Veritas Backup Exec is smart, flexible and secure backup.
Veritas Backup Exec has been used in our datacenter to backup our servers, approximately more than 10 servers, including servers with …
Veritas Backup Exec
Veritas Backup Exec
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.
Read moreRecent Reviews
Awards
Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards
Top Rated
2018
Popular Features
View all 14 features- Recovery verification (18)7.878%
- Incremental backup identification (20)7.878%
- Multiple backup destinations (19)7.272%
- Management dashboard (18)5.959%
Video Reviews
Leaving a video review helps other professionals like you evaluate products. Be the first one in your network to record a review of Veritas Backup Exec, and make your voice heard!
Pricing
View all pricingVeritas Backup Exec
Contact sales team
Cloud
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting / Integration Services
Features
Return to navigation
Product Details
- About
- Competitors
- Tech Details
- FAQs
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 Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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 Snapshots highest, with a score of 8.6.
The most common users of Veritas Backup Exec are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
Comparisons
View all alternativesCompare with
Veeam Backup & Replication
Compare
Download Free Trial
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365
Compare
Contact SalesVeritas NetBackup
Compare
Microsoft SQL Server
Compare
Acronis Cyber Backup
Compare
Arcserve Backup
Compare
PowerProtect DD
Compare
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
Compare
Dell Networker
Compare
Bacula Enterprise
Compare
Reviews and Ratings
(146)
Attribute Ratings
Reviews
(1-22 of 22)- Popular Filters
Companies can't remove reviews or game the system. Here's why
September 16, 2021
Veritas Backup Exec is smart, flexible and secure backup.
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.
I consult with multiple companies that at some point in time had Veritas Backup Exec setup as their backup software on their servers.
Originally we used Veritas Backup Exec for all servers in our district. We have since moved away from it and currently it is being used only on a remote backup server. The product does function well and it performed fine for the purpose of providing full and partial backups. We were predominantly a Netware shop with approximately 32 Netware servers, with 14 stand alone Windows based servers. With our move to a virtual environment our backup solution needs changed.
April 30, 2021
Good backup software, some learning curve
Veritas Backup Exec not for resale version is being used to backup all critical server based data on linux and windows servers.
September 17, 2020
Yesterday's Backup Solution Today
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use backup exec to backup our mostly virtual server environment.
January 23, 2020
BackupExec for enterprise? Why Not?
Veritas Backup Exec is used as our central backup platform for one business location consisting of about 250 end users with 20+ servers
October 21, 2019
A Stable, User-Friendly Disaster Recovery Solution
Veritas Backup Exec provides good replication and compression features from a simple dashboard. We use it on exchange and SQL for mass files and folders. We find that for Exchange, SQL and even for single files we are able to restore the resource process as well.
June 16, 2019
Backup Exec: Solid Performer from version to version
Backup Exec is used by a division of my organization that encompasses approximately sixteen servers. We use Backup Exec to perform full and incremental backups of both physical and virtual servers in our environment, primarily file and print, email and SQL servers. It provides data protection and recovery via long restore horizons and short backup windows.
November 05, 2018
Veritas Backup Exec review!
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!
May 04, 2018
Backup Exec - Market Leader Lost its Way?
We use Backup Exec as one of our backup solutions. The server that the Backup Exec software is installed on has an attached tape library unit which allows tape backups. This in turn allows the backups to be taken off site. We also do off-site backup replications but network restrictions currently prevent all servers / backups to be replicated off-site. Thus, some locally based physical servers utilise the Symantec Backup Exec system.
March 28, 2018
BackupExec
We currently use Veritas Backup Exec for disaster recovery in our environment. We use it on a stand-alone server (R610) with a fiber channel connection to our EMC and our Tape Storage device. We use it to back up physical servers as well as our virtual environment.
February 06, 2018
Backup Exec is our single source for data backup.
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.
February 01, 2018
Backup Exec - Latest thoughts from a longtime user
We use Backup Exec both for disk-to-tape and disk-to-disk backup. We back up to a Quantum tape autoloader, doing full server backups every weekend. We also to monthly database backups also to tape. We also use Backup Exec to backup our Hyper-V virtual machines to a NAS. We need a secure and inexpensive mode to backup our data and yet still have it readily available.
December 21, 2017
Backup Rolls
We are using Symantec Backup Exec to backup our Windows servers.
December 05, 2017
Backup Exec - affordable and useful for any amount of data
I support numerous clients that have Backup Exec and have used every version of the software since 2009. It is a great product that is flexible and reliable. It can backup to most types of media, including external hard drives, tape drives, and network shares. It also supports many operating systems and database systems.
I have used Backup Exec on multiple occasions, both on-site and on-customer side.
As for the on-site experience in the company where I worked, we needed to manage several local servers and we focused all backup policies on Backup Exec, as for customers we have proposed this software with customer satisfaction.
December 05, 2017
Backup Exec for Simple Environments Only
Backup Exec was used initially as our Complete Backup Solution for the enterprise. Currently we only used Backup Exec for File Level Backups of Radiology Images. We moved our complex Backup Solution for Virtual Deployments to other Vendor Software (VEEAM and REDGATE SQL). Backup Exec in its current capacity still does a great job of the traditional file level Backups.
December 05, 2017
Symantec Backup Exec - 4 stars out of 5
We use Symantec Backup Exec for the whole agency's daily data back up.
August 03, 2016
BACKUP NOW...YOU WILL NEED IT LATER!!!
We are currently using Symantec Backup Exec (SBE) to do our nightly tape backups. I have been using SBE for 15 years.
At one time when all our servers had tape drives SBE was installed and used for all backup purposes.
Now with new faster and larger backup appliances we are now down to two servers that are still being backed up by tape with SBE. It does well in is dependable in running tape backups which we then store off site. Is very good at restoring deleted or lost files for end users who sometime get happy fingers!
At one time when all our servers had tape drives SBE was installed and used for all backup purposes.
Now with new faster and larger backup appliances we are now down to two servers that are still being backed up by tape with SBE. It does well in is dependable in running tape backups which we then store off site. Is very good at restoring deleted or lost files for end users who sometime get happy fingers!
May 03, 2016
Backup Exec, try it before purchase it
Backup Exec is used on some IT applications of our clients. We use it to backup physical servers to NAS, USB HDD and tapes.
June 30, 2014
Symantec - Simple, Secure, Safe.
My organization does not currently use Symantec products. However, I have used it in the past for my own use as well as reselling the product. As a user, it was very effective and simple to use. The interface is very streamlined and the reputation based scanning was good at catching threats and reducing the false positives. As a reseller of the product, I always led with Symantec because of it's ease of use and the ability to manage multiple products from a single pane of glass.
June 27, 2014
Symantec Now, Symantec Forever!
I'm not sure how it's being used in my organization, but as an IT reseller it's being used in a number of my customers environments to protect their data from threats.