We performed a comparison between Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup and IBM Spectrum Protect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."This solution is stable."
"Valuable features for us include quick recovery, compression, and deduplication."
"Excellent compression and deduplication with off-site WAN backup included."
"The intuitive interface allows you to set up and perform backups and restores easily."
"The most valuable feature of Altaro VM Backup is its ability to backup and restore various types of data, including Active Directory, application servers, and SQL Server databases."
"VM backup and the item level recovery are the most valuable features."
"We frequently use the granular restore option for when our users accidentally delete files or to recover emails from mailboxes. We have found that to be a must-have feature and it comes with the solution at no extra cost."
"Ability to restore to any host."
"We have been using it for several years, and it is quite reliable and predictable. We are quite comfortable with this solution. They're coming up with new features as well. It has good scalability, and it provides good integrations with business-critical applications or databases, such as SAP HANA. It works as expected, and we don't see any issues."
"We have a very good team of administrators who know the product perfectly and are able to manage it on a day-to-day basis."
"We can freeze and start databases for consistent backups."
"It scales well. We have grown here in the last year or two, and it has been relatively easy."
"Reliability: It has never had a problem with backups or restores. If you store something, it is there."
"Support of the IBM X platform and the backup data replication to DR are the most valuable features."
"We like IBM Spectrum's versioning capabilities. It lets us specify how many versions of a file we want to keep and for how long. Also, the archive component of the software helps us a lot."
"It is a very stable product. The cost is similar to that of other enterprise solutions."
"The initial set up was complex, and I was not able to do the set up myself."
"Availability of physical server backup would be an added advantage."
"It would be nice to see a feature that backs up the host so that, in case of a server failure, an entire server could be restored all at once."
"Improvement areas for Altaro VM Backup include enhancing backup and deduplication solutions for continuous operation and offering an all-in-one solution for hardware backup."
"Basically, how it works is that you have a single local drive, and then you have a cloud backup. It'd be nice if you could rotate the single local backup drive. As of now, you can't."
"Replication is not fast, the GUI could be more user-friendly, and technical support is lacking in Iran."
"It would be nice to be able to recover the items to their original location."
"Migrating the physical through a backup and restore to a virtual environment would be very helpful."
"It should have the ability to break down the data that's being backed up. It should have better reporting."
"Our customers would like to see metadata replication, tearing to tape, and more cloud capabilities."
"We would like to see cloud integration."
"The product’s recovery process in terms of agent installation needs improvement"
"It could use single store. The ability to mark an archive from my backup for long-term retention."
"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
"The GUI has long been a problem for TSM/Spectrum Protect."
"In a future release, it would be a benefit to have the ability to add an application as a storage target, as a storage pool. Additionally, they should add more functionality to the administration for the Operation Center."
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Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is ranked 54th in Backup and Recovery with 29 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is rated 8.6, while IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup writes "Easy to use with a helpful dashboard, good support, and the deduplication feature saves heavily on storage space". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup and Datto Cloud Continuity, whereas IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik.
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