We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and IDERA SQL Safe Backup based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."We sell Avamar with Data Domain. Data Domain and Avamar work really well together and their compression ratios are very high compared to Veeam, Commvault, and all the other backup software on the market."
"We are talking about a complete end-to-end solution which comes with its own hardware storage to back up the data on tape-less."
"The data reduction feature and the ease of enabling a server in a DR location are the most valuable."
"Graphically, it's very user interactive. It's got a very nice interface."
"The stability of Dell EMC Avamar is very good."
"Every product is good and bad, but its claim to fame is that it is scalable. We're doing more than 3,000 VMs. Every single night a complete image backup to disks and replication are easily done in under four hours."
"Source based deduplication is the most attractive feature as it drastically reduces the backup window."
"We have a lot of backups, and this tool helps us with the RMAN Backup."
"The compression, because it drastically reduces the disk space."
"It has reduced our backup time and simplified our backup processes across all the servers."
"The product could be improved by simplifying the components available."
"The bare-metal restores could be improved."
"The initial setup is a bit complex and could be simpler."
"The solution could improve by having better integration and more flexibility."
"I have found the support from Dell EMC Avamar to be not as good as Veeam. The time it takes to receive support could be improved. However, once we have the support the agents are knowledgeable and helpful."
"The reporting should be improved, as we currently have to use another tool for that purpose."
"Some customers need to back up to tape, but Avamar lacks support, so it costs a lot."
"It is very scalable, and that's its claim to fame, but that also makes it hard to make changes. Anytime there is a large piece of software, changing that piece of software is harder. You've got a larger install base, so you can't just rapidly change. We also use another product called Veeam, and it has this new feature called Continuous Data Protection, which basically lets you get very close to the way the system was in time. We have a system or two up there on which we have set 10 minutes Continuous Data Protection. So, we can roll it back to whatever it was 10 minutes ago, 20 minutes ago, or 30 minutes ago. This feature doesn't exist in Avamar Data Domain. That's the one feature I'd like to see first."
"Make sure you check your backups on a regular basis. Backups do get missed with this tool, for whatever reason."
"I would like to see the pieces that they have put in the web only to be put into the thick client sitting on the desktop client."
"The way the filtering goes, if you filter on your view, there is no indication that you have made a selection."
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Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while IDERA SQL Safe Backup is ranked 74th in Backup and Recovery. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while IDERA SQL Safe Backup is rated 5.0. The top reviewer of Dell Avamar writes "Stable, integrates well with other solutions, and has a good price, but its UI needs a refresh". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IDERA SQL Safe Backup writes "You can't see any metrics about how long it took you to backup the entire server. We've had a huge reduction in the nightly backup footprint size". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas IDERA SQL Safe Backup is most compared with Rubrik and IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact.
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