Synology Active Backup Suite vs. Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Synology Active Backup Suite
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Synology Active Backup Suite is software that allows users to consolidate backup tasks for physical servers, file shares, virtual machines, and SaaS applications. It also allows users to replicate and archive data to remote servers or public cloud and can rapidly restore files, entire machines, or VMs. Active Backup Suite is license-free and available on compatible Synology NAS models. Data Backup Integrated backup solution for personal computers, physical…N/A
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Score 7.6 out of 10
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Commvault® Cloud is a cyber resilience platform built to meet the demands of hybrid enterprises. It delivers data security and recovery in the cloud, powered by advanced AI, to help organizations see, manage, and recover data wherever it lives.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Synology Active Backup SuiteCommvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros

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Top Cons

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Features
Synology Active Backup SuiteCommvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Synology Active Backup Suite
8.0
2 Ratings
4% below category average
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
7.2
75 Ratings
16% below category average
Universal recovery6.01 Ratings8.066 Ratings
Instant recovery5.01 Ratings7.063 Ratings
Recovery verification10.01 Ratings7.067 Ratings
Incremental backup identification10.01 Ratings7.075 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression10.02 Ratings7.573 Ratings
Flexible deployment5.01 Ratings6.164 Ratings
Management dashboard9.62 Ratings7.665 Ratings
Platform support8.42 Ratings7.165 Ratings
Retention options7.72 Ratings8.063 Ratings
Encryption8.01 Ratings7.662 Ratings
Business application protection00 Ratings7.570 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings5.769 Ratings
Backup to the cloud00 Ratings7.457 Ratings
Snapshots00 Ratings7.670 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
Synology Active Backup Suite
7.8
2 Ratings
5% below category average
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
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Ratings
Continuous data protection8.82 Ratings00 Ratings
Replication8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Synology Active Backup SuiteCommvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(3 ratings)
6.7
(77 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(8 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(3 ratings)
7.0
(14 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(52 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Synology Active Backup SuiteCommvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Likelihood to Recommend
Synology
Synology
Active backup is a great low-cost solution to backup your entire
infrastructure, no license cost whatsoever currently, only the only requirement
is using Synology hardware which is great, and we’ve not had any issues with.

Compared to
more mature solutions like Veeam, it’s lacking some tools for restoring data /
elements quickly.

Veeam has
tools to restore databases/data or active directory elements like users, groups
or Ous.

So, if you
need the extra tools for certain applications this isn’t the right tool for
you.
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Commvault
Commvault works well in a large environments with a variety of client types and data classes. With its policy-based configurations, it makes administration of large environments easier when configuring storage and retention, copies, schedules, client configs, etc. Commvault also backs up just about everything you can think of, and works with almost all storage and compute platforms, so there are rarely any cases where Commvault cannot accommodate.
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Pros
Synology
  • The interface to browse and restore files from the cloud backups is super-easy. As in drop-down boxes to select which account and then files and be exported for restore - no training needed to use it.
  • The Synology device is fast on the network - 4 x 1Gbps NICs
  • Updating itself
  • Being Reliable as a permanently on 24/7 device
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Commvault
  • Commvault is the Swiss Army knife for data protection in an Enterprise environment. You name the environment and Commvvault has something to protect it. Very helpful in this on-prem/off-prem world that is developing into a DevOps world.
  • Improves our Disaster Recovery
  • Starting to utilize for data migration for VMware in places where Zerto is too expensive
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Cons
Synology
  • Agent Download more easily
  • More detail information's on dates, and what was backup
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Commvault
  • For database restores, it has to restore the entire database in order to recover just one table.
  • Backups of virtual machines with direct attached storage is difficult.
  • I wish it covered cloud assets more thoroughly, like AWS ELBs and Security Groups.
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Likelihood to Renew
Synology
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Commvault
It is serving it's purpose and for companies that have a smaller IT staff, it is not time consuming to manage. Support for the product when needed has been very good and they are responsive when tickets are opened for support. The product is scalable so as we grow we can easily increase the resources as needed on the backend.
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Usability
Synology
The usability
of the suite is excellent, all tools are web based so no client or server to
remote into. It has a separate portal to restore data, you can give access to
users if you want them to be able to restore their own data.

Restoring
files or a whole server/vm is very easy to do, it just lacks the functionality
of some of the more established backup solutions.

With being
a Veeam user for many years, the comfort of the extra tools to restore a single
database or a single active directory user, I’ve grown used to Veeam’s tools.
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Commvault
Have a interface very user friendly. You do not need a lot of training, or any formal training really, to get up and going and use nearly all of the functionality of the product. This facilitates the post-implementation company as it reduces costs with backup specialists and any trained analyst can take care of its infrastructure. One negative point is not all the options and features are in the HTML view.
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Reliability and Availability
Synology
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Commvault
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software.
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Performance
Synology
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Commvault
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed and provide to organizations with flexible and scalable software
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Support Rating
Synology
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Commvault
I would rate Commvault's support as an 'average' support. Now that we have a very experienced guy working with Commvault, most of the time we can fix or do anything by ourselves. We had some issues with their support taking a really long time to respond and fix some issues in the past. In most cases we ended up appealing to the community, other peers, or Commvault's SE team.
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In-Person Training
Synology
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Commvault
Traning is very easy very helpful
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Online Training
Synology
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Commvault
Commvault training is very important and very helpful full for immplementation.
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Implementation Rating
Synology
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Commvault
Plan well and make sure you collect all the required information and details before going for implementation. Organize it in step by step or break the setup into different modules to make it simple.
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Alternatives Considered
Synology
Centralized system for multiples systems
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Commvault
In the past it has been necessary to leverage multiple products to provide a complete data protection solution. Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery has been able to mirror the functions of competitive products while increasing functionality and management. Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery works cleanly in disparate environments that leverage dissimilar technologies and products.
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Scalability
Synology
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Commvault
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software
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Return on Investment
Synology
  • Positive is obviously being a main part of the backup strategy along with quick data restoration.
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Commvault
  • I am not privy to ROI, but just having confidence and trust that Commvault will back up whatever needs backing up, and that we will always be able to restore it quickly, allows our technical people to concentrate on the problem at hand, knowing that we do not have to worry about the safety of the data. This saves time for some very expensive human resources and shortens schedules by eliminating a whole class of data safety and disaster recovery issues.
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ScreenShots

Synology Active Backup Suite Screenshots

Screenshot of Active Backup for Business PC interface