We performed a comparison between BackupAssist and Dell Avamar 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 most valuable features of BackupAssist are ease of use, configure is simple, and more importantly, ease of recovery. If you needed to do a complete system recovery or another recovery it is straightforward."
"We can configure the notifications themselves so that the right people get the notifications. This is very helpful. It allows key stakeholders to know if backups have happened and to remind each other to check the backups if something is not right."
"I have found that the backups are usually very successful."
"I get my reports. It is generally very reliable. Unless there is a major change, it doesn't stop backing up. I've got my server room set up with everything connected to the same power, and I never have power issues or failures of backups because a sub-site has gone off."
"Its stability and deduplication capabilities are most valuable."
"We've found the product to be stable."
"Stable and scalable backup and recovery software, with good technical support."
"The most valuable features are image backups and file backups."
"I think the brand is very good. Support is also very nice for end users and integration with EMC products for businesses."
"We have seen huge data reduction and data deduplication and compression, which is very cost-effective and cost-reducing for the company."
"We used Dell Avamar for backup and recovery of a virtual environment."
"Dell EMC Avamar is easy to work with and is user-friendly."
"Many solutions become stagnant over time. However, BackupAssist has been consistent in updates but they must continue to innovate and improve to avoid stagnation."
"Many solutions become stagnant over time. However, BackupAssist has been consistent in updates but they must continue to innovate and improve to avoid stagnation."
"The solution needs a dashboard or some form of central control from which you can manage all backups."
"In the future I would like to see more support for Linux."
"It stopped doing my backups after I did the last update on it."
"A benefit would be support for either Azure Cool Storage or AWS Glacier."
"In my opinion, the user interface and the user friendliness could be improved. The specific thing I have in mind are the graphics, which are not quite user-friendly."
"The user interface needs to be improved. It's not as good as it could be."
"When we used the solution, it was still new, and so the customer service/technical support was not the best."
"The initial setup is a bit complex and could be simpler."
"Performance can sometimes be affected when tools are utilized for tasks like backup or deep archiving."
"The solution used to freeze sometimes while taking a snapshot backup."
"The solution could be a bit easier to use in the sense that they need to make it simpler to backup products and restore items."
BackupAssist is ranked 26th in Backup and Recovery with 5 reviews while Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews. BackupAssist is rated 8.8, while Dell Avamar is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of BackupAssist writes "Provides ransomware protection, does good reporting, and is close to perfect for our use case". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell Avamar writes "Stable, integrates well with other solutions, and has a good price, but its UI needs a refresh". BackupAssist is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication and Acronis Cyber Protect, whereas Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).
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