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Symantec NetBackup is a backup-as-a-service for enterprises, for data recovery and protection.Veritas Technologies LLCNetBackup is reliable but can get expensive to maintain2017-12-20T21:09:39.861ZNetBackup has been our primary backup solution for all of our organization data and servers. NetBackup backed up all of our virtual and physical servers, as well as our SANs across two different data center environments. We also use NetBackup to write our off-site backups to tape. In late 2016, we implemented deduplication with NetBackup to reduce the size of our backups since we were pulling more of them from remote data centers to our home office where the backups were administered and written to tape.,NetBackup integrates well with Windows servers. The client is reliable.
NetBackup does a good job of tracking tapes in the catalog, whether the tapes are still on-site in the robot or off-site at a storage facility.
We saw a significant reduction (between 20% and sometimes as much as 80%) on backup sizes with deduplication. This was more so with things like Exchange and SharePoint, less so with images and video files.,The upgrade process with NetBackup is very challenging, at least in our implementation. Each upgrade required a significant amount of troubleshooting, and then we would have to fix integrations with other Veritas and Microsoft products that were no longer compatible with the minor release update of NetBackup.
NetBackup doesn't always provide, at least in our environment, the best status reports on what is working and what is not. If something didn't go right with a backup, we didn't always see it right away.
The cost of NetBackup was increasing. We were not licensed for their multi-data center replication and high availability components, so we made the decision to move off NetBackup rather than accept a significant price jump.,6,We never experienced a significant system or data loss during the time we used NetBackup. We restored individuals files and small databases based upon user mistakes, but we never had to implement a DR plan. From that aspect, it is difficult to evaluate the ROI. Backups are a commodity service. Features are very similar across multiple tools. Once you decide to stay on-prem or move to the cloud, the list of options are narrowed. Then it becomes a matter of price.
From an administration and support perspective, the ROI is low. Vendor technical support is not always responsive. The first two tiers of support are not knowledgeable and their typical recommendation is to read the white paper. My small team spent a lot of time troubleshooting NetBackup, often without much vendor help.,Symantec Backup Exec, Carbonite, Carbonite EVault and Veeam Backup & Replication,Qualtrics, DocuSign, AlienVault USM, Mimecast Enterprise Information ArchivingJoel Gibbons, MBA, CSMNetBackup Review2017-12-14T22:48:39.028ZThe software is used on a daily basis for a full backup of our IT Infrastructure. We use the system to perform daily backups to disk that are offloaded to tapes on a weekly basis. The system allows us to perform backups of both our physical machines that are in the server room and on our manufacturing floor as well as our entire VM environment.,Backup to Disk
Physical to Virtual Conversion
Remote agent support,Functionality of importing jobs does not work 100% of the time
When attempting a restore from tape the system does not tell you what tapes are needed until the job is already started
Instant Discovery and add of agents,6,They system has provided us with a DRP solution for bacups
Reduced time to backup with Backup to Disk
Off load to Tapes has decreased our backup time,,SutiExpense, InvGate Service Desk, InvGate AssetsKevin SmithNetBackup for SharePoint2017-12-06T18:44:09.638ZWe use NetBackup for our SharePoint Farm. We like that NetBackup has an add-in for SharePoint so in case there's a need to restore a single item from a list or document library it can be done easily. We resolved our problem with not being able to restore a single item or a SharePoint site collection which is beneficial since now we are able to restore items without the need of restoring a whole DB. We use NetBackup across our Americas division.,It has a flexible schedule that can be set to perform the required back ups.
It has add-on for other applications such as Microsoft SharePoint.
NetBackup lets you restore individual items or site collections from SharePoint.,I dislike the fact that every server needs a license in a SharePoint Farm; servers such as the indexing server shouldn't need a license if NetBackup will not be used for it.,9,NetBackup had a positive impact on the business by cutting down the restore time from 24 hours at times to just a couple of hours.,,Microsoft Dynamics CRM, F5 BIG-IP, TeamViewer, MS SharePoint, Nintex WorkflowLukasz KokotNBU--Very good choice if you have a wide variety of data types and requirements.2017-11-30T21:57:53.173ZNetbackup (NBU) was used to backup all systems at one point, but cost drove us to use another solution. NBU currently is being used to backup SQL application level data. At the time of the switch, NBU wasn't able to backup Hyper-V, which also influenced our decision to switch.,It is a major player in the backup space, and has an answer for most every data protection problem.
Support is pretty good by IT standards. They were always able to quickly isolate a problem and offer a solution.
They have appliance-based solutions which help with building out a topology.,They should be on top of developments so that they can release compatible updates. They lost our business in part because they were slow to react to Hyper-V 2012 R2.
Cost is prohibitive for many IT shops, large or small.,8,The cost is substantial no matter how it is licensed. They switched from a host based model to a storage based scenario, and the cost was lower at first, but quickly spiraled out of control. Our renewal and trueup was just too much.,Veeam ONE, Avamar and CommVault,CommVault, Veeam ONE, AvamarVerified UserIntelligent Data Protection2015-10-19T16:09:14.165ZThe organizational use of Symantec NetBackup includes installing, configuring and administration at enterprise level client sites. Symantec NetBackup is deployed in the lab here and is used to emulate problems customers have in their environment and provide solutions. With the advent use of PBBA's the 5230 and 5330 to protect and manage data Veritas has brought technology which is user friendly and easy to set up.,De-duplication is 45x better than the leading disk basked storage.
NDMP accelerator support
Intelligent VMware protection using V-Ray technology.,7Hizbawi Kiros
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Veritas NetBackup
40 Ratings
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