My VEEAM experience.
Updated July 01, 2024

My VEEAM experience.

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

Software Version

Veeam Backup & Replication

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform

We use VEEAM for backing up our virtual machines as well as physical machines using VEEAM Agent. We also make use of the "Backup copy" to get the opportunity to take air-gapped backups. Additionally we suffer from a small bandwith compared to the machine sizes. VEEAM does do a good job compressing backups.

Pros

  • Central platform for all device backups.
  • Possibilities to perform a fast restore of data and machines.
  • Create a test environment out of a production environment easily on demand.
  • Data compression
  • Postgres database
  • Easy migration between servers

Cons

  • Performance could be better sometimes.
  • Error logs sometimes lead to wrong directions.
  • Combination of VEEAM Agent Free and Paid to better fit the demand.
  • Could be more stable using NAS as backup targets
  • Some settings are only configurable using registry keys
  • Virtualized workloads
  • Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
  • Enterprise applications such as Oracle or SAP HANA
  • In addition to back up, we also replicate some of these workloads
  • Cloud-hosted VMs within AWS or Azure
  • Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
  • Utilizing backup copies for secondary purposes via DataLabs
  • Automating test restores to validate recoverability
  • “Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
  • Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
About 25 physical clients and 10 physical servers on two locations -> VEAAM Agent using VEEAM Backup and Recovery About 20 virtual machines -> VEEAM Backup and Recovery Firstly, it was only planned to get VEEAM to backup our servers, but we quickly expanded it on the clients as well.
  • Good restore capabilities helped us several times. Otherwise, it just fulfills its role.
  • No negatives.
Before VEEAM we had multiple different backups backing up Linux and Windows servers or the clients, which were not centrally managed. This had to beunified to lower the administrative power needed. As I had worked with VEEAM before and I performed well. I chose it again. The installation of VEEAM is easily done. Also migrating to a different server is easily done. Just install on the new server, migrate the configuration using a GUI and import this file on the new server.
Currently, we are not using the cloud features as we do not have servers or services in there yet.
We use the integrated synology backup for those servers as they are working fine. Maybe we'll integrate them into VEEAM in the future, but currently, there are no plans to do so.
VEEAM has a more suitable product as it better supported our needs.

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

Even for small companies VEEAM offers a great all in one solution for most of our scenarios, e.g. getting some machines backed up over an internet connection with 100 MBit/s without blocking the whole connection. The restore of a specific data file is well implemented even a restore of files based on a linux system are possible on windows. Now using a postgres database you have a database with a smaller footprint compared to MSSQL.

Veeam Data Platform Feature Ratings

Data Center Backup
7.8
Universal recovery
7
Instant recovery
8
Recovery verification
6
Business application protection
7
Multiple backup destinations
7
Incremental backup identification
8
Deduplication and file compression
9
Platform support
10
Retention options
7
Encryption
9

Using Veeam Data Platform

30 - Normal users.
2 - The average administrator is able to administrate a VEEAM solution.
  • Backup data (files as well as whole computers9
  • Restore files
  • Fullfill ISO requirements
  • Creating development and testing environments
  • Creating testing and development environmets based on real data
VEEAM currently has no competitor who has product with these features.

Integrating Veeam Data Platform

  • Windows Server
  • Linux Server
  • Windows Clients
Pretty easy as physical machines can be integrated using agents and VMs via management interface.
  • Cloud systems
  • Proxmox
As it is questionable if legacy partners will be able to use Windows licenses for a long time cloud and alternatives to MS Hyper-V as Proxmox could become more relevant.
  • File import/export
File/Import Export as file recovery and VM replication
Read the API documentation as there are several features you may not be aware of.

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