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BDRSuite Backup & Replication vs Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

BDRSuite Backup & Replication
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
65
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (12th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (7th), MSP Backup (1st)
Veeam Data Cloud for Micros...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
69
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Backup (7th), SaaS Backup (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Data Center Backup solutions, they serve different purposes. BDRSuite Backup & Replication is designed for Backup and Recovery and holds a mindshare of 0.6%, up 0.6% compared to last year.
Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Backup, holds 5.1% mindshare, down 7.0% since last year.
Backup and Recovery
Cloud Backup
 

Featured Reviews

Redha Benlaksira - PeerSpot reviewer
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
MehmetAksoy - PeerSpot reviewer
Reliable rollback features for smooth IT operations and an easy setup
We are using Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 to take backups of shop floor PCs. I use it for clients locally, particularly for critical machines. It is also used globally for server-side backups and includes scheduling features like taking ten backups every Sunday when the factory is closed. This…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The ability to map a drive and restore a separate file is most valuable. The restoration activity is good."
"I get my backups done."
"It was very difficult to find a product that supports Red Hat Virtualization natively and to take a snapshot of the VM or a full backup or a dump from the machine. The option that Vembu proposed, to take the machine as an image, take it from the system, is also good."
"The initial setup is easy and very nice."
"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."
"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."
"The main difference I see between Vembu and the other solutions we've tried is that with Vembu, you don't need anybody to tell you what to do. Once you have done the installation you just look at the user interface — it's very friendly — and you can do things yourself without resorting to help from anybody."
"The compression, encryption and deduplication features are fabulous and great stuff."
"It’s amazing how the solution helps restore old data."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the scalability and the free license of up to ten VMs."
"It is a stable solution."
"This is an easy-to-install easy-to-use solution for backing up Office 365 email."
"The scalability is good."
"The solution is easy to use and stable and can be made to fit one's needs."
"One of the main features of the solution is it is easy to use."
"The solution provides good backup services for Microsoft 365."
 

Cons

"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."
"One thing that I reported with the backups: When there are accentuated characters in a path, then we can't restore documents into a folder. There is a bug with the restoration and restoring files with accentuated characters in the path. Hopefully, they have repaired this because otherwise we will restore files and find out that they are not there."
"The reports are at a basic level and there is room for improvement there. It only has historical reports and VM backup job-level reports."
"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."
"The support is a bit slow in resolving an issue. It takes a long time to recover."
"The solution's UI and integrations could be better."
"Vembu BDR currently supports backups of O365, although it does not currently have an email archiving function to the O365 backups."
"I have not been impressed by the data compression of the backup images. They seem to take up nearly as much space on the backup drive as they do on the server."
"The documentation for the installation is good. However, if you are new to the environment the installation could be difficult. The first time we did it it took approximately four days."
"They need to enable the encryption of backups so that nobody can gain access unless they have encryption details."
"They can provide a dashboard for sizing. This feature might get included in the next release."
"Veeam Backup for Office 365 can improve by adding more features with Microsoft teams. We have many files that we are working on with Microsoft teams and there should be more integration and features."
"While there really is nothing wrong with the product some small improvements in the interface could make it even easier to use."
"Its price could be improved."
"Veeam Backup for Office 365 can improve by reducing the time it takes for backups. I have mentioned this to Veeam and hopefully, in the next version, it will be a faster backup."
"I would like Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 to increase the speed to reduce the backup time."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is very good."
"I think it is a good value for the price."
"This solution helped us deliver an enterprise level data protection solution and reduced our budget by 50 percent. We spent $3,000 on Vembu's licenses where other solutions were almost double."
"The pricing is good. The tough part is estimating storage needs."
"BDRSuite, although cost-efficient, is more expensive than most other providers."
"It's just the license per host with one CPU, but if I did choose offsite cloud replication, they do charge for the data. They charge per gigabyte, or something like that. They have plans."
"One thing to note is that when you configure which virtual machine you're going to back up, if it's on one physical machine, they license it there. If it automatically fails over to a second machine, the license doesn't automatically move over with it. If they could make that a little more streamlined, that would be an improvement."
"It helps us deliver an enterprise-level data protection solution and reduce budgets at a price that - and we don't want to encourage them to change their pricing - is a great value."
"I think it's a fair price. It's around $36 per user, so I think it's a fair price for our customers."
"The cost of Veeam Backup is $28 per user for one year."
"The licensing price is quite high. It's expensive."
"Veeam Backup for Office 365 is a subscription-based solution."
"There is an annual license required and a per-user fee for this solution."
"The solution is not expensive."
"We have 2000 users and pay about $10,000. It may be a little bit more per year. We have an education institute and may have fewer expenses."
"The cost is a bit on the high side."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
87%
Retailer
3%
Educational Organization
3%
Financial Services Firm
1%
Computer Software Company
20%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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.
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...
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...
How does AvePoint Cloud Backup compare with Veeam Backup for Office 365?
AvePoint Cloud Backup for MS Office 365 is a SaaS backup whose features include secure storage and unlimited and automated backups. The storage is saved in AvePoint’s Azure storage or it can also b...
What do you like most about Veeam Backup for Office 365?
The tool is easy to use and straightforward regarding restoration and creating backups. It's user-friendly, providing results and sending alerts when something goes wrong.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veeam Backup for Office 365?
The pricing for Veeam Backup is fair for our infrastructure when used solely for backup, yet transitioning to a cloud solution was not cost-effective for us.
 

Also Known As

Vembu BDRSuite
Veeam Backup for Office 365, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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