We performed a comparison between BDRSuite and NAKIVO Backup & Replication 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."Their support is great. I think they work 24 hours a day. I get a very quick turnaround time from them no matter the day or time that I send them an email."
"We have seen ROI. The real return is when something bad happens. All the proof of concept work that we did, all the testing we did, it all panned out for us. We're already seeing a return on that."
"The compression, encryption and deduplication features are fabulous and great stuff."
"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."
"I like the fact that BDRSuite can connect to VMware ESXi and automatically pull the virtual machines that I have in that environment. I also like that you can choose to back up the compute to the backup server or go straight to the cloud."
"The agentless backups are the big selling point on this, as well as being able to send out across sites so that I can do a restore at either of our two locations."
"The best thing about it is that it has been adaptable to our business model. We are in industrial networking, and they were adaptable to give us offline installers and offline licenses. That has been the biggest thing. They also allow us to order the licenses on a perpetual basis."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to copy quickly. We have about 12 terabytes, and trying to copy that volume size through the file structure would take a week. BDRSuite has a different approach to copying and is much faster."
"The back-up and restore functions work great and it's easy to use."
"It has saved us numerous times from power outages and server failure."
"Nakivo has improved our organization largely due to the fact that it is an extremely robust backup system."
"It can be quickly configured via web pages."
"The ability to restore in a catastrophic event is priceless, since every company must use a backup solution of some sort."
"The virtual appliance for VMware vSphere is easy to deploy, easy to manage, and we have no need for additional Windows licenses."
"Nakivo gives users confidence in knowing that if something happens with their application server, exchange server, or other applications, they can recover it easily and quickly."
"You can have it setup and running within a few minutes."
"It is very easy, unless you know exactly what you're doing, to corrupt the virtual machines and they get locked up. Just brief detail: When you are creating a system, if you don't have absolutely every other little background processes in place, it creates Snapshots of the virtual machines. Once it does that, it then won't be able to have a backup. From that point on you have to destroy the virtual machine, which is completely counterproductive on a large system. There is a fundamental flaw in the setup that can be very dangerous, potentially."
"They need to improve their marketing because not many people are aware of it. People ask me what is Vembu, and I have to explain to them it is a good tool for backup and other things."
"I don't know if it exists, but it would be helpful to get email notifications when there are issues with the backup. I'm sure it probably exists, but I just don't know how to do it. They also have an Azure proxy feature where you can restore to Azure. It's not really well documented. I think they should document how to do that a little better."
"In the beginning, when we had some hiccups, I would chalk that up more to a learning curve for the product."
"I have had issues with new client registrations. There are frequent connectivity issues to the cloud servers. Multiple times, I have had to prove to support that it wasn’t a problem on my end. It always works out in the end, but it is troubling to have the same issues repeated across different clients. Issues eventually get escalated to the cloud team and are mysteriously resolved with no changes on my end."
"Vembu BDR currently supports backups of O365, although it does not currently have an email archiving function to the O365 backups."
"The API uses a common data image to store the data for the sets, but unfortunately, it's limited to consecutive sets only. That's the only limitation I have observed so far."
"One thing that I reported with the backups: When there are accentuated characters in a path, then we can't restore documents into a folder. There is a bug with the restoration and restoring files with accentuated characters in the path. Hopefully, they have repaired this because otherwise we will restore files and find out that they are not there."
"More statistic options would be a great feature."
"I would like to have the option of creating a subfolder per job in the backup repository because we had an issue where some files were corrupted and we lost the backup of the majority of the VMs."
"Updating VM Tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"Nakivo's implementation documentation could use a little beefing up."
"It would be a good thing to have some use case and architecture examples online to understand integration in complex infrastructure."
"My first thought was maybe the GUI could be improved, although it works."
"The way encryption is currently working could be improved. Currently, it's not possible to encrypt the backup to an NFS share directly. It needs to have the encryption within the Transporter/VM to enable encryption, which isn't optimal. So I'm hoping that in the near future this function will be implemented."
"An improvement would be to give us more control over the email alerts, with different emails going to different addresses based on a set of rules."
BDRSuite is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 13 reviews while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 21 reviews. BDRSuite is rated 8.2, while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of BDRSuite writes "Provides us with a way to instantly recover data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Flexible with automatic backup features and robust security measures". BDRSuite is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Vinchin Backup & Recovery, Acronis Cyber Protect, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup and Zerto, whereas NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik and Veritas Backup Exec. See our BDRSuite vs. NAKIVO Backup & Replication report.
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