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Veeam for database backups? Still some homework to do for Veeam!
August 25, 2023

Veeam for database backups? Still some homework to do for Veeam!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Veeam Backup & Replication

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform

It’s our main backup tool for all our servers we’re hosting within four data center. Additionally we started to us it for M365 data backups. My main responsibility is the usage of transactional-consistent backups for our main databases SAP HANA (Backint interface) and Oracle (RMAN interface). For both of these we’re using the Veeam plugin.
  • Virtualized workloads
  • Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
  • Enterprise applications such as Oracle or SAP HANA
  • In addition to back up, we also replicate some of these workloads
  • In addition to back up, we also snapshot some of these workloads
  • Cloud-hosted VMs within AWS or Azure
  • NAS filers
  • Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
  • Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
  • Utilizing backup copies for secondary purposes via DataLabs
  • Parallelism
  • Performance
  • Ease to use
  • Stability
  • High-Availability
  • Maintenance without downtime
  • Linux instead of Windows for the VBR

Do you think Veeam Data Platform delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Veeam Data Platform's feature set?

Yes

Did Veeam Data Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Veeam Data Platform go as expected?

No

Would you buy Veeam Data Platform again?

Yes

Many many. Yes, much more.
  • ROI
  • Risk of RPO due to failing backups
  • Good performance
Costs and the heavy growth of the virtualized environment was the main reason for VEEAM many years ago. Since it was already “in the house” and due to our idea of standardization it was clear for us, that we will use it for other workloads than initially planned as well.
So far not possible for me to say that we have already benefitted from these capabilities yet. Time will show that, I hope.
Overall it’s really fitting well for database backups, the configuration itself is really easy and the very positive thing is, that the database tools like SAP HANA Cockpit or HANA Studio can still be used for most of the administration activities regarding the backup. the problem is: Stability Stability and Stability. Backups are failing far too often including the maintenance of the Veeam is not possible without downtime, which is not acceptable for such a main backup environment.