We performed a comparison between BDRSuite and NAKIVO Backup & Replication 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."Their technical support is very good to work with, as they are able to propose alternate solutions to problems that work well for us."
"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."
"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."
"Adding and removing backup jobs using BDRSuite is easy and also includes great documentation."
"The initial setup is easy and very nice."
"Vembu provides us with a way to instantly recover data. It offers instant data recovery through a local backup server deployed at the customer's site. We can quickly recover data either by copying it back to the main server or if the backup server is powerful enough, we can also directly start a virtual machine from the backup."
"It suits our needs, is versatile, and the functionality is there."
"It helps me with restores. I can repeat a test multiple times: Do the test, the restore, and then test again. It saves me time because I don't have to rebuild the VMs every time."
"We are able to take backups on a regular interval and restore data/VMs as we choose making the process work as advertised."
"Creating a backup task in NAKIVO is fast and easy."
"Perfect for someone who doesn't want to waste time."
"The user interface in general is very good. I"
"This product provides cost-efficient and reliable backups."
"The product is easy to manage for any IT person who is new to backup, recovery, and replication."
"The most valuable feature is the support, as it is directly from Nakivo and it is possible to send a support request that contains all of the technical data on the environment, as well as the software, required for the answer."
"Nakivo has improved our organization largely due to the fact that it is an extremely robust backup system."
"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."
"Vembu software runs on a Windows Server. The Windows Server has to be connected to the internet so it can connect with Vembu’s servers. It has to connect with Vembu. For some reason, if it doesn't connect, it stops working, and I don't know why on earth they do that. They require it to connect to the internet and connect with Vembu for it to continue to function. If the internet is down or if the server can't reach the internet, it stops working after a few days. That's not great because there are some people who want to do backups but they don't want to have their server accessible on the internet."
"There's a feature that does syncing with AWS Cloud backup online. It's not that straightforward to get it set up."
"I have had issues with new client registrations. There are frequent connectivity issues to the cloud servers. Multiple times, I have had to prove to support that it wasn’t a problem on my end. It always works out in the end, but it is troubling to have the same issues repeated across different clients. Issues eventually get escalated to the cloud team and are mysteriously resolved with no changes on my end."
"They said they can support Red Hat Virtualization and we assumed that they support any compatible system but we found we need to do a network backup or a network image, which is not what it said on their website. I have had many discussions with them about where this component is. Initially, I was searching for a component which would back up Red Hat Virtualization. They said they support this in the same way they support Hyper-V and VMware. I haven't found the feature in their portal or in any of their software. They haven't made a special agent for it, in the way they did for Hyper-V."
"It would be good to have a volume licensing discount. We're a managed IT service provider, so we're backing up not just our own systems but all our clients'. In that regard, as we grow, we're putting business through Vembu. There is not any specific partner incentive at all. So that would be nice to see."
"The reporting can use some improvement. I still use the old StoreGrid Cloud while I'm migrating the rest of my clients over. I am able to export all of my clients' usage for the month, which I then import into my billing program. It helps me speed up the billing process. Also, I can generate a report that gives me statuses of everyone's backup, which I don't get from Vembu Backup Online either. I would like to have something similar where I can export everyone's usage at any time for all their backups, so I can use that to import them to my billing program."
"Vembu BDR currently supports backups of O365, although it does not currently have an email archiving function to the O365 backups."
"Their product is good and it meets our requirements, however, new features are also most welcome and we never hesitated to try new features."
"The interface might be improved, but the interface of every product might be improved."
"In the press releases, it would be useful to make sure that the manual space reclaim procedure does not have to be performed but that it happens automatically, thus optimizing the use of space."
"We'd like to see more cooperation with Synology. It can be enhanced to get updates published faster to Synology's store."
"It could be a little bit faster in terms of backup and offer more reliable SQL server backups."
"It would be interesting if it were possible to integrate a mobile app to monitor the system in real-time."
"There are many features we have not had the opportunity to try, such as Tape Backups, Office 365 backups, and many other things."
"Log and report creation can be improved."
BDRSuite is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 62 reviews while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews. BDRSuite is rated 8.2, while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of BDRSuite writes "Can automatically pull the virtual machines that we have in an environment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". BDRSuite is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Vinchin Backup & Recovery, Acronis Cyber Protect and Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, whereas NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik and Arcserve UDP. See our BDRSuite vs. NAKIVO Backup & Replication report.
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