Arcserve UDP vs BDRSuite Backup & Replication comparison

Arcserve and Vembu Technologies are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Arcserve is ranked #19 with an average rating of 7.0, while Vembu Technologies is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.3. Arcserve holds a 1.3% mindshare in BRS, compared to Vembu Technologies’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 84% of Arcserve users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Vembu Technologies users who would recommend it.

Arcserve UDP

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BDRSuite Backup & Replication

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91% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Arcserve UDP and BDRSuite Backup & Replication compete in data protection and disaster recovery. User reviews suggest BDRSuite offers more comprehensive features and better value for the price compared to Arcserve UDP.

Features: Arcserve UDP is appreciated for its seamless integration, reliable recovery options, and effective support for various platforms. BDRSuite is praised for its extensive backup options, cloud integration, and automation features. It is considered more versatile and scalable.

Room for Improvement: Arcserve UDP can improve performance speed, reporting capabilities, and documentation. BDRSuite users note a need for better user training resources and a more intuitive setup process.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Arcserve UDP has a straightforward deployment process and responsive customer service, but some users report difficulties with complex configurations. BDRSuite has smooth deployment and efficient customer service, with some users experiencing initial complications.

Pricing and ROI: Arcserve UDP is praised for its competitive pricing and good return on investment. BDRSuite is viewed favorably for its cost-effectiveness and strong ROI due to its comprehensive features and performance. BDRSuite's feature set makes it more cost-efficient in the long run.

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Categories and Ranking

Arcserve UDP

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

19th

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

10th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

BDRSuite Backup & Replication

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

7th

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

7th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

MSP Backup (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Arcserve UDP is 1.3%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of BDRSuite Backup & Replication is 0.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

MukundKambli

Senior Solutions Architect at Team Computers

Global deduplication, stable, and flexible licensing options

I give the solution ten out of ten. This solution offers one dashboard to manage the BC con, disaster recovery plan, DR solution, and backup as well as different licensing options, unlike other OEM products. We are the system integrators for our clients, so we design the solution as per the customer's requirements. We provide several solutions options to our clients such as Druva inSync, Druva Phoenix, and Arcserve UDP with the specifications and the client makes a decision based on their requirements. I would advise potential users to first be clear on whether they are going to use it as a backup solution for compliance purposes, just wanting to take the backups of files and servers, or for instant recovery. The IQ and RPO discussion with our customers usually takes 30 minutes. I recommend this solution.

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Redha Benlaksira

Technical Sales Director (Owner) at HSR IT Services SARL

The ability to maintain multiple restore points is critical because it lets customers choose to restore their data to an hour or a day ago

BDRSuite is better than competing solutions because it can protect, back up, and recover data. A feature called live migration allows you to recover the same data in different environments. For example, I can back up the data from a VMware machine and restore it to a Hyper-V. You can also create repositories and back up environments to a cloud platform like GCP and AWS S3 buckets. BDRSuite allows you to back up virtual machines hosted on an EC3 instance or Microsoft 365 mailboxes, SharePoint, etc. The solution allows us to recover data instantly. We can recover all our data in under 15 minutes. In a virtual environment, we can recover a virtual machine and all its data in under 15 minutes. It's the same for a NAS, SAN, or DAS disk. The ability to boot instantly enables customers to maintain their business operations without interruption. BDRSuite's ability to maintain multiple restore points is critical because it gives customers the option to restore their data to an hour or a day ago. They can choose a full, incremental, or synthetic backup. Incremental backup makes sense if you are backing up the same data daily and you want to save space and network resources. It only backs up the differences or updates in every block. I've worked with lots of backup solutions, and BDRSuite is the easiest to use. It's simple to install and create backup jobs. It doesn't require many tasks to install the solution. You can easily back up and restore from one console

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The data protection functionality is the most valuable feature of this solution."

"The most valuable features of this solution are that I can by just one click, copy and paste anything that I would want. I do not have to restore the whole virtual machine."

"There are many backup options available in this solution. For example, you are able to do backups of servers, email, OST files, and users. This is a complete backup solution which is very good."

"It is a very stable solution...It is a scalable solution."

"It allows us to back up all the servers and centrally manage them."

"The most valuable features are that it is able to restore quickly and that it is able to virtually restore on Hyper-V."

"I like the tool's speed."

"We are satisfied with Arcserve UDP. The most important feature that we use and why we choose this product is the RHA feature."

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"The smooth implementation is the most valuable aspect of BDRSuite."

"It made it easy for us to handle the daily backup of endpoints."

"We only use BDRSuite to back up two VMs in our current environment. It helps us with maintenance, monitoring, etc. We are satisfied with BDRSuite so far and plan to add a few more VMs in the future, including Citrix VMs and XenServer."

"The network solution is the most important feature, because we have our own backup server and are doing file backups for our customers."

"The automated backup of multiple virtual machines. We can back up two hypervisors, one is Microsoft Hyper-V and the other one is VMware Hypervisor."

"The agentless backups are the big selling point on this, as well as being able to send out across sites so that I can do a restore at either of our two locations."

"The most valuable feature is the ability, from a console, to manage the different computers to be backed up."

"When you're looking at your dashboard, you can see all your active jobs. You can see exactly if they're successful or failed and you can actually drill down and see what caused the problem. The fact you can see that right away is nice."

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Cons

"The only problem with the solution is that when I change the drive capacity, it has to do a full backup. It's a problem when I have five servers to backup. When I only want to change the size of the drive, I have to do a full backup that can take one week."

"It takes much time to verify and consolidate images for backups."

"Backups are very slow and time consuming."

"One of the biggest drawbacks of Arcserve UDP is that it does not have a single console, making it an area that needs to be considered for improvement."

"It should be easier to switch between backup locations. We have multiple data storage locations and sometimes one of those storages need to be replaced. It would be nice if they made it easier to reconfigure the backup configuration."

"One area for improvement in Arcserve UDP is its capability to interact with other cloud servers."

"The time to backup servers that sit in DMZ must be improved."

"We cannot restore each user's mailbox. Each user's mailbox should be independently restorable. Also, this solution is very slow. If you select all of the servers, it runs for a long time... It needs to be faster. Finally, If anything happens to one server we should be able to switch to another server."

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"It is not a well-known software. People do not know about Vembu."

"The process is a bit cumbersome when you remove an agent, delete that job, and add the agent to the same server. Even though the agent is already installed in that server, the system does not recognize it. We have to uninstall the current agent, restart the server, install the push agent - a new agent - and then restart the server. I think they should try to avoid that."

"Vembu's website doesn't clearly state that their software is designed for tape libraries, not standalone drives."

"We are still exploring its features, but we want to see more features that we desire over time."

"BDRSuite could improve support for XenApp Citrix Backup."

"The interface could be better because I have to fumble around to find things. I can't just sit down at the terminal and know exactly what to do. It could be just me, but I have used a number of different backup products, and I found them simpler. However, its features are very good, so I don't mind sacrificing a bit of extra time to do what I need."

"I suggest that the dump of the database have the option to either be backed up to Vembu Cloud or be backed up to all backup sites and not only to default storage."

"There's a feature that does syncing with AWS Cloud backup online. It's not that straightforward to get it set up."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I do not work with the pricing or licensing issues of the solution for our organization."

"The retail fee is $1300 for a year for one server. Other than that, there is just the cost of your hardware."

"It is a bit pricey, considering the reliability problems. If the tool worked flawlessly, the price would be fair, even cheap."

"Pricing is most likely comparable."

"In comparison to other vendors, it is a low-cost solution."

"As an MSP partner, I believe that the prices are fair."

"Normally our customers purchase the premium plus license, rather than the standard one, which provides more options."

"The solution is very expensive."

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"We were able to take advantage of a promotional pricing campaign."

"At the moment, I am doing Vembu for one host. My costs are about $25 USD a month for a single host up to 100 VMs."

"When they changed to the newest version (4.1), they have more VMs allowed on the free version. Before, there were only three VMs allowed on the free version, and if you needed to back up more than three VMs, you had to get the paid version. Now, you can have up to 10 VMs on the free version."

"Price-wise, it is much cheaper than its counterparts. I like its pricing, and its price is okay. The lesser they take, the more profit we can make, but we are happy with its price. It is very affordable. We were working with a client, and they were looking for backup software and had a very tight budget. When I told them that Vembu is only going to cost around $400 to $500, they were shocked. They didn't believe me, so I showed them the website so that they can check the price themselves. Of course, if they agree to that price, we get a 15% rebate as a managed service provider."

"Previously, we used Veeam Backup, but we replaced it with Vembu. We switched because Vembu is more cost-effective. So, price was a factor."

"The price point of this software is good, and I can do everything I need. In terms of the affordability of the solution for businesses with a tight budget, we're on a small business enterprise package, which is half the price of the regular enterprise package. It's super affordable. The features you get for it are enterprise-level. I'm very happy with the pricing."

"The best thing about the product is the license management. It is a true managed service provider solution. It has a good price. The licensing is quite flexible, which is one of the most important things for us."

"The price for BDRSuite is justified."

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Computer Software Company

18%

Non Profit

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

87%

Retailer

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

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Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for StorageCraft ShadowProtect?

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What do you like most about BDRSuite?

The best part of BDRSuite is how user-friendly it is and how it does not require any maintenance after the initial setup.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BDRSuite?

BDRSuite is cost-effective because you can purchase a perpetual license that covers multiple environments. You only renew the support costs annually. It offers advanced features at roughly 75 perce...

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What needs improvement with BDRSuite?

I had a small problem integrating VMware and Hyper-V when customers used a free VMware license to create VMs. This is a problem because many customers use the free version of VMware. There are also...

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Also Known As

StorageCraft ShadowProtect, StorageCraft Backup Analyzer

Vembu BDRSuite

Overview

Arcserve UDP is a comprehensive solution that empowers even a one-person IT department to protect virtual and physical environments with a high degree of simplicity. It allows you to design and manage your entire data protection strategy with a unified management console, and enables you to scale your data backup coverage as your organization grows with the push of a button.

Arcserve

BDRSuite by Vembu offers comprehensive and cost-effective Backup and Disaster Recovery software tailored to meet the diverse data protection requirements of Businesses and Service Providers. BDRSuite provides robust backup solutions for a wide range of IT workloads, including virtual machines, servers, endpoints, SaaS applications, cloud VMs, NAS/File Shares, and databases & applications. It offers the flexibility to store backups anywhere and centrally manage the entire backup infrastructure.

BDRSuite is designed to help businesses keep their data secure and ensure it is easily recoverable in the event of data loss or ransomware attacks. With BDRSuite, businesses can achieve reliable data protection and ensure business continuity – all at an affordable price.

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PRICING DETAILS

VMs, Servers & Cloud Backup at $48 per workload/year (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, oVirt, Proxmox, Windows, Linux, AWS, Azure, File Share-500 GB)

Endpoint/Workstation Backup at $12 per endpoint/year (Windows, Linux, Mac)

SaaS Backup at $12 per user/year (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace)

DBs & Applications Backup at $72 per application/year (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint Server)

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Sample Customers

ITPS, North Hertfordshire Homes, SEMIKRON, Kajaani University of Applied Sciences, Test Valley Borough Council, EK Services

NASA, Intel, CISCO, PHILIPS, Atos, HEXAWARE, Motorola

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