Veeam Backup and Replication Review
August 09, 2022
Veeam Backup and Replication Review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup & Replication
We are backing up two VMware clusters (Linux and Windows) as well as a handful of standalone servers (Windows). We plan to add some important workstations with the remaining licenses, but that was not what prompted the purchase. The Veeam backups protect our servers and data with custom retention periods, backup jobs writing to multiple locations, and encryption protection.
- Virtualized workloads
- Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
- In addition to back up, we also snapshot some of these workloads
- Cloud-hosted VMs within AWS or Azure
- NAS filers
- In addition to back up, we also replicate some of these workloads
- Capacity Tier to store data within object storage for longer term retention
- Utilizing backup copies for secondary purposes via DataLabs
- Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
- Failover or recovery scripts/plans for orchestrated recovery
- Automating test restores to validate recoverability
- Easy to configure
- Good compression and use of storage space
- Strong support and documentation
- Reliable backups
- Licensing has changed to a subscription model instead of a purchase model
- Expensive
- Large downloads for updates
Do you think Veeam Data Platform delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Veeam Data Platform's feature set?
Yes
Did Veeam Data Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Veeam Data Platform go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Veeam Data Platform again?
Yes
We have about 50 virtual servers being backed up by Veeam B&R along with 3 physical servers. This is on par with what we expected when we initially purchased the license. We learned you can backup three workstations for one server license, which is nice so that any extra licenses don't go unused.
- Positive: Faster and more reliable backups
- Positive: Faster restore times
- Positive: The ability to failover with replication
We were unhappy with the current product we were using. It was not reliably creating new backups, and to mount an image from a backup would take about 15 minutes only to sometimes find that was the wrong backup. Veeam is incredibly fast to load backup data and restore files.
We are using Veeam Backup for Office 365, and we are keeping a backup set in the cloud. We are not yet using cloud recovery for Veeam, but we are interested in learning more about it. It might be something we explore for a small subset of our on premise servers.
We do not have any unstructured data living on NAS devices.
Using Veeam Backup & Replication
4 - IT System Administrators
1 - It is not difficult to support.
- Backing up servers
- Backing up files
- Replication of servers