We performed a comparison between Dell NetWorker and IDERA SQL Safe 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."When it was required that data had to be restored for our customer, it was accomplished successfully and this has kept our end users satisfied."
"The interface is user-friendly and can be used by the end-users."
"The solution is simple to understand."
"The best feature of Dell EMC NetWorker is its wide spectrum of available plugins for each and every software that you can back up, such as SAP HANA, Oracle, AXI-based machines, or Dell-based machines. Whatever you want to back up, you can do it with Dell EMC NetWorker. It is a very solid backup software. It is the oldest backup software from EMC, and it comes from Dell EMC's legacy."
"The full backup is a great feature. Restoration is also good and very quick."
"Good scalability and virtual environment protection."
"The solution has a longer lifespan."
"The feature that offers the greatest benefits in ensuring data integrity is its backup capability."
"The compression, because it drastically reduces the disk space."
"It has reduced our backup time and simplified our backup processes across all the servers."
"It could be more user-friendly."
"The stability of the NMC could use some attention, as it tends to be a bit shaky during jobs and other operations."
"They need more support for image backups."
"The end-user experience is not good."
"The product should provide integration with AWS."
"Reporting templates could be easier to understand and more comprehensive."
"The UI needs some enhancement to be more user-friendly."
"The user interface is hard to use, it should be simplified. There are a lot of web-based management interfaces which they should consider."
"Make sure you check your backups on a regular basis. Backups do get missed with this tool, for whatever reason."
"I would like to see the pieces that they have put in the web only to be put into the thick client sitting on the desktop client."
"The way the filtering goes, if you filter on your view, there is no indication that you have made a selection."
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Dell NetWorker is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews while IDERA SQL Safe Backup is ranked 74th in Backup and Recovery. Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8, while IDERA SQL Safe Backup is rated 5.0. The top reviewer of Dell NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IDERA SQL Safe Backup writes "You can't see any metrics about how long it took you to backup the entire server. We've had a huge reduction in the nightly backup footprint size". Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup and Commvault Cloud, whereas IDERA SQL Safe Backup is most compared with Rubrik and IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact.
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