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Veritas Backup Exec 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Veritas Backup Exec
Veritas Backup Exec
4.2
(12)

Pricing

Starting at $39.00 per month

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About Veritas Backup Exec

Veritas Backup Exec is a backup and recovery platform that assists businesses with protecting data across hybrid, physical, cloud and virtual infrastructures. The application integrates with VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V environments, allowing professionals to create recovery copies from VM backups using agents or agentless methods, track changes and execute automated recovery.

Features of Veritas Backup Exec include ransomware resilience, automated disaster recovery testing, GDPR compliance, encryption, and more. IT administrators can utilize Azure Site Recovery integration to facilitate recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) processes across critical sites and data.

It allows integration with several in-house and third-party applications such as Veritas Usage Insights, Information Map, and more. Veritas Backup Exec is available on a perpetual and subscription basis and support is available via documentation, videos, phone and email.

Veritas Backup Exec User Interface

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Veritas Backup Exec Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $39.00 per month
Free Trial
Free Version

Basic

$39.00

flat rate, per month

No plan information available

    Veritas Backup Exec Features

    • Popular features found in Backup
      Backup Log
      Backup Scheduling
      Cloud Backup
      Compression
      Continuous Backup
      Incremental Backup
      Local Server Options
    • More features of Veritas Backup Exec
      Access Controls/Permissions
      Activity Dashboard
      Activity Tracking
      Alerts/Escalation
      API
      Backup and Recovery
      Compliance Management
      Data Recovery
      Data Replication
      Disaster Recovery
      Encryption
      Monitoring

    Veritas Backup Exec User Reviews

    Overall Rating

    4.2

    Ratings Breakdown

    5

    42%

    4

    33%

    3

    25%

    2

    0%

    1

    0%

    Secondary Ratings

    Ease of Use

    4.2

    Value for money

    3.8

    Customer support

    3.5

    Functionality

    4.0

    Kevin's profile
    Kevin H.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    2-10 employees

    Used weekly for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed November 2023

    Reviewing Veritas Backup Exec

    5

    Great of the existing clients we have so long as the annual subscription doesn't continue to climb well in excess of inflation.

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    2
    Value for money
    4
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    great console, relevant features and easy of deploying agents across a network.
    Cons:
    the product has become un attainable for most SME's with the start cost in excess of £1K

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    JV
    Jesus V.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    501-1000 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed November 2024

    Veritas Backup Exec work all time

    5

    Very nice experience to backup files, DBs, and Virtual Machines

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    4
    Value for money
    1
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    -Big compatibility with storages and tape libraries. -We can list a big quantity of backups and see what backups failed or not. -We can backup a complete VM to restore in a specific point. -We can send a lot of backups with a high volume of data and still work without problems. -We can see the backups in real time and see with file is backing in real time. -A lot of specifications to restore data (path, permissions, overwrite, etc...)
    Cons:
    The support is bad and very frustrate because to open a ticket the support team request a big information to start to help us.

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    RC
    Russell C.

    Verified reviewer

    Wholesale

    51-200 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed August 2024

    Veritas Backup Exec is a backup product that, when we used it, was not without flaws.

    3

    We used Backup Exec for several years to push backups to tape and to physical hard disks. Failures were frequent and frustrating.

    Ratings Breakdown

    3
    Ease of use
    2
    Value for money
    2
    Customer support
    3
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Once configured the product ran well enough to create good backups and was not difficult to setup.
    Cons:
    Backups had frequent failures and issues, support was not what it should have been for an enterprise level product.

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    ZR
    Zalman R.

    Verified reviewer

    Apparel & Fashion

    51-200 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed January 2024

    Why I left Veritas

    5

    It served me well for 25 years. However, I don't know what the current version can do. They were not able to show me a demo. In the end I bought Veeam. There are a few features that I use. There is the normal backup and restore. Replication on to the cloud. The 2 capabilities that I found important was (1) an IMMUTABLE Backup. It is a local secondary backup that can't be over written. Good protection against ransomware. It requires a Linux OS. (2) If the server crashes, I can bring up a backup and have people continue working until a new server is created. The only issue is that this can't be backed up while being accessible to the end user. Unitrend offers (2),but not (1). They only have Cloud Backup.

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    I used it for years and it was always reliable. However, I can't recommend the product any more. Read the cons.
    Cons:
    In July & Aug 2023, I tried for 2 months get a demo of the latest version. I only had one return phone call and the person didn't follow up. No reply to emails even though I had this persons email address. I was totally ignored. The sales agent said that they are understaffed because of COVID from the last 2 years. It wasn't possible to see a demo of the latest version. I gave up after 2 full months. I had older versions that stopped working once the server NetframeWork was upgraded. Veritas said one could only buy a newer version. They were not going to fix the older versions.

    Reasons for choosing Veritas Backup Exec

    At the time, Veritas was considered the best backup software in the market.

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    TA
    Theint Zarchi A.

    Verified reviewer

    Computer & Network Security

    201-500 employees

    Used weekly for less than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed April 2024

    Data Recovery Zone

    4

    Ratings Breakdown

    3
    Ease of use
    4
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Cost savings Less storage and bandwidth Enhanced backup security Fast recovery
    Cons:
    Upgrading version Full and incremental backup sizing is the same suddenly

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    Taryn's profile
    Taryn F.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    51-200 employees

    Used monthly for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed February 2022

    Veritas Backup Exec is most suited to Small / Medium Businesses.

    3

    Veritas Backup Exec is a good choice for small to medium businesses with a relatively simple set up , not requiring many different agents to be backup up, and without excesses amounts of data. The licensing model is complicated and can be expensive, but I have seen great changes in the options supplied now - such as the Per VM model

    Ratings Breakdown

    3
    Ease of use
    4
    Value for money
    4
    Customer support
    3
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Its great that Veritas Backup Exec has kept up to date with licensing, allowing per VM licensing via subscription. Ease of installation and use for those businesses without a very technical and dedicated IT Team. Compatible with most, if not all, tape libraries. Integrates well with Vmware
    Cons:
    The licensing model is more complicated than others, ie Veeam - each agent needs to be licensed - makes for a complex licensing model. Backups are relatively slow. The dashboard is not as intuitive as its competitors interfaces.

    Reasons for choosing Veritas Backup Exec

    Veritas remained in these environments as it was doing its job. The customers own the licensing, and are simply paying renewal each year, so it makes no sense to move to another product, when the current system is working and paid for.

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    VR
    Verified
    Reviewer

    Automotive

    10000+ employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed April 2022

    Backup Exec is good product to backup servers for small, mid & large level of company.

    4

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    3
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    I like below services, 1. it use snapshot technology for backup. 2. we can schedule job for full backup, incremental and diffractal backup as per the requirement. 3. we can also encrypt data through software. 4. it provides data compression.
    Cons:
    There should be available tape test tool.

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    Girish S.

    Verified reviewer

    Computer & Network Security

    10000+ employees

    Used monthly for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed April 2023

    Best in class Backup & Recovery Solution for any workload !!!

    5

    Overall I have been very satisfied with the product.Deployment is superfast and interface is user friendly

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    4
    Value for money
    4
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Ability to manage different environment from single interface .Flexibility of protection of SaaS application , Virtual , Cloud etc.
    Cons:
    Ability for MSP to manage multiple customer will be a good add on

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    CP
    Celeste P.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    201-500 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed March 2022

    Veritas Back

    3

    Smooth transition and works well

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    4
    Value for money
    3
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
    icon
    Pros:
    Use friendly and quite easy to manage dash board easily accessible and looks and feels great , great alerts
    Cons:
    Updated dont happen often the process is quite long not so easy to perform

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    Fazal Ur Rehman's profile
    Fazal Ur Rehman F.

    Verified reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    11-50 employees

    Used daily for less than 12 months

    Review source

    Reviewed November 2021

    Backup and recovery solution for SME

    4

    Ratings Breakdown

    3
    Ease of use
    3
    Functionality
    icon
    Pros:
    Since our enterprise data was not that much initially, we got Backup Exec. It was easy to use. Offer3
    Cons:
    The limit on using the tape drive is a major disadvantage. The slow backup is another one.

    Reasons for choosing Veritas Backup Exec

    The product was apt for the kind of environment and size of data we had.

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