We performed a comparison between Azure Backup and Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."With Azure Backup, you can readily make your environment if your setup somehow fails on the cloud or on-premises."
"Azure Backup is very simple to use and user-friendly."
"It is a stable solution...The product is worth the money you pay for it."
"It's easy to deploy."
"The most valuable features of Azure Backup for us are its flexible retention options and the ability to recover to a second region with geo-replication and read access."
"It's stable."
"Our client’s infrastructure is protected by the tool."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that it is easy to create a backup by using Azure Backup. It also has a good user interface and nice features for sending notifications when any backup fails or there is a change in the status of virtual machines."
"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."
"The initial setup was simple and easy. Anyone without prior experience can install, configure, and use it."
"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."
"The intuitive interface allows you to set up and perform backups and restores easily."
"The product has many valuable features for handling backup needs, including replication, live migration, and incremental disaster recovery."
"Valuable features for us include quick recovery, compression, and deduplication."
"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."
"This solution is stable."
"In the next release, I would like to see the ability to back up to different cloud providers."
"To make it a ten, it should have the ability to extend the retention and to perform a copy of the data outside of the subscription - with no additional costs."
"The time required to restore files should be a little faster."
"My company faces a lot of difficulties in restoring any encrypted VM backup."
"They need to improve the frequency of the backup. You can only backup one to three times a day. It would be better to back up continuously throughout the day."
"It doesn't have the option to have a backup from the database. It has backup for the files, folders, and backup only the whole virtual machine. But if I need to do a backup from the Oracle database, from an Exchange server or from SharePoint, this ability isn't there. There is no application backup."
"The product must improve on a database level."
"The support for Office365 backup is atrocious and is something that has to be improved."
"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."
"The initial set up was complex, and I was not able to do the set up myself."
"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."
"It would be nice to be able to recover the items to their original location."
"To improve Altaro, I would like to see the ability to choose more than one backup location at a time."
"Backup speed and comparisons between versions used to be slow on big VMs but that was improved greatly later on."
"Replication is not fast, the GUI could be more user-friendly, and technical support is lacking in Iran."
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Azure Backup is ranked 7th in Backup and Recovery with 50 reviews while Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is ranked 54th in Backup and Recovery with 29 reviews. Azure Backup is rated 7.8, while Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Backup writes "Straightforward to set up and manage and allows us to monitor all backups in one place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup writes "Offers a comprehensive feature set offered at a competitive price". Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Datto Cloud Continuity and N-able Cove Data Protection.
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