BDRSuite Valuable Features

NJ
Owner at DataMate

The most valuable feature is the hybrid solution, where you have a local backup at the customer site, and you have Vembu BDRSuite storing a copy of the backup. 

This division or approach has proven to be fantastic because it's always difficult if you have to restore a backup completely from scratch. It's very cumbersome to set up a copy of the backup on a hard drive or similar media and transport it to the site to establish something new. 

Moreover, if you only have a local backup, it's vulnerable to complete destruction in case of a catastrophic event. So, this hybrid solution combines the best of both worlds.

Vembu provides us with a way to instantly recover data. It offers instant data recovery through a local backup server deployed at the customer's site. We can quickly recover data either by copying it back to the main server or if the backup server is powerful enough, we can also directly start a virtual machine from the backup. 

However, I haven't had the opportunity to do the latter as none of my customers have required such immediate recovery. Thus, I have been using inexpensive hardware for backups at the customer's site to keep expenses low.

It is very important to us that Vembu provides multiple restore points for data recovery. Having multiple restore points is crucial because you may discover that some malicious employee tampered with or encrypted your data a month ago. In such cases, it's vital to be able to roll back the data to a point before the incident occurred. 

Often, these incidents come to light after some time has passed, making the availability of earlier restore points like a time machine to protect against data loss.

Another important factor to us is that Vembu provides incremental backup processing. Without incremental backup, the process would be extremely time-consuming. One of my customers, who is an engineering company involved in construction projects, has around sixteen terabytes of data. Since they work on these cases for extended periods, even the older cases get revisited for updates or renewals. With so much active data, performing a full backup every time would be impractical. 

Vembu's incremental backup is incredibly valuable and efficient. Compared to other backup systems I've used in the past, it is notably faster and more reliable.

Scheduling backups is quite important to us as well, and Vembu BDRSuite offers sophisticated options. I haven't come across any missing features. 

Adding and removing backup jobs with Vembu BDRSuite is quite straightforward, but the time taken depends on whether you are doing backups of physical machines, physical workstations, or virtual machines and hypervisor installations. 

In my case, I only do backups of virtual machines and hypervisor installations, and in those scenarios, it's very easy. You just point out the hypervisor, and it will do the backup of the virtual machines on it. You can select which virtual machines you want to back up, so it's quite easy. It becomes a bit more difficult when you want to choose physical backups because you need to assign Vembu BDRSuite to the physical machine, which requires some housekeeping work. Nonetheless, it's still relatively easy. It's not a big deal or rocket science, as far as I can tell. If you are even slightly familiar with backup systems.

The level of difficulty to add and remove backup jobs using BDRSuite depends on whether you do a backup on a physical machine, a physical workstation, or whatever you use to back up. In my case, I only do backups on virtual machines and hypervisor installations, it's very easy. You just point out the hypervisor and it does the backup of the virtual machines on it. You can select which virtual machines you want to do a backup on, so it's quite easy. It's very difficult to schedule backups and to have backups done. It's a bit more difficult if you want to choose a physical backup because that puts strain on the physical machine and you have to do some housekeeping work. But it's still quite easy, it's not a big deal if you are a little bit equipped with the backup systems.

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Adrian Vergin - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Consultant at TCM Solutions

The fact that it has a web portal is valuable. One feature that I haven't yet fully implemented, but we're looking forward to, is the heartbeat monitoring which checks the health status of virtual machines to back up.

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MR
IT Manager at a non-tech company with 1-10 employees

Most backup applications are similar in terms of their features and functionality. However, BDRSuite stands out from the competition because it offers its services at a significantly lower price. This makes it an excellent value for businesses of all sizes.

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TA
IT Director at Boom Logic

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.

BDRSuite enables you to recover data instantly.  When we need to recover data, I only need to start a backup job or a restore job. Depending on the speed of the server and the Internet, it should be able to download the files from the cloud and split them back up the way they were like nothing ever happened.

The restore options BDRSuite provides are crucial because we use it for a lot of healthcare companies that have HIPAA requirements. BDRSuite is HIPAA compliant. We need it to be readily available and accessible in case something goes wrong.

It lets you schedule backups to run every 15 minutes. I don't believe you can do it at shorter intervals because there's no way the original backups will finish in 15 minutes. It allows you to adjust the schedules. For example, if you don't want it to go during certain times, you can set that up. You can also choose between a full or incremental backup. There are settings you can adjust to make it work how you want it.

Incremental backup is crucial because a full backup would increase fees or affect the local server because it would back up the entire volume every time. Instead, it does one full backup—say 12 terabytes— and adds to it in increments of 100 gigabytes, 200 gigabytes, etc. 

Whenever you want to add a backup job, there's a wizard that pops up telling you how to make a new backup job. It asks you what you want to name it and what you want to back up. Then, it asks you if you want to schedule it. There's an interactive display on how to do that.

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Forrest Wu - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Specialist, IT at 01 communique

The most useful feature is that you can back up the virtual machines in different ways. You can back up from a vhost, and you can also back up from a Windows server. It doesn't matter what type of infrastructure or hypervisor is there. It's very flexible, which is its most useful feature for us.

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IK
Network Engineer at CPM Roskamp

Backup and replications are most valuable. It seems that these servers are better because we can do application-aware backups on them. 

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JD
Director of IT at MTSI, Inc.

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. It consistently does the backup more quickly and much more reliably than using NTFS. It's 40 percent faster.

It's also very important for us that the solution provides multiple restore options with the ability to recover data in a granular manner. If I want a particular file, as opposed to a folder or a volume, I can do that. I don't want to restore a volume just to get a file. That granular selection saves me a lot of time and trouble when doing recovery.

Another critical feature is the incremental backup processing. We want consistent, reliable backups, and incremental is the fastest way to achieve that.

In addition, the backup and replication scheduling options are very flexible. It's very easy to add, change, or delete a scheduled backup. It streamlines our backup management significantly. We're able to spend about 30 percent less time than we did prior to using it.

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ET
IT Director at a retailer with 1-10 employees

Backup of the VMware server is the most valuable feature.

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RS
Manager at North West Carrying Company (NWCC)

The auto-scheduling of incremental backups and multiple retention points features has helped us to get the backups of endpoints without any intervention. Multiple retention points help us to restore data from multiple points and states. 

The reporting is great for noting the success and failure. If it fails it gives the reason why it failed and we can take action accordingly and resolve the issues. 

Mail notification helps us in monitoring the backups daily. All failures are sent through to us so that we can check and take action as required.

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Anand Davda - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at Red Chip Solutions

The best part of BDRSuite is how user-friendly it is and how it does not require any maintenance after the initial setup. BDRSuite runs automatically over time.

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SB
Technical Manager at Internet Options Botswana (IOB)

It's easy to add or remove backup jobs using BDRSuite. The solution has multiple options for backing up our customers' data. We require eight days of historical data, and our clients need incremental backups weekly, so we have one weekly backup and one daily. The backup will play each week, and they'll have a fresh running daily backup of seven days. 

We still haven't done a restoration in production, but we did a test restore, and it worked. The restoration took about four to six hours for one terabyte because we backed it up to a remote location. 

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reviewer2104281 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager Infrastructure&DBA at SplashBI On-Demand Reporting and BI

The most valuable aspects include:

Cloud-based backup and disaster recovery. BDRSuite provides cloud-based backup and disaster recovery services that can help businesses protect their critical data and applications against various types of disasters. This feature can be valuable for businesses that require high levels of data protection and security.

Instant Recovery. BDRSuite offers an instant recovery feature that can help businesses quickly restore their data and applications during a disaster. This can be especially valuable for businesses that require minimal downtime and want to resume operations quickly after a disaster.

Multi-tenant support. BDRSuite provides multi-tenant support, which can be beneficial for managed service providers (MSPs) or businesses with multiple locations. This feature enables MSPs and businesses to manage multiple client or site backups from a single console, which can help improve efficiency and reduce management overhead.

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ST
Anaylst at KRK

The product is very reliable and works well out of the box; many of our customers are buying it.

BDRSuite features a good dashboard, and Vembu is working on making its product more user-friendly, improving the UI, and providing better integrations.

We tested the product's Instant Boot VM feature for instant access to our VMs or physical machines after a crash, and it provided immediate access.  

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