We performed a comparison between IDERA SQL Safe Backup and Unitrends based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."It has reduced our backup time and simplified our backup processes across all the servers."
"The compression, because it drastically reduces the disk space."
"Replication to Forever Cloud."
"When we talk about a backup point of view, from a backup perspective, it's a good one."
"It's not easy to scale it."
"Being an appliance-based solution, we were able to migrate backup solutions without having to purchase a lot of hardware separately."
"I am impressed with the tool's reporting and UniView features."
"I really like the reporting options you get for various email reports."
"It is a quick and easy way to organize my backups and to keep track of them."
"It is very easy to set up and get started. Almost too easy. We racked this device and had it up and running in less than 15 minutes."
"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."
"The way the filtering goes, if you filter on your view, there is no indication that you have made a selection."
"There's a lot that can be made better. For example, it could be more scalable."
"There are a few quirks where the GUI, agent, and back-end are not precisely meshed."
"I would like to see the real-time replication process improved, and a zero RPO feature added."
"Follow up for the DRaaS service setup. I'm still waiting to schedule a DRaaS test after upgrading several months ago."
"The ability to run just differentials without pulling the full on your archive."
"Support is great for small simple issues, but anything more difficult, it is hard to get good resolutions without having to badger them and their management."
"Making the seeding process more accessible and easier to understand. Also, make more of the undocumented best practices easier to find."
"Probably the biggest issue I've had is actually paying for the unit, and part of that problem is that they use a third party for the billing."
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IDERA SQL Safe Backup is ranked 74th in Backup and Recovery while Unitrends is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews. IDERA SQL Safe Backup is rated 5.0, while Unitrends is rated 7.8. 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 Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". IDERA SQL Safe Backup is most compared with Rubrik and IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact, whereas Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).
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