Arcserve Backup vs Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliance

• Backs up Windows and Linux virtual and physical servers quickly. After the initial full backup, data is deduped and compressed. This dramatically reduced the backup window. Restores are easily accomplished, using intuitive web interfaces.
• The data is easily replicated between units. Scheduled to occur in the middle of the night, network bandwidth is not dramatically impacted. Truly, a set it and forget it operation.
• Using the appropriate UDP, administrators can actually "spin up" a virtual machine from the latest backup, allowing disaster recovery on your critical servers while repairing failures in the background.
• Copy-to-Tape function is available. This satisfies annual and quarterly data retention requirements.

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• UniTrends instant recovery feature is just that, instant recovery. As long as your backup storage resides on fast storage, once you click the 'Instant recovery' button, the server is accessible within a few seconds.
• Support is tremendous. Like most backup solutions, UniTrends has not been without issues. Every time I have engaged support, I have been incredibly impressed with their willingness to assist and their ability to resolve our issues.
• The new interface is intuitive and easy to use.

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• File System Archive is limited without stubbing
• Virtual Standby is limited to Windows only

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• I could have gone on and on about the positives of the unitrends appliance and even now I am remembering more and more good things I could have said in the last question. There is only a couple of things I think that could be improved and people have been saying it for many many moons. The interface could use something a little more windows interfaceish. The other thing is that I have noticed terminology being changed from one screen to the next. Not a huge deal but can be confusing to someone who is using the device for the first time.

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• Using arcserve UDP we managed to reuse the storage used for the previous solution and extend the backup retention to 3 months from two weeks!
• The cost of using a single solution for backup, DR and replication is much lower than using backup software, VMware SRM and storage replications.
• BMR capabilities and v2v allows us to use VMware on the production mixture of VMware and hyper-v on the DR to reduce the costs.

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• Since moving to Unitrends, our backups have been more reliable than they ever were with Backup Exec.
• Unitrends has given us the ability to do hourly backups of our file servers. Users that request file restores have really appreciated the granularity of recovery that I'm able to provide them.
• Unitrends allowed us to consolidate our backup solutions (previously we were using one application for physical and one for virtual backups), which makes the management of backups and restores much more streamlined.

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