Arcserve Backup vs. AvePoint Cloud Backup

Arcserve UDP is fully suited for small to large size environments that need complete data protection solutions with the ability to run the fastest backups, replications, instant VM and DR.

If backing up simple data use case scenarios such as basic web content, the product is ok. If the SharePoint site has complexities such as apps, customizations, metadata and content types, it will struggle to restore content correctly which is very painful to fix.

Incentivized

• Arcserve Backup has many offerings to fit many business sizes and needs.
• It offers excellent features like dedupe, high availability, DR, and BMR.
• Arcserve Backup sales and technical support is good to work with.
• Very nice reseller program and benefits.

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• backups
• admin site
• user management

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• Has a steep learning curve to the product, if not experienced in backup solutions.
• Windows backup and restore functionality is excellent, however, we have found Linux somewhat lacking.

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• Support can be difficult to deal with
• Restoring data is not always consistent with original content
• User interface is not intuitive

Incentivized

Arcserve UDP provides our organization lots of benefits and it is much more than a simple backup and restore solution. We use it for cross platform DR, storage agnostic replications, DR solution instead of VMware SRM and more.

Arcserve Backup support is usually very good. Their chat is usually able to fix most general issues, but will escalate more in depth issues to technical engineers that call you back. Their product knowledge is really good and usually resolve issues promptly.

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We use Veeam Backup and Replication at our larger sites where Vmware Virtualization is being used and is our product of choice in this venue. When it comes to our smaller sites, nothing is more affordable and reliable than Arcserve Backup.

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AvePoint Cloud Backup for Office 365 stacks up against Datto Backupify well. Although I feel that Datto's Backupify was a bit easier to configure and setup, and process backups. Probably because I have experience with it, but overall I do feel that it is easier to use than AvePoint.

Incentivized

• Deploying Arcserve UDP with the "copy-to-tape" option allowed us to reuse well over 50 LTO5 tapes used by our previous backup solution. Further, we extended data retention on site (maintaining monthly backups on disk) as well as extending off site data retention on tape.

• Setup can be ok if scans complete correctly and it saves time
• Can be 100% secure if bring own storage and keys
• Usually can back up 4 times a day

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