@AC
"It's going on 10 years since I worked in IT, we used Backup Exec with various types of tape including libraries. It was easy to used reliable and on the few occasions a restore, full or just a file it never let us down."
It was easy to use but even back when Veritas owned Backup Exec (and continuing to this day) once you had the system working there was always a good chance that it would go belly-up if you even dared to install Service packs or other updates. You almost always need to update the agents in remote servers after each update which is annoying. Upgrading from earlier versions always introduced bugs so it was usually just faster to print out the old selection lists and type them after you'd removed the old version and installed the new one rather that find out why some backups just fail for no obvious reason.
Pre-2012 version you could back-up any number of servers in a single backup instance. Now you need to create a backup schedule and lists for each server. Supposedly there's some logic to that but I hate it. The GUI has also been sprinkled with candy and is slower to use.
/Rant over.