We performed a comparison between IDERA SQL Safe Backup and NetApp SnapCenter 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."It has reduced our backup time and simplified our backup processes across all the servers."
"The compression, because it drastically reduces the disk space."
"It's very helpful because SnapCenter is already integrated with VMware Snapshot, so it's very easy to use."
"I like the instant backups and recovery feature that SnapCenter provides within NetApp storage systems."
"What is very handy for our clients is the consolidated view. They have a dashboard with everything, through a single pane of glass. This is what they really need because, within seconds, they can have a good overview and see if there are any errors or any issues."
"The central pane view is the most valuable feature. You have one console where you can monitor all your jobs, as opposed to going to different vCenters."
"Restoring and cloning are easy to do."
"A feature that stands out is cloning databases. If you have a SQL database and it's huge, like one terabyte, the classical SQL way would be to do a backup-restore to create a clone of your database for test purposes. With SnapCenter now, we can clone a database but through the Snapshot technology, which means if you right-click and you click Clone, the one terabyte database is there instantly."
"The way that it interconnects with VMware is really handy, because you can go right into your vSphere client, where you spend a lot of the day anyway, right-click on one of the VMs where you have backups running for however long, and you can restore either some files or restore the entire thing."
"It has greatly improved our DR activity."
"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."
"Make sure you check your backups on a regular basis. Backups do get missed with this tool, for whatever reason."
"We would like to see more granular repording and reporting in bigger sets available in SnapCenter."
"Since the solution's initial setup is complex, it should make training documents available in the public space."
"I feel a little bit that during the whole process of putting this software into production we were like a beta program. It was full of bugs... For example, we had a problem with truncating our Exchange log files... It has improved over time."
"When you have role-based access, for example, it's a bit of a problem that the person who creates the backup job is the owner of it. We are struggling a bit with this, that everyone has the same view and the same permissions in there."
"If it was possible to create backups on non-NetApp storage, that would be helpful."
"The UI, the User Interface, needs to be improved. It's not as clean or modern as it could be."
"The tool could be faster."
"What I did witness lately are issues with some Microsoft KBs, the updates. But it happened only once, and not on a major platform, it was on a small one."
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IDERA SQL Safe Backup is ranked 77th in Backup and Recovery while NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews. IDERA SQL Safe Backup is rated 5.0, while NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp SnapCenter writes "A stable solution that is mostly used by banks and financial institutions". IDERA SQL Safe Backup is most compared with Rubrik and IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact, whereas NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, NetApp Cloud Backup and Veritas NetBackup. See our IDERA SQL Safe Backup vs. NetApp SnapCenter report.
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