A central management system with complete backups on heterogeneous environments
December 05, 2017

A central management system with complete backups on heterogeneous environments

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Symantec Backup Exec

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.
  • Physical server management
  • Virtual server management
  • Centralized management through a single interface
  • Some paid agents
  • Simple interface but needs a minimum of study about functionality before having full control
  • The interface could be al litte bit more attractive
  • ROI should definitely be valued based on the time saved
  • Less resources needed
  • In large infrastructures, it can save on the number of personnel involved in system control
There are different alternatives like Iperius, Handy Backup or similar but for what is my experience , I have always been comfortable with this software and even the company that used it has never had the need to look for other software, for this reason has never been a thorough analysis on alternatives.
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.

Veritas Backup Exec Feature Ratings

Universal recovery
8
Instant recovery
8
Recovery verification
9
Business application protection
Not Rated
Multiple backup destinations
9
Incremental backup identification
10
Backup to the cloud
8
Deduplication and file compression
Not Rated
Snapshots
9
Flexible deployment
Not Rated
Management dashboard
6
Platform support
Not Rated
Retention options
Not Rated
Encryption
Not Rated