Veeam lets me get a good night's sleep

At Spitfire, we develop and maintain software. At any one time, three versions are under maintenance and we require VMs suitable for building each and another set of VMs for QA and testing. This adds up to a lot of VMs, with a need to be able to restore an entire VM. Of course, we also have standard infrastructure: AD servers, gateways, storage. Our old backup solution was taking far too long to run each night. Veeam gets the job done in minutes

We protect twenty VMs and three physical servers (two HV hosts and a storage server) This is exactly what I expected. We added offsite tiering to S3 storage when that feature became available, then re-implemented when immutable storage was available. We have not bothered with using Veeam for AWS backups - AWS snapshots do the job adequately.

Well, we had been using Symantec (now Veritas) Backup Exec for a decade. But (the old version) of that solution did not scale well as our storage needs to be increased. It did not offer the data-deduplication and load reduction built into Veeam. We also needed to reduce QA overhead when we needed to have a given test environment easily rebuilt.

I hope I never need it, but the S3 immutable storage is my last line of defense against a ransomware attack. Not sure that simple sentence does justice to how important it actually has been for the ability to get a good night's sleep.

We use Veeam to backup our NAS server - it works perfectly and restores an individual file or folder with simplicity and speed. We consider this a basic part of the backup software and it isn't something I would normally go on and on about - but Veeam gets this bread and butter feature right.

Did not purchase. Have not had the need