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Recovery |
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Full machine, disk, and guest OS file restore |
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Veeam: Recover an entire machine, individual
disks, and guest OS files from a single backup.
Others: Almost all vendors can recover an entire
machine, disks and guest OS files. |
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Cross-platform Instant Recovery for any workload |
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No or Partial |
Veeam: Having extended Veeam’s patented Instant
VM Recovery® to other workloads, you can instantly
recover any workload – virtual machines, physical
servers, workstations, cloud instances – to any
platform – vSphere, AWS, Azure, Hyper-V – by running
them directly from the backup.
Others: Most vendors can instantly recover a VM.
Yet, only a few vendors can instantly recover
workloads beyond VMware or Hyper-V. Those who do,
can typically instantly recover only physical
servers (they cannot instantly recover other
workloads, such as workstations or cloud instances). |
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Agentless application item recovery |
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No or Partial |
Veeam: Agentlessly recover individual items from
backups of applications such as Microsoft Exchange,
SharePoint, SQL, Active Directory, Oracle and more.
Others: Half the vendors cannot granularly
recover application items. Those who do, typically
require agents to recover application items and
offer limited recovery options (i.e. only download
items to the backup server). |
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Restore to public cloud and object storage |
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No or Partial |
Veeam: Recover data directly to public clouds
such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Azure Stack.
Others: Over half the vendors cannot recover
data to public clouds. Those who do, typically take
more manual steps than Veeam or support only one
cloud platform. |
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Backup |
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Agentless, application-aware, image-based backups |
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Partial |
Veeam: Create application-consistent,
image-level VM backups with application-aware
processing without an agent.
Others: Most vendors create application
consistent VM backups without agents, but they never
support all the applications that Veeam supports.
Several vendors require agents for log processing or
to achieve application awareness, which is needed to
granularly recover application items. |
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Backup copy |
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Veeam: Copy existing backup data to another disk
system for a secondary backup copy. Send backup data
to an off-site location that uses dissimilar
hardware.
Others: All vendors can copy existing backup
data to another repository. |
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Backup and Recovery from Storage Snapshots |
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Veeam: Create image-based backups from storage
snapshots as often as necessary with minimal impact
on production and recover individual VMs, Windows
physical servers, guest files, and application items
from storage snapshots.
Others: Almost no vendor can create a backup
from storage snapshots and recover data from storage
snapshots, and rare vendors who can recover data
from storage snapshots typically support few arrays
and offer limited recovery options (i.e. no granular
application item recovery). |
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Copy backups to cloud and object storage |
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Partial or Supported |
Veeam: Immediately duplicate newly-created
backups to object storage with policy-based copy
management.
Others: Most vendors can copy backup to cloud
object storage, but they regularly support only a
limited set of cloud platforms, lack advanced backup
copy settings, or have limited data recovery options
from backups stored in the cloud. Over half the
vendors cannot recover data to public clouds. Those
who do, typically take more manual steps than Veeam
or support only one cloud platform. |
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Automated backup testing and recovery verification |
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No or Partial |
Veeam: Automatically test protected VMs for
recoverability by running the VM directly from the
backup file or replica in an isolated environment,
thanks to Veeam’s patented SureBackup® and
SureReplica. Veeam also supports built-in scripts
for application verification.
Others: Half the vendors cannot verify protected
VMs for recoverability. The vendors who do,
typically offer basic test recovery isolation, do
not perform advanced verification tests, or lack
automated or flexible verification scheduling. |
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Scalable, storage agnostic NAS backup and recovery |
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No or Partial |
Veeam: Modernize NAS protection and restore to
anywhere with extensive support for SMB, NFS,
Microsoft Windows, and Linux file and shares without
requiring vendor specific APIs or NDMP. Veeam also
includes a native changed file tracking mechanism
for improved RPOs.
Others: Some vendors cannot protect NAS data.
Those who do, typically protect only a few specific
types of NAS devices, because they use NDMP or
suffer from inefficiencies, as they lack
capabilities such as changed block tracking. |
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Immutability for ransomware protection |
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Some vendors support |
Veeam: Create immutable backup copies by
leveraging advanced object storage functionality on
Amazon S3 and supported S3-compatible on-premises
object storage.
Others: Half the vendors can create immutable
backup copies. |
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Other features |
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Advanced monitoring and reporting |
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Veeam: Veeam ONE™ delivers powerful monitoring
and analytics for the entire IT environment, with
comprehensive dashboards and over a hundred
predefined and customizable reports, including
Intelligent Diagnostics and Automated Remediation to
automatically troubleshoot and resolve issues.
Others: Offer only basic monitoring, typically
limited to backup and recovery job statistics. |
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Image-based VM replication |
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Partial |
Veeam: Replicate VMs on-site or off-site for
disaster recovery (DR). Seed replica VMs from
existing backups.
Others: Most vendors integrate VM replication
into their core backup product, but they typically
have limitations, such as extra costs, support for
VMware only, or VM replication from backups only
(not from production VM). |
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Native tape support |
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Partial |
Veeam: Store backups on standalone tapes, tape
libraries, and virtual tape libraries.
Others: Most vendors can store backups on tape,
but they regularly have limitations, such as limited
tape management capabilities, limited recovery
options from tape, or requiring a separate product. |
