Arctera Backup Exec Reviews & Product Details

Backup Exec is a simple, secure, unified and comprehensive data protection software solution. It is designed to help organizations protect their data by providing a range of features for backup, disaster recovery, and archiving. Key features of Backup Exec include: Data Backup: Backup Exec offers flexible backup options for various environments, including virtual machines, physical servers, cloud storage, and databases. It can back up data from both on-premises and cloud-based systems. Disaster Recovery: The software includes tools for disaster recovery, ensuring that businesses can quickly restore their critical systems and data in the event of a system failure, data corruption, or cyberattack. Cross-Platform Support: It supports a wide range of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and VMware, as well as cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Centralized Management: Backup Exec provides a centralized interface to manage backups, monitor system status, and configure backup policies, making it easier for IT administrators to oversee the entire backup environment. File and Application Protection: It includes specialized agents for backing up applications like Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint, as well as file-level backup. Cloud Integration: Backup Exec integrates with cloud storage, allowing organizations to back up data directly to the cloud for offsite storage and disaster recovery. Encryption and Security: The software offers encryption both during the backup process and for data storage, ensuring that sensitive data is secure and compliant with regulations. Automated Backups: Backup Exec can automate backup tasks based on customizable schedules, reducing manual intervention and ensuring that backups occur regularly. In summary, Backup Exec is a powerful solution for businesses looking to protect and recover their critical data, with a range of features that address the needs of both small and large organizations.

Seller

Arctera

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Languages Supported

German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)

Solution Type

All-in-One

Overview by

Dylon Mills

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

1 month

Return on Investment

19 months

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User Insights

Average based on 275 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

1 month

Perceived Cost

$$$$$

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Anand L.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/7/2023

"No complex Administration and guaranteed restoration"

5/5

What do you like best about Arctera Backup Exec?

The upgrade process is straightforward

Frequently new features

Ready recovery and

Retry Failed backup job features,

Ransomware protection

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What do you dislike about Arctera Backup Exec?

Training videos not available

Forever incremental backup features more enhancements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Johnathan W.

Operations Specialist

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/22/2022

"Decades of using Backup Exec"

3/5

What do you like best about Arctera Backup Exec?

The most useful aspect and benefit to our organization in using Backup Exec is writing to tape to take offsite. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arctera Backup Exec?

What I dislike most is the slow speed of the backup despite our investments in the latest servers and tape libraries. That has caused our backup window to grow excessively beyond a reasonable size. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mushtahir J.

Sr. System Administrator

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/22/2022

"Veritas need to add feature to their product, like sync option to full beside differential backup"

4/5

What do you like best about Arctera Backup Exec?

I like the support of veritas, but they still need to add qualified staff; my last call wtih vetitas support went for more than 2 hours to resolve my issue, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arctera Backup Exec?

I don't want the system recovery running individually in each server, i want to have a server version of System recovery, so we can image all servers from one console, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/22/2022

"Works well with small data backups"

4/5

What do you like best about Arctera Backup Exec?

Highly recommended for small backup jobs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arctera Backup Exec?

Doesn't work well with large data backups, over 2 TB, as jobs sent to tapes tend to timeout and not back up data. Never really know if I have a good backup unless I restore it onto another device. Most backups jobs tend to be incomplete on large backups, and I have to cancel them; some run for 2-6 days, only partially backing up or without backing up anything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/22/2022

"Reliable, cost effective, agile, and dependable. Everything you need for a backup solution!"

5/5

What do you like best about Arctera Backup Exec?

It doesn't matter who owns BackupExec, the application remains fundamentally the same. Tons of backup options for any type of destination storage location. The remote server agent is lightweight, and just works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arctera Backup Exec?

Reattaching moved or 'lost storage' (say after a reinstall) is painful. Catalog works, inventory usually fails (but at least now completes all files except those failed!). Updates on remote agent always require reboot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Arctera Backup Exec solving and how is that benefiting you?

BackupExec is used for non-critical server backups on local storage (Critical backups use offsite DRAAS). It also does production backups to cloud (Monthly for 6 months). It also does accounting backups (legally required & audited yearly) to cloud (Monthly for 12 months & Yearly for 7 years). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Satheesh M.

Data Protection and Service Delivery

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/22/2022

"Backup Exec - A perfect SMB Data Protection Suite for Windows & Linux Ecosystem."

5/5

What do you like best about Arctera Backup Exec?

Ease of Use with flexibility to deploy on Cloud, Appliance or as a software. It offers a comprehensive and complete backup solution for businesses of all sizes. It can back up files, applications, databases, and even entire servers through IDR. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arctera Backup Exec?

Compared to other competitors, Cost of Volume / capacity licenses is slightly higher, however BEWS Support has always been good providing quick resolution, Bug fix and EEBs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vince S.

Benefits & Systems Admin

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/22/2022

"Backup Exe Review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Arctera Backup Exec?

Our company has been using Backup Exe for years to backup our data. we taped using tape drives and now use portable hard drives. The program is easy to set up and use. IT provide details for each job run and you can drill down to see any issue that may occur. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arctera Backup Exec?

Installation is a bit tricky, but the steps by step are helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Johnny H.

Information Systems Administrator

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/22/2022

"Powerful yet cost effective backup software."

5/5

What do you like best about Arctera Backup Exec?

Once everything is set up and scheduled it is a fully hands off backup system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arctera Backup Exec?

Sometimes expired backups do not automatically delete and require manual intervention. This can cause your cloud storage bill to be higher than necessary if you use cloud storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Louie Jasper S.

Systems Administrator

Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/7/2023

"Loyal Customer for more than 10 years"

4/5

What do you like best about Arctera Backup Exec?

Dashboard, backup compression ratio, integrity of backup files, reports, reliability and value for money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arctera Backup Exec?

These are some least helpful about Veritas Backup exec, none currently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Thiago Vinicius B.

Organization Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/22/2022

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"BKE Simple and Powerful"

5/5

What do you like best about Arctera Backup Exec?

The user experience is very friendly.

BKE is a very powerful tool that helps to protect workloads, doesn’t matter where (local or cloud).

If comparing BKE with the competitors is possible to validate how simple is to protect and recover different types of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Arctera Backup Exec?

Managing more than one BKE server sometimes takes more time and knowledge because for example, when the services need to be restarted on an individual server, is it not so simple to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.