Backups: Backup Exec vs. Veeam

danielanthony

danielanthony

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Hello,

I'm looking at backup solutions for our virtual environments and although the hardware is sorted, backing up to disks rather than tapes, the software is causing me headaches.

The two I'm looking at are the latest version of Backup Exec and Veeam. The documentation from both of them does not make it clear which one is best, I want to do file level restore of our file servers and restore SharePoint/SQL/Exchange 2010 ideally without deploying agents. I also have Ubuntu, SUSE and XP VM's.

Does anyone here use either of these products and what is your opinion on them?
 
Thanks for the input! I've been told that BE has become more virtual aware in the latest release, and both the people at SoftCat and Dell have been saying BE > Veeam. However, a storage guy I know recommends Veeam and he does actual installs, plus from what you've said above maybe the margins are better on BE than on Veeam so that's why the pre-sales guys are trying to push it!
 
knowlesy said:
Im sorry but im mortified you haven't considered DPM, that is if you have linux servers then fine not a problem. but Microsoft DPM is by far the best backup solution I have come across so far Ive used backup exec across a few SBS installations and the odd plain old file server and its naff to say the least Ive always had issue after issue. DPM is "the boss" imo and it integrates directly with all MS products then you could expand to MS SCE for better monitoring etc..... bare metal recoverys are amazing and if your running off hyperv even better!!
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Thanks, I should have made it clear in my OP that we are running vSphere 5 so I don't know how well DPM would manage with that. Plus, we have Ubuntu and SUSE machines which need backing up and I don't think DPM would support this either..?
 
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