VEEAM Backup & Replication for the Win
October 09, 2023
VEEAM Backup & Replication for the Win
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform
We use it for our primary backups and it does a great job. While it isn't perfect, nothing is, it really is the best on the market and makes setting up an intricate backup system to meet the needs of our business easy. We have it performing daily backups to 2 different NAS servers as well as a USB rotation. It then will copy this data to an Archive NAS for long term retention. Lastly it replicates our VMWare VSphere server to our data centre for disaster recovery situations.
The cost is well worth the services it provides.
The cost is well worth the services it provides.
- Virtualized workloads
- Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
- NAS filers
- In addition to back up, we also replicate some of these workloads
- In addition to back up, we also snapshot some of these workloads
- Utilizing backup copies for secondary purposes via DataLabs
- Automating test restores to validate recoverability
- “Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
- Replication of VMs to secondary locations
- Backup jobs to different locations
- Instant restores to test backup integrity
- User interface could use a refresh
- More detailed errors for failed jobs would be useful. instead of having to find and open log file.
- Grand Father system could have more granularity and options.
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 backup 2 physical servers and about 30 Virtual machines, which covers around 5TB in total. The amount of servers hasn't changed since we bought the product years ago, perhaps a touch less, but the size of the data backed up has increased significantly. This is due to storage sizes increasing naturally and VEEAM has had no trouble in keeping it. Optimising your VEEAM server and repositories is key though to getting the fastest backup speeds possible and VEEAM makes this easy to do when setting up jobs and repositories.
- If we didnt buy VEEAM we would have sought out another product
- As I understand it though VEEAM really is the market leader
- Having this solution means we dont need to spend 100-200K on a hyper-converged solution that would provide backups
VEEAM has been in use since I started with the company and I have seen no reason to change. The product is regularly updated and refreshed, and new capabilities are being added frequently. While I cant offer my experience before using VEEAM I can wholeheartedly stand by the product and pronounce the positive impact it has had for our business.
We do not yet utilise the power of cloud VM's. I do however see the option when setting up backup jobs and this is as easy and telling VEEAM the login details to the cloud platform so it can then pull the data and backup what you need.
We do leverage VEEAM for Disaster Recovery though to some rented space in a Datacenter where we replicate our VMWare VSphere controller to the DC so that in a DR situation we can fire it up and managed the VM's from the datacenter.
We do leverage VEEAM for Disaster Recovery though to some rented space in a Datacenter where we replicate our VMWare VSphere controller to the DC so that in a DR situation we can fire it up and managed the VM's from the datacenter.
We utilise NAS storage very heavily as it is our primary backup repository. We only use them as a backup destination for VEEAM backups and are not backing up the NAS data at a file level. In fact this is the first I have heard of this capability so will look into it as we do store emails and other 365 data on the NAS servers and would be good to have those backed up with VEEAM.