We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, and Quest Rapid Recovery based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"It is an IBM product. With SAP, you are using IBM software to protect it. DB2 and AIX servers are both IBM. Therefore, it is a total IBM solution, which helps."
"The solution is very stable. It is one of the most important features that we look for in a product before putting it into the market and when establishing a strategy with our customers."
"Data reduction definitely reduces costs, not only software costs, but from the infrastructure needed."
"The most valuable features of Spectrum Protect would be the compression and the deduplication."
"With the new features that we have added, it has made a difference as far as faster recovery and speed."
"It's very robust and has been on the market for a long time."
"It scales from very small to very large. It is easily the most scalable product out there."
"It is affordable."
"Nakivo Backup and Replication's web-based management interface enables intuitive, rapid, and seamless configuration and management of all backup and recovery functionality across the enterprise."
"The ability to restore in a catastrophic event is priceless, since every company must use a backup solution of some sort."
"They reply immediately to any query raised from us as a technician or consultant and they know the pulse of the market and keep updating the features in such a big way."
"The main advantage from our perspective is the ability to plug this solution into an existing infrastructure on a cheap device and point the backup at the server targets and configure the backup options in a simple menu; linking to a cheap cloud resource for a simple solution for off-site storage."
"Creating a backup task in NAKIVO is fast and easy."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is a cheaper price and user-friendly."
"We spend less time to get data recovered."
"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."
"It is very easy to use and very easy to manage. The fact that I can easily recover data is valuable. I don't use it much. The only way I have been using it is that sometimes, people ask to recover the data, which is a very easy process. It takes only a few minutes to get in and get the data from the server."
"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."
"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."
"Just knowing that the data is easily recoverable is our ROI. It definitely lowers risk."
"The best feature of the solution is the user interface."
"Built-in encryption helps to secure our data as it travels from our on-site server to our off-site backup server."
"The most valuable feature is the disaster recovery process from the data center."
"There were scalability issues only in the brand new features which were recently released."
"Needs more support for non-mainstream databases, in particular PostgreSQL, SQL, and MySQL."
"Anytime you are not very current and call in with an issue, it is hard to get it resolved. It will depend on how far back you go though."
"The product’s recovery process in terms of agent installation needs improvement"
"Perhaps if they could add replication to a second site or third site from the same console, that would be helpful. Currently, we have to connect to another console."
"We should be talking about the capacity of the tape drives. That's the only problem."
"We need better protection from ransomware or the ability to identify ways we can protect ourselves from ransomware. Having backups is one thing, but specifically, we need methods to recover if we have a ransomware attack."
"I would like a little more ease with the virtual platforms, because it is a huge thing that is coming up."
"While the solution provides mostly what we need, it would be ideal if there were some additional feature capabilities for the API."
"An additional feature that would be appreciated is disaster recovery automation."
"It'll help if they offered some automation and more usability for partners."
"There are some errors requiring support to correct and bugs and glitches should be addressed."
"Automatic updates do not work, and every update has to be done manually."
"It would be a good thing to have some use case and architecture examples online to understand integration in complex infrastructure."
"Updating VM Tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"We'd like to see a legacy environment backup, like AIX, etc."
"You can only take a snapshot from a virtual environment. It should have the ability to take snapshots from both a virtual and physical environment."
"The on-premises deployment model shouldn't have a maintenance fee. If there's going to be technical support, they need it to be free or it should be paid on upon adopting the solution."
"It is quite surprising to me that the configuration cannot be backed up automatically, and I think that Rapid Recovery should have an option for scheduled configuration backup."
"In terms of what needs improvement in Quest Rapid Recovery, though the solution is seamless, right now, they are just giving the software which means we'll need to arrange the hardware. If they can combine the appliance and software, that would be a great approach. In the next release of Quest Rapid Recovery, it would be great if they'd add a folder backup feature because only a snapshot backup feature is available at the moment."
"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."
"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."
"It's buggy. That's a big problem. We're arranging to get rid of it. We're going to switch to Veeam."
"I don't really think that there is a whole lot that needs to be changed. It would be nice if you could deploy the agent without having to reboot. When I upgraded my core to the latest version, I also wanted to update all of my servers, but I had to put that off because I can't just shoot it out there. I have to make sure it is at a time when I can do a reboot right away."
