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Veritas Backup Exec

Overview

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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Popular Features

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  • Management dashboard (20)
    9.0
    90%
  • Incremental backup identification (22)
    8.0
    80%
  • Recovery verification (20)
    8.0
    80%
  • Multiple backup destinations (21)
    6.5
    65%

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Pricing

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Veritas Backup Exec

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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

[testpassport.de] Anteil der Demo VCS-318 Administration of Veritas Backup Exec 2014

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Veritas Backup Exec - Part 5 Demo Restore Backup User pada Active Directory

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16 Instant Recovery Exchange for Example Demo

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Usage Insights - Backup Exec Demo

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Veritas Backup Exec Webinar

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Veritas Backup Exec 16 and Microsoft Azure

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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 8.2
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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 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 and Ratings

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Verified User
We use backup exec to backup our mostly virtual server environment.
  • It works sometimes.
  • 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.
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.
Data Center Backup (14)
4.285714285714286%
0.4
Universal recovery
N/A
N/A
Instant recovery
N/A
N/A
Recovery verification
N/A
N/A
Business application protection
N/A
N/A
Multiple backup destinations
N/A
N/A
Incremental backup identification
10%
1.0
Backup to the cloud
N/A
N/A
Deduplication and file compression
10%
1.0
Snapshots
10%
1.0
Flexible deployment
N/A
N/A
Management dashboard
10%
1.0
Platform support
10%
1.0
Retention options
10%
1.0
Encryption
N/A
N/A
  • Already looking at replacement solutions 90 days after purchase.
Backup Exec was the cheapest out of all the other options we were looking at.

Communication with support is generally poor. I'm frankly not sure they even read the tickets at times. I work in Asia and they're calling me near midnight because they didn't check my contact times. It usually takes 2-3 days just to start troubleshooting. Tickets drag out for weeks and you'll be constantly asked to rerun the job and submit logs with no real feedback. To get any kind of serious response you basically have to become the squeaky wheel and get your tickets elevated to S1 or S2.
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.
Veeam Backup & Replication, Quest Rapid Recovery (formerly AppAssure), Datto
7
Information Technology department.
1
A lot of patience and an ability to figure things out yourself.
  • Backups.
  • Data recovery.
  • Disaster Recovery.
  • We are planning on moving on from Backup Exec.
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.
No
  • Price
Price was ultimately the deciding factor for management. Backup Exec doesn't have the greatest reputation among the Sysadmin community, but it came in cheaper than all the other options. Unfortunately this was because of a licensing mistake made by the implementation planner, in part due to Veritas' convoluted licensing model. Ultimately the price was not much cheaper than the next cheapest solution we evaluated.
Ultimately, this product was heavily favored by an influential staff member. Given a more fair shake this likely would have not have been chosen based on a more objective analysis.
  • Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
  • There was a mistake made with licensing, making full implementation impossible.
It was pretty straightforward.
Yes
It was basically ignored since I found a workaround.
No, but I can give at least a dozen examples of their support being terrible.
  • Setting up basic jobs are pretty easy.
  • Features like compression and deduplication are folder based and not job based.
  • Running multiple jobs nightly is difficult without the option to chain jobs.
No
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