Without BDRSuite, we can't guarantee that our data will be there during a natural disaster or a crash. We use virtually every product they have. We back up virtual machines and physical machines. Soon, we will also use it to back up Microsoft email mailboxes. It's an all-in-one platform to do all of that compared to some other platforms, like Datto, where everything is separate. With BDRSuite, everything is under one management console.

There's just one dashboard that can do anything you want. The licensing is structured so that you can have one server or 10. At the end of the day, it only matters how many licenses you fill up. If you want to have three BDRSuite servers with 10 licenses each, you can do that.

The backup window is very reasonable. Recovery is also easier. We have scheduled incremental and full backups, and it helps a lot with our infrastructure. I feel comfortable running this in the virtual environment.

We can instantly recover data. This instant recovery is very important because there are some files we need to recover immediately. We can easily recover a single file or folder. That's a very helpful feature.

It provides multiple restore options for recovering data in a granular manner. We have daily and monthly backups, and sometimes, we need to go back, not just to yesterday. We have multiple restore points, and we can just select one from the menu. It's a very easy and very important feature.

We are running the daily incremental backups. They've reduced the backup window. These incremental backups are very important because we cannot do the full backup during the weekdays.

When it comes to backup scheduling, similar to all backup solutions, it provides scheduling options. We just can't do backups manually. We have pre-configured it with the daily incremental and monthly backups.

It isn't hard to add and remove backup jobs using BDRSuite. You select a machine or a hard disk, and then you can go to the next step and schedule the backup. That's it. I don't need to open the interface every day. I schedule the backup, and I just receive the notification message in my mailbox. That's it. As long as I see a successful message, I'm fine. I just let it run.

Provisioning disks for restoration is easy. You can just select a disk, and you just recover. They'll provision the disk for you.

The main thing is recovery. I have had a lot of hardware failures quite recently due to power fluctuations and overheating. Therefore, I am using it on a lab environment where I test things for customers. It has helped to reduce time. For example, one of the hypervisors died, so I loaded up another non-clustered machine and just restored the previous night's backup, then the VMs worked fine. 

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. This is only available with the licensed version.

We no longer need multiple backup solutions for different data sources because of the breadth of backup coverage provided by Vembu BDRSuite. It has reduced the amount of time needed to manage the backups by at least 20 percent, and reduced the cost of backup management by 20 to 25 percent.

It's a valuable asset for me as a business asset. I have a monthly income by selling it as a service to my customers. I'm very pleased with it.

It's important that you can do the full monthly backup for whatever you throw in it. It's fantastic that it actually works on every kind of system. I have the flexibility to offer this service to all my customers, no matter what they may have running, I can still offer them a backup. You can even do back over on Macintosh machines. That's quite valuable because, otherwise, I would sometimes have to say that I can't do it for a customer, but maybe somebody else could. I wouldn't want to give a customer to somebody else. So it's very nice that I can actually handle it all with one product.

Vembu has absolutely helped save money compared to the other solutions. It's a much cheaper solution than using other ones which are quite expensive compared to a Nimble.

I'm a small company, and it would be difficult to regularly change my customers' backup systems. It would be quite difficult. That alone would be quite expensive for me. The last time I checked, it would be a lot of license fees to use Veeam Backup for the same thing. I could do the same things that we use with BDRSuite but it would be horribly expensive if I want the same level of security.

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; rather, I just do a restore. I would estimate it's saving me four to eight hours every time I have to do a restore.

I also had a disk crash and the restore was important because I didn't have to rebuild it. So it helps with data recovery as well.

It gives me peace of mind because I don't have to do the rebuilds. In a home lab, documentation is not usually at the forefront of your thoughts. You are just trying to get it built and tested. Having the ability to back it up and restore without having to remember all the options were that you had installed and what was the data like before, it gives me peace of mind that I have the restore.

BDRSuite helps us manage our virtual machine backups and restorations.

The most beneficial features for data protection are the BDRSuite for Windows servers and the BDRSuite for MySQL.

BDRSuite allows us to instantly recover data automatically by clicking on the restore button.

It is useful that BDRSuite provides multiple restore options for recovering data in a granular manner because we don't always need all the data.

The incremental backup processing provided by BDRSuite is important for recovering particular data points.

The backup and replication scheduling options are good.

Adding and removing backup jobs using BDRSuite is remarkably simple. The intuitive interface makes it a one-time setup, eliminating the need for frequent management.

BDRSuite has brought significant improvements to our organization by providing invaluable peace of mind regarding our data backups.

BDRSuite's comprehensiveness is helpful, especially for our Google Drive integration.

BDRSuite enables us to unify all of our data sources into one solution.

Eliminating multiple backup solutions has saved us a lot of time allowing us to focus on optimizing our servers.

We create backup repositories in Google Cloud automatically using BDRSuite.

BDRSuite has saved us 30 percent of our time.

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.

I don't spend much time on it. I interact with it occasionally and check that everything's still going fine. It's very good in that aspect.

It provides multiple restore options for recovering data in a granular manner, which is pretty important because different issues require you to use different approaches. It's good to have as many options as possible.

Our backup strategy is pretty simple. We have just two virtual machines, but it's very good to know that all the other options are there to back up physical and cloud workloads, as well as endpoints, applications, and databases. I'm not planning to use any of them, but I'm very happy that it's there. If there is something that I need to do that doesn't fall under what I'm currently doing, I can always expand quite easily.

It provides incremental backup processing, which saves a lot of space.

The nice thing about Vembu is that when it's running - as it does incrementals daily - we don't see a negative hit on the performance of the server it runs on. I can also pause it, should that happen, but I've never had to do that. 

It generates daily reports. I look at them seven days a week, even though I only work five days a week, because I want to make sure that everything's working fine. From a productivity standpoint, it has not hindered anyone and it keeps me very well informed that our backups are being completed. It gives me the data that I need to know, that makes me feel comfortable: Yes, that makes sense for that day, that much data being added to our repository, etc.

It has made my job, making sure we have a backup and being able to count on using it, a lot easier. As far as impacting the user community that uses the file server that's being addressed for backup purposes, it has not impacted them in any negative way whatsoever.

Finally, it helps us deliver an enterprise-level data protection solution and reduce budgets at a price that - and we don't want to encourage them to change their pricing - is a great value.

We are a managed service provider. For us, this solution is even more beneficial because we can control the licenses, renewals, and other things for customers from a managed service provider's panel, and we get an option to upsell and cross-sell to clients.

BDRSuite enables us to instantly recover our data. It is essential for our organization to be able to recover data instantly.

It is important that BDRSuite provides multiple restore points for recovering data on a granular level.

While the solution's incremental backup processing is a nice feature, it is not essential for our needs. We use the solution primarily for disaster recovery. This means that if there is a breach or we need to restore our systems quickly, we can do so without losing any data. This is more important to me than being able to recover individual files. In fact, we have not had a single request to recover a single file in the past year. What is important to me is that we can recover from an organizational breach quickly. We have had some bad ransomware attacks in the past, and we need to be able to get our systems back up and running as soon as possible.

BDRSuite's backup or replication scheduling options work as intended.

Adding and removing backup jobs using BDRSuite is easy and also includes great documentation.

BDRSuite's comprehensiveness is great because it can back up and recover virtual, physical, and cloud workloads, endpoints, applications, and databases.

BDRSuite's comprehensive backup coverage allows us to now offer a single solution for all of our customers' needs. We have customers with Linux servers running CentOS, as well as customers with file-level, image-level, and cloud backups to Microsoft 365, AWS, and Google. By bringing all of these capabilities together in one platform, we can provide our customers with a more efficient and cost-effective way to protect their data.

We only use BDRSuite to back up two VMs in our current environment. It helps us with maintenance, monitoring, etc. We are satisfied with BDRSuite so far and plan to add a few more VMs in the future, including Citrix VMs and XenServer. 

We have many VMs in the old Citrix Foundry that have been running for a long time. The migration process is time-consuming and costly. VMware only supports VMware and Hyper-V but not Citrix. 

BDRSuite can help organizations protect their critical data and applications from loss or damage. By backing up data to the cloud and providing disaster recovery and business continuity services, BDRSuite can help organizations quickly recover their data and continue their operations in the event of a disaster.

Secondly, BDRSuite can help organizations reduce the risk of downtime and data loss. By providing remote monitoring and management capabilities, BDRSuite can help IT administrators identify and resolve issues before they become more significant problems.

Finally, BDRSuite can help organizations save time and money by automating backup and recovery processes and reducing the need for manual intervention. This can help reduce the risk of human error and improve efficiency.

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 solution enables us to recover data instantly; depending on the data type and volume, we can recover within seconds or minutes.

It's pretty easy to add and remove backup jobs using BDRSuite, which, in addition to the solution's features, reduces the time we spend on backup management.

BDRSuite's data protection policy is excellent. A trusted source recommended the solution to me, and I have confidence that my organization is in capable hands by using it.

It is important that BDRSuite provides multiple restore points for recovery data in a more granular manner. For instance, if we identify an injection in our file by examining our log for the relevant time frame, we can restore our system and import our data to a different aspect. Therefore, it is crucial for the engineers to understand how to use the backup system, as restoring the data guarantees that there is no malware present.

The incremental backup process works perfectly because the backup system checks file access, which helps us maintain a smaller disk size.

BDRSuite has improved our organization by ensuring our data is secure during a disaster.

If our country is hit by a meteor, I have secured data in another country on the other side of the world. Then, I can start the restore process immediately with this solution.

Moving to cloud backups eliminated the need for clients to change USB drives or worry about drives being stored offsite.

I can restore through the Vembu client or pull the file from anywhere via the browser. So far, it has been adequate in meeting my clients' needs.

It has been very helpful for data backup and restoration and license management. License management and everything else works smoothly, which is very useful for us.

Its restores are nice and reliable. They are fast and smooth. As compared to other tools, they are 80% faster. The speed of the restores also depends on my network. We have less than 10 gigs of speed.

It provides multiple options to recover data during hardware failures or accidental deletion of files. They have many options to restore the data. We tested them during the DR last December. Having multiple ways to restore the service and data is very useful.

Its download VM feature is useful in migrating physical machines to our VMware environment. There were no challenges in doing that through the GUI. It was user-friendly.

It made it easy for us to handle the daily backup of endpoints. Earlier, we had to manually do everything, and that was also not in real-time and involved engagement of one IT person's time. 

Vembu saved us time and manpower. It helped our organization to secure valuable data within the organization. 

Concern related to the data of individuals has been resolved as personal data is removed from the backup. Only data related to the company is taken. This also has reduced the storage space required.

Vembu has been a great benefit to us and it's been very positive. I would definitely say it's been a good thing.

It has improved our business continuity.

We have used this solution to recover from a few incidences. 

Our previous backup solution was cloud-based rather than being on-premise, and quite often our backups could lag three or four days behind. We are now looking at having a restore point as low as 30 minutes, where the backup has never been more than an hour behind the live solution.

We use it to back up Hyper-V, and the key benefit of that is purely one of data security and dependability.

We use it to maintain critical data and save it. It suits our needs, is versatile, and the functionality is there.

Overall, it's unattended, so we don't have to manage it. Once it's set up, we get notifications of a failed or successful backup every night, or for whatever schedule we have it set on.

We've had a couple of instances where an employee might have accidentally deleted a file, a network file, and one of the servers that we back up is that file server, and we have been able, with no problem at all, to quickly log into the web-based interface and restore files again in a matter of minutes; just individual files from any specific backup. That's an example of what we've been doing with them.

I use the encryption, and I think my clients feel secure knowing that.

I have a couple of examples where I was able to restore a client's data on the spot. This definitely was a success for me, where my client saw how the solution actually works in cases where they would need to retrieve their data when a failure happens. It doesn't happen very often, but it has happened a couple of times.

We have restored with the full backup. It was completely fine using Quick VM Recovery. The time frame depends on the size of the server, e.g., if it is 100 GB, then it will take an hour. Restoring would not be possible without Vembu.

All our clients have been happy with the backup and restore features.

I have a strategy in the company where everyone needs to bring all their important files on the server. People should not be keeping their folders on their computer because of two types of situations:

1. In the last two months, there were situations where the local hard drive failed, people were very happy to have their files on the server. 
2. There have been three times where people modified the file, then asked me if it's possible to get back the file that they had before, so I used the backup. 

I just started backing up to virtual machines. They are very good if something happens. I can restore to another site. There are a lot of options to restore with virtual machines, such as, mounting on another server to open mount locally and extracting some files. I was very surprised because it seems like we have a lot of options. 

It makes it possible for us to back up our Unix machines without installing a host, client, or any client software. It gives us some peace of mind in regards to those servers getting backed up.

I get my backups done. If I don't get my backups done and something goes wrong, I lose my job. The benefit of using it is that I keep my job.

Vembu helps me deliver an enterprise-level data protection solution and reduce budgets.

The solution is used for taking a backup of the virtual environment, and the benefit of this is that the speed is a lot higher. The product is taking a full backup during the weekend and takes considerably less time than our old solution. During workdays, it's doing an incremental back up every three hours, and that is also a lot faster. It also gives me a lot of options on which restore point I should use, in case I need to restore something. So these are huge benefits for the organization, speed and multiple restore points, that we didn't have in the past.

Another benefit is that the whole process is running at the ESXi level so the users do not really experience any delays or any lack of performance. We just keep them going, using the infrastructure, the VMware infrastructure. In the past, that was not the case because, during the backup process, it was slowing down the server because the server itself was executing the backup. Now, another server and another hypervisor are executing the job and the end-user does not experience anything as a result of the process. It is going on in the background. No delays at all.

In terms of data protection, we are not using disaster recovery because we are not licensed for it. But given the fact that we can afford the few hours the restore is going to take us, it is reducing costs, and the maintenance we used to have of switching tapes and external drives. All that kind of stuff that we had in the past has now been eliminated.

The Vembu BDR product is very intuitive and easy to use. This provided us easy training of our staff, a quick process for our internal documentation, and reduced time in installation/configuration and deployment to new customers/devices.

The high level of stability of the Vembu BDR Suite has reduced our engineering management time by at least 35%, which has also lead to a higher rate of successful backups.

The retention mechanisms within the solution are a critical component of our backup strategy. It has allowed us to reduce the amount of backup storage we use by more than 25%, which has saved on our hardware costs both initially and on an ongoing basis.

If we have any issues with servers having been corrupted or damaged, we are able to restore our backups. We are also able to store our backups offsite, in case of fire. Right now I'm using it with VMware. The benefit is being able to replicate the information to a different offsite building where I can store it. We're an FQHC and we have to have an offsite backup in case of a fire.

If we were to lose all of our data we wouldn't be able to operate. We run a 24-hour clinic, we have an ER department, and the data needs to be safe. If we didn't have that information stored safely, our patient information, we would not be able to run the business. So it's very valuable for us.

It also saves us time being able to do backups automatically instead of manually.

Finally, for reporting purposes, it's safer for us to have multiple places where backups are stored. We feel safe that the information is backed up more than once.

We can create a backup contract with our customers and software using this solution. We can backup the software here in Austria, because we have new rules here in Europe, since last year, which are very strict for data protection. 

Realistically, it is no different than the previous backup solution we were using, other than it costs less. As far as workflow is concerned, it hasn't really changed.

We use it to back up our VM infrastructure, but as far as benefiting the organization, it's just a guarantee that, if we go down, I can spool it back up at either location. That's the biggest benefit to this sort of backup solution, instead of files on another drive.

This is a part of our enterprise backup solution. It has saved us a considerable amount of money.

We are able to back up our local virtual machines. Without backup we could end up in very critical situations.

The main improvement is the compression, the space. 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. It creates a lot of space in my storage. I’m saving almost 50 percent of my file storage space, SAN. that’s one of the key features of this.

It was very difficult to find a product that supports Red Hat Virtualization natively and to take a snapshot of the VM or a full backup or a dump from the machine. The option that Vembu proposed, to take the machine as an image, take it from the system, is also good. It has enhanced our backup system. Before, it was very difficult and we did it manually. Now, it's easy to take an image from Red Hat.

BDR Suite helps us deliver an enterprise-level data protection solution and reduce our budgets. It is about half of the cost of other products we looked at.

One of the things that Vembu does for us is, of course, create high-availability for backups, which, if we came to a worst-case scenario, is one of the reasons we selected it, with the high incidence of ransomware. Should we be hit with ransomware, optimally it would allow us to be back up and running pretty quickly.

The solution helps us deliver an enterprise-level data protection solution and reduce budgets. It's difficult to estimate how much we have saved, although I know we have saved. We did do a cost analysis up-front and we saved money compared to our prior solution.

What we like best about the system is the use of its operation and the backups versus what we had to do earlier. We use it to back up our virtual environments, mainly VMware.

Everything is happening in the background without running any commands. It runs seamlessly in the back, so this is a great achievement. This is also a great convenience for this organization. Previously, somebody had to do it manually all the time.

We are now using it 24/7 because it is serving as an online backup, and very soon, the DR will activated on the product.

We invest in the backup so the continuity of the data is not affected.

It hasn't improved the way our company functions from an operational standpoint.

It hasn't improved things, per se. It's an essential service, done automatically. I would say it is an essential backup system that matches the alternative solutions at the moment in a relatively cost-effective way.

The biggest improvement has been the ability to allow us as an MSSP to continuously gather extra revenue from this software, so we can use it to back up our clients' data offsite. This is one of the reasons why we enjoy the product and we've enjoyed using it for this long.

We use this solution to back up our virtual environments. 

The way it improves our organization is that we haven't worried about looking at backups in about a year or so, it's just been running on its own. It also delivers an enterprise-level of data protection and helps with our budget. I estimate we have saved $3,000 - $4,000.

I am able to verify we have availability of our VMs in case a failure occurs.

Fortunately, we have not had to recover lost data. However, it is reassuring to know that we can recover lost data, if needed.

It has provided us with a value-added service for our customers, aiding us in becoming a one stop shop for all IT and Communication requirements.

Our backups are done on a nightly basis. We don’t run out of space on the backup drives; no tapes/hard drives have to be stored or swapped out.

With Hyper-V it helps to ensure high availability. Before I started using Vembu, if I wanted to back up my Hyper-V what I would normally do is go to the folder where I have the VM and copy the hard disk, the VM image. With that I would be able to restore easily. With Vembu, with just the click of a button, it does my backup. I've done a series of restores to test what I'm backing up because that's the essence of a backup — to see how it comes back — and it comes out fine. In VMware you don't just copy your image, but for VMware Vembu also does a perfect job.

Vembu has also ensured that the disaster recovery aspect of our business is well taken care of. It is very critical to the business to have a tested backup. Vembu has helped us a lot in that way. We have restored from Vembu backups several times.

It has saved us a lot of money, but it's not quantifiable. If you have an issue that would cost a whole lot of money but you have a proper backup solution so you don't have to spend that money, you just restore. It might have saved us millions, in Nigerian money.

It saves us time because I just schedule the backups the way I want them and that's it. I don't have to worry about my backups. I'm certain that my data has been backed up. It saves a whole lot of man-hours.

On the client side of it, the ease of installing the software and getting it up and running: Each version they bring up, it gets better and better.

We are using it with VMware and the benefit is that we have reliable backups.

It hasn't improved the way our company functions that much because we were using a backup which is about the same as Vembu.

It gave us an easy to use and stable backup service to offer our customers for a low price.

I wouldn't use the term 'improved' as the product implementation in the end was a complete failure. The implementation however did serve the purpose of allowing us to grow our BDR service offering from a technical perspective by seeing how things shouldn't be done and then looking at ways of overcoming these issues.

The backup is constant so it makes things simpler for me. To put it simply, it just works.