Item: Veritas NetBackup
Rating: 10
Author: Ratnodeep Roy

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are MSP and we support various customers' backup operations. We support two customers for Veritas NetBackup. It helps us to address huge exchange and net app workloads. It also helps us to do VMware backups, along with SQL and Oracle backups. We have adapted the remote NDMP technology to leverage the multiplexing of NDMP backups.

Pros and Cons

SAN data transfer and LAN control transfer for doing VMware backups.
Ability to perform restore through both LAN and SAN.

Ability to handle DFSR backups , VSS sometimes does not work .
Logs complexity and troubleshooting

Return on Investment

License is very pricey in comparison to other backup tools.
Deployment depends upon lot of factors (server socket size, I/O, processors, CPU).

Alternatives Considered

Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery, Dell EMC Avamar, Druva Phoenix and Acronis Cyber Backup

Veritas kept in higher tier as there is a huge amount of plugins available for maintaining different database workloads like DB2, MYSQL, SQL Server, Sharepoint, SAP, Oracle, only Veritas supports LAN and SAN level configurations for VMware workloads, only Veritas NetBackup supports dissimilar hardware VMware restore, only Veritas supports flash backups to take raw unix file systems.

Support Rating

Veritas support is very prompt and the acknowledgement/followup is hugely appreciable. They go deep to the issue and provide you satisfactory solutions. Creating ticket in portal is also very easy, does not adhere to severity priority, even if Sev2 response is very quick.

Key Insights

Do you think Veritas NetBackup delivers good value for the price?

Are you happy with Veritas NetBackup's feature set?

Yes

Did Veritas NetBackup live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Veritas NetBackup go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Veritas NetBackup again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery, Dell EMC Avamar

Likelihood to Recommend

Veritas NetBackup is well suited to backup huge NDMP workloads through multiplexing where tapes drives are less to accommodate, huge VMware workloads backup can be completed by leveraging SAN data transfer technology and CBT, ability to do exchange. Oracle and SQL backups even if backed up by VMware policy. Very well suited for dissimilar hardware physical server BMR restore. Flash backup for raw file system backup.

It is less suited for DFSR backups, less suited for large changes of daily data, dedupe is not integrated, rather depends upon additional license like MSDP and specific hardware, configuring AIR replication is also very complex.

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Overall Satisfaction with Veritas NetBackup