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Veritas Backup Exec

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What is Veritas Backup Exec?

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.

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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...
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Verified user
Administrator
Veritas Backup Exec13 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...
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Verified user
Employee
Veritas Backup Exec8 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...
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Mark McCardell
Engineer - Research & Development
Computer Systems Engineer IV
University of Virginia - Center For Applied Biomechanics
Veritas Backup Exec13 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...
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Gabriel Silva
Analyst - Information Technology
Analista de sistema
Natura
Veritas Backup Exec2 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.
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Michael Craven
Professional - Professional Services
Owner/President/CEO
P.C. 911
Veritas Backup Exec20 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

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Product Details

What is Veritas Backup Exec?

Veritas Backup Exec
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.

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, called multiplexing, however, Veritas’s other backup product, NetBackup, has this capability.

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

Veritas Backup Exec Competitors

Veritas Backup Exec Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

NovaBACKUP are common alternatives for Veritas 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 Veritas Backup Exec are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Veritas Backup Exec is smart, flexible and secure backup.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
September 16, 2021
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Gabriel Silva
Analista de sistema
Natura (Chemicals, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Veritas Backup Exec
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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 backup routine with incremental backups every day of file servers and other services used by employees and daily backups of all services and the datacenter environment. It is an expensive investment but it is the best way to keep all data saved in case of any type of problem / damage / virtual threat.
Pros
  • Accurate and seamless integration with VMware.
  • Possibility to replicate to the cloud.
  • When necessary, restoration to a specific point is quick and safe.
  • Clean and friendly interface.
  • Great Alerts and personalized reports.
Cons
  • Updates happen frequently but are not so easy to perform.
  • Providing more training for beginners.
Likelihood to Recommend
One of the differentials is that of all the backup tools I used, Veritas Backup Exec has the best management and control interface. It is very easy to use and configure the rules. There are several options that we can optimize our work for our specific needs, from scheduling a backup, restoring data, directories, alerts system, error reports, backups, inconsistencies and other very interesting things. It has integration with SQL, vmware, hyper v. Backup and restore speeds are fast and secure.

Backup Exec is our single source for data backup.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 06, 2018
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Symantec Backup Exec is being used on our server for the whole organization. BE provides protection for our data, gives us security knowing our information is being backed up safely and securely. Performance is excellent, restoring lost data is simple and accurate. Support for restoring downed servers by system recovery is a feature and process that is important to our organization.
Pros
  • Fast and accurate backups
  • Easy to install, configure and manage
  • Works well across many backup options
Cons
  • For our use, we are fine as it is.
Likelihood to Recommend
Internal and external server backup as well as cloud solutions. Based on our needs BE is very well suited.

Backup Rolls

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
December 21, 2017
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Veritas Backup Exec
9 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using Symantec Backup Exec to backup our Windows servers.
Pros
  • Backup Exec is good for defining backup strategy across multiple supports (external hdd and tapes for us).
  • Backup Exec is good at backing up all data including files with open handles.
  • Restoring a single file to a previous version is very easy.
Cons
  • Finding the most performant driver for our tape recorded in Windows Server environment was not easy.
  • It took several years with help of the Symantec support to find the appropriate driver.
  • Symantec support service was not so responsive and did not really provide a permanent solution to our problems, but it really improved in the last few years.
Likelihood to Recommend
Backup Exec is a nice tool to backup Windows servers and workstations.

Yesterday's Backup Solution Today

Rating: 1 out of 10
September 17, 2020
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 201-500 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Veritas Backup Exec
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use backup exec to backup our mostly virtual server environment.
Pros
  • It works sometimes.
Cons
  • Can't intuitively chain backup jobs.
  • Forever incremental backup feature is limited and basically useless, feels tacked on.
  • Storage based compression and de-duplication are awkward to manage compared to other backup solutions.
  • Convoluted licensing model.
  • Poor fault tolerance.
Likelihood to Recommend
Backup Exec probably works well if you're only backing up a small number of servers (around 20 at the most) locally. This seems to be the only scenario where its at least capable of doing its job.

Any kind of serious enterprise is going to want to avoid this software like the plague. Deploying this across multiple sites requires fully licensed servers at each site and a second management server at the primary site. Beyond that, running multiple backup jobs can be problematic as, per Veritas support, there is no native way to chain separate backup jobs.

Veritas Backup Exec review!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
November 05, 2018
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Veritas Backup Exec
10 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Veritas Backup Exec has been used by our company for many years now. Our whole IT department uses it. It is extremely reliable, easy to install, configure and maintain. One of its strongest points would be that it supports an array of legacy devices. The GUI is very user-friendly, restore speeds are incredible!
Pros
  • Very easy to install and configure.
  • Extremely user friendly.
  • Restore speeds are incredible.
Cons
  • Very expensive.
  • Could have more expanded features.
Likelihood to Recommend
Veritas Backup Exec is well suited for any type of business environment. It has saved me countless hours of time, the restore options and speeds are simply incredible. I would definitely recommend this backup/restore solution to any company IT department looking to upgrade their existing solution, especially if your company uses legacy hardware.
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