Cost effective solution for my needs
April 30, 2025

Cost effective solution for my needs

Dustin Osburn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Veeam Backup & Replication

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform

We use Veeam to backup critical servers to offsite cloud storage, including our domain controllers, DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, payroll application, and network management servers. The payroll application servers are backed up daily with a couple of others that have frequent changes, and the others are backed up weekly. We keep backups going back 6 months.

Pros

  • Low maintenance after the initial configuration
  • Cost effective for the capabilities
  • Easier and cheaper than investing in new local backups

Cons

  • Their documentation is unclear and outdated in places
  • Support could respond faster
  • Support has responded with unrelated canned responses to my tickets
  • While Veeam is a recurring cost, it pays for itself when considering the cost of storage refreshes every 5 years.
  • Configuration takes much less time than spinning up a dedicated appliance.
  • It's nice to have additional support available rather than tackling issues solo.
For the limited scale and scope of our backup needs I immediately knew Veeam by reputation so didn't need to seriously consider alternatives more than some casual research. The more I learned about Veeam, the more confident I was that it would meet our needs and the pricing was attractive.

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Veeam Data Platform go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Veeam Data Platform again?

Yes

I use Veeam in a more limited deployment because I only have 5-10 servers that really require backup. Veeam allows me to provide comprehensive backups for these servers and gives me flexibility in how/where to store them. We didn't want to heavily invest in local storage since we have steadily been migrating to cloud based services, so Veeam fills that hole. It can do a lot more than I have need for, but I'm confident that it will expand easily as my needs may.

Veeam Data Platform Feature Ratings

Data Center Backup
10.0
Universal recovery
10
Instant recovery
10
Recovery verification
10
Business application protection
10
Multiple backup destinations
10
Incremental backup identification
10
Backup to the cloud
10
Deduplication and file compression
10
Snapshots
10
Flexible deployment
10
Platform support
10
Retention options
10
Encryption
10

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