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1,489 views|1,234 comparisons
96% willing to recommend
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We performed a comparison between Bareos and Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The main benefit of the product is its backup feature.""The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of installation it provides its users."

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"VM backup and the item level recovery are the most valuable features.""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.""Valuable features for us include quick recovery, compression, and deduplication.""Excellent compression and deduplication with off-site WAN backup included.""The CDP backup feature is very nice, as it allows you to take backups at high frequencies and with application consistency.""The initial setup was simple and easy. Anyone without prior experience can install, configure, and use it.""The ease of use of the solution is its most valuable feature. The interface is also excellent.""It is an excellent product. It is easy to deploy, stable, and fast. Their support is excellent."

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Cons
"The tool is not user-friendly.""The virtual machine backup is an area with shortcomings that need improvement."

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"Replication is not fast, the GUI could be more user-friendly, and technical support is lacking in Iran.""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.""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.""To improve Altaro, I would like to see the ability to choose more than one backup location at a time.""Backup speed and comparisons between versions used to be slow on big VMs but that was improved greatly later on.""The cloud backup and VMware support (now available in the latest releases), could do with some improvement.""Migrating the physical through a backup and restore to a virtual environment would be very helpful.""It would be nice to be able to recover the items to their original location."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "We used the free community version of the solution."
  • "I use the open-source version of Bareos, which means I used the free version of the solution."
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  • "There is a free version for Hosts with 2 VMs."
  • "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."
  • "No other product offers these features for this price. The ROI is great."
  • "​By implementing the solution at multiple locations, significant cost savings were achieved."
  • "Altaro VM Backup is affordably priced. It is a best value for its price and has almost every feature that an expensive, popular product offers."
  • "The pricing is okay,"
  • "VMware is a little pricey, but it is a good solution and priced similar to other products."
  • "Altaro had the best prices and ROI in the whole bunch that we evaluated."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of installation it provides its users.
    Top Answer:I use the open-source version of Bareos, which means I used the free version of the solution. I haven't used the licensed version of Bareos.
    Top Answer:The virtual machine backup is an area with shortcomings that need improvement. Bareos doesn't function as a full-fledged backup solution for virtual machines. In the future, I want to see Bareos… more »
    Top Answer: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.
    Top Answer:Altaro VM Backup is quite affordable in comparison to other products.
    Top Answer: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. Additionally, integrating… more »
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    Altaro VM Backup
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    Overview

    Bareos (Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced) is a cross-network Open Source backup solution which preserves, archives, and recovers data from all major operating systems.

    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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    Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, Amazon, Harvard University, MIT, Peugeot, Xerox
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Non Profit15%
    Comms Service Provider14%
    University11%
    REVIEWERS
    Comms Service Provider25%
    Government17%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Healthcare Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company15%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government7%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business45%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise34%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business71%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise14%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business39%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise47%
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    Bareos is ranked 31st in Cloud Backup with 2 reviews while Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is ranked 37th in Cloud Backup with 29 reviews. Bareos is rated 7.6, while Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Bareos writes "The product is stable and enables users to create backups, but it is not user-friendly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup writes "Offers a comprehensive feature set offered at a competitive price". Bareos is most compared with Bacula Enterprise, Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, whereas Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Datto Cloud Continuity and N-able Cove Data Protection.

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