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Arcserve Backup vs. Arctera Backup Exec

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Arcserve Backup

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AArcserve Backup is a storage management solution from Arcserve, formerly of CA Technologies before Arcserve's divestiture (July 2014). It utilizes magnetic tape storage backup as part of its storage management offering.N/A

    Arctera Backup Exec

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/AArctera Backup Exec is a backup and disaster recovery solution. It works in virtual, physical, and multi-cloud environments and integrates with several third-party software releases and applications.N/A
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    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Arcserve BackupArctera Backup Exec
    Considered Both Products
    Arcserve
    Chose Arcserve Backup
    To be succinct, we have used Veeam B&R for a number of years, against our VM environment, and we have yet to find anything that tops it. However, if you have physical machines in your environment still, then Arcserve is a great option, especially for the replication aspect.

    Incentivized
    Chose Arcserve Backup
    Arcserve UDP is fast, reducing our backup window from +20 hours to less than an hour. Arcserve UDP also has proven itself when restoring databases and files to to the same location or alternate locations quickly and efficiently. We have also successfully created "synthetic" …
    Incentivized
    Chose Arcserve Backup
    Backup Exec, Yosemite, Acronis. Arcserver is the best of the bunch.
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    Arctera US LLC
    Chose Arctera Backup Exec
    Veritas Backup Exec is very comparable to Unitrends and in some areas is easier to use. The license side of Veritas Backup Exec is much more difficult to manage compared to Unitrends. Unitrends seems to be a much smoother solutions to protect virtual environments. Restoring …
    Incentivized
    Chose Arctera Backup Exec
    Essentially we chose Backup Exec because we were familiar with it's config and interface. Both Acronis and Arcserve provided the same or similar features, but came in at a higher price. We also looked at hosted backup services and found them extremely expensive. We adopted …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
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    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Arcserve Backup and Arctera Backup Exec
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    Arcserve Backup
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    Ratings
    Arctera Backup Exec
    8.6
    22 Ratings
    Universal recovery00 Ratings10.018 Ratings
    Instant recovery00 Ratings7.517 Ratings
    Recovery verification00 Ratings7.920 Ratings
    Business application protection00 Ratings10.017 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings6.421 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification00 Ratings7.922 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud00 Ratings10.013 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings7.416 Ratings
    Snapshots00 Ratings8.416 Ratings
    Flexible deployment00 Ratings9.017 Ratings
    Management dashboard00 Ratings9.020 Ratings
    Platform support00 Ratings8.519 Ratings
    Retention options00 Ratings8.418 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings10.012 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Arcserve BackupArctera Backup Exec
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (7 ratings)
    8.3
    (25 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    1.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    7.0
    (1 ratings)