Veritas Backup Exec

Veritas Backup Exec

Score 6.8 out of 10
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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  • Recovery verification (18)
    7.8
    78%
  • Incremental backup identification (20)
    7.8
    78%
  • Multiple backup destinations (19)
    7.2
    72%
  • Management dashboard (18)
    5.9
    59%

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  • No setup fee

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

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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.

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The most common users of Veritas Backup Exec are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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September 16, 2021

Veritas Backup Exec is smart, flexible and secure backup.

Gabriel Silva | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gabriel Silva
Analista de sistema
Natura (Chemicals, 201-500 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
June 03, 2021

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

Michael Craven | TrustRadius Reviewer
Michael Craven
Owner/President/CEO
P.C. 911 (Computer & Network Security, 1-10 employees)
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
Likelihood to Recommend
Veritas Backup Exec is great at backing up heavily used File Servers and Exchange Servers. Its backup compression is VERY slow and doesn't compress well. [I feel] it is very unfriendly at trying to recover using a Bare-Metal Restore.
May 19, 2021

Veritas Backup Exec solutions versus cost and ease of use.

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Backup Exec works well generally in most environments or situations. The licensing can potentially be a nightmare, but manageable if you have a decent reseller. Backing up and restoring from physical tapes which is not all that common is not as reliable as when backing up and restoring from datastores that reside on hard drives or digital media. It does a good job with large or small backup jobs. Backing up and managing SQL backups requires additional licenses and be a bit clunky. If you are very careful (which you should be anyway) and document as you build these backups you will get better at managing them. Regarding a virtual environment, I have limited experience in that arena, but have done it. Backup Exec can backup VMware environments, but honestly we moved to Unitrends to backup our VM's and are much happier with the backup process. However, restoring a VM in Unitrends can be tedious compared to Backup Exec.
September 17, 2020

Yesterday's Backup Solution Today

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 201-500 employees
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
January 23, 2020

BackupExec for enterprise? Why Not?

JM
John Mota
IT Manager
Precix (Automotive, 201-500 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
As a standard, Back-up, Veritas Backup Exec has been around for quite a while. Even though it's not usually considered as an enterprise-level backup/recovery platform, I've been using it for several years through many changes, and it has always met my requirements. They offer several different agents for various programs, databases, VMware, etc. You only buy what you need.
June 16, 2019

Backup Exec: Solid Performer from version to version

Christopher Stark | TrustRadius Reviewer
Christopher Stark
Division Network Support Specialist
The Salvation Army (Non-Profit Organization Management, 501-1000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Very well suited for small to medium organizations. The intuitive interface, plus straightforward job creation, make it ideal where expertise is at a premium. No special technical skills are required to configure and maintain the software. It's not so well suited for larger organizations where targets and resources number in the hundreds -- inasmuch as the licensing becomes cumbersome and complex.
November 05, 2018

Veritas Backup Exec review!

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
March 28, 2018

BackupExec

Michael Hylek | TrustRadius Reviewer
Michael Hylek
IT Specialist
Epstein Architecture, Engineering and Construction (Architecture & Planning, 201-500 employees)
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Veritas is good for old school shops that don't want to move to the future with newer styled backup options. If you want any cloud backup options the industry is moving more towards Veeam.
February 01, 2018

Backup Exec - Latest thoughts from a longtime user

JD
Jeff Daniels
Network Engineer
EPMG-Emergency Physicians Medical Group (Hospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
My rating would have been higher a few years ago, but nagging problems, primarily noticed since the switch back to Veritas, has increased my dissatisfaction. It is still a solid product for the SMB market. It is a wide variety of options that will fit into just about any scenario that you can think of. Licensing complexity continues to be a issue. It offers solid performance, reasonably good support and a decent interface once you are used to it.
December 05, 2017

Backup Exec - affordable and useful for any amount of data

Derek Schroeder | TrustRadius Reviewer
Derek Schroeder
Service Manager
Accellis Technology Group (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are looking for a cost-effective software to run backups with a standalone set of media (rotation of tapes, external drives, or NAS appliances) then Backup Exec is a great product. It sometimes needs some hands-on massaging when the software has trouble overwriting older data or writing to device folders, but overall it is very productive. If you have a lot of data, this tool is also very effective as it works based on number of agents and databases. If you have numerous servers and different types of databases (SQL, Exchange, etc.) then Backup Exec may not be best suited and another backup solution that's based on "total data" may be better suited.
December 05, 2017

A central management system with complete backups on heterogeneous environments

Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
The best scenario of using Backup Exec (in my opinion) is a very heterogeneous server infrastructure distributed across different environments. The strength of Backup Exec is to be able to intervene through a single tool and a single point of intervention different types of servers this helps a lot of troubleshooting and avoids waste of time.
It is certainly not appropriate to use Backup Exec for simple backups or poorly structured infrastructures.
December 05, 2017

Symantec Backup Exec - 4 stars out of 5

Emily Sullivan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Emily Sullivan
Database & Evaluation Manager
Wisconsin Women's Health Foundation (Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
It is perfect for organizations that require data backup on a frequent basis. It is also perfect for when you need to retrieve data from a certain point of time/day. I don't think it does data encryption, so it will be less appropriate in situations where data requires encryption and backup all at once.
August 03, 2016

BACKUP NOW...YOU WILL NEED IT LATER!!!

Todd Frazier | TrustRadius Reviewer
Todd Frazier
Systems Administrator
County of Culpeper (Computer Networking, 201-500 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
I gave it an 8 just because it can be troublesome in navigating around software. It does a
great job for backing up server with tape devices for us have had to use it several times when servers have crashed and we have had to rebuild and restore, but the one down fall is it is not fast like the new solid state drive backups, which we have procured, Unitrends!
June 30, 2014

Symantec - Simple, Secure, Safe.

Verified User
Account Manager in Sales
Information Technology and Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
Likelihood to Recommend
Yes, in order for the right product to be selected, the size of the organization needs to be assessed to determine the proper product for the customer. For example, an understanding of the size and function of the company would determine whether the customer needs Backup Exec or Net Backup.
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