We performed a comparison between Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup and Microsoft DPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."Ability to restore to any host."
"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 product has many valuable features for handling backup needs, including replication, live migration, and incremental disaster recovery."
"The initial setup was simple and easy. Anyone without prior experience can install, configure, and use it."
"The ability to test the backups without having to manually mount the VHDs after restore allows us to check the integrity of the backups."
"The ease of use of the solution is its most valuable feature. The interface is also 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."
"The automated procedure is quite good for us, as it is able to capture all of the information that we require."
"The most valuable feature is the recovery."
"The initial setup is quite straightforward."
"It has an application backup, a file backup, a system backup and a hypervisor."
"Microsoft DPM is scalable."
"This solution helps us to manage all of the operations across servers and different workstations."
"The user interface is very good. The reporting and monitoring features are also good."
"The solution backs up Microsoft workloads as well as anything on the market."
"Stability."
"To improve Altaro, I would like to see the ability to choose more than one backup location at a time."
"The cloud backup and VMware support (now available in the latest releases), could do with some improvement."
"Availability of physical server backup would be an added advantage."
"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."
"It would be nice to see a feature that backs up the host so that, in case of a server failure, an entire server could be restored all at once."
"It would be nice to be able to recover the items to their original location."
"The user interface can be improved quite a bit."
"Additional Hyper-V knowledge would be great."
"You have only a few settings and if you change them for some special configurations, it's very difficult."
"Microsoft DPM could improve if it was available in a public or private cloud."
"It needs portability for other vendors. It is good for backing up Microsoft servers, but it doesn't support third-party solutions such as Oracle Database. It depends on Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy, especially for Hyper-V, which has a lot of problems. They should enhance the Volume Shadow Copy functionality. Its reporting should also be better. Reporting is too weak in DPM."
"The user friendliness could be improved."
"There is a very poor online user community in terms of people blogging about their experiences with DPM."
"We can't take a snapshot and take it outside, which is a problem."
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Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is ranked 54th in Backup and Recovery with 29 reviews while Microsoft DPM is ranked 27th in Backup and Recovery with 17 reviews. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is rated 8.6, while Microsoft DPM is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup writes "Offers a comprehensive feature set offered at a competitive price". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft DPM writes "Good for backing up, but the 2019 version lags". Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup and Datto Cloud Continuity, whereas Microsoft DPM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Azure Backup, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas Backup Exec and Commvault Cloud.
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