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
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83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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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
Njiu M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Aug 2021
Affordable and Offers Best features - Backup Exec
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Backup Exec from other similar products?
Backup Exec offers an effective and easy to use back system for all business data. It is affordable as well. In addition, retrieving data is easy as well.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
First, I like the simplicity of Backup Exec The software is both affordable and functional Backing up data is easy and so is retrieval when need be
What do you dislike most about this product?
No bad experienced using Backup Exec
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Backup Exec is the best I have used when it comes to data backup and retrieval. I recommend it not only because of that but because it is affordable as well.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Mark E.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Energy
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2021
An Excellent backup solution for your business.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Backup Exec from other similar products?
Its easy to use, and configure. It has a user friendly set up, It gives me the ability to recover both physical and virtual workloads.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It provides a good backup solution for me and our customers. The technical customer care services is good and they are quick to respond to any queries.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Its quite expensive compared to Veem, and Altero which also offer back up solutions.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you have a hardware that you need to use for backup, I highly recommend you purchase Veritas Backup Exec.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Feb 2021
Always performs, very expensive
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Reliable
- Saves Time
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product