AWS Backup vs. Carbonite Server

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Backup
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service from AWS, designed to make it easy to centralize and automate the back up of data across AWS services in the cloud as well as on premises using the AWS Storage Gateway. Using AWS Backup, users can centrally configure backup policies and monitor backup activity for AWS resources, such as Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon RDS databases, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon EFS file systems, and AWS Storage Gateway volumes.
$0.01
per GB per month
Carbonite Server
Score 1.0 out of 10
N/A
Carbonite Server (also replacing the former EVault products acquired from Seagate in 2016) is a full backup and discovery solution. Designed to recover anything from a single file to an entire system with the click of a button, Carbonite Server users can protect virtually any type of file on both physical and virtual servers, NAS, SAN and external hard drives. The vendor’s value proposition is that their solution assures that users without an IT department and those that are the IT department…
$800.04
per year
Pricing
AWS BackupCarbonite Server
Editions & Modules
Backup Storage - Cold Storage
$0.01
per GB per month
Restore - Warm Storage
$0.02
per GB per month
Restore - Cold Storage
$0.03
per GB per month
Backup Storage - Warm Storage
$0.095
per GB per month
Restore - Item-Level Restore
$0.50
per request
Power
$800.04
per year
Ultimate
1,300.08
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS BackupCarbonite Server
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsTrial and paying customers have access to our valet install free of charge. Call and speak to a specialist who can remotely connect to your machine to ensure it's installed and configured correctly to protect your critical data.
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AWS BackupCarbonite Server
Top Pros
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Features
AWS BackupCarbonite Server
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
AWS Backup
9.0
5 Ratings
1% above category average
Carbonite Server
8.6
21 Ratings
2% above category average
Management dashboard8.55 Ratings7.59 Ratings
Retention options8.55 Ratings7.711 Ratings
Encryption8.55 Ratings8.511 Ratings
Universal recovery00 Ratings8.37 Ratings
Instant recovery00 Ratings8.28 Ratings
Recovery verification00 Ratings7.97 Ratings
Business application protection00 Ratings10.014 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings10.015 Ratings
Incremental backup identification00 Ratings10.019 Ratings
Backup to the cloud00 Ratings10.020 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings7.612 Ratings
Snapshots00 Ratings10.010 Ratings
Flexible deployment00 Ratings7.99 Ratings
Platform support00 Ratings7.510 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
AWS Backup
8.3
2 Ratings
4% below category average
Carbonite Server
-
Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Malware protection8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
SaaS Backup
Comparison of SaaS Backup features of Product A and Product B
AWS Backup
8.6
2 Ratings
6% below category average
Carbonite Server
-
Ratings
SaaS Product Integration8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Data Restoration Options8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Auditing and Search8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Storage in the Cloud or On-Premises10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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AWS BackupCarbonite Server
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Score 9.9 out of 10
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Cove Data Protection
Score 9.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Druva Security Cloud
Druva Security Cloud
Score 9.7 out of 10
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises
Druva Security Cloud
Druva Security Cloud
Score 9.7 out of 10
Bacula Enterprise
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Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
AWS BackupCarbonite Server
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(11 ratings)
9.0
(35 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
4.8
(6 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(4 ratings)
5.5
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.4
(4 ratings)
5.5
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AWS BackupCarbonite Server
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
There is a cost involved with data retrieval. AWS Backup is truly that, a backup. If you need to access this data on a regular basis, there are better options out there. For long term, just in case incremental backups, AWS [Backup] checks all the boxes. Just set it up, start your backups, and rest assured your data is safe.
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Carbonite, an OpenText company
More than enough for small companies with several on-prem servers. In 2021, it wouldn't be wise to pit all important data to a single backup service. Carbonite Server is solid, but it's not 100% reliable so I'd definitely recommend having multiple backup services either on the cloud in conjunction with other backup services so the user has multiple safety nets in case of disaster and failed granular restorations.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Back up almost any resource in AWS Backup, EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, etc
  • Restore the resource leaving it identical to the original
  • Works with AWS Organization so you can cover all your AWS accounts with a single Plan
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Carbonite, an OpenText company
  • The end-user experience is as simple and robust as I have ever seen from a backup solution. The end-user dashboard, should you choose to allow them access, is intuitive and granular.
  • eVault has the best bandwidth management I have experienced. The endpoint target is available for all operating systems and is intelligent and efficient using very low overhead. It includes data de-dupe and encryption while using very little system resources. Combine these features with bandwidth throttling and you can backup a large amount of data over any size wire.
  • eVault's deployment options will fit any budget and size environment. You can deploy using your own hardware, even. They really focus on providing the right solution for each customer instead of making each customer fit into their pre-determined box.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Restoring the compute nodes of the cluster should be done always
  • Having the default Roles all the necessary permission, you have to add some depending on your configurations
  • Being able to see the Jobs status in a centralize account more graphically
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Carbonite, an OpenText company
  • The backup report really needs improvement. It is really pathetic, as it gives wrong information. It is not suitable for auditing.
  • The Exchange DAG backup should support instead of configuring each exchange server.
  • Cloud infrastructure supports a lot of AWS and Azure instances that are coming up.
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Likelihood to Renew
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Carbonite, an OpenText company
We packaged carbonite server with the end user product that they provide but we have had issues where the end user site has been down for days at time and backups for both server and user are backing up but we do not the get notification that it was completed for several days. There appears to be latency issues with the mail delivery for completed backups. Additionally, I have used other backup products and find the Carbonite website interface very clunkly and difficult to navigate.
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Usability
Amazon AWS
Overall because I can sell it white labeled and use my white labeled software like CloudBerry and the native backup apps on my synology NAS servers to store things in real time and do duplication and disaster recovery directly to it was game changing for my client in the advertising world they are never down now.
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Carbonite, an OpenText company
Product needs a lot of improvements in some features like Cloud and Reporting.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
Support for AWS Backup is by Amazon itself so it is solid as always. If you have a business or higher level support plan you'll have no trouble getting engineers or other staff on the job to help you with whatever comes up.
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Carbonite, an OpenText company
Some of the requests we could not get resolved on time. They took a long time to provide the reason for the issue we had raised.
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Implementation Rating
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Carbonite, an OpenText company
We had appliance and we just needed to setup the Director Console which was straight forward and easy.
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
I've tried a lot of different products. Backblaze, at least from a birds-eye view is significantly cheaper than AWS/the rest. Backblaze is a little more simpler, but it's well worth it. Linode also provides backup options, however I'm only familiar with their backup on their VPS's (however you make that plural), which never gave me a problem.
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Carbonite, an OpenText company
Netbak is a great product but we also had a secondary issue of having to backup several PC's on site and at remote locations. Carbonite helped with both and gave us one central admin console to be able to check the progress of all our backups, where netbak would have required us to setup a tunnel or use the internet to move data back to our main office.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Offsite means a failure at our cloud provider means we can redeploy quickly to another data center or another provider quickly.
  • The cost can't be best.
  • Pay only for what you use. No need to pay for extra data that you don't need.
  • No minimums
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Carbonite, an OpenText company
  • While EVault can become expensive if you have a lot of data to store, but you have to keep in mind that it does not cost you anything more to restore your data in the event of an emergency. Some systems give you a great upfront cost, until you actually need to retrieve your data.
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