2am pager alert, system down due to data corruption? Relax, you've got Veeam on your team!
July 29, 2019
2am pager alert, system down due to data corruption? Relax, you've got Veeam on your team!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup & Replication
Veeam is the primary backup, recovery, DR test, and archiving solution in use throughout the company. We have testable, verifiable backups of our most important assets every few minutes and SureBackup allows us to easily and repeatably test our backups.
- Backup speed is great, especially if you use storage integration.
- The no-nonsense data deduplication engine is seamless and trouble-free, especially useful with the WAN accelerator, which deduplicates replicated data before sending it across the wire.
- The restoration UI is straightforward, and restores are fast and easy.
- Does not support Basic Availability Groups with shared-nothing storage ("cluster-less") on SQL Server Standard Edition.
- Does not support restoring files backed up from SERVER1, to SERVER2.
- REST API does not support retrieving information about tape media (have to use Powershell instead for automation).
- We spend 90% less time worrying about backups, which translates to more productivity.
- SureBackup allows us to quickly restore snapshots of Live into a dev sandbox with a few clicks or some API automation, instead of the old-school manual processes.
- Off-site replication allows us all to breathe easier, as does sending tape archives to multiple locations every week.
We have not used Veeam's cloud integration whatsoever.
SureBackup makes restoring production systems into a sandbox (reachable from the LAN via a NAT IP) a breeze. SureBackup's job scheduling makes data integrity testing a regular operational procedure, instead of a fire drill.
Backup Exec
- I would rather die than use Backup Exec ever again.
- One of Unitrends' main limitations is that they sell you an appliance (hardware + software) but they seem incapable of designing a fast solution, which is bad enough for backups and restores, but each of NUMEROUS support phone calls (to have an engineer fix something with a database by running some arcane command) lasted for ages.
- When we bought a second appliance (to do replications) they also didn't seem to understand why I expected a newer, more expensive appliance with SSDs to be faster than a 3-year-old appliance with traditional hard drives