IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Reviews

I handle daily backups, long-term retentions, and replications. This includes making duplicate copies, addressing disaster recoveries and restores when needed, and during outages. These are the common use cases.

Reliability, recovery features, and stability are valuable to me. There is protection against disasters with good, fast, reliable recovery options. It backs up all types of databases such as Lokesh, DB2, Oracle, ARMIN, and SQL. I appreciate the features provided, including VM snapshots. File-level backups and journal-based backups for millions of small files are valuable use cases.

The main use case for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is backup. The essence of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is that it's easy to use, straightforward, and web-based. It doesn't have agents similar to Veeam. It was designed to compete against Veeam.

The biggest benefit of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is that it's an agentless backup product which is very easy to configure and use.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is straightforward for deployment.

The ability to scale the backup process is a key point for improvement.

The initial setup for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is easy.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a backup solution. We can schedule our backups.

The solution provides different backup policies. We can configure any policy according to the policy followed in our organization. We can also define the retention period, the number of copies we want, and the backup schedule. We recently recovered all our primary sites using the tool. It was not a challenge. Large-scale recoveries are very straightforward.

We use this solution to do backups quickly because we have a smaller window for backups. For instance, if there's a database of 10 terabytes and it usually takes three hours to backup we wanted to reduce it down to an hour or 33% of the actual time. So, the solution is deduplication enabled, with regard to storage as well. We also needed to make sure our backup infrastructure is being used properly.

If the system were to go down, we needed to make sure that the system could be recovered and available as soon as possible. Spectrum Protect provides you access to directly bind the backup volume to the server and make the system available instead of restoring it and copying the system.

When we do backups daily, we usually end up having a lot of storage being stuck with the backups and not being used. This solution optimizes storage and has very good integration features. We were using IBM Power Systems, so IBM Spectrum Protect Plus integrates well with it.

We use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus as our primary backup solution. Our supply chain department, including procurement, uses it. Also, our finance and managerial divisions are using it. Our top management uses it, along with the auditing department.

The speed of restoring from a system backup is very quick. Their ability to restore a system very quickly, within a backup window, is one of the reasons that we chose this product.

We use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for normal backup and restore purposes. We currently have VM which are getting backed up and we are in the process of deploying OCP. We use container support to back up the OCP environment and direct Open Shift environment.

We have to do a tech refresh, during the migration process and it doesn't allow a straightforward pathway. If I have to do a tech refresh of the server or the storage, the only option for me is to build a new server.

I attach the new storage, create new policy, and then start migrating, slowly removing the old one. That is one area of improvement.

When IBM will have NFSv4 available that is something we could use that solution.

I use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus in my company for backup purposes.

The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that the product works and helps with restoration areas whenever there is a need to restore something.

The tool needs to increase the number of threats. 

I have been working with the solution for ten years.