cost effective solution. We have tried other solutions and none has match up to the flexibility that Veeam offers. Veeam support has been effective on the few times we have needed to use it.
  • Quick restore
  • Automated testing
  • License portability
  • Licensing complexity
  • Costs
  • Virtual workloads
Veeam is we’ll suited to on site virtual environments. The cloud solutions are robust and are advancing regularly. We have used this for quick restores when needed, and full virtual servers of over 5 TB of data and it handled it well. Using Veeam over a WAN could do with improvement.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I used Veritas Backup Exec for 22 years and decided I needed a better product. Veeam was the answer for our 100% Virtual Environment, we love the product and have no issues.
  • Integrates directly with VMware.
  • Easy interface.
  • Lot of options to replicate data to Azure but how to pick the right one and replicating is a challenge.
Made for virtual backups.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use this to back up our entire virtualized environment and a couple of physical servers. We also move backups to tape and back up testing via Surebackup. We have even used it to do file and email restores. The software takes care of all our nightly backups.
  • Seamlessly does backup copies to other storage
  • Easy individual email restores of exchange
  • Easy testing of backups to make sure they are working correctly
  • The SureBackup needs to be able to work using physical server it would run faster
  • Its tape backup is simple, which makes it good, but I could see where it could need more functionality
  • If there was a way to support more hyper-converged environments like HPE SimpliVity
  • The license model is changing from per socket to something else, and that will actually cost us more money in the long run
It is a solid product and has been for years. Very mature and hardly ever has any issues. It just works, and it does it well. Considering all the data it has to process, it is actually fairly quick. We can back up all our systems in a small window of time without the systems experiencing any downtimes or outages.
Mateus Wolff | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Veeam Backup & Replication and all virtualization environments to get a good level of data protection.
  • Veeam Backup & Replication is not so good to copy files between servers. It could be better sometimes.
  • The file copy feature could be a little bit better.
The Veeam Backup & Replication is the best solution to get data protection on virtualization environments.
Joshua Hill | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Veeam Backup and Replication Community Edition to backup servers. This includes Windows, CentOS, and a file share. There are 9 jobs. I am impressed with the features, reporting, notifications, and ease of use. I could easily manage many more backup jobs. I have practiced single file restores and an entire machine restores to Hyper-V. Both work fine. I have no doubt a bare-metal restore will work as well. Do not hesitate to try out Community Edition.
  • Database-aware backups
  • CentOS folder level backups
  • Install and configuration
  • Full-system backups
  • There are too many email notification settings for my liking. There is a universal setting and then a per-job setting. In a robust IT department, this may be useful if specific employees or teams are assigned to specific servers, yet I think even then I would want them all falling into a shared mailbox. One address is enough.
  • I would like a graphical display of backup start times and their usual or estimated lengths.
  • I would like a graphical display of peak usage times to identify when many backup jobs overlap.
It is very well suited for file share backups. It is easy to find and restore versions and it is easy to have high-frequency backups of file shares. It has come a long way with Linux-based backups. I think in older versions the Linux agent did not interact with the console as much as Windows-based agents. If I recall correctly, I would have to visit the Linux box to read backup logs or kick off a manual backup or make changes to backup settings. That's all much more integrated now.
✅ Jerome Levy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We backup our mail server with it and it runs jobs every 6 hours. It works flawlessly and was a breeze to set up. We run the jobs to two different storage locations one of which is remotely accessed. Both backup jobs are always operating fine as Veeam Backup & Replication will retry if for some reason the mail machine is not accessible to the system. I love it and won't look back since using Veeam Backup & Replication!
  • Remote backups
  • Retry in case of connection loss
  • Auto full and incremental setup
  • Easy scheduling and thresholding of jobs
  • Discovery of new machines in the network
  • Speed over the network
  • Storage use
  • Detailing info on backups
Basically, we use it at work for all of our servers and in my own little company to have mail backups. It will backup whatever you throw at it. VMware, Hyper V, Bare Metal. It just works, and if you set up the storage pools right, the flexibility will be great too! Also, the auto replication is awesome!
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have used Veeam for multiple purposes but overall, our primary and secondary (offsite) backup solution for an internal and external business. We implemented our disaster recovery solution with Veeam to back up all infra and data and replicate the environment to offsite (excellent replication) for any DR incident we may experience.
  • Cover multiple cloud service providers such as AWS and Azure
  • Can utilize cloud-based storage
  • Great solution for virtual environment
  • It would be great to utilize appliance based solution as well.
  • Providing a storage solution (native) from Veeam
Veeam Backup & Replication has been greatly suited for our current corporate operations as well as backup and disaster solutions for our clients. The implementation process is adequate for most system-based procedures and maintenance is simple and easy as well. For any company that is planning to implement a cloud-based backup or DR solution, Veeam would work well too.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This is a fantastic product that is yet to fail me. For more than a decade I've used Veeam products for backing up my critical data and this product is more than exceeding those expectations. I've always recommended it to my employers and other clients whenever I'm asked my opinion on whatever backup software they need. I am yet to see a need for something for this software that it cannot fulfill because it doesn't exist yet.
  • Ease of use
  • Backup speed
  • Documentation being clear
  • Backup VM's directly on Trunas
  • no further improvements I can think of
  • no further improvements I can think of
This sopftware is suited for all scenarios where backing up data is critical to the business and needing to resotre or recover data is important. It's well suited for all companies of all sizes from small one person companies to multi hundreds and is good for backing up every type of file.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We originally used backup exec. It was painful to use and didn't support the modern technologies we needed. We looked into backup solutions and found Veeam a good candidate. We use Veeam for backup of physical and virtual infrastructure (VMWare), We are a company spanning multiple sites, have a disaster recovery site managed via Veeam, and utilize cloud storage for off-site backups.
  • Veeam has built some very useful application-specific tools for recovering exchange server items, emails, etc.
  • Veeam is relatively simple to set up, but provides a lot of extended features should the need come one day. Features like replication and backup copy were not originally implemented in our project goals.
  • Support is outstanding, their SLAs are clearly outlined, and their engineers are easy to understand and their ticket opening flow is simple enough.
  • Veeam keeps us from updating our infrastructure as soon as an upgrade comes out. We usually have to wait for Veeam support. At one point that took several months for Veeam to support our version of ESXi.
  • The interface easily gets complicated, a lot of attention needs to be taken to schedule, and conflicts with other jobs.
  • Tape library support isn't well documented I feel. It's hard to find example configurations or best practices for my environment.
Mainly Veeam is suited for the Backup of Physical and Virtual servers, whether that be ESXi/vSphere or Hyper-V. It supports multiple different types of storage like NAS/SMB/CIFS or NFS and direct storage. I feel tape library support was tacked on at the end and is somewhat lacking in terms of "ease of use". This is the only place Backup Exec had an edge.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have used the actual backup suite to fully back up Vmware VM's for a external site which has always been a simple and straightforward procedure. I have recently used Veeam Backup & Replication to transfer vms from an old 5.5 vSphere to a new esxi platform and that was a breeze. Not having to use WinSCP saved me a ton of time and I would recommend to use Veeam for this use case or to backup small sites as it makes it simple and easy to use!
  • It can create backups quickly and restoring vms seems to be a very straight forward process
  • Veeam can be used to migrate vms from old bare metal hypervisors to new cloud/or new metal hypervisors.
  • Alerting admins on failed backups is easy to read and understand and give direction on how to fix for most issues I have seen.
  • Needs to be able to backup linux and mac instances as we have some use for that
  • I have heard nightmares for the cloud based backups and due to that I have steered from that attempt and went with a different company.
  • License costs could be better as the market has gotten more competitive in recent years.
I would say if you have a small company 20 vms or less this product is great to use, but I feel if I were to use it for a larger 100-500 vm scale it could be quite daunting. I feel that the ability to use a free software to move vms from older platforms to newer vmware versions is a great extra addition.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Backup productions VMs in vSphere Clusters. This is the most reliable product with many functions that support all business aspects. It gives you peace of mind knowing your data is in a safe place and ready to recover with minimum downtime for your business.
  • Schedule Backup and Recovery
  • Replication for Fail Over
  • Schedule backup and recovery
  • Replication for Fail over
  • Report status on Backup and Replication jobs
Martin Tillbrook | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use Veeam Backup & replication to protect two separate, medium-sized VMWare environments. Each environment has in the region of 200 VM's protected. We found Veeam to be efficient and generally straightforward for both taking and managing backups and bring us into compliance for disaster recovery policies in place in the business.
  • Protecting (backing up) all our server infrastructures.
  • Ease of recovery of data. Especially for user data, it is quick and efficient to recover data when needed.
  • Compliance with DR plans.
  • Errors are often difficult to diagnose with complex error messages that don't mean much.
  • Software updates often cause other issues with storage hardware which then require firmware updates.
  • Reporting could be better. We currently use a 3rd party tool to report as the built-in reporting doesn't seem to be too good.
In our use case, two backup VMWare infrastructures, it is very good, if not a little expensive. Generally speaking, it is low maintenance and trouble-free and provides an industry-standard to protect our VMs. We use a variety of different storage mediums including SAN, NAS, and Tapes, and it is quite happy interfacing with all of the above. I wouldn't hesitate to use it again in any new environments.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We backup 7 virtual hosts and 25 Virtual machines spread across those. Each one backs up to a NAS staggered throughout the week, and then replicates to another offsite backup. We also utilize Veeam cloud backup. Veeam allows us to recover data quickly and efficiently, and protects our patient data.
  • The console is easy to use compared to other backup software
  • Easily pick and choose which virtual machines to backup
  • Scheduling the jobs is a piece of cake
  • The UI could use a dark mode (easier on the eyes)
  • Backup jobs could be a bit faster
  • Would be nice to have a web console
Program is great for backing up virtual machines. Easy to recover files from the VM as well as restore the entire VM if necessary. The snapshot feature makes it very easy to quickly roll back to a previous version with not much downtime. Backing up workstations is also possible which makes the product great.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used Veeam Backup & Replication to enhance our current backup solution at some of our remote sites that we did not have licensing for our primary backup software. Veeam community edition fills in the gap with no charge for using the community edition and meets all of our backup/recovery/replication needs.
  • Replication between sites.
  • Customizing retention periods.
  • Backing up multiple virtual machines.
  • Wish the community edition could to fail over/fail back.
Veeam Backup and Replication, specifically the community edition, is a perfect solution for any business that has less than 10 machines to backup. I'm not aware of any other free solution that has all the features and functions that the Veeam community edition has included at no charge. If you happen to grow over 10 servers you can easily upgrade to a paid version.
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