Unitrends Stability

Todd Guthrie - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Information Technology at Creation Technologies

I wouldn't rate Unitrends a ten out of ten because we had some hard drive failures in the appliance. Typically, when you have OneDrive, you can get it replaced. For some particular reason, the situation caused the entire system to crash. We had to reinstall the CentOS operating system on it, and we lost all our backups.

They said there was no way to retain it, and it was pretty devastating and concerning that a drive failure would cause the loss of all the data on the appliance. It was extremely disappointing, and we had to start from scratch after three years worth of backup data.

I rate Unitrends a nine out of ten for stability.

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Michael Powell - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a recreational facilities/services company with 11-50 employees

Unitrends has been stable, and I've not been making any changes to it either. It's more of a setup-and-run, where I set up new VMs, and then add the VMs, and that's about it.

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DS
Manager, Information Technology at a hospitality company with 201-500 employees

I would rate the stability as a ten out of ten.

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Andy Arnold - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Leader at Entrust Support Services Limited

We have had some issues with stability hence I would rate it an eight out of ten. 

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Pragnesh Menon - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Middlesex University Dubai

Stability-wise, I rate this solution a nine out of ten.

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JH
Systems Engineer specializing in Data Protection at a government with 201-500 employees

All I can tell you is my friends made fun of me because of how often I had to call technical support.

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it_user265281 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Manager / Senior Network Engineer at Warnock, Tanner & Associates
AM
Systems Administrator at a construction company with 51-200 employees

Yes. I was backing up too much information. Changed from doing two physical appliances, one local, and one remote to two local and a Forever Cloud for remote. This doubled our storage space for backups and solved the problem.

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it_user791514 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees

No stability issues.

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it_user792186 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Everything has been stable since implementation.

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RR
Senior Infrastructure Analyst at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

It's fairly stable, it runs, it does a backup like you said. Things don't tend to go wrong until either VM upgrades or Unitrends breaks with an update. In terms of that it just carries on. It does its job, that's the main thing.

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it_user752589 - PeerSpot reviewer
Unix/Apple System Administrator at a non-tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Issues with one appliance having disk-related issues happens often. There were many issues with this one appliance (with different causes). Another appliance is habitually having issues with archive times to Unitrends Archive device.

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MA
Technical Presales Consultant/ Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Unitrends is pretty much stable. It's been around in the market for quite some time. It's not very famous around here in the region of Saudi Arabia, but it's a well-established backup company, and they've been well-established in the market. It's pretty safe to say that it's stable.

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MT
Solution Consultant at Anamtech

We've never had any tests in a production scenario when it comes to stability. I can't speak to if it is stable or not. 

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LW
Manager Technical Support at Ultrium Technologies
JG
Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Recently, we've been having some issues that I haven't reported yet. They're related to backups being skipped because some of our servers need an update. I'm not sure why it's happening. It doesn't happen to every server; it's just one server occasionally. And as soon as I do the update, then it's fine. 

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it_user753399 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Director at a non-tech company
it_user759144 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a marketing services firm with 201-500 employees

The stability is rock solid.

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it_user759144 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a marketing services firm with 201-500 employees

The stability is rock solid.

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it_user752442 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Information Technology at a legal firm with 201-500 employees

When we first moved to v10, we did have issues with restores. Support jumped right in and found the issue, and published a bug fix, this took care of the issue.

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it_user752400 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Administrator at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
GG
Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

If you do proper planning, the program is very stable. I think Unitrends is designed for a data center and servers rather than for end-user backups. 

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it_user761184 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator

Every few years, an update may not be applied right and we may have to manually reload the software.

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it_user760353 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at a government

Having issues backing up systems with tons of small files.

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it_user789276 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Systems Engineer at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees
it_user777852 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
it_user215967 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a wellness & fitness company with 501-1,000 employees

Restoration has been unstable when needed. Some backups don't restore properly or take an excessive amount of time to complete.

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it_user215967 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a wellness & fitness company with 501-1,000 employees

There have been no performance issues.

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it_user773313 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a transportation company with 11-50 employees

I had some issues early on with network-based storage dropping connections, therefore corrupting the backups.

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