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Veritas

Backup Exec

Composite Score
8.3 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10
Category
Backup Exec
8.3 /10

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 Backup and Availability category

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Backup Exec Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

90 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

99 Plan to Renew

82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+90 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?

1% Negative
10% Neutral
89% Positive

Pros

  • Respectful
  • Fair
  • Helps Innovate
  • Trustworthy

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Physical Backup for Multiple Platforms

87

Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery

85

Application Awareness

85

Backup Automation

85

Deduplication Implementation

84

File Explorer Granular Restore

84

Replication for High Availability

84

Backup Monitoring and Reporting

84

Virtual Machine Backup

83

Backup of Cloud Based Data

83

Integration With Storage Arrays

82

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Vendor Support

87

Business Value Created

85

Ease of Implementation

84

Quality of Features

84

Ease of IT Administration

83

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

83

Ease of Customization

81

Breadth of Features

80

Ease of Data Integration

79

Usability and Intuitiveness

79

Availability and Quality of Training

77

Backup Exec Reviews

  • 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

Alex F.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2022

Swift immediate or scheduled automatic backup

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Backup Exec from other similar products?

Veritas Backup Exec was a nice choice for a backup program. It not only backs up files and folders, like documents and mail, but also entire disks and partitions

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Compression capabilities and military-grade encyption make Veritas Backup Exec a splendid value-prices choice for our company

What do you dislike most about this product?

A load of backups running at the same time make the solution to become unresponsive sometimes especially during monthly backup times

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Business-class recovery tool that supports different types of backup modes, respectively full, incremental, and differential backup. By the way, you can schedule the backup time and frequency as per your needs

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Pete G.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Manufacturing
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2022

Incredibly simple to backup and recover data

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Backup Exec from other similar products?

Veritas Backup Exec is easy to use and manages the whole data ecosystem within a single console, eliminates queries for multiple points produces, and configuration of backup with a few clicks

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Its compatible with virtual servers and it provides secure cloud backup storage. The interface is straightforward and clear, so learning how to use it and setting up its automatic backup functions didn't take long

What do you dislike most about this product?

The automated scheduled feature should allow us to manage our transfers and create as many schedules as we need so that we continue to manage our data professionally

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Great service to assist businesses to safeguard their data and escape ransomware. You can create backup copies of your files across multiple hosts, allowing you to retain your data offsite to safeguard it

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

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