We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect 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."The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
"We work very closely together with IBM using their Support Center, but we have a strong contact in their development teams, and we have dedicated people from IBM working with us."
"The best part of this solution is that it just works."
"Because of the flexible parameters, everything can be fine-tuned to the customers’ needs in their environment."
"You can scale the product."
"Some of the people in our group, like our DBAs and non-technical people, can restore some stuff themselves via Spectrum Protect. That is how simple it is."
"The most valuable features are compression and de-duplication."
"The customization and the ability to backup across all platforms are the most valuable features."
"The compression, because it drastically reduces the disk space."
"It has reduced our backup time and simplified our backup processes across all the servers."
"High availability (HA) is a scalability challenge."
"It needs agents that take into account more databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)."
"The product should be improved to save more space."
"It does not do too well in our virtual environment."
"The GUI has long been a problem for TSM/Spectrum Protect."
"No one can fix every solution for backup and restore."
"IBM's support hasn't been so good in the last few years."
"It has a lot of areas for improvement. Its reporting for job completion or incompletion can be improved. It should also provide a granular recovery, ease of operation, data life cycle management, and media management. It should support a backup in such a format that in case of a disaster, one can start the virtual machine out of the backup itself. Its reliability can also be better. It is also expensive, and their support is also poor."
"Make sure you check your backups on a regular basis. Backups do get missed with this tool, for whatever reason."
"The way the filtering goes, if you filter on your view, there is no indication that you have made a selection."
"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."
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IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while IDERA SQL Safe Backup is ranked 76th in Backup and Recovery. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while IDERA SQL Safe Backup is rated 5.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". 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". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Rubrik 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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