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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91 Likeliness to Recommend
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99 Plan to Renew
82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
+89 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?
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- Respectful
- Fair
- Trustworthy
- Helps Innovate
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Feature Ratings
Physical Backup for Multiple Platforms
Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery
Application Awareness
Backup Automation
File Explorer Granular Restore
Backup Monitoring and Reporting
Backup of Cloud Based Data
Deduplication Implementation
Integration With Storage Arrays
Replication for High Availability
Virtual Machine Backup
Vendor Capability Ratings
Vendor Support
Ease of Implementation
Ease of IT Administration
Business Value Created
Quality of Features
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of Customization
Ease of Data Integration
Breadth of Features
Usability and Intuitiveness
Availability and Quality of Training
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Backup Exec Reviews
Tayton S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2022
Fastest backup and restore
Likeliness to Recommend
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
Submitted Nov 2022
Most Features Disappoint
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
Alex F.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Oct 2022
Swift immediate or scheduled automatic backup
Likeliness to Recommend
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