Asigra vs IDERA SQL Safe Backup comparison

Asigra and IDERA are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Asigra is ranked #67, while IDERA is ranked #72. Asigra holds a 0.5% mindshare in BRS, compared to IDERA’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Asigra users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 33% of IDERA users who would recommend it.

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90% willing to recommend

IDERA SQL Safe Backup

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882 Comparison Views

33% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Asigra and IDERA SQL Safe Backup compete in the data backup and recovery market. IDERA SQL Safe Backup has the upper hand for its comprehensive feature set, while Asigra is noted for pricing and support.

Features: Users highlight Asigra for its comprehensive data protection, cloud integration capabilities, and robust ransomware protection. IDERA SQL Safe Backup is favored for advanced compression, encryption features, and extensive support for SQL databases.

Room for Improvement: Asigra needs a more straightforward configuration process, better documentation, and improved ease of use. IDERA SQL Safe Backup users want more frequent software updates, enhanced reporting capabilities, and faster performance improvements.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Asigra’s deployment is seamless and quick, supported by efficient customer service. IDERA SQL Safe Backup requires more time for deployment but offers robust customer support post-deployment.

Pricing and ROI: Asigra is praised for competitive pricing, flexible pricing models, and good ROI. IDERA SQL Safe Backup is more expensive but justified by its extensive database management capabilities, making it a worthwhile investment.

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Categories and Ranking

Asigra

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

67th

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IDERA SQL Safe Backup

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

72nd

Average Rating

5.0

Reviews Sentiment

4.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Event Monitoring (19th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Asigra is 0.5%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IDERA SQL Safe Backup is 0.6%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Asigra	0.5%
IDERA SQL Safe Backup	0.6%
Other	98.9%

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reviewer1361796

Manager Technical Procurement & Logistics - Global IT at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Affordable, easy to use, and offers good pricing

The solution is primarily used for the backup of the endpoints within our organization The solution has been very stable. It's quite easy to use and simple to navigate around. The performance has always been very good. The pricing of the product is excellent. I wouldn't describe it as a…

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SeniorDB3550

Senior DBA Lead at a government with 10,001+ employees

It has reduced our backup time, however backups do get skipped

I would like to see the pieces that they have put in the web only to be put into the thick client sitting on the desktop client. They moved a lot of the features to their web-based version of it. Because of the large number of databases that we have along with our backup, their web product can't handle it. So, we can't use it. So, we are missing out on a lot of the new features. The way the filtering goes, if you filter on your view, there is no indication that you have made a selection. Unless you can remember day-to-day that you may have something deselected or selected, your view may be different than you expect, and there is no visual indication of it.

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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

"It has helped us to provide comprehensive data protection with high recovery rates and a malware scanning feature."

"The agentless architecture has minimized our software footprint at the client level."

"There are two primary improvements of the Asigra platform with the recent version 13.1 SP1: Virtualization: a tremendous variety of data protection solutions for virtual machines, and Cloud-2-Cloud for Office 365, Google, Amazon, etc., making this a full package of data protection platform."

"I am personally a fan of Exchange email level and MS SQL db level backups."

"Smooth integration into customer's environment, interactive UI."

"Asigra's agent-less capabilities make it a very convenient solution to implement."

"Asigra’s multi-tenancy feature is most valuable as it allows the company to on-sell a private cloud backup and recovery solution to existing customers."

"Simplicity, very easy to restore user data, means that we don't have to request off site tapes to be delivered to the office, can easily access the cloud data and restore most data within minutes."

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"The compression, because it drastically reduces the disk space."

"It has reduced our backup time and simplified our backup processes across all the servers."

"It is far better than the native SQL compressed backup utility, and even though we are seeing approximately 1.4 : 1 de-duplication ratio (using compression at Level 3) we've saved so much space that we still have more than 33% free space on our backup appliances."

"I do like the central management console where you can see a global status for all your backups and manage restores."

"It has reduced our backup time and simplified our backup processes across all the servers."

Cons

"Technical Support: 5/10, Due to different timezones it would always be difficult to get hold of a tech."

"The setup and configuration of this product is quite complex."

"They should improve the malware scanning capabilities, extending it to protect cloud application data."

"Customer services would be a 3 out of 5, simply due high turnover and lack of communication."

"Product would occasionally encounter issues when it impacted other software."

"I wouldn't describe it as a scalable solution."

"There are improvements required with the virtualization solution, I'm sure we will see a significant change in 2017."

"More integration with leading storage solutions."

More Asigra cons

"I would like to see the pieces that they have put in the web only to be put into the thick client sitting on the desktop client."

"The way the filtering goes, if you filter on your view, there is no indication that you have made a selection."

"Make sure you check your backups on a regular basis. Backups do get missed with this tool, for whatever reason."

"Backups do get missed with this tool, for whatever reason."

"Lots of room for improvement. I have never experienced anything as buggy as SQLsafe."

"For a supposedly mature product, it lacks basic functionality that the built-in Microsoft SQL Server backup/restore programs provide and being told we'll be added to interested party list isn't very satisfying."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Asigra could improve, it is expensive. We have purchased an annual license."

"Asigra is priced competitively, but requires technical expertise to operate, optimize, and maintain its services."

"The product's pricing is a good value. They have a straightforward licensing model."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

13%

Construction Company

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	18
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	1

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Overview

Asigra makes award-winning enterprise backup and recovery software that leads the industry in secure, reliable, manageable and affordable data protection. Asigra Cloud Backup works in the cloud or on-premise, for everything from mobile devices to entire data centers.

Asigra

SQL Safe Backup helps database administrators to back up and recover instantly across SQL Servers. Unlike its competition, it provides virtual databases with access to back up files without consuming disk space, instant restore, centralized management across SQL Servers, and alert notifications for success and failure of operations.

IDERA

Sample Customers

British Red Cross, Special Olympics, London and Capital, L and K Bennett London, The Commonwealth, Hanrick Curran

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