We performed a comparison between BDRSuite and Dell NetWorker 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."We use it to maintain critical data and save it."
"I am very pleased with the compression, especially with some of the larger SQL databases that need backup. The amount of compression is impressive."
"I back up one particular server with close to 1.2 TB, and the way the software compresses it is close to 600 or 700 TB. Vembu compresses it to close to 450 gigabytes, that's gigabytes. So that’s really amazing, the way in which the backup compression happens."
"The Vembu BDR product is very intuitive and easy to use."
"The main difference I see between Vembu and the other solutions we've tried is that with Vembu, you don't need anybody to tell you what to do. Once you have done the installation you just look at the user interface — it's very friendly — and you can do things yourself without resorting to help from anybody."
"It helps me with restores. I can repeat a test multiple times: Do the test, the restore, and then test again. It saves me time because I don't have to rebuild the VMs every time."
"The initial setup is easy and very nice."
"The main benefit is that it's inexpensive. We get a lot for a little bit of money. I'm very happy with the savings and with the features. It allows me to do everything I need."
"It's easy to use."
"The feature that offers the greatest benefits in ensuring data integrity is its backup capability."
"The updated graphical interface is better than it used to be."
"Dell NetWorker's valuable feature is its ability to configure the network for immutability, specifically for backups."
"Anybody could drive the GUI."
"Dell NetWorker's user interface is quite simple and very interactive."
"The extensive information provided on tool properties has been very useful, specifically the information on databases"
"The full backup is a great feature. Restoration is also good and very quick."
"The initial setup process can be more simplistic and quicker."
"The dashboard should more interactive."
"There was one issue though with the hardware IDs. When I went to a different version of Hyper-V, the hardware IDs weren't restored and the machine got two new IDs. The preliminary unique IDs weren't restored, so I had to reactivate programs."
"It is not a well-known software. People do not know about Vembu."
"The process is a bit cumbersome when you remove an agent, delete that job, and add the agent to the same server. Even though the agent is already installed in that server, the system does not recognize it. We have to uninstall the current agent, restart the server, install the push agent - a new agent - and then restart the server. I think they should try to avoid that."
"We have not been able to move our backups from one drive to another one. We can only create a storage pool. However, if we want to change a drive, it is not possible to delete one drive as long there is data on it. For this, we have to call the support. While they can solve this, it is not out-of-the-box."
"The solution's UI and integrations could be better."
"I saw that it's not possible to have the last full backup duplicated on our site. Therefore, if I have a lot of information on the main site, I would not want to copy any information to those site servers. It would be nice to be able to make a copy of the last full backup."
"Reporting and support for this product need to be improved. There are multiple bugs that need to be fixed."
"We would like support for tape space reclaim, using either the same or another pool."
"The user interface has to be improved"
"The data storage capabilities should be improved."
"It could be more user-friendly."
"Its console UI should be better. It should also have more out-of-the-box reporting functionalities. It should also have easier cloud integration. They have got cloud boost and things like that, but if you want to directly back up to the cloud, I'm not too sure whether you can do it. For example, you can easily send data from Commvault to AWS, Azure, or a container, but it seems to be not so easy in NetWorker."
"When you're working with VMware, you need to use vProxy machines. You have to install the vProxy for every host in the VMware environment."
"The front end of the solution could improve. The user-friendliness is lacking."
BDRSuite is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 62 reviews while Dell NetWorker is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews. BDRSuite is rated 8.2, while Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of BDRSuite writes "Can automatically pull the virtual machines that we have in an environment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". BDRSuite is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Vinchin Backup & Recovery, Acronis Cyber Protect and Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, whereas Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup and Commvault Cloud. See our BDRSuite vs. Dell NetWorker report.
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