Carbonite Server vs Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup comparison

"The solution is very stable."

"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."

"Easy verification of things is the most valuable feature."

"The solution is a free engine to help work with the container."

"I find the BMR/image and the recovery pieces are valuable."

"It seems reliable and easy to use."

"Technical support handled all our issues quickly and effectively."

"The efficiency and convenience are excellent."

"It is an excellent product. It is easy to deploy, stable, and fast. Their support is excellent."

"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."

"Reverse Delta is Altaro proprietary backup deduplication technology. With Reverse Delta, the latest version of a file is always made available in its entirety, not as a delta file."

"VM backup and the item level recovery are the most valuable features."

"The ease of use of the solution is its most valuable feature. The interface is also excellent."

"The intuitive interface allows you to set up and perform backups and restores easily."

"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."

"We use the latest feature in Altaro called CDP (Continuous Data Protection) to back up our VMs as often as every five minutes. It allows us to make sure no data is accidentally deleted or overwritten."

"The stability has room for improvement."

"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 The dashboard is a little outdated.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."

"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."

"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."

"In the next release I would like to see an improvement in the auto failover option."

"Basically, how it works is that you have a single local drive, and then you have a cloud backup. It'd be nice if you could rotate the single local backup drive. As of now, you can't."

"The initial set up was complex, and I was not able to do the set up myself."

"The solution needs multi-platform support as it is currently only available for VMware and Hyper-V. It also lacks support for physical servers and workstations."

"Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup could be improved in several areas, such as enhancing scalability features and possibly reducing the price."

"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."

"Availability of physical server backup would be an added advantage."

"The scalability of the solution is limited."

"The solution is open source."

"Its price is reasonable."

"The pricing is between $120 and $150 per year."

"We pay 9,000 dollars per year for our license."

"No other product offers these features for this price. The ROI is great."

"Altaro had the best prices and ROI in the whole bunch that we evaluated."

"The pricing is okay,"

"Its yearly maintenance fee is fairly high for me to renew for upgrades and support."

"​By implementing the solution at multiple locations, significant cost savings were achieved."

"VMware is a little pricey, but it is a good solution and priced similar to other products."

"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."