What is Backup Exec?
Backup Exec gives you simple, complete backup and recovery protection for your business—to cover all data wherever it resides.
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84 Likeliness to Recommend
93 Plan to Renew
83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
+87 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Backup Exec?
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Reliable
- Client Friendly Policies
- Fair
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Feature Ratings
Full System Backup Restore
Information Store Backup Restore
Media Support
Support for Backup Types
Backup Archiving
Compliance
Permissions Awareness
Security
Transaction Log Backup Restore
Granular Restore
Mailbox Backup Restore
Vendor Capability Ratings
Business Value Created
Ease of Implementation
Breadth of Features
Vendor Support
Usability and Intuitiveness
Quality of Features
Ease of Customization
Ease of Data Integration
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of IT Administration
Availability and Quality of Training
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Backup Exec Reviews
Patrick W.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2022
This product is excellent for backup solutions
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Backup Exec from other similar products?
Backup Exec is used to archive, backup, and restore data. As of now, our server environment is housed in a local datacenter. It's helpful to have a software/solution partner who can handle our needs there as well as we will be transferring servers to the cloud in the future.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Backup Exec has been used by our company. Backup Exec has always been a key component of our disaster recovery plan, whether we were using older versions of the software with HP tape drives and media or our present setup with Hp PowerVault hardware and LTO tapes. Multiple instances of Backup Exec 2015 R3 are still operational, and we are still using legacy hardware.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The only time I have an issue is when new versions undergo significant changes. The majority of people are accustomed to and rely on the core functioning; while adding new features is good, don't change it! I have no issues.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
All corporate environments are ideally suited for Veritas Backup Exec. Because of the quickness and recovery choices, it has saved me endless hours of time. They provide a variety of agents for diverse software, databases, VMware, etc. Just what you need is purchased.
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
- Saves Time
Tayton S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2022
Fastest backup and restore
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Backup Exec from other similar products?
Backup Exec offers quick and easy protection and recovery, with a number of useful integrations that make the platform easier to manage. From the central management console we are able to set up backups quickly in just a few clicks
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Via the Instant Cloud Recovery feature, Backup Exec offers Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service, which we utilize to carry out bare-metal, physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-physical data recovery
What do you dislike most about this product?
Quick search of specific files by path, owner, creation and other pre-set filters. It should apply deduplication technology to all archived data, removing all redudant data for further ease of management and to minimize bandwidth strain
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Backup Exec is the ideal solution for a business that has to backup many devices. It will store an image of your primary hard drive to the cloud and has a big number of security options
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Energy
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2022
Most Features Disappoint
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy