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Overview [Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/backup/backup-exec-profile/reviews/) # Veritas Backup Exec Review From $39/month Free trial 1 plan On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - User Reviews ## Overview Veritas Backup Exec 4.2 [(12)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/backup/backup-exec-profile/reviews/) Pricing Starting at $39.00 flat rate per month Top Alternatives ### 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. Do you work for Veritas Backup Exec? [Manage this product listing](https://www.g2.com/products/myoutcomes-pro/claim_requests/new?auto=true) ## Veritas Backup Exec User Interface ## Popular Veritas Backup Exec Alternatives Main Product Veritas Backup Exec 4.2 [(12)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/backup/backup-exec-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.17Ease of use - 3.80Value for money - 3.50Customer support - 4.0Functionality Pricing Starting at $39.00 per month Alternative Product [IDrive](https://www.softwareadvice.com/file-sharing/idrive-profile/) 4.6 [(1201)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/file-sharing/idrive-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.49Ease of use - 4.67Value for money - 4.53Customer support - 4.48Functionality Pricing Starting at $2.95 per year Alternative Product [Cove Data Protection](https://www.softwareadvice.com/data-management/solarwinds-backup-profile/) 4.6 [(375)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/data-management/solarwinds-backup-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.70Ease of use - 4.45Value for money - 4.49Customer support - 4.58Functionality Pricing Available upon request Alternative Product [MSP360 Backup](https://www.softwareadvice.com/disaster-recovery/msp360-backup-profile/) 4.6 [(254)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/disaster-recovery/msp360-backup-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.43Ease of use - 4.53Value for money - 4.43Customer support - 4.54Functionality Pricing Available upon request Alternative Product [Veeam Data Platform](https://www.softwareadvice.com/data-management/veeam-backup-and-replication-profile/) 4.8 [(77)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/data-management/veeam-backup-and-replication-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.56Ease of use - 4.55Value for money - 4.50Customer support - 4.71Functionality Pricing Starting at $428.00 per year Alternative Product [Salesforce Backup](https://www.softwareadvice.com/backup/salesforce-backup-profile/) 4.8 [(80)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/backup/salesforce-backup-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.75Ease of use - 4.57Value for money - 4.57Customer support - 4.67Functionality Pricing Available upon request ## 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 ## Veritas Backup Exec customer ratings - Overall rating: 4.2/5 - Total reviews: 12 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 5 reviews (42%) - 4 stars: 4 reviews (33%) - 3 stars: 3 reviews (25%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.2/5 - Value for money: 3.8/5 - Customer support: 3.5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 --- ### Reviewing Veritas Backup Exec - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Kevin H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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 - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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 --- ### Veritas Backup Exec work all time - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jesus V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Very nice experience to backup files, DBs, and Virtual Machines #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### Veritas Backup Exec is most suited to Small / Medium Businesses. - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Taryn F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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 - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### 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. --- ### Why I left Veritas - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Zalman R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Apparel & Fashion - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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 - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Backup Exec is good product to backup servers for small, mid & large level of company. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Automotive - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### Veritas Backup Exec is a backup product that, when we used it, was not without flaws. - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Russell C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Wholesale - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered We used Backup Exec for several years to push backups to tape and to physical hard disks. Failures were frequent and frustrating. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### 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. --- ### Best in class Backup & Recovery Solution for any workload !!! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Girish S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer & Network Security - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall I have been very satisfied with the product.Deployment is superfast and interface is user friendly #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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 --- ### Veritas Back - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Celeste P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Smooth transition and works well #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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 --- ### Backup and recovery solution for SME - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Fazal Ur Rehman F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: November 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### 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. --- ### Data Recovery Zone - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Theint Zarchi A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer & Network Security - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Cost savings Less storage and bandwidth Enhanced backup security Fast recovery #### Cons Upgrading version Full and incremental backup sizing is the same suddenly --- Showing 1 - 10 of 12 Reviews [See All Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/backup/backup-exec-profile/reviews/) ## See what companies are saying about Software Advice