My user experience with Veeam Backup.

For customers who are not yet familiar with Veeam Backup & Replication, we encourage them to install and use the free version, learn about it, and even dislike it. We then encourage them to purchase a license. We are also working on virtual storage plans to protect them against Veeam issues. We educate our customers about using local backup plans, remote location backups, and cloud backups. We emphasize the importance of cloud backup at every opportunity.

I am an employee of a consulting firm. I have 11 clients. All of them have either a free version or a licensed paid version. There are an average of 20 other employees like me. They also have their own customers. All of our customers usually have Veeam as well. There are also customers using Acronis in between. Many of our customers have their systems protected by cloud-based backup. 4 of my customers have both physical and cloud backups. Others just use Veeam for physical backup and are satisfied.

I previously compared Acronis and Arcserve with Veeam. Two things caught my attention: backup/restore speed and the ease of use of the interface. With a simple interface, you can quickly create a job and start backing up immediately. The backup/restore process was, from what I saw, twice as fast as the others. I don't mind mentioning the names of the other applications I used for testing here. The first one I tried was Arcserve Backup. The other was Acronis. Arcserve was incredibly slow; restoring a backup of an average 150-200GB server took almost 5-6 hours. This might have been influenced by the network speed of the system at that time, etc. But after that, Acronis, which I tested under the same conditions, restored almost twice as fast. Finally, I tried Veeam Backup & Replication. Until then, I saw Veeam Backup & Replication as just a software trying to make a name for itself and aspiring to the big leagues. Seeing that it restored even faster than Acronis, I decided not to use any other backup software anymore. This test is the most compelling reason for me to choose Veeam Backup & Replication.

I've used Veeam Backup & Replication as a cloud solution for some of my clients. The configuration steps are quite easy. You can send backups to different platforms in the cloud. Although the free version has a slight limitation in cloud backup speed, it's still very successful. Just backing up locally isn't enough in today's world. I try to explain this to my clients at every opportunity. Cloud backup is essential for a reliable system, and Veeam Backup & Replication fulfills this perfectly.

Most of our small-scale customers own NAS devices. We perform backups by connecting to the NAS via iSCSI or file sharing. The steps for defining the NAS and creating tasks in Veeam Backup & Replication are quite user-friendly. I have never used NFS. But I constantly work with SMB. I think Veeam Backup & Replication is very successful in this regard as well.