We performed a comparison between BDRSuite and NAKIVO Backup & Replication 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."The Vembu BDR product is very intuitive and easy to use."
"It made it easy for us to handle the daily backup of endpoints."
"The initial setup is easy and very nice."
"You can restore all your data or partial parts of it. You can restore a specific version of the data. It has a lot of options for restore, so you can have the correct data that you want to restore. This is very important. You must know what you are going to restore. Otherwise, you may be overwriting correct data with other data. You must know what specific files you are restoring as well as which version. Partial restore is very important because there might be some files which are newer than the backup and some files that are corrupted. You need to restore some files from the backup, but not all the files."
"The agentless backups are the big selling point on this, as well as being able to send out across sites so that I can do a restore at either of our two locations."
"It's easy to restore."
"Backup of the VMware server is the most valuable feature."
"We use it to maintain critical data and save it."
"We are able to take backups on a regular interval and restore data/VMs as we choose making the process work as advertised."
"Nakivo's reporting features have helped a lot. They give my boss high visibility into what's going on, which is crucial because we had a data breach in the past where we lost about 12 years of data. That's why we bought several appliances, and we replicate the same backup twice a day to three different depositories."
"This product has helped to centralize backups and made it easy to recover data."
"It is fast, simple, powerful, and has a price without competition."
"The features that we like the most are the Backup Copy and Active Directory Integration. They have helped us to save a lot of time since we do not have to make the backup copies “by hand”."
"Perfect for someone who doesn't want to waste time."
"It is easy to set up using the included virtual appliance and also includes agents for most NAS systems."
"It can be quickly configured via web pages."
"It is very easy, unless you know exactly what you're doing, to corrupt the virtual machines and they get locked up. Just brief detail: When you are creating a system, if you don't have absolutely every other little background processes in place, it creates Snapshots of the virtual machines. Once it does that, it then won't be able to have a backup. From that point on you have to destroy the virtual machine, which is completely counterproductive on a large system. There is a fundamental flaw in the setup that can be very dangerous, potentially."
"They had a good product and tried to change things by going to a different product. They should have tried to stay with a product that is a proven solution and successful."
"The interface could be better because I have to fumble around to find things. I can't just sit down at the terminal and know exactly what to do. It could be just me, but I have used a number of different backup products, and I found them simpler. However, its features are very good, so I don't mind sacrificing a bit of extra time to do what I need."
"I would like to have a different set of products instead of having a single software which does everything."
"The support is a bit slow in resolving an issue. It takes a long time to recover."
"There were issues with the implementation because of incompatibilities between the tool implementation and our current VMware installation. So, it was an implementation issue that doesn't allow me to use it for VMware backup in the manner in which we would want to use it. That wasn't clear from the evaluation stage nor was it clear from the first utilization of it because it worked in the environment that it was being evaluated in. Based on that, we went ahead and made the purchase of the full implementation. At that point, it became clear that there would be limitations in that implementation that could not be overcome without doing upgrades to the production environment."
"The dashboard should more interactive."
"There's a feature that does syncing with AWS Cloud backup online. It's not that straightforward to get it set up."
"Automatic updates do not work, and every update has to be done manually."
"It would be good to have some Oracle database backup capability from the Linux OS in the next release."
"We want the backup job to consume fewer resources, as the utilization is very high if we choose the best compression."
"Updating VM Tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"An improvement would be to include a general data backup solution that is not only for virtual machines."
"Compression and data deduplication are okay, but they could be improved."
"While the solution provides mostly what we need, it would be ideal if there were some additional feature capabilities for the API."
"There are many features we have not had the opportunity to try, such as Tape Backups, Office 365 backups, and many other things."
BDRSuite is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 62 reviews while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews. BDRSuite is rated 8.2, while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of BDRSuite writes "Can automatically pull the virtual machines that we have in an environment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". BDRSuite is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Vinchin Backup & Recovery, Acronis Cyber Protect and Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, whereas NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik and Arcserve UDP. See our BDRSuite vs. NAKIVO Backup & Replication report.
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