Installing Veeam when another backup software is installed

[Firewalker96]

We moved from Acronis Backup 12.5 to Veeam for client computers. Can we install Veeam and do backups while Acronis is installed on the client (Windows 7 and Windows 10)? Or do we need to uninstall Acronis first. Its easy to create a Protection Group in Veeam to select computers and install the client, but because Acronis is already installed, if we have to uninstall Acronis first, that slows down the implementation of Veeam. If we can do the uninstall of Acronis after Veeam is installed and doing backups, then we can have time to uninstall Acronis as we go. Our Acronis server crashed, so I can't uninstall from the console.

[Gostev]

We don't test compatibility with any particular 3rd party backup solutions. You can try to keep it, however our general recommendation is to uninstall them. This is because we had plenty of support cases where 3rd party backup product components were causing OS issues which in turn impacted Veeam. For example, one issue that has been commonly reported is Microsoft VSS malfunction due to the presence of "Symantec Software VSS Provider". Thanks!

[EdgarRicharte]

I've been doing the same thing. Migrating from Acronis to Veeam. I've been able to have them installed side by side. But I did have some issues with guest processing (VSS issues as Gostev said) where uninstalling acronis fixed it after.