Veritas

Backup Exec

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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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Awards & Recognition

Backup Exec won the following awards in the Email Backup category

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2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2023

Service Experience

Latest Award, 2023

0 Top Rated Capabilities

3 Top Rated Features

2023

3 Top Rated Capabilities

4 Top Rated Features

2022

Backup Exec Ratings

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84 Likeliness to Recommend

93 Plan to Renew

3
Since last award

83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

2
Since last award

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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?

3% Negative

7% Neutral

90% Positive

Pros

Trustworthy
Reliable
Client Friendly Policies
Fair

Feature Ratings

Average 83

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

Average 80

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

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2022

This product is excellent for backup solutions

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2022

Fastest backup and restore

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

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

Validated Review

Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2022

Most Features Disappoint

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy

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Awards & Recognition

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2021 Emotional Footprint Champion

2020 Emotional Footprint Champion

2020 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Backup Exec Ratings

84 Likeliness to Recommend

93 Plan to Renew

3 Since last award

83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

2 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+87 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Backup Exec?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Full System Backup Restore The backup of the full email system and all of its servers, including the operating system.

Information Store Backup Restore Ability to backup and restore only the Information Store (full contents of all mailboxes) of an email server, common with MS Exchange Server.

Media Support Support for backup to various backup media formats, including disk, Cloud, optical drives, and tape etc.

Support for Backup Types Support for Full, Incremental (change since last incremental backup) & Differential (change since last full backup) backup types.

Backup Archiving Ability to conduct archive backups for long-term storage.

Compliance Compliance with privacy legislation, including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the ability to enact requests for purging of personal information.

Permissions Awareness The backup software having awareness of mailbox permissions, rules, and delegates, and the ability to backup and restore associated permissions.

Security The software provides appropriate data and access security for the message store, individual mailboxes and messages.

Transaction Log Backup Restore Ability to backup and restore the transaction log (which can be “replayed” in order to rebuild an email Information Store) of an MS Exchange email server.

Granular Restore The ability to restore individual email messages, message threads, or messages within a specified date range.

Mailbox Backup Restore The backup and restore of individual mailboxes without having to restore an entire email server to extract a single mailbox.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

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Backup Exec Reviews

Patrick W.

This product is excellent for backup solutions

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Tayton S.

Fastest backup and restore

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Most Features Disappoint

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

3
Since last award

2
Since last award

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