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Simple and reliable
December 28, 2019

Simple and reliable

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller

Software Version

Veeam Backup & Replication

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup & Replication

Yes, it's used as the primary backup solution for different technologies: VMWare, Nutanix and Hyper-v. It's very stable and affordable, easy to use and complete in all the necessary features.
  • Tape backup chained to backup job.
  • Replication job with seeding.
  • Veeam's availability for Nutanix does not have email alerting.
  • Veeam's availability for Nutanix jobs cannot be chained to tape jobs.
  • Positive: in case of disaster we restored 40 years of data in a couple of days only with a couple of clicks. It was worth all the money spent in the last 10 years.
  • Positive: thanks to the replication, we had the ability to turn on a disaster recovery site after a ransomware attack on the main site with a small RTO.
We use it with all our customers, protecting all virtualization technology (VMWare, Hyper-V, Nutanix).
Hundreds of physical servers, thousand of virtual machines.
We use it with all kinds of 'storage'. More often backups are taken to a NAS and then written to tape for retention needs. Lately, we are using cloud backup as an alternative to tape. It implements all 'connectors' necessary to an SMB or enterprise company.
We used it in many scenarios:
The main is relative to disaster recovery test: periodically we test the disaster recovery site with some critical application.
Another scenario is the sandbox environment, with few clicks we restored 5 servers and tested some new feature in a protected network.
It looks very simple and flexible but it's missing some important features like tape backup.
HYCU Backup & Recovery for Nutanix, SugarSync, Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery
Suited for all environments, from personal to enterprise. The new licensing model improves the flexibility and portability of this solution to mixed environments.

Veeam Data Platform Feature Ratings

Data Center Backup
9.8
Universal recovery
Not Rated
Instant recovery
10
Recovery verification
10
Business application protection
10
Multiple backup destinations
10
Incremental backup identification
10
Backup to the cloud
10
Deduplication and file compression
10
Snapshots
10
Flexible deployment
10
Platform support
8
Retention options
10
Encryption
10

Using Veeam Backup & Replication

9 - Technical
9 - System Engineer
  • Backup on NAS
  • replica to a disaster recovery site
  • Cloud backup
  • Cloud disaster recovery
  • cloud disaster recovery
  • backup on Amazon S3
Competitors are not as complete as veeam :)

Evaluating Veeam Backup & Replication and Competitors

  • Product Features
  • Product Reputation
  • Existing Relationship with the Vendor
Support to install on OS different fro Windows

Veeam Backup & Replication Implementation

  • Implemented in-house
Yes - phase one is installation and job definition.
second phase is tuning of job based on data analysis and job timing
  • no issue
  • no issue

Veeam Backup & Replication Support

Simple and reliable
ProsCons
Quick Resolution
Good followup
Knowledgeable team
Problems get solved
Kept well informed
No escalation required
Immediate help available
Support understands my problem
Support cares about my success
Quick Initial Response
None
Yes
We where unable to perform the software upgrade to 9.5U3 to 9.5U4.
We opened a ticked and the support quicly fixed the issue

Using Veeam Backup & Replication

the console is simple and clear and the documentation is really simple
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
Familiar
None
  • Replication
  • Tape backup chained to job backup
  • chained backup and advanced scheduling
  • clean of unneded job backup files