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."I am able to run Vembu on Windows NAS, which is beneficial. It does install on a Windows-based NAS. You can have the server running from the location where you are storing backups. You don't need a separate server for it in this case."
"Its ease of use and price are most valuable. It is simple and straightforward. Someone who has never used any backup software will easily understand it from the first installation. It is that simple. Price-wise, it is much cheaper than its counterparts."
"The compression, encryption and deduplication features are fabulous and great stuff."
"The most important feature, in terms of the hypervisor, is the ability to restore a virtual machine in a matter of minutes. We can take the backup of a virtual machine and we can restore it to the actual Vembu Backup server as a temporary solution, in a matter of minutes. We can just spin up a VM in no time; different hardware, even different processors. It's pretty dynamic in that sense."
"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."
"We use it to maintain critical data and save it."
"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."
"Quick backup and restore; very simple and understandable interface."
"The response time of the tech support is swift. The support is fantastic."
"Storage-wise, EMC is user-friendly."
"The possibility of recovering up-to-the-moment data is very useful."
"Simple, stable and straightforward."
"The GUI is user-friendly."
"It's a good product that can be integrated easily with the Data domain."
"There are no problems in terms of stability."
"The software’s best feature is data backup for any system."
"There's a feature that does syncing with AWS Cloud backup online. It's not that straightforward to get it set up."
"I would like to have a different set of products instead of having a single software which does everything."
"There are some limitation in Vembu that can be improved. When you take the backup from any server, the full incremental backup is limited. For example, if you run a weekly full backup and monthly backup, they cannot be run at the same time. I should not have to create a new job, but in this scenario, I am creating two jobs. The limitation is created because if I select monthly backup, then I cannot select weekly backup."
"I have not been impressed by the data compression of the backup images. They seem to take up nearly as much space on the backup drive as they do on the server."
"I have seen that the BDRSuite user interface can be less intuitive and more challenging to navigate compared to other similar products."
"I have had issues where it was working and then it stopped and I had to diagnose what had changed or gone wrong to get it back up."
"In the beginning, when we had some hiccups, I would chalk that up more to a learning curve for the product."
"They had a good product and tried to change things by going to a different product. They should have tried to stay with a product that is a proven solution and successful."
"I would like to see better support for the container systems, and we would like to see more support for image backups instead of pure file backups."
"The configuration is too complex."
"The process of upgrading versions should be improved because as it is now, you have to completely uninstall the old version first, and then install the new version."
"The management of Dell Networker is quite cumbersome."
"The team does not have enough knowledge to support you."
"It could be more user-friendly."
"In the next release, I would like to see better pricing and more integration with the other products in Dell EMC."
"The price could be cheaper."
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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