Veeam is great! It's super easy to configure backups, and even easier to restore files or entire vm's when there's an issue. It saves a significant amount of time that was previously spent managing backups and handling restores, which can now be allocated to other tasks. I am a fan, and will continue to use Veeam in the future.
Pros
Backups
Full machine restore.
Individual file restores.
Cons
Too many alerts.
The workflow could be simplified.
It could use an updated look.
Likelihood to Recommend
When a user has deleted something from a shared drive, there is no easy way to recover it. There is no recycle bin for shared drives, so anything deleted is permanently gone. Without Veeam, it would be a lengthy process involving multiple third-party software applications to attempt file restoration. With Veeam, it is fast and easy.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (Staffing & Recruiting company, 51-200 employees)
Backup and DR, offsite immutable backs, Nutanix, and VMware.
Pros
Backup
Reporting
Restores
Cons
DR Recovery options.
Likelihood to Recommend
Integrates with a lot of different hardware platforms, Nutanix, VMware, Cloud Products, decent support, as well as an active support community forum. Backups are effortless and fast and have yet to have a restore job fail. We've been with Veeam for almost a decade now. Some of the cloud features have been slow to arrive.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (Staffing & Recruiting company, 51-200 employees)
We use Veeam Data Platform to backup all of our different servers. This allows us to ensure we have an easy to restore backup in case we get infected with any viruses or have missing data.
Pros
Instant restore
alerting
Cons
faster support
Likelihood to Recommend
Veeam Data Platform is perfect for virtualized systems and you will be very happy with the easy to use UI.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (Environmental Services company, 501-1000 employees)
Simple to set up and use. We currently back up our Hyper-V environment, three hypervisors, and about 30 VMs. Separate from the VM jobs, we back up about 10 TB of file servers. We utilize Replication on two mission-critical VMs for failover. We follow the 3-1-1 rule: three copies, one media type, and one off-site backup copy. This is accomplished alongside the GFS retention policy. Automatic weekly reports of job history helps keep everything in line, along with immediate notification of failures.
Pros
Backing up various workloads.
Backup copies.
VM replication.
File-Level or Machine Level restores.
Instant-restore.
Cons
NA
Likelihood to Recommend
Backing up any workload is very easy to set up and maintain, and usage is simple in terms of performing a restore in any manner.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (Staffing & Recruiting company, 51-200 employees)
Organization is using Veeam to backup Virtual Machines running on VMWare vSphere environment. Using Veeam do on-site multi-schedule on site backup as well replication of critical Virtual Machines to off-site location.
Pros
Easy to configure and implement
Works very well with VMware environment
Great Support
Cons
Veeam back should not break upon renewal of vSphere security sertificate
Make restores screens more user friendly
Likelihood to Recommend
Best for day-to-day schedule backup and replications.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (Staffing & Recruiting company, 51-200 employees)
We use Veeam as our server backup solution. It is utilized to store and restore our data nightly. All of our business is run from one server, so having a reliable backup solution is crucial. Not only are all of our records and project files from the last thirty-five years of business stored on the server, every employee utilizes it as a remote desktop. Keeping that data safe, accessible and usable is our number one concern. Veeam was introduced as a super solution to our problem.
Pros
Veeam makes it easy to find and retrieve back-up files.
Veeam provides easy to understand daily back-up reports.
Veeam sends out timely reports on the health and status of all drives being backed up.
Cons
Veeam can be daunting to initially install and set-up.
Likelihood to Recommend
I am unaware of a scenario where the use of Veeam is less appropriate. I think it can be adapted for all uses. However, it is probably overkill for a personal system.
VU
Verified User
Professional in Corporate (Environmental Services company, 11-50 employees)
We've been using Veeam Backup & Replication for over a decade to back up both our multi-host VMware environment as well as a few bare-metal hosts and output to tape. While the solution is clearly targeted at virtualized workloads, the ability to include physical machines is a handy benefit, albeit with a few caveats. The flexibility and features available for backing up virtual machines and their associated application workloads have surpassed our requirements, although organizations with high-security and least privilege requirements (like ours) may find there is additional configuration required for some application solutions (SQL, for example).
Veeam Backup & Replication has proven to be a consistent, reliable solution for our on-premise backup needs. That said, we turned first to Veeam when we started looking for a solution to backup Office 365. Veeam's offering was simple to implement and operate but was unable to backup all the required workloads (Teams). It has been a few years now since we looked into this, so this likely has changed. We will be reassessing this capability soon, as well as the Cloud Connect offerings.
Pros
Tiered backups
Tape support
Consistent, reliable performance
Cons
Tape Inventory Management
Implementation following high-security best practices
Likelihood to Recommend
Veeam Backup & Replication is an excellent solution for virtualized backups and is an ideal solution, from my perspective, for a tiny enterprise like ours. The ability to also backup physical machines is a great benefit, but this is not a strength. The fact that it continues to support tape is essential for our use case. I could see the new workload-based licensing model getting expensive for organizations that have many VMs to support.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (Staffing & Recruiting company, 11-50 employees)
I first began using Veeam on my laptop via the free version. Although we were using Windows integrated backup solutions for our servers at the time, I wanted to take my backups a bit further and test a backup solution for just my laptop. I was so happy with the performance, including when it came in clutch for accidental deletion of the necessary information. I ended up purchasing a multi-server license and began using it on our back office server, CRM, and file servers. We had since renewed our licenses when they came due. We are sold on Veeam. It is well worth the investment and provides the peace of mind we wanted.
Pros
Ease of use.
Easy restoration.
Simplified licensing.
Cons
Hyper-V backups can be a little challenging.
Likelihood to Recommend
In regards to our usage, it is perfect for small businesses without a huge IT department. We run a few physical Windows-based servers as well as two virtual machines. It does not require a lot of setup time to get up and to run.
VU
Verified User
Executive in Information Technology (Security & Investigations company, 11-50 employees)
This is a fantastic product that is yet to fail me. For more than a decade I've used Veeam products for backing up my critical data and this product is more than exceeding those expectations. I've always recommended it to my employers and other clients whenever I'm asked my opinion on whatever backup software they need. I am yet to see a need for something for this software that it cannot fulfill because it doesn't exist yet.
Pros
Ease of use
Backup speed
Documentation being clear
Cons
Backup VM's directly on Trunas
no further improvements I can think of
no further improvements I can think of
Likelihood to Recommend
This sopftware is suited for all scenarios where backing up data is critical to the business and needing to resotre or recover data is important. It's well suited for all companies of all sizes from small one person companies to multi hundreds and is good for backing up every type of file.
VU
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (Security & Investigations company, 11-50 employees)
We are using Veeam to keep all of our data backed up and secure. We are using Veeam as a way of keeping our local file storage and our cloud file storage safe and sound.
Pros
Ease of use
Technology
Innovation
Cons
Cost
Flexibilty
Integration
Likelihood to Recommend
Veeam Backup & Replication is well suited for environments that require a high level of redundancy.
VU
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (Events Services company, 501-1000 employees)
