Veeam Backup & Replication: powerful, complete, inexpensive, but not for inexperienced users
July 22, 2021

Veeam Backup & Replication: powerful, complete, inexpensive, but not for inexperienced users

Alessandro Bernardini | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Community Edition

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam Backup & Replication is used on 1 physical Windows Server 2016 Datacenter server to back up the operating system and 5 Virtual Machines running on Hyper-V and on 4 Windows 10 Pro PCs.

These are the downsides I encountered:
- the interface is not user firendly compared to other similar software
- in the recovery media there is no possibility to clone
- often the calculation of the remaining time is not accurate

These are the positives that I found:
- very fast both in the backup and restore phases
- amazing maximum compression level!
- very complete and feature-rich backup scheduling interface
- allows you to identify bottlenecks

Pros

  • Amazing maximum compression level!
  • Very fast both in the backup and restore phases
  • Allows you to identify bottlenecks
  • Very complete and feature-rich backup scheduling interface

Cons

  • The interface is not user firendly compared to other similar software
  • In the recovery media there is no possibility to clone
  • Often the calculation of the remaining time is not accurate

Do you think Veeam Data Platform delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Veeam Data Platform's feature set?

Yes

Did Veeam Data Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Veeam Data Platform go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Veeam Data Platform again?

Yes

  • The very positive impact is that Veeam Backup & Replication CE offers the possibility to use almost all the functions of the paid version for free.
  • Another positive impact is that Veeam B&R offers the possibility with a single software and a single interface to protect practically any type of device (Windows, Linux, Unix, various VM, ...).
  • Veeam Backup & Replication offers the possibility to protect any type of company, even the very small ones, by spending very little.
Veeam is well suited for any type of backup / restore / replication job. The only scenario for which it is not appropriate is cloning where this feature is missing.

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