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"The compression, encryption, and deduplication features all work fine."
"We have seen ROI. The real return is when something bad happens. All the proof of concept work that we did, all the testing we did, it all panned out for us. We're already seeing a return on that."
"It backs up our virtual machines with the CBT, Changed Block Tracking."
"I am able to run Vembu on Windows NAS, which is beneficial. It does install on a Windows-based NAS. You can have the server running from the location where you are storing backups. You don't need a separate server for it in this case."
"It has improved our business continuity."
"The ability to map a drive and restore a separate file is most valuable. The restoration activity is good."
"The most important features are the backup and the availability of the Universal Explorer. The in-transit compression is great."
"I back up one particular server with close to 1.2 TB, and the way the software compresses it is close to 600 or 700 TB. Vembu compresses it to close to 450 gigabytes, that's gigabytes. So that’s really amazing, the way in which the backup compression happens."
"The initial setup was simple and easy. Anyone without prior experience can install, configure, and use it."
"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."
"The interface is user-friendly and even if our tech isn't onsite, we can work with the owners to confirm that the data will be restored with no issues."
"The ability to test the backups without having to manually mount the VHDs after restore allows us to check the integrity of the backups."
"It is an excellent product. It is easy to deploy, stable, and fast. Their support is excellent."
"Ability to restore to any host."
"The ease of use of the solution is its most valuable feature. The interface is also excellent."
"Valuable features for us include quick recovery, compression, and deduplication."
"The support is a bit slow in resolving an issue. It takes a long time to recover."
"There are some limitation in Vembu that can be improved. When you take the backup from any server, the full incremental backup is limited. For example, if you run a weekly full backup and monthly backup, they cannot be run at the same time. I should not have to create a new job, but in this scenario, I am creating two jobs. The limitation is created because if I select monthly backup, then I cannot select weekly backup."
"It's not that stable yet. Every two weeks, my backup will stop and I have to check it."
"Vembu will tell you the next scheduled backup, but it doesn't show you the last successful backup. I would have them include a column under "List of Backup Jobs" and have two other columns which say, "Last Successful Backup" and "Next Scheduled Backup", because you don't know now if it's backed up successfully. It just says, "The next scheduled time is this." You don't know from looking at that pane of glass when the last time it actually happened without digging further into reports."
"The response time of the support could be improved a little bit. Sometimes, I need to wait for two or three hours to get support. With VMware, we can get urgent support in an hour. Other than that, I'm pretty good with BDRSuite."
"The initial setup process can be more simplistic and quicker."
"Vembu BDR currently supports backups of O365, although it does not currently have an email archiving function to the O365 backups."
"There's a feature that does syncing with AWS Cloud backup online. It's not that straightforward to get it set up."
"Availability of physical server backup would be an added advantage."
"Migrating the physical through a backup and restore to a virtual environment would be very helpful."
"Stability."
"The cloud backup and VMware support (now available in the latest releases), could do with some improvement."
"Backup speed and comparisons between versions used to be slow on big VMs but that was improved greatly later on."
"It would be nice to see a feature that backs up the host so that, in case of a server failure, an entire server could be restored all at once."
"The initial set up was complex, and I was not able to do the set up myself."
"The application could include a feature to install a set size of data, such as the ability to store a single application with all its registry information for easy transfer."
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BDRSuite is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 62 reviews while Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is ranked 54th in Backup and Recovery with 29 reviews. BDRSuite is rated 8.2, while Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of BDRSuite writes "Can automatically pull the virtual machines that we have in an environment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup writes "Easy to use with a helpful dashboard, good support, and the deduplication feature saves heavily on storage space". BDRSuite is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Vinchin Backup & Recovery and Acronis Cyber Protect, whereas Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup and Synology DSM.
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