We performed a comparison between Rubrik and Unitrends 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 fact that the API is so available to us with the playground — there's an internal and public playground — is also valuable. We can write API calls — and although I'm sure there's a way we could hurt the data — we write those calls with a lot of certainty that we won't be destroying anything. We write these API calls using really easy mechanisms and generate automation a lot faster."
"The most valuable feature is the Instant Recovery, where we can restore a VM or SQL database or any server or application, and have it up and running on their appliance within a few seconds."
"The most valuable feature is the archive to cloud location and the automation around the PowerShell script. There are also reports and dashboards."
"When it comes to saving time managing our backups, Rubrik has saved us a lot of time compared to what we were using. It feels like it has saved us lifetimes of time because the process used to be difficult. It's not just the day to time savings. When something goes wrong, that's where the real time savings comes into play. We are able to get back to where we need to be more confidently and with much fewer steps."
"The product's most valuable feature is the immutability of a backup."
"The most valuable feature has been the Live Mount feature."
"Rubrik has made the process to manage backup and recovery painless. This frees up more time to work on other projects."
"Rubrik is stable and easy to use."
"If you are a large organization, this is a product for you."
"Being an appliance-based solution, we were able to migrate backup solutions without having to purchase a lot of hardware separately."
"The ability to backup both physical and virtual machines, along with having an appliance store the backups locally instead of on a file server, NAS, or SAN."
"Replication to Forever Cloud."
"It is a quick and easy way to organize my backups and to keep track of them."
"The most valuable feature of Unitrends for me is the automated feedback"
"It's not easy to scale it."
"The backup feature and recovery option are good because they allow the instant recovery of Hyper-V nodes and files."
"It needs to support more applications natively, like MySQL/MariaDB."
"The interface is still slightly clunky and has room for improvement. They do work with us whenever we mention anything that needs to be done or anything that we want. We find that bringing up the management interface is a little slow and not as intuitive as we would like, but it's been getting better as it evolves."
"It does not offer image-level backups for Hyper-V 2012."
"Setup is immediate but pricing is not cheap."
"They support Hyper-V and it works with our CloudOut, the cloud DR, but they seem to add features for VMware first and Hyper-V gets added second or sometimes several releases after the VMware feature comes out."
"I don't like Rubrik's user interface because it's not intuitive, and I find it hard to get the information I need."
"Rubrik needs to continue to listen to their customers and what they want/need, not just care about money and the bottom line."
"I hope to see enhancements in areas like data governance and the incorporation of new features in future updates."
"It would be great to have the job throttle/limit the max number of backups on a single ESXi host."
"The ability to run just differentials without pulling the full on your archive."
"I would like to see more storage options for the free version."
"I would like to see the real-time replication process improved, and a zero RPO feature added."
"There are a few quirks where the GUI, agent, and back-end are not precisely meshed."
"Making the seeding process more accessible and easier to understand. Also, make more of the undocumented best practices easier to find."
"In terms of improvement, the UI, especially in the recovery section, is unclear about which repository it uses."
"If the interface could be less complex, it is would be great."
Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 82 reviews while Unitrends is ranked 41st in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews. Rubrik is rated 9.2, while Unitrends is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". 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". Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Zerto, whereas Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Cohesity DataProtect. See our Rubrik vs. Unitrends report.
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