Veeam Backup & Replication Road Test
Updated August 16, 2023

Veeam Backup & Replication Road Test

Miguel Letona | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Community Edition

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform

We use Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition for testing purposes. We have VMware and Hyper-V servers and create tasks for backing up virtual machines hosted on those servers. We are doing this for 5 VMs and monitor the time it takes to backup, then we restore them and check them to see if the software works as expected; and it does.

Pros

  • Backing up VMs hosted on VMware and Hyper-V
  • Restore VM to original host and alternate host
  • Using VeeamZip to obtain an image of a VM for archival purposes

Cons

  • Allow the creation of schedule task for VeeamZip
  • Faster start-up
  • Allow backup of older VMware versions, like 5.5
  • We are testing the platform, but it has performed well. We think it will have a positive impact.
  • NAKIVO Backup & Replication
Comparing the consoles, Veeam Backup & Replication, we feel, has a better UI--more logical. The creation of jobs is "select and click next" on both tools but Veeam has more options regarding the backup job. They are visually different but we feel that Veeam is more logical than Nakivo. The placement of menu items is better in Veeam than Nakivo, but Nakivo uses a browser for presentation while Veeam is a Windows app, so the UI is different for both tools. Both products do the job and do it right. On the storage side, the directories and names used by Veeam have more meaning in contrast to Nakivo, which uses names like serial numbers.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
We have tested Veeam Backup & Replication in a LAN and the performance was good. In our environment, the servers work 24x7 and there was no noticeable drop in performance so, in scenarios where the infrastructure is up and running 24x7, this is well suited. We have not tested doing a backup from another site so can't tell if it is well suited across the WAN.

Veeam Data Platform Feature Ratings

Data Center Backup
8.7
Universal recovery
Not Rated
Instant recovery
Not Rated
Recovery verification
Not Rated
Business application protection
Not Rated
Multiple backup destinations
Not Rated
Incremental backup identification
9
Backup to the cloud
Not Rated
Deduplication and file compression
9
Snapshots
Not Rated
Flexible deployment
Not Rated
Platform support
8
Retention options
Not Rated
Encryption
Not Rated

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