Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup vs Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL] comparison

Hornetsecurity and Quest Software are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Additionally, 96% of Hornetsecurity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Quest Software users who would recommend it.

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90% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 23, 2025

Quest Rapid Recovery and Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup compete in the data backup solutions category. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup seems to have the upper hand due to its multi-platform support and affordability, appealing to various environments.

Features: Quest Rapid Recovery offers integration for point-in-time and granular recovery, making it user-friendly with built-in encryption and deduplication saving on storage. It provides efficient alerts and quick setup. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup supports Hyper-V and VMware, providing granular restores, Continuous Data Protection (CDP), and robust deduplication enhancing storage optimization.

Room for Improvement: Quest Rapid Recovery could enhance its support for physical and older systems and expand database support, while addressing technical support delays. Altaro needs to improve Linux file-level restore, expand platform compatibility, and reevaluate its maintenance fees to increase its attractiveness.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both Quest Rapid Recovery and Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup offer on-premises deployment, with Altaro also providing hybrid cloud options. Quest's support is generally seen as knowledgeable, although sometimes slow, while Altaro is praised for its efficient support and active community.

Pricing and ROI: Quest's pricing is higher, especially with core-based licensing, which may impact smaller enterprises. However, it's viewed as a good long-term investment for security. Altaro provides competitive pricing with a rich feature set leading to excellent ROI, appealing more to cost-sensitive buyers despite pricing challenges.

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Categories and Ranking

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Ba...

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (31st), Cloud Backup (31st), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (19th)

Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL]

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

5.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Featured Reviews

Asif Usmani

Regional Sales Manager at S2

Lacks multi-platform support and physical infrastructure but excels in storage optimization

We use it for VM backup and Office 365 backup I find the solution to be user-friendly and easy to manage and deploy. It provides storage for Office 365, which is beneficial, and the deduplication technology is excellent, especially in optimizing storage capacity compared to others. In terms of…

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Adam Augustín

Country Manager at Prianto Ltd

Granular recovery, replication is good and offers good speed

It is for any kind of company that uses their own servers. From a global perspective, our clients are small-sized companies. All the SMEs, compared to the Slovakian market, are quite small. It's a small market with small companies. They just want to enhance security and follow regulations It's…

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"All of the features are fantastic and also the management from Microsoft dealing with multiple machines is great. The whole package is excellent for me."

"Ability to restore to any host."

"Valuable features for us include quick recovery, compression, and deduplication."

"Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup's most valuable features include its user-friendly interface and the ability to perform data compression updates, which enhance overall efficiency and effectiveness."

"We use the latest feature in Altaro called CDP (Continuous Data Protection) to back up our VMs as often as every five minutes. It allows us to make sure no data is accidentally deleted or overwritten."

"This solution is stable."

"We frequently use the granular restore option for when our users accidentally delete files or to recover emails from mailboxes. We have found that to be a must-have feature and it comes with the solution at no extra cost."

"VM backup and the item level recovery are the most valuable features."

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"The solution offers a 100% guarantee that if it's backed up you will be able to restore it onto any platform you want."

"The compression and deduplication features have helped to save on storage costs."

"Probably the point-in-time recovery is most valuable. The other piece that is really nice is that you can mount a whole server at any point in time. So, you can mount the server with all the drives to a Z drive or something like that. It will just mount it all up, and your data is accessible right there on one drive, which is nice."

"One feature I found that's the most valuable in Quest Rapid Recovery is the VM standby feature which is very useful for my current customer. The solution also has a great replication feature. The third most valuable feature in Quest Rapid Recovery is the five-minute RPO and the fifteen-minute RTO. The solution is also very user-friendly."

"The best feature of the solution is the user interface."

"The most valuable feature of Quest Rapid Recovery for our organization is the VM recovery functionality."

"It is very easy to use and very easy to manage. The fact that I can easily recover data is valuable. I don't use it much. The only way I have been using it is that sometimes, people ask to recover the data, which is a very easy process. It takes only a few minutes to get in and get the data from the server."

"Not having to switch tapes is wonderful. It makes it so easy. We have an on-prem deployment that we also replicate to an offsite replication host. So by not having to deal with tapes and moving them off-site every day and every week, that's amazing ease of use for us."

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Cons

"The cloud backup and VMware support (now available in the latest releases), could do with some improvement."

"The solution needs multi-platform support as it is currently only available for VMware and Hyper-V."

"To improve Altaro, I would like to see the ability to choose more than one backup location at a time."

"The solution needs multi-platform support as it is currently only available for VMware and Hyper-V. It also lacks support for physical servers and workstations."

"Improvement areas for Altaro VM Backup include enhancing backup and deduplication solutions for continuous operation and offering an all-in-one solution for hardware backup."

"Stability."

"The scalability of the solution is limited."

"Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup could be improved in several areas, such as enhancing scalability features and possibly reducing the price."

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"It's buggy. That's a big problem. We're arranging to get rid of it. We're going to switch to Veeam."

"There is room for improvement in customer service and support. I would like to see faster response time."

"I don't really think that there is a whole lot that needs to be changed. It would be nice if you could deploy the agent without having to reboot. When I upgraded my core to the latest version, I also wanted to update all of my servers, but I had to put that off because I can't just shoot it out there. I have to make sure it is at a time when I can do a reboot right away."

"I think the self-paced learning and knowledge base can always be improved so that users can self-service without having to contact either a reseller or Quest. I know there are things that I would have been looking for to try and solve. And the only way I could get there was to actually open a ticket rather than go through self-service through the portal."

"The initial setup can be tricky, and if not done right, the whole solution needs to be reinstalled."

"The terminology didn't seem easily available. When I go to the website, it is hard to search for things. You get all the articles, then you finally get the search button. They need the search at the top of the knowledge base. Then, on occasion, if you get an error message in the system, which is very important, it says, "Click here for more information," but I never get more information. The search engine doesn't find it or it is some weird error. It has never worked for me."

"When you do a full backup, all of the memory resources on the server are used, which is something that should be improved."

"One area where Quest Rapid Recovery has room for improvement is in the handling of snapshots on Hyper-V."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is great for the utility you get and the licensing has never caused any issues with my company."

"VMware is a little pricey, but it is a good solution and priced similar to other products."

"No other product offers these features for this price. The ROI is great."

"Its yearly maintenance fee is fairly high for me to renew for upgrades and support."

"There is a free version for two VMs. I would advise to study the deployment environment well, prior to committing to order a license per host."

"There is a free version for Hosts with 2 VMs."

"Altaro had the best prices and ROI in the whole bunch that we evaluated."

"By implementing the solution at multiple locations, significant cost savings were achieved."

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"When I purchased the change to the license, it was $1,600. I think that was for changing the license. I don't believe that I had to purchase technical support in a while, so I must've bought maybe for five years, but I don't feel there was a huge cost involved in technical support. Its cost was definitely worth it because we've had a fantastic experience with them."

"The pricing is on the higher end."

"Licensing fees are based on the amount of data that you want to store, which is related to how many customers you want to cover."

"I'm not aware of the exact cost of Quest Rapid Recovery because I'm from the technical team, but in general, the solution is quite competitive cost-wise."

"I don't think the licensing for the product is very expensive."

"It is a little expensive. However, I haven't compared it to other solutions. Being a nonprofit, it is always good to have nonprofit discounts on products."

"I believe the basic license comes with six terabytes, whereas a lot of the other ones are four terabytes. From the price point, it seemed a lot better than the comparative models, such as Datto, Barracuda, and some of the others. I believe Barracuda was about $15,000 for four terabytes, and Quest was around $12,000 for six terabytes. Pricing is based on the period. There is just the maintenance fee that you have to pay annually, or you can pay for a three-year or four-year contract. This includes Premier Support."

"It's very expensive which is why I want to drop it. They charge us per core and we have a six-core server. It's expensive to pay for maintenance charges. I want to switch to something cheaper."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?

The most valuable feature of Altaro VM Backup is its ability to backup and restore various types of data, including Active Directory, application servers, and SQL Server databases.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?

The pricing and licensing cost is challenging since most competitors offer cheaper pricing, making it difficult to penetrate the market with the current pricing strategy.

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What needs improvement with Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?

The solution needs multi-platform support as it is currently only available for VMware and Hyper-V. It also lacks support for physical servers and workstations. Additionally, they should add more p...

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What do you like most about Quest Rapid Recovery?

The most valuable feature of Quest Rapid Recovery for our organization is the VM recovery functionality.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Quest Rapid Recovery?

Dell solutions are approximately 30% to 35% more expensive than Veeam.

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What needs improvement with Quest Rapid Recovery?

The product is expensive.

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Overview

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a powerful, reliable and easy-to-use backup and replication solution for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines (VMs) and physical Windows servers, to protect against enterprise data loss. The award-winning solution provides robust, streamlined and enterprise-level functionality.

Reduce downtime and data loss: Thanks to Continous Data Protection (CDP) and WAN-optimized replication, your backup files are available in just minutes in the event of a data loss scenario and you can continue working as usual. The solution’s unique Augmented Inline Deduplication also gives you massive savings on your backup storage and dramatically reduces costs.

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Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL] provides easy-to-use backup and recovery capabilities, emphasizing granular recovery and point-in-time restoration with simple installation, data replication, and user-friendly navigation.

Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL] helps manage infrastructure environments with features supporting disk backup, archiving, VM standby, and replication. Despite limitations like sluggish GUI, lack of support for tape and Mac, and high memory use, users appreciate its real-time data replication and strong reliability. The tool is employed in on-prem deployments and aids in disaster recovery, protecting data across cloud and on-premise servers, securing databases, and facilitating quick recovery during failures.

What are Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL]'s key features?

Ease of Use: Simplifies operations with a user-friendly interface.
Granular Recovery: Allows detailed data retrieval.
Point-in-Time Restoration: Enables specific time data recovery.
Real-time Replication: Ensures up-to-date data replication.
Compression and Deduplication: Streamlines data management.

What benefits can users expect from Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL]?

Improved Storage Efficiency: Enhanced by archiving and disk backup support.
Flexibility: Utilizing VM standby and replication features.
Reliability: Offers fast emergency recovery with minimal admin burden.

Quest Rapid Recovery [EOL] is integral for industries requiring robust data protection, encompassing crucial server and database backups in compliance-focused environments with SQL databases and Hyper-V hosts, ensuring swift and dependable recovery solutions.

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