We performed a comparison between Quest Rapid Recovery and Rubrik 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."Built-in encryption helps to secure our data as it travels from our on-site server to our off-site backup server."
"The compression and deduplication features have helped to save on storage costs."
"The most valuable feature is the disaster recovery process from the data center."
"The local mount utility is most valuable. I do restores fairly regularly. Thankfully, I have not ever lost an entire server that I've had to resurrect, but I certainly have people who erroneously saved over a file or have deleted a file. So, we've done that quite a bit. We still have the DL4000 appliance, and we had, kind of, extrapolated that out over a five-year period. Now, we're in year six, so we had to add storage, which we did as a SAN next to DL4000, but prior to adding in that extra storage, we, here and there, would run into situations where for whatever reason, it would want to be pulling a new base image, and then we would run out of storage. So, we would utilize the archive feature and archive the old data that we want to hang on to, but we don't necessarily need it taking up current data storage. Being able to export out really old data is most valuable to us. Then, we just store that on a NAS that we keep in another building."
"Not having to switch tapes is wonderful. It makes it so easy. We have an on-prem deployment that we also replicate to an offsite replication host. So by not having to deal with tapes and moving them off-site every day and every week, that's amazing ease of use for us."
"The solution offers a 100% guarantee that if it's backed up you will be able to restore it onto any platform you want."
"Probably the point-in-time recovery is most valuable. The other piece that is really nice is that you can mount a whole server at any point in time. So, you can mount the server with all the drives to a Z drive or something like that. It will just mount it all up, and your data is accessible right there on one drive, which is nice."
"One feature I found that's the most valuable in Quest Rapid Recovery is the VM standby feature which is very useful for my current customer. The solution also has a great replication feature. The third most valuable feature in Quest Rapid Recovery is the five-minute RPO and the fifteen-minute RTO. The solution is also very user-friendly."
"Rubrik is very simple to implement and setup. "
"This is a centralized tool where we are able to schedule backups and perform monitoring."
"Rubrik is an easy and automatic solution that needs no manual intervention."
"What I like the most about Rubrik is its user-friendly interface."
"The ease of use and innovation are the features that stand out for us."
"The Auto-Snapshot SLA feature and recovery time are amazing. It took seven seconds to have a server back up and running in production from a total failure."
"Rubrik has improved our organization by minimizing downtime."
"Instant recovery of virtual machines allows for the restoration of services in minutes."
"It's buggy. That's a big problem. We're arranging to get rid of it. We're going to switch to Veeam."
"One area where Quest Rapid Recovery has room for improvement is in the handling of snapshots on Hyper-V."
"Sometimes, when we have certain batches for Windows, it needs to be restarted. When it's restarted, the service is configured as a delayed start. Sometimes, you need to wait too long until it rights itself, or you have to do it manually."
"It's not really Quest's fault, but the only issue that I had during the time when I was doing a lot of our restores is whenever the server reboots, it has to bring all of the repositories back in again, which takes around five to six hours to pull eight terabytes back in again."
"Rapid Recovery can only backup the machine or disc, but it can't back up from folders, and files, and things like that."
"In case, if there is anything, it would be the speed of the operation to be finished. Even then, I can easily work on the storing function before the operation is finished."
"When you do a full backup, all of the memory resources on the server are used, which is something that should be improved."
"For the most part, it is really good in terms of flexibility and choice of recovery methods. What we found lacking was being able to back up virtual volumes that are clustered. We ran out of luck there. There should be an option for backing up clustered virtual volumes."
"The dashboard and user interface could be improved to make them more user-friendly."
"I would love to be able to just get from the dashboard to a file that I need, or a system that I need."
"It is an expensive product."
"I would like for unmanaged backups to be able to be saved in a separate policy."
"The product’s user interface needs improvement."
"The solution needs to be more secure and needs to better protect against ransomware."
"I hope to see enhancements in areas like data governance and the incorporation of new features in future updates."
"The only thing that can be improved is catering for open source databases because at the moment it doesn't cater for Mongo, MySQL, and Postgres."
Quest Rapid Recovery is ranked 24th in Backup and Recovery with 18 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 82 reviews. Quest Rapid Recovery is rated 8.8, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Quest Rapid Recovery writes "Allows us to do point-in-time recovery and mount the whole server and saves quite a bit of time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". Quest Rapid Recovery is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Quest NetVault, Azure Backup, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Acronis Cyber Protect, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Quest Rapid Recovery vs. Rubrik report.
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