We performed a comparison between Arcserve UDP and BDRSuite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of StorageCraft ShadowProtect is the speed and the compression of the backups. The compressed backed-up files do not take up as much storage. Additionally, the incremental backups can be done in one minute and be backed up on a disc very fast."
"The most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP is live replication."
"The most valuable features are the replication to the cloud and the deduplication."
"I would recommend it if there is a general case."
"Arcserve UDP has a good configuration and user interface. It makes the job of an administrator easy."
"It's simple to set up."
"It is a very stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the duplication."
"The most valuable features for me are that I can back up the entire virtual machine, but when restoring I can restore at the file level."
"You can restore all your data or partial parts of it. You can restore a specific version of the data. It has a lot of options for restore, so you can have the correct data that you want to restore. This is very important. You must know what you are going to restore. Otherwise, you may be overwriting correct data with other data. You must know what specific files you are restoring as well as which version. Partial restore is very important because there might be some files which are newer than the backup and some files that are corrupted. You need to restore some files from the backup, but not all the files."
"The network solution is the most important feature, because we have our own backup server and are doing file backups for our customers."
"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."
"We invest in the backup so the continuity of the data is not affected."
"The most valuable feature is the ability, from a console, to manage the different computers to be backed up."
"Valuable features include Snapshots and the constant backup for SQL, application services, and Active Directory."
"It backs up our virtual machines with the CBT, Changed Block Tracking."
"In the most recent version of premium plus the replication has been removed, and it should re-added to the solution."
"The solution's reporting could be improved and should provide customized reports."
"It should be easier to switch between backup locations. We have multiple data storage locations and sometimes one of those storages need to be replaced. It would be nice if they made it easier to reconfigure the backup configuration."
"The tool doesn't provide cloud integration in India."
"The solution can improve by allowing older versions to support the latest version of the OS."
"Every time I change the disc, I have to do a full backup."
"A lot of their new technologies are not very good."
"I had an issue with Arcserve UDP during the failover and the secondary machine didn't get back online, even though it ran automatically. I faced the issue during a crisis situation. However, I haven't faced such a problem again."
"It's not that stable yet. Every two weeks, my backup will stop and I have to check it."
"Vembu will tell you the next scheduled backup, but it doesn't show you the last successful backup. I would have them include a column under "List of Backup Jobs" and have two other columns which say, "Last Successful Backup" and "Next Scheduled Backup", because you don't know now if it's backed up successfully. It just says, "The next scheduled time is this." You don't know from looking at that pane of glass when the last time it actually happened without digging further into reports."
"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."
"For the more sophisticated backups that do not have a set backup process, procedures that are outside of the norm, it would be nice if we had more control and did not have to use their technical support. While they're very responsive and have always come through in a reasonable time frame, we would like to be able to manage everything on our own."
"The deduplication could be better. It doesn't give the level of deduplication that I would get with a product that's stored in a more standard file format. I would prefer to be able to use a non-deduplicated store on a third-party deduplicated medium."
"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."
"What I would love to see on the dashboard are graphs, per backup job. I want to see the month and the days in it... If a job has failed, when did it actually fail and what percentage of it failed? Did it fail completely, 75 percent or 100 percent or did it only fail partially?"
"The system died twice and it was apparently the result of corrupted disk sectors. I tried to work with tech support to fix it, but they essentially gave up. So twice, I had to rebuild our server."
Arcserve UDP is ranked 9th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 40 reviews while BDRSuite is ranked 7th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 62 reviews. Arcserve UDP is rated 7.6, while BDRSuite is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Arcserve UDP writes "Global deduplication, stable, and flexible licensing options". On the other hand, the top reviewer of BDRSuite writes "Can automatically pull the virtual machines that we have in an environment". Arcserve UDP is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas Backup Exec and Rubrik, whereas BDRSuite is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Vinchin Backup & Recovery, Acronis Cyber Protect and Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup. See our Arcserve UDP vs. BDRSuite report.
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