Veeam - Good Backup Product With System and Data Protection
Updated October 13, 2025
Veeam - Good Backup Product With System and Data Protection
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform
We use Veeam Data Platform (CDP), replication and backup to protect our database, VMs and files. CDP ensure realtime backup and recovery for our databases and most critical information without downtime; ongoing replication backs up our important servers and VMs; backup is used to back up all our regular VMs and files. The three tier Veeam backup strategies provide us different levels of redundancy, backup and system protection.
Pros
- Continuous Data Protection for databases without downtime
- Veeam replication protects important servers, VMs and files
- Veeam backup backs up all the regular servers, objects and files
Cons
- For Veeam Data Platform (CDP), once it's switched to secondary, we have to rebuild the scenario to switch back. We can't switch back and forth as necessary.
- Virtualized workloads
- Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
- Enterprise UNIX servers running Solaris & IBM AIX
- Enterprise applications such as Oracle or SAP HANA
- 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
- Cloud-hosted VMs within AWS or Azure
- Capacity Tier to store data within object storage for longer term retention
- Utilizing backup copies for secondary purposes via DataLabs
- “Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
- Failover or recovery scripts/plans for orchestrated recovery
- “Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
More than 200 servers and VMs are using backup, replication and CDP to protect our system. We use backup for all most of our VMs and expect to use more replications and CDPs for our important data and files to ensure our service consistency and system robustness.
- We always have backups
- Data can restored a specific time point as we want
- We can switch to secondary by easy operation for our realtime online services and instances
We virtualized all our physical servers. Then we are looking for solution for virtual machine management center, and Veeam backup, transfer and online operations. Veeam can seamless work with vmware to do the backup, replication and CDP. We can back up VM anywhere and anytime which makes our regular operation much easier and more convenient than our old tools which mostly only work on physical servers.
Most of our servers and data are on premise. However, we use third party cloud file and object storage. We have tried using Veeam backup to back up our virtual machines to online object storage, and files to cloud storage. It works well. We will gradually to utilize Veeam cloud backup and disaster recovery functions for our data protection.
We have NAS storages in different locations and we having been using Veeam backup to back up and store vitualized servers, files and objects regularly and frequently. Veeam can efficiently access NAS storage to read and write with its jobs and plan setup. It greatly reduced our work complexity and system design.
We use Arcserver for our physical server or drive partition backup. But it's not stable. Once in a while, it has alarms stating the data tranasferring to its destination has problem. We spent much time on this, but it still happens. Furthermore, the switch between the primary and secondary is not easy and convenient. With Veeam CDP, its data transfer is very stable and the switch over is very easy without much preparation and configuration. We have switched our solucation to Veeam.
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
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