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Rubrik pros and cons

Vendor: Rubrik

4.6 out of 5

92 reviews
98% willing to recommend

3,479 followers

Pros & Cons summary

Rubrik delivers a streamlined backup and recovery process, minimizing management time while reducing downtime with its instant recovery feature for virtual machines and databases. It offers robust ransomware protection, supports automation via PowerShell and API, and optimizes backup schedules through intelligent agent technology. However, Rubrik is costly, needs better integration with storage arrays, lacks support for some open-source databases, and requires improved disaster recovery, cross-hypervisor restore, and reporting capabilities.

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Prominent pros & cons

PROS

Rubrik offers instant recovery facilitating quick VM restoration.

Predictive search functionality across systems enhances efficiency.

The proactive support team ensures prompt issue resolution.

Rubrik's integration with different technologies improves backup processes.

Its strong focus on security provides robust ransomware protection.

CONS

Rubrik's pricing is high, making it cost-prohibitive for some users.

Rubrik lacks native support for certain applications like MySQL and MariaDB.

There are limitations in Rubrik's reporting functionalities, particularly in customization and clarity.

Rubrik's global management and reporting across multiple systems need improvement.

Rubrik has room for enhancing disaster recovery capabilities and cross-hypervisor restore functionality.

Rubrik Pros review quotes

MG

Senior Network System Engineer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 24, 2019

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.

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Chadd Blanchard

System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

Mar 14, 2021

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.

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DR

Senior Systems Engineer at a university with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 7, 2019

The archiving, off-of-box, is awesome. It lets you put your data where you want it and gives you the peace of mind of having more than one copy of it. And it's smart about the way that it does the archiving. It doesn't just copy one-for-one. It does all of its processing of the deduplication and compression before it sends it off to the archive, which helps with our cloud costs.

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reviewer1491999

Storage Administrator at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jan 21, 2021

We do like the instant recovery... Now, we say, "Okay, give me 15 seconds and I can get this back up for you." And within that 15 seconds it's on and the only thing that we have to do afterwards is vMotion it off of the Rubrik storage back to where it should rest.

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BS

Systems Engineer at Harvard University

Jan 21, 2021

There is a live-restore feature, their Live Mount, and the way it works we can instantly recover a VM, a past backup, to be directly attached to our VMware environment. Rubrik will act as a disk for it. It's like an instant restore. Within a few minutes our VM is up and running. And then, if we want to restore it, we can just migrate it to our actual storage.

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reviewer1372269

Head of Operations at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 18, 2021

Not having to specify a time to run a backup with a fixed schedule is something that's really beneficial. In the past we had to schedule and try to manually stagger things over the window, to back up everything. Because Rubrik is SLA-based, you say, "Well, I need it to fit in this window here," and it just backs it up when it's most convenient for the Brik and for the third-party system. It looks at the CPU usage and says, "Okay, it's not as busy now. I know I've got time to take the backup." That's a real advantage.

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reviewer1490808

Director of Technology at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Jan 20, 2021

We have a great success rate for backups with Rubrik and because of the ease of automating tasks, we also run periodical restores to check the quality of the backups.

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reviewer1497909

Senior Technology Architect at PCCW

Jan 28, 2021

The main benefit is that we are secured in terms of workloads. We know that if we need to restore any VMs, or even any files inside a VM, that we will succeed 100 percent. This means that we don't need to spend much time administering the backup environment because we know it is self-healing and efficient. So, we are spending that time on something else, which is always a plus.

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LA

Cloud Services Manager at Tecala Group

Feb 9, 2021

The ease of use and innovation are the features that stand out for us.

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Sr Storage Administrator at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

Apr 7, 2021

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.

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Rubrik Cons review quotes

MG

Senior Network System Engineer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 24, 2019

I have a personal want which might not necessarily make sense with Rubrik as a company or Rubrik as a software, but it'd be really nice if they could also handle things like item-level backups and restores of Active Directory objects and DNS and DCP objects.

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Chadd Blanchard

System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

Mar 14, 2021

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.

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DR

Senior Systems Engineer at a university with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 7, 2019

The deployment and configuration of the backup service is something that could be streamlined a little bit, particularly when you're trying to do a SQL workload. You have to install a backup service on the server. You only have to do it once and then you're done, but you have to do that on every server that you want to protect.

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reviewer1491999

Storage Administrator at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jan 21, 2021

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.

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BS

Systems Engineer at Harvard University

Jan 21, 2021

Capacity reports could definitely be improved. It's hard to determine what is using the space and why. For instance, you can see that some host is using 2 TB on the Rubrik node and the disk space on that host is 400 GBs. It's hard to explain how there can be 2 TBs of data on local storage when nothing has changed on the host for the past three days.

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reviewer1372269

Head of Operations at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 18, 2021

Looking at how the data is broken down, we can see the total story, but sometimes it's difficult to see how big a particular snapshot is. Across 90 days of snapshots, which one is a particularly large one? Looking at the data holistically could be a lot easier.

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reviewer1490808

Director of Technology at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Jan 20, 2021

I would love to be able to just get from the dashboard to a file that I need, or a system that I need.

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reviewer1497909

Senior Technology Architect at PCCW

Jan 28, 2021

There is always room for improvement with some shortcuts for the web interface. They could make it even more beautiful.

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LA

Cloud Services Manager at Tecala Group

Feb 9, 2021

The Office 365 protection could be improved.

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Sr Storage Administrator at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

Apr 7, 2021

If there was something that we could get Rubrik to fix, it would be when our DBS takes snapshots of a server or the database, the replication doesn't kick off fast enough. They can't remote it to the peer site and manipulate it back up in order to move it over, take a copy of production, slap it over, and test it out. As I understand, they are working on it. Replication works. We also get spoiled by how good things are now. We get to a point where it is so easy but when something isn't instant gratification, it seems that everything else is so amazing, why isn't this right?

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