Veeam Backup & Replication

What differentiates Veeam Backup & Replication from other similar products?

The easiest thing about Veeam to use is how easy it is to set it up and how easy it is to retrieve backups when we've required them in the past. No other company is offering all of these features at these costs. Veeam provides a wide range of solutions to help our business back up real and virtual servers, on-premises and cloud platforms, and other hardware.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It doesn't need many changes once it's set up and operating. It is one of the few items from Microsoft 365 available for data protection. One of the few advantages is that you can gradually back up an entire tenant, several tenants, or a selection of pieces. They made a PowerShell module for me to script the backups rather than using the built-in scheduler.

What do you dislike most about this product?

There is a USB recovery alternative if you need to restore to a different package. If you don't do as told, it's tough to find the place to create the backup USB stick. Version 11 for Backup and Replication made some UI improvements after Version 10's somewhat awkward design.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Veeam Backup & Replication implementation went smoothly; there was only one issue with one of our servers throughout the process, which was dealt with immediately and effectively. Our IT support demonstrated how simple it is to use Veeam to manage backups and replicate data. Workstations and virtual machines with operating systems other than Windows are among the needs and requirements VEEAM can scale to meet.

What differentiates Veeam Backup & Replication from other similar products?

We can manage the M365 application data in both on-premises and off-premises data centers thanks to Veeam. We discovered that we require more backup and restore options for M365 application data than Microsoft was providing. Instead of managing every Active Directory user, which would be far more expensive, Veeam allows you to choose which users you want to maintain.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Almost all of our backup-related requirements are resolved by it. In our business, NAS-Storage systems that store data and backups of network device configurations are the primary areas of attention. Immutable backups, flexible and safe restore techniques, economical and safe backups, and the opportunity to move workloads between various platforms.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The architecture on which Veeam backup and replication is based necessitates reading countless pages, attending webinars, and taking courses, which is obviously expensive. I sometimes need to physically delete those entries in order for the DB to function properly again, particularly when performing workstation backups that change the name of the database.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

We have frequently needed to restore backups, and it has been simple to do so because to the setup process' relative simplicity. While competing products are significantly less effective and much more complicated than Veeam. With Veeam, you can relax knowing that your data is secure.

What differentiates Veeam Backup & Replication from other similar products?

Cloud, virtualized, Kubernetes, and actual workloads are all made available by Veeam Backup & Replication. Users are provided with what is advertised as a quick, flexible, dependable Backup, archive, restoration, and replication through a simple-by-design administrative console. Continuous data protection and quick, dependable, application-aware image-based backups are among its backup features.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The best part of this software, which I've used for years, is that I've always had excellent assistance. Minor issues, malfunctions, and time-sensitive issues have always received the proper response. Veeam Backup and Replication's well-organized, scalable design can handle scenarios that range from being very simple to being quite complicated. Additionally, it helps us comply with our DR policy's requirements and protects the data from possible online threats.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Infrastructure can occasionally prevent you from updating to updated versions. This has occasionally been a difficulty in the past when resolving an ongoing issue with the support staff. Here, a little more awareness of the occasionally required use of earlier versions would be helpful. But in general, it's not a big deal.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

We use Windows servers, and it worked flawlessly for us. The most endearing feature of Veeam Backup is that it operates on Windows servers and our Oracle Cloud Server. It is also very practical and straightforward to configure.