We performed a comparison between Azure Backup and Carbonite Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The backup features are very useful."
"The most valuable features of Azure Backup for us are its flexible retention options and the ability to recover to a second region with geo-replication and read access."
"You have the flexibility to encrypt your backups and choose the storage capacity you're comfortable paying for."
"One of the most valuable features is security and connectivity to the data."
"The storage backup is very efficient."
"When it comes to Azure Backup, the advantage is that it's native and it's very easy to configure. We don't require a separate tool or manage something on a separate server. At the backend, it's managed by Microsoft itself, and we don't need to manage it."
"The daily backups have become easier since we no longer need to handle large backups. The use of Azure Backup as a service has proven reliable and simplified our daily operations. Previously, we relied on LTO backups for data retention, but after migrating to the cloud and adopting Azure Backup, the delivery process has become smoother."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Backup is the file recovery and file vault."
"The solution is a free engine to help work with the container."
"It does not slow down your computer or use a lot of resources as it works."
"The Granular Restore of SQL feature has been a lifesaver more times than I can count. One of the main reasons for looking at Carbonite was their support for platforms like AIX and AS/400 Series."
"I find the BMR/image and the recovery pieces are valuable."
"The efficiency and convenience are excellent."
"Easy verification of things is the most valuable feature."
"It seems reliable and easy to use."
"The solution is very stable."
"Technical support can be slow to respond at times."
"The length of time it takes to restore is our main source of frustration. It would be beneficial to shorten the time it takes."
"Azure Backup's licensing model is very challenging because it doesn't give a clear picture."
"While Azure Backup allows ingress data, the egress data is chargeable, which should be excluded."
"We have a concern with the backup when were are working with VMs that are running in Barracuda Firewall because it usually fails."
"We faced some issues synchronizing the information in Azure when the storage was changed."
"It doesn't have the option to have a backup from the database. It has backup for the files, folders, and backup only the whole virtual machine. But if I need to do a backup from the Oracle database, from an Exchange server or from SharePoint, this ability isn't there. There is no application backup."
"It still does not have a lot of customization, especially if your workloads are not in Azure."
"The only thing that I would like to see improved is related to marketing. Currently, it is very difficult to find the right paper and stuff for me. Their marketing department should provide better information because currently, it is very difficult to find information on the internet. It was bought over by OpenText, and you won't be able to find a lot of information about this solution on their site. They should also provide training facilities for commercial purposes. Some of my colleagues recently went for pilot training, and they were technical. If I want to get trained, the training has to be more commercial. Currently, there is no such training for users like me."
"The support for object storage isn't quite there yet. Its public cloud support can be improved. I would love to see the public cloud support for object storage, and it would be great, but what I always hear from the folks at Carbonite is that in a lot of cases, it directly competes with their cloud offering. So, I don't know when or where that will go or if that will go anywhere, but we are hopeful to see something. The dashboard is a little outdated. If they gave it a facelift and put some better design around their dashboard, that would be tremendous. I generally care less about the visual aesthetics of an application as long as it does what it needed to do, which is true in the case of this solution. We also have the Microsoft 365 platform. Because they're two separate platforms, I have to log in to my Microsoft platform to manage it, and I have to log into my Carbonite server backup platform to manage it. Having these two coexist together in one management console is really what we're looking for, but we went for it knowing this. We also knew that there would be some integration coming down the road. So, we're again hoping to see some of that coming in 2021."
"The stability has room for improvement."
"In the next release I would like to see an improvement in the auto failover option."
"It could be a little bit easier or faster to be able to access data files without having to download anything."
"They do not yet have USB recovery but they are adding it in coming releases."
"The Hyper-V backup has room for improvement."
Azure Backup is ranked 7th in Backup and Recovery with 50 reviews while Carbonite Server is ranked 35th in Backup and Recovery with 7 reviews. Azure Backup is rated 7.8, while Carbonite Server is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Azure Backup writes "Straightforward to set up and manage and allows us to monitor all backups in one place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Carbonite Server writes "A simple, efficient, reliable product". Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Carbonite Server is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Oracle Data Guard, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and Acronis Cyber Protect. See our Azure Backup vs. Carbonite Server report.
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