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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Arcserve Appliances

    Score5.8 out of 10
    N/AArcserve backup appliances are presented by the vendor as combining enterprise-ready software and industrial-grade hardware united, to create turnkey backup appliances for disaster recovery (DR) and application availability – now with Sophos Intercept X Advanced for defense against malware, exploits, and ransomware.N/A

    NovaBACKUP

    Score3 out of 10
    N/ANovaBACKUP is a backup and restore solution for businesses and service providers backed by decades of in-house data protection and backup expertise to help users simplify and securely back up their critical data. NovaBACKUP offers the following local and cloud backup and recovery software solutions for businesses: NovaBACKUP PC Agent with 1,000 GB of Cloud Storage for PCs NovaBACKUP Server Agent starts with 250 GB of Cloud Storage for…

    $149.95

    per year

    Pricing
    Arcserve AppliancesNovaBACKUP
    Editions & Modules
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    NovaBACKUP PC Agent (with 1,000 GB Cloud)
    149.95 /year
    per year
    NovaBACKUP Server (with 250 GB Cloud)
    399.95 /year
    per year
    NovaBACKUP Managed Backup
    Call for Pricing
    SaaS Service, Usage-based
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Arcserve AppliancesNovaBACKUP
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—All server backup products include setup assistance plus, one year of NovaCare for local technical phone support, remote recovery assistance, and upgrade protection.
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    Arcserve AppliancesNovaBACKUP
    Small Businesses
    Acronis True Image
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8.3 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    NetBackup Flex Appliances
    Score10 out of 10
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    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Arcserve AppliancesNovaBACKUP
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Arcserve AppliancesNovaBACKUP
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Arcserve
    Very good for quick onsite file and email restores. The built-in granular email restore tool is honestly amazing. The file restore options are similarly useful allowing the restoration of a single file or email from any restore point, making those little restore jobs super quick. It might not be the best for a bare metal restore however, as while it does have this functionality, it requires some additional setup of a server before a backup to allow this to work.
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    NovaBACKUP
    Provide data protection for small to media size clients. Sends comprehensive email reports upon job completion. Physical to Virtual Migrations. Backing up physical and virtual machines. Alerting on backup job success or failure. Support is could be a little better, but it is adequate. The application is frequently updated and supports the latest operating systems from Microsoft and VMware.
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    Pros
    Arcserve
    • All in one spot for backup, restore, and security for off site locations.
    • Well priced for the large swathe of features it provides.
    • Low learning curve for administrators.
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    NovaBACKUP
    • Backup data to removable media
    • Restore data
    • Report on data protection.
    • Physical to Virtual Machine Migrations
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    Cons
    Arcserve
    • Scalability. Main issue is each appliance has a finite space for backups, and can't be increased on the box itself without replacing it with another appliance completely.
    • Onboard interface. Doesn't have an interface that's accessible via the web natively. While that's great for security, it is a little awkward if you need to access it from offsite.
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    NovaBACKUP
    • None, it provides all the functionality we require.
    • Improve licensing costs.
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    Usability
    Arcserve
    It's very easy to use. Plug it in, run through the wizard and you're pretty much set. Hardly ever have to go back in and check on it. Everything can be scheduled fairly granularly. The console is simple and laid out well. While doing a restore takes a number of steps, it is not hard to follow what you're doing. A few things couple be displayed better, but the built in help options do explain things well enough.
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    NovaBACKUP
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    Support Rating
    Arcserve
    [I] have only used it a couple of times, but they've always been responsive and solved the issues I've had. Time to get to a person was fairly low, under 10 minutes each time.
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    NovaBACKUP
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    Alternatives Considered
    Arcserve
    Barracuda had the best console of the three we evaluated. Cloud hosted it was the easiest to access. However, it took forever to do the initial seeding backup, and then the nightly backups ran over into the next day. It was just so slow to do the backups - we never even tried a restore. The resulting backups also seemed to take up a significant amount of the appliances space, it was almost 3/4 full from the get go. Unitrends did not have natively a granular email restore option, it had a third-party option, but that was not something we were interested in. It also took a long time to run the backups. Arcserve was the fastest by far, [as] it did not fill up as much (way better deduplication) and it had a built-in granular email restore. While I wish it had a cloud console, overall it had the most important features we were looking for.
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    NovaBACKUP
    Not as polished as Veeam, but a lot cheaper when backing up data from over 10 servers. Otherwise, if you are backing up just one server, and don't need much in the way of support, the Veeam Community edition is a very cost-effective backup solution. When comparing the support and cost of Novabackup for a small to mid-size business, it is a very reliable solution.
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    Return on Investment
    Arcserve
    • Increased costs due to having duplicates of functions we have at the main site.
    • Less complex than having to put full enterprise servers for these functions.
    • Effort saved in having all-in-one versus single systems.
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    NovaBACKUP
    • Provides confidence that we can recover from data loss or corruption.
    • Enabled easy P2V for our servers.
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    NovaBACKUP Screenshots

    Screenshot of NovaBACKUP Home ScreenScreenshot of VMware ReplicationScreenshot of NovaBACKUP Backup TabScreenshot of Restore Files by DeviceScreenshot of NovaBACKUP Central Management ConsoleScreenshot of Restore Files by Time