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."The ability to test the backups without having to manually mount the VHDs after restore allows us to check the integrity of the backups."
"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."
"Reverse Delta is Altaro proprietary backup deduplication technology. With Reverse Delta, the latest version of a file is always made available in its entirety, not as a delta file."
"Valuable features for us include quick recovery, compression, and deduplication."
"VM backup and the item level recovery are the most valuable features."
"All of the features are fantastic and also the management from Microsoft dealing with multiple machines is great. The whole package is excellent for me."
"The interface is user-friendly and even if our tech isn't onsite, we can work with the owners to confirm that the data will be restored with no issues."
"The intuitive interface allows you to set up and perform backups and restores easily."
"The best part of this solution is that it just works."
"The deduplication and compression features are the most valuable features."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is its ability to verify the recoverability of backups."
"We do not lose data. That is why we are using this product and have a backup in place."
"Everyone wants a full backup. It gives them safety and peace of mind, like an insurance policy for that rainy day when they may need to restore a system."
"It is pretty easy to use and maintain."
"The most valuable feature for data recovery in IBM Spectrum Protect is its database protection capabilities."
"Space efficient data reduction, using progressive incremental forever in combination with deduplication and compression."
"The cloud backup and VMware support (now available in the latest releases), could do with some improvement."
"Backup speed and comparisons between versions used to be slow on big VMs but that was improved greatly later on."
"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."
"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."
"The scalability of the solution is limited."
"Availability of physical server backup would be an added advantage."
"The application could include a feature to install a set size of data, such as the ability to store a single application with all its registry information for easy transfer."
"We cannot take VMware backups for our banking data center environment."
"Probably educating the virtual group who are not as used to the product. Most of our expertise is with AIX servers and virtual server backups."
"Restoring massive files is a very time-consuming process."
"The previous GUI that they had was slow, and it did not have enough information on it."
"Our new leadership has pushed us to go more toward the cloud, so we are definitely going to leverage anything we can in that direction."
"I find the Level 1 and Level 2 support spend 80% of the time communicating the same information that I have already provided."
"Our customers would like to see metadata replication, tearing to tape, and more cloud capabilities."
"The product’s recovery process in terms of agent installation needs improvement"
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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 "Offers a comprehensive feature set offered at a competitive price". 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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