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Veeam vs. Veritas Backup Exec

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Veeam® Cloud Data Management™ provides the foundation necessary to simplify Backup and recovery and transform how IT organizations manage and
leverage data. As modern IT organizations innovate faster, legacy backup solutions and recovery infrastructure cannot support forward-looking initiatives.

Veeam Backup & Replication™ delivers trusted availability for all cloud, virtual, Kubernetes and physical workloads. Through a simple-by-design management
console, Veeam customers quickly achieve fast, flexible, reliable Backup, archival, recovery and replication.

The following document highlights Veeam Backup & Replication’s capabilities for virtual machine data protection vs. Backup Exec 22 (June 2022).

Feature Veeam Backup Exec Details

Recovery

Veeam: Recover an entire VM, individual virtual machine (VM) files (such as VMX),
Full VM, VM file, virtual virtual disks and guest OS files from a single backup.
disk and guest OS file Backup Exec: Recover an entire VM, individual VM files, virtual disks and guest OS
restore files (file-level recovery for Windows VM only: “GRT works only for the virtual
machines that use a Windows operating system”).

Veeam: Instantly recover any workload, including physical servers, cloud-based

instances and multiple VMs to VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V by running them
directly from the backup.
Multi-VM, cross-platform Backup Exec: Instantly recover VMware and Hyper-V VMs only. No instant recovery
Instant recovery of any for physical servers, cloud instances, NAS, or workstations.
workload No cross platform recovery – i.e. VMware to VMware only, not to AWS, Azure, or
Hyper-V (only P2V conversion for physical Windows servers to VMware or Hyper-V).
No ability to instantly recover multiple VMs in a single restore job (select one VM per
instant restore job).

Veeam: Recover individual items from backups of applications such as Microsoft

Exchange, SharePoint, SQL, Active Directory, Oracle and more.
Agentless application item
recovery Backup Exec: Use agent-based backups to enable application item recovery
(“application-level GRT in your backup jobs”, “Requirements for using GRT to back up
Microsoft applications”).

Veeam: Eliminate downtime by instantly recovering Microsoft SQL and Oracle

databases into production environments, regardless of their size. Advanced switchover
Instant database recovery options ensure a smooth transition back to production after recovery.

Backup Exec: No instant database recovery (standard SQL and Oracle recovery
options. No Instant Recovery section for SQL or Oracle).

Veeam: Leverage native SAP HANA and Oracle RMAN functionality for granular
Native recovery for Oracle backup and recovery.
RMAN and SAP HANA Backup Exec: Leverage native Oracle RMAN functionality for granular backup and
recovery. No support for SAP HANA (no SAP HANA in user guide or compatibility list).

Veeam: Recover individual VMs, guest files and application items from
Recovery from storage storage snapshots.
snapshots Backup Exec: No data recovery from storage snapshots (no storage snapshot section
in user guide or hardware compatibility list).

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Feature Veeam Backup Exec Details

Veeam: Recover data directly to public clouds such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and
Azure Stack.
Restore to public cloud Backup Exec: No direct recovery from on-premises or cloud backups to public clouds
and object storage (i.e. VMware, Hyper-V). An alternative is to replicate VMware or Hyper-VMs to Azure
with Microsoft Azure Site Recovery and failover to VM replicas (some integration with
Backup Exec).

Backup

Veeam: Create application-consistent, image-level VM backups with application-aware

Agentless, application- processing without an agent.
aware, image-based Backup Exec: Use agent-based backups to create application-aware images that
backups enable application item recovery (“application-level GRT in your backup jobs”,
“Requirements for using GRT to back up Microsoft applications”).

Veeam: Set parameters on the amount of resources the backup process uses in order
Backup I/O control and
network optimizations ? to minimize the impact on production environments.

Backup Exec: No network throttling or I/O control found in network options.

Veeam: Copy existing backup data to another disk system for secondary backup copy.
Send backup data to an offsite location that uses dissimilar hardware.
Backup copy
Backup Exec: Copy existing backup data to another disk system for secondary backup
copy. Send backup data to an offsite location that uses dissimilar hardware.

Veeam: Create a catalog of guest files enabling granular search of individual files
for recovery.
Guest file system indexing
and search Backup Exec: Catalog guest files for granular files search and recovery by using
Granular Recovery Technology-enabled backups, which works for Windows VM only:
“GRT works only for the virtual machines that use a Windows operating system”).

Veeam: Create image-based backups from storage snapshots as often as necessary

Backup from storage with minimal impact on production environments.
snapshots Backup Exec: No backup from storage snapshots (no storage snapshot section in user
guide or hardware compatibility list).

Veeam: Schedule and automatically test and verify protected VMs for recoverability by
running the VM directly from the backup file in an isolated environment. Including
built-in scripts for application verification.
Backup recoverability Backup Exec: Insufficient recoverability verification made of a basic test (registering a
verification VM, powering it on, and checking the heartbeat). No application-specific or custom
test). No test sandbox isolation (tested VMs are just registered on a host). No ability
to test dependent VMs together (no application grouping. Select one VM per
verification job).

Veeam: Leverage native hot object storage integration with AWS, Microsoft Azure,
IBM Cloud and on-premises S3-compatible object storage to tier backups to the cloud
for cost-effective long-term retention. Reduce the costs of long-term retention by
tiering backups to cold object storage.
Archive to cloud and
object storage for long- Backup Exec: Store backups on AWS, Azure, GCP, and other hot object storage
term retention platforms, as well as AWS and Azure cold storage tier.
No automated tiering of backups across disk, hot, and cold object storage (only direct
backup or backup copy to object storage, storage pools cannot automatically move
backups across tiers as they use only one type of storage, cloud storage cannot be
part of storage pools).

Veeam: Leverage native object storage integration with AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM
Copy backups to cloud Cloud and on-premises S3-compatible object storage to copy backups to object
and object storage storage with policy-based copy management.

Backup Exec: Copy backups to object storage (AWS, Azure, GCP, and more).

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Feature Veeam Backup Exec Details

Veeam: Modernize NAS protection and restore files and shares to anywhere without
requiring vendor-specific APIs or NDMP. Including a native changed file tracking
mechanism for improved RPOs. Instant NAS publish ensures access to key data during
Scalable, storage agnostic
NAS backup and recovery ? downtime associated with hardware failure, replacement and migration, regardless of
the data size.

Backup Exec: NDMP and Windows CIFS/NFS share backup, but basic restore options
[more research required on backup and restore performance].

Veeam: Create immutable backup copies on-premises with a hardware agnostic

hardened Linux repository or in the cloud with AWS Object Lock. Object Lock is also
supported on other S3-compatible object storage solutions.

Backup Exec: Create immutable backup copies in the cloud with AWS Object Lock –
command line needed for setup (does Backup Exec support the alterable AWS
Immutability for Governance mode only, or the AWS Compliance mode too?).
ransomware protection Creating immutable backup copies on-premises requires WORM tape, or specific 3rd
party appliances offering WORM and supported via OpenStorage Technology -
hardware lock-in (currently: Dell EMC Data Domain WORM only).
Backup Exec claims to lock backups down with the Ransomware Resilience feature,
but it does not work for storage not directly attached to the Backup Exec server and it
does not make backups immutable but limits the access to Backup Exec services only
(backups can still be altered via Backup Exec).

Replication

Veeam: Simplify data management by protecting important VMs with the same
product used to protect the rest of the environment, as Veeam Backup & Replication
includes both VM replication and backup.
VM replication built in core Backup Exec: No built-in VM replication (no VM replication section in user guide). Use
product another Veritas product for VM replication – separate software, infrastructure and
console (formerly named Veritas Resiliency Platform). Replicate VMware or Hyper-VMs
to Azure with Microsoft Azure Site Recovery and failover to VM replicas (some
integration with Backup Exec).

Veeam: Provide RPO of seconds to business critical VMs by replicating them with
Continuous data VAIO-based continuous data replication (CDP). Customize the replication frequency to
protection for VM achieve any RPO. Recover data to any point in time, thanks to a set of unlimited
replication restore points that can be only seconds apart.

Backup Exec: No built-in VM replication (see VM replication built in core product).

Veeam: Facilitate data center migrations, planned failovers and failover testing with
Assisted failover and zero data loss.
failback Backup Exec: No built-in VM replication (see VM replication built in core product).
Basic failover managed via Azure Site Recovery.

Veeam: Schedule, test and verify replica VMs for recoverability by running the VM
Replica recoverability directly in an isolated environment. Including built-in scripts for
verification application verification.

Backup Exec: No built-in VM replication (see VM replication built in core product).

Advanced capabilities

Veeam: Decrease backup storage requirements and network traffic with built-in
deduplication, multiple compression options and swap exclusion.
Built-in data reduction Backup Exec: Decrease backup storage and network requirements by deduplicating
backups. Backup Exec’s deduplication has high CPU, RAM, and hardware
requirements. Deduplication conflicts with built-in encryption.

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Feature Veeam Backup Exec Details

Veeam: Store backups and utilize advanced backup and recovery integrations on
Deduplicating storage supported deduplicating storage appliances.
integrations Backup Exec: Leverage the advanced deduplication of a broad set of deduplication
appliances (i.e. Dell EMC Data Domain, HPE StoreOnce).

Veeam: Secure backup and replica data and network transfers with AES 256-bit
End-to-end encryption encryption at-source, in-flight and at-rest. Recover data when passwords are lost.
with lost password Backup Exec: Secure data with AES 256-bit encryption. Data cannot be recovered if
recovery passwords are lost (back up your encryption database). Backups with granular
recovery enabled are not encrypted when stored to disk.

Veeam: Back up and archive files and VM backups to standalone tapes, tape libraries
and virtual tape libraries. Including support for NDMP v4 and WORM.
Native tape support
Backup Exec: Store backups on tapes, tapes libraries, and virtual tape libraries
(including WORM tape).

Veeam: Create a single virtual pool of backup storage from more than one device with
unlimited scalability.

Backup Exec: Very limited scale-out repository. A storage device pool may contain
Scale-out backup only devices of the same storage type (cannot mix disks, tapes, and virtual disks).
repository Cloud storage cannot be included in scale-out storage device pools. No features for
handling service actions of storage pools’ devices (i.e. no feature to switch a device to
maintenance mode or evacuate data from it). No automated tiering of backups across
block, hot object, and cold object tiers.

Leverage data

Veeam: Run one or more VMs from a backup in an isolated environment to

troubleshoot, test and train on a working copy of the production environment, without
Integrated test/dev impacting business operations.
sandbox
Backup Exec: No VM backups sandboxing in an isolated environment (no backup
sandboxing section in user guide).

Veeam: Connect entire data management ecosystem by enabling third-party

applications and scripts to instantly access the content of any Veeam backup inside a
Advanced Data Integration secure on-demand sandbox.
API
Backup Exec: No 3rd party integration for sandboxed backups, as Backup Exec does
not offer backups sandboxing (no backup sandboxing section in user guide).

Veeam: Inject custom scripts into VMs within an isolated sandbox during recovery to
production, helping to manage compliance, ensuring that sensitive data is removed or
Staged restore data is masked for DevOps.

Backup Exec: No ability to inject scripts into VMs in an isolated sandbox during restore
to execute specific tasks (standard VM restore options, no isolation or script).

Veeam: Utilize existing antivirus and antimalware tools to perform scans on VMs from
backup files before restoring to production.
Secure restore
Backup Exec: No ability to scan backups for ransomware during restore (standard VM
restore options, no isolation or antivirus tools usage).

Self-service and service provider

Veeam: Delegate roles and privileges to users to create, restore and

Role-based access control
?
monitor backups.
(RBAC) and recovery
delegation Backup Exec: No role-based access control found to create backup, restore, or
monitoring operators (no role-based access section in the user guide).

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Feature Veeam Backup Exec Details

Self-service file and Veeam: Enable self-service for all recovery features by delegating recoveries to
application-item restore specific users such as local IT staff and application owners.
portal for application
owners and help desk Backup Exec: No self-service for end-users or help desk operators (no self-service
operators portal section in the user guide).

Veeam: Enable seamless integration with ConnectWise through the Veeam Service
Native integrations with Provider Console, included with Veeam Backup & Replication or develop plug-ins for
remote monitoring and other RMM solutions using Veeam's RESTful API.
management solutions
Backup Exec: Some integration with Solarwinds (outdated Backup Exec version).

Veeam: Back up vApps, VM metadata and restore vApps and VMs directly to vCloud
Director with full support for fast-provisioned VMs. Utilize the Veeam Community
Plugin for vCD to provide access to the self-service portal for vCD without leaving the
vCloud Director support vCD web UI.

Backup Exec: No backup or restore of vCloud Director vApps or VMs (vCloud Director
not listed in the compatibility list, no vCloud Director section in the user guide).

Veeam: Onboard customers and remotely manage, monitor and bill for services with
out-of-the-box multi-tenancy support in the Veeam Service Provider Console.
Simplified multi-tenancy Backup Exec: No multi-tenancy for a single Backup Exec instance, no console
designed for Service Providers (no multi-tenancy or Service Provider console sections
in the user guide).

Legend

Complete capability Limited capability Non-practical capability No capability

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