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BDRShield pros and cons

Vendor: Vembu Technologies

4.1 out of 5

66 reviews
91% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

BDRShield offers automated backup for virtual machines, supporting Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware Hypervisor. Features include snapshots, continuous SQL and app services backup, effective compression, and file-level restore across locations. While users appreciate quick backup, there's difficulty with free VMware and older systems. Connectivity issues, phone support challenges, setup complexities, and storage management limitations hinder operations. Marketing deficiencies mean many potential users remain unaware of BDRShield's capabilities.

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PROS

BDRShield offers exceptional compression, significantly reducing backup sizes, especially for large datasets like SQL databases.

The software provides quick backup and restoration capabilities, including point-in-time restores, which save time and enhance data management efficiency.

With its ability to handle Hyper-V and VMware backups efficiently, BDRShield demonstrates versatility across different virtual environments.

The scalability and ease of adding new servers highlight BDRShield's adaptability to various business needs, ensuring continuity and growth.

BDRShield's disaster recovery features are highly valued, allowing users to restore data across different environments efficiently and reliably.

CONS

There are issues with setup, causing corrupted virtual machines and backup failure, making the system counterproductive in large environments.

There is no volume licensing discount for managed IT service providers, and partner incentives are lacking.

Technical support is slow and lacks adequate phone support, requiring remote access that raises security concerns.

There is a fundamental flaw in backup scheduling and the current incremental backup structure lacks flexibility.

BDRShield's dependency on an internet connection is a disadvantage, especially during outages, stopping its functionality after a few days.

BDRShield Pros review quotes

Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jan 26, 2017

I enjoy the ease of the UI and how simple it is to use compared to other products.

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CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

May 31, 2018

The automated backup of multiple virtual machines. We can back up two hypervisors, one is Microsoft Hyper-V and the other one is VMware Hypervisor.

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Rajkumar Neelakantan

IT Director at a marketing services firm with 201-500 employees

Jun 24, 2018

I back up one particular server with close to 1.2 TB, and the way the software compresses it is close to 600 or 700 TB. Vembu compresses it to close to 450 gigabytes, that's gigabytes. So that’s really amazing, the way in which the backup compression happens.

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CTO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jul 8, 2018

Valuable features include Snapshots and the constant backup for SQL, application services, and Active Directory.

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Richard Voorheis

Software Test Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jul 30, 2018

Their technical support is very good to work with, as they are able to propose alternate solutions to problems that work well for us.

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Technical Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Oct 21, 2018

The most valuable feature is the Hyper-V backup - it's just one click. I don't have to worry about it.

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Director of Technology at a wholesaler/distributor with 201-500 employees

Oct 24, 2018

We use it to maintain critical data and save it.

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BK

Application Support Specialist at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

Feb 6, 2019

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.

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JD

Director of IT at MTSI, Inc.

Feb 13, 2019

I can choose a point in time and issue the command to back up and I don't need to go in and restore the last full backup and then apply iteratively, sequentially, all the incrementals... I can pick a point in time and tell it I want to go to that state and it's transparent to me. It happens in the background for me.

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TK

IT Director at Premier Technical Services Group PLC

Feb 26, 2019

The most important features are the backup and the availability of the Universal Explorer. The in-transit compression is great.

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BDRShield Cons review quotes

Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jan 26, 2017

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.

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CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

May 31, 2018

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.

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Rajkumar Neelakantan

IT Director at a marketing services firm with 201-500 employees

Jun 24, 2018

The process is a bit cumbersome when you remove an agent, delete that job, and add the agent to the same server. Even though the agent is already installed in that server, the system does not recognize it. We have to uninstall the current agent, restart the server, install the push agent - a new agent - and then restart the server. I think they should try to avoid that.

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CTO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jul 8, 2018

I suggest that the dump of the database have the option to either be backed up to Vembu Cloud or be backed up to all backup sites and not only to default storage.

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Richard Voorheis

Software Test Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jul 30, 2018

I have not been impressed by the data compression of the backup images. They seem to take up nearly as much space on the backup drive as they do on the server.

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Technical Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Oct 21, 2018

There's a feature that does syncing with AWS Cloud backup online. It's not that straightforward to get it set up.

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HG

Director of Technology at a wholesaler/distributor with 201-500 employees

Oct 24, 2018

I would like to have a different set of products instead of having a single software which does everything.

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BK

Application Support Specialist at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

Feb 6, 2019

The only place where I would really want to see improvement, out the gate, is more granular scheduling... If I want to do an offset or to only do two backups on Friday and Saturday - versus whole hourly incrementals during the week - I don't have that granularity right now.

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JD

Director of IT at MTSI, Inc.

Feb 13, 2019

In the beginning, when we had some hiccups, I would chalk that up more to a learning curve for the product.

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TK

IT Director at Premier Technical Services Group PLC

Feb 26, 2019

The deduplication could be better. It doesn't give the level of deduplication that I would get with a product that's stored in a more standard file format. I would prefer to be able to use a non-deduplicated store on a third-party deduplicated medium.

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