Review Request: Current version of Symantec Backup Exec
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@IRJ said:
Veeam was the winner for us because of its ease of use and quick restore of VMs
Thank you!
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@lance 2012 is still pretty poor compared to Unitrends and Veeam is my default choice for VM backup. BE 2014 is "imminent" but Im not even looking at it.
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@tobywells said:
@lance 2012 is still pretty poor compared to Unitrends and Veeam is my default choice for VM backup. BE 2014 is "imminent" but Im not even looking at it.
I had a feeling that this was still the case.
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@lance said:
@tobywells said:
@lance 2012 is still pretty poor compared to Unitrends and Veeam is my default choice for VM backup. BE 2014 is "imminent" but Im not even looking at it.
I had a feeling that this was still the case.
I think BE needs to stop the bleeding at 2012 and come out with a new backup product.
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@lance said:
@lance said:
@tobywells said:
@lance 2012 is still pretty poor compared to Unitrends and Veeam is my default choice for VM backup. BE 2014 is "imminent" but Im not even looking at it.
I had a feeling that this was still the case.
I think BE needs to stop the bleeding at 2012 and come out with a new backup product.
Yeah. It isnt always a bad thing to ditch an unrepairable sinking ship.
Microsoft has had to do this before (ME and Vista), just reinvent the product.
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Second Veeam hands down. Really an amazing product.
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@IRJ said:
@lance said:
@lance said:
@tobywells said:
@lance 2012 is still pretty poor compared to Unitrends and Veeam is my default choice for VM backup. BE 2014 is "imminent" but Im not even looking at it.
I had a feeling that this was still the case.
I think BE needs to stop the bleeding at 2012 and come out with a new backup product.
Yeah. It isnt always a bad thing to ditch an unrepairable sinking ship.
Microsoft has had to do this before (ME and Vista), just reinvent the product.
I'm not sure I agree that MS ditched Vista... Windows 7 as far as I could tell was Vista SP3 or was it SP4? In the end Vista was totally usable to me.
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@Dashrender said:
@IRJ said:
@lance said:
@lance said:
@tobywells said:
@lance 2012 is still pretty poor compared to Unitrends and Veeam is my default choice for VM backup. BE 2014 is "imminent" but Im not even looking at it.
I had a feeling that this was still the case.
I think BE needs to stop the bleeding at 2012 and come out with a new backup product.
Yeah. It isnt always a bad thing to ditch an unrepairable sinking ship.
Microsoft has had to do this before (ME and Vista), just reinvent the product.
I'm not sure I agree that MS ditched Vista... Windows 7 as far as I could tell was Vista SP3 or was it SP4? In the end Vista was totally usable to me.
They "reinvented" it. They took all the focus away from Vista and used it towards Windows 7. Once they had Windows 7 down, they silently patched and fixed Vista
Symantec could learn from that.
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I ended up using Vista for years. It really was fine by the later service packs.
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I used Backup Exec recently for an environment whose policy required tape. It worked quite well for the purpose. If you need backups to removable media, Backup Exec is the way to go.
Now, before someone talks about how Veeam can do tape now, yes, I've tried it. It's ok. However, if I had an environment that was entirely virtual and required tape, I'd just have Backup Exec back up my Veeam repository.
