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Veeam vs. Veritas Backup Exec

Quick Feature Comparison
Today’s modern enterprise faces the dual challenges of not only managing and mining the data they produce and use, but also
ensuring that the digital experience is Always-On™ for both internal and external customers. To solve these challenges, business
leaders need a deep understanding of how enterprise data is changing and how new technologies and approaches can unleash its
full value.

The following document highlights Veeam’s® capabilities for virtual machine data protection vs. Backup Exec.

Feature Veeam Backup Exec Details

Recovery

Veeam: Recover an entire VM, individual virtual machine (VM) files (such as VMX)
Full VM, VM file, and and virtual disks from a single backup.
virtual disk restore Backup Exec: Can recover an entire VM, or individual VM files from a
single backup.

Veeam: Immediately recover a virtual machine to the production environment by

running it directly from the backup file.
Instant VM recovery
Backup Exec: Limited to the instant recovery of Windows VMs and backups that
do not have deduplication enabled.

Veeam: Recover individual VM guest OS files and folders from VM backups

and replicas.
Guest OS file recovery Backup Exec: Supports file-level recovery for Windows VMs only (no other OS
supported). Also requires agents installed on VMs to restore data to its
original location.

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

Agentless application Exchange, SharePoint, SQL, Active Directory, Oracle and SAP HANA.
item recovery Backup Exec: Can recover application items for Exchange, SQL, AD, and
SharePoint. Agents are required for both application backup and recovery.

Veeam: Recover individual VMs, guest files and application items from
Recovery from storage storage snapshots.
snapshots
Backup Exec: Cannot recover a VM using storage-based snapshots.

Veeam: Recover data directly to public clouds such as AWS and Microsoft Azure.

Restore to public cloud Backup Exec: Cannot recover VMs directly to the public cloud. Does provide
and object storage integration with Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Manager (ASR) which requires a
separate subscription. ASR must be used for all replication, failover, and failback.

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Feature Veeam Backup Exec Details

Backup

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

Agentless, application- aware processing without an agent.
aware, image-based
backups Backup Exec: Requires agents to provide application-aware backup for Exchange,
SQL, AD, and SharePoint. Log truncation is supported solely for SQL.

Veeam: Set parameters on the amount of resources the backup process uses in
Backup I/O control and order to minimize the impact on production environments.
network optimizations Backup Exec: Does not allows administrators to control network performance for
VM based backups.

Veeam: Build a new full backup file from a previous full and incremental backup
Synthetic full backup and files. After the initial full backup, incremental backups can run forever.
forever incrementals Backup Exec: Only supports synthetic full backups of physical machines and does
not support synthetic full backups of VMs (only active full backups).

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: Allows administrators to create copies of backups either during the
backup or after the backup has completed.

Veeam: Create a catalog of guest files enabling granular search of individual files
Guest file system for recovery.
indexing and search Backup Exec: Can index files during backup or in a separate operation, once the
backup has completed. Indexing is available solely for Windows.

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

Backup from storage necessary with minimal impact on production environments.
snapshots
Backup Exec: Cannot protect VMs using storage-based snapshots.

Veeam: Automatically schedule, test and verify protected VMs for recoverability
by running the VM directly from the backup file in an isolated environment.
Backup recoverability Including built-in scripts for application verification.
verification Backup Exec: Supports "Recovery Ready" for VMware only and is limited to
verifying a single VM at a time. User-supplied scripts can verify if the VM
is recoverable.

Veeam: Leverage native object storage integration with AWS, Microsoft Azure,
Archive to cloud and IBM Cloud, and on-premises S3-compatible object storage.
object storage for long- Backup Exec: Limited to cloud-based object storage only including Amazon,
term retention Azure, Google, IBM Object storage and Redhat. Backup Exec uses its common S3
cloud connector to move data from on-premises to the cloud.

Replication

Veeam: Replicate VMs on site or off site for disaster recovery (DR). Seed replica
Image-based VM VMs from existing backups.
replication with backup
seeding Backup Exec: Does not support VM-based replication and can only replicate
backup images. This is more akin to a Veeam Backup Copy Job.

Veeam: Facilitate data center migrations, planned failovers and failover testing
Automated failover and with zero data loss.
failback Backup Exec: Does not support VM-based replication so it offers no automated
failover or failback capabilities.

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Feature Veeam Backup Exec Details

Veeam: Automatically schedule, test and verify replica VMs for recoverability by
running the VM directly in an isolated environment. Including built-in scripts for
Replica recoverability application verification.
verification
Backup Exec: Does not support VM-based replication so it offers no recovery
verification for replicated VMs.

Advanced capabilities

Veeam: Decrease backup storage requirements and network traffic with built-in
deduplication and multiple compression options.
Built-in data reduction Backup Exec: Deduplicates data across all jobs targeting the same repository.
Deduplication requirements may be high. Single compression level. Global
deduplication sacrifices backup portability.

Veeam: Store backups and utilize advanced backup and recovery integrations on
Deduplicating storage supported deduplicating storage appliances.
integrations Backup Exec: Supports a wide range of 3rd party backup targets. However, in most
cases, it is used as a simple file store (CIFS/SMB).

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
recovery Backup Exec: Can encrypt backups. However, VM backups that have granular
recovery enabled cannot be encrypted. Lost passwords cannot be recovered.

Veeam: Backup 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: Supports a wide range of tape devices, including multi-drive
systems. Backup Exec provides drivers for all supported devices.

Veeam: Create a single virtual pool of backup storage from more than one device
with unlimited scalability.
Scale-out backup
repository Backup Exec: Allows administrators to group like storage types together to form a
pool. While this acts as a single device, each job targets a device within the pool.
Job chains must be sent to the same device within the pool.

Veeam: Backup vApps, VM metadata and restore vApps and VMs directly to
vCloud Director with full support for fast-provisioned VMs.
vCloud Director support
Backup Exec: Does not provide support for protecting vCloud Director VMs
or vApps.

Veeam: Leverage native SAP HANA and Oracle RMAN functionality for granular
Native recovery for backup and recovery.
Oracle RMAN and SAP Backup Exec: Supports the item-level recovery of Oracle and SAP HANA.
HANA However, a separate agent-based backup job is required for Oracle and SAP
HANA in addition to the VM backup job.

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Feature Veeam Backup Exec Details

Self-service

Veeam: Delegate roles and privileges to users to create, restore and monitor
Role-based access backups.
control (RBAC) and
recovery delegation Backup Exec: Does not offer self-service recovery for end users. Backup Exec
offers different Administrator roles (e.g. backup/restore operators).

Self-service file and

application-item restore Veeam: Enable self-service for all recovery features by delegating recoveries to
portal for application specific users such as local IT staff and application owners.
owners and help desk Backup Exec: Does not offer self-service recovery for end users.
operators

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,
Integrated test/dev without impacting business operations.
sandbox
Backup Exec: Cannot run backup images In an isolated environment to
troubleshoot or test without impacting production workloads.

Veeam: Inject custom scripts into VMs within an isolated sandbox during recovery
to production, helping to manage compliance, ensuring that sensitive data is
Staged restore removed or masking data for DevOps.
Backup Exec: Cannot run backup images In an isolated environment to
remove/alter data before recovering back to production.

Veeam: Utilize existing antivirus and antimalware tools to perform scans on VMs
from backup files before restoring to production.
Secure restore
Backup Exec: Does not have the ability to mount disks of a backup and scan for
viruses before restoring to ensure no viruses or malware exist before recovery.

Legend

Complete capability Limited capability No capability

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culmination of our best efforts to compare vendors and solutions to Veeam, based on current public information. This information is subject to change.