We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and NovaStor NovaBACKUP based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."It is a very stable product. The cost is similar to that of other enterprise solutions."
"Its flexibility is valuable. It is a very flexible solution. There are always more ways than one to do something. It is a software solution, which means you can buy your own hardware and expand it whenever you want. You are not boxed in or locked into something you've bought and outgrown. You can always expand it."
"Reliability: It has never had a problem with backups or restores. If you store something, it is there."
"You can protect your data and keep it for long durations, without it spending too much time on the local disk."
"You can scale the product."
"Technical support is okay. We have not had many issues with them."
"The most valuable features are compression and de-duplication."
"The scalability of IBM Spectrum Protect is good."
"It is a very good and easy-to-use tool for non-technical people."
"In the next version of the solution, I would like to see cloud support."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is not a very user-friendly tool."
"If you take Spectrum Protect into account, and you have it along with restrictions to Spectrum Archive by means of LTFS, this is also something which should be made better within the overall product's program."
"Software-wise, IBM Spectrum Protect didn't handle virtual machines that well. The license cost is mainly the area for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect."
"Stability is very good now. It used to be rocky years ago."
"Enhancements are required for backing up our virtual environment."
"Needs more support for non-mainstream databases, in particular PostgreSQL, SQL, and MySQL."
"The version that we had when I first started made it look really bad. We are talking about commands that should have run in two seconds, but instead took four to eight hours. Other components were sluggish."
"The price of NovaStor NovaBACKUP is an area that can be considered as a weakness or drawback, where improvements are required."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while NovaStor NovaBACKUP is ranked 34th in Backup and Recovery with 2 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while NovaStor NovaBACKUP is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NovaStor NovaBACKUP writes "A product that offers good support and performance while also being user-friendly". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik, whereas NovaStor NovaBACKUP is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication and Acronis Cyber Protect.
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