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Veritas NetBackup

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Veritas NetBackup Pros and Cons: Top Advantages and Disadvantages

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Users appreciate the reliable alerting system in Veritas NetBackup, ensuring dependable backups and extensive notifications. (1 mentions)
Users value the flexibility of Veritas NetBackup, enabling diverse backup options across multiple platforms for tailored recovery. (1 mentions)
Users value the solid reliability of Veritas NetBackup, ensuring dependable backups and efficient data management. (1 mentions)
Users value the versatility of Veritas NetBackup, enabling diverse backup options across multiple platforms with flexible recovery. (1 mentions)
Users find the licensing and implementation costs of Veritas NetBackup to be quite high and complicated. (2 mentions)
Users find the difficult configuration process time-consuming and requiring specialized knowledge, complicating their overall experience. (1 mentions)
Users find the learning difficulty of Veritas NetBackup challenging initially, but they adapt over time. (1 mentions)
Users find the outdated interface of Veritas NetBackup uninviting, complicating configuration and maintenance efforts. (1 mentions)

Top Pros or Advantages of Veritas NetBackup

1. Alerting
Users appreciate the reliable alerting system in Veritas NetBackup, ensuring dependable backups and extensive notifications.
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Arpan M.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4.5/5

"Veritas NetBackup a Reliable Enterprise Backup Solution."

What do you like about Veritas NetBackup?

NetBackup is designed for enterprise large environments. it can be handles thousands of clients and petabytes of data with minimal performance degrada

2. Flexibility
Users value the flexibility of Veritas NetBackup, enabling diverse backup options across multiple platforms for tailored recovery.
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Mohit G.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.0/5

"Simplify the Backup and Restore jobs with Veritas NetBackup."

What do you like about Veritas NetBackup?

Most helpful thing of NetBackup is its diversity we can easily set different type of backup it support wide range of Platforms. NetBackup gives detail

3. Reliability
Users value the solid reliability of Veritas NetBackup, ensuring dependable backups and efficient data management.
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Arpan M.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4.5/5

"Veritas NetBackup a Reliable Enterprise Backup Solution."

What do you like about Veritas NetBackup?

NetBackup is designed for enterprise large environments. it can be handles thousands of clients and petabytes of data with minimal performance degrada

4. Versatility
Users value the versatility of Veritas NetBackup, enabling diverse backup options across multiple platforms with flexible recovery.
See 1 mentions

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MG

Mohit G.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.0/5

"Simplify the Backup and Restore jobs with Veritas NetBackup."

What do you like about Veritas NetBackup?

Most helpful thing of NetBackup is its diversity we can easily set different type of backup it support wide range of Platforms. NetBackup gives detail

Top Cons or Disadvantages of Veritas NetBackup

1. Expensive
Users find the licensing and implementation costs of Veritas NetBackup to be quite high and complicated.
See 2 mentions

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Arpan M.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4.5/5

"Veritas NetBackup a Reliable Enterprise Backup Solution."

What do you dislike about Veritas NetBackup?

any users say it takes a lot of time and specialized knowledge to configure, tune, and maintain. The licensing model is seen by many as complicated an

MG

Mohit G.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.0/5

"Simplify the Backup and Restore jobs with Veritas NetBackup."

What do you dislike about Veritas NetBackup?

License and overall cost of implementation of NetBackup solution is expensive. Having some difficulties while using it first time but with time it was

2. Difficult Configuration
Users find the difficult configuration process time-consuming and requiring specialized knowledge, complicating their overall experience.
See 1 mentions

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Arpan M.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4.5/5

"Veritas NetBackup a Reliable Enterprise Backup Solution."

What do you dislike about Veritas NetBackup?

any users say it takes a lot of time and specialized knowledge to configure, tune, and maintain. The licensing model is seen by many as complicated an

3. Learning Difficulty
Users find the learning difficulty of Veritas NetBackup challenging initially, but they adapt over time.
See 1 mentions

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MG

Mohit G.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.0/5

"Simplify the Backup and Restore jobs with Veritas NetBackup."

What do you dislike about Veritas NetBackup?

License and overall cost of implementation of NetBackup solution is expensive. Having some difficulties while using it first time but with time it was

4. Outdated Interface
Users find the outdated interface of Veritas NetBackup uninviting, complicating configuration and maintenance efforts.
See 1 mentions

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AM

Arpan M.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4.5/5

"Veritas NetBackup a Reliable Enterprise Backup Solution."

What do you dislike about Veritas NetBackup?

any users say it takes a lot of time and specialized knowledge to configure, tune, and maintain. The licensing model is seen by many as complicated an

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AM
Cyber Security Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Veritas NetBackup a Reliable Enterprise Backup Solution."
What do you like best about Veritas NetBackup?

NetBackup is designed for enterprise large environments. it can be handles thousands of clients and petabytes of data with minimal performance degradation. it is known for solid reliability. Scheduled backups, replication, and restores are highly dependable, with extensive logging and alerting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Veritas NetBackup?

any users say it takes a lot of time and specialized knowledge to configure, tune, and maintain. The licensing model is seen by many as complicated and expensive. GUI is not considered very modern: some users dislike the Java GUI or that it looks and feels old. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MG
NDDB
Dairy
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Simplify the Backup and Restore jobs with Veritas NetBackup."
What do you like best about Veritas NetBackup?

Most helpful thing of NetBackup is its diversity we can easily set different type of backup it support wide range of Platforms. NetBackup gives detailed recovery option which is gives flexibility in restore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Veritas NetBackup?

License and overall cost of implementation of NetBackup solution is expensive. Having some difficulties while using it first time but with time it was used to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Veritas Netbackup ... one main backup tool on current IT market"
What do you like best about Veritas NetBackup?

The overall peformance is good, we have had many years with Veritas NetBackup, it is fast both in backup and restore especially with large data system (over 20TB)

Tha automation is also good, scheduling is flexible and variable.

Cloud integration is a ralatively new function we just start to try but seem also wonderful ... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Veritas NetBackup?

The tape machine (hardware) often get problem. and the support is not respond immediately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Backup software"
What do you like best about Veritas NetBackup?

Veritas Netbackup is used for backup, archive , restore files and folders.

If a server crash it saves us from the data we need.

It provides 24*7 availability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Veritas NetBackup?

Some time backup take much more time.

sometimes it failed with errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SS
Senior Technical Specilaist
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Netbackup"
What do you like best about Veritas NetBackup?

Ease of Use, Ease of Implementation, Customer Support, Frequency of Use, Number of Features, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Veritas NetBackup?

Faced difficulties in integration with multiple 3rd party softwares like storage hardware, vmware, OS agents Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness
UH
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Excellent Vendor for Backups"
What do you like best about Veritas NetBackup?

Its a very useful and reliable tool for backups . We used it for backing up our RDBMS data using this tool , Oracle backups were configured to use Netbackup and worked well for us Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Veritas NetBackup?

It might be difficult to intial days to understand how this tool works and integration with the databases , oracle in our case Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Marco P.
MP
Solutions architect Lead
"Veritas NetBackup review"
NIKITA S.
NS
Senior Analyst
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Top backup solution in the market"
What do you like best about Veritas NetBackup?

Veritas NetBackup supports all types of agents which get easy configure, take schedule backup, restore as per requirements. We can globally manage the data protection and recovery from single console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Veritas NetBackup?

Individual need proper training and support to get through the NetBackup solution for the first time. It will be costly for small and medium sized businesses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospitality
AH
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"NBU Review"
What do you like best about Veritas NetBackup?

Easy to configure and able to manage easily and connect to different applications. Sample vmware, SQL Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Veritas NetBackup?

Assistance on support website confuses the users. When you try to search for a topic, multiple results with the same topic but troubleshooting differs and might confuse use on how to proceed on fix. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JT
Technical support executive
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Best backup solution for enterprise"
What do you like best about Veritas NetBackup?

Simplicity of NetBackup and features that it provide for the backup. Like we can take backup anywhere on tape, on disk or in cloud. Best backup solution for enterprise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Veritas NetBackup?

Restoration time from the cloud. Like it takes so much time for restoration of the backup from the cloud. I have tried to restore the backup from the cloud and it was taking so much time to restore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.