AWS Backup vs Carbonite Server | TrustRadius

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Score 8.5 out of 10

Based on 40 reviews and ratings

Score 8.7 out of 10

Based on 65 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

AWS Backup

Carbonite Server

Universal recovery

Live recovery

Recovery verification

Business application protection

Multiple backup destinations

Incremental backup identification

Backup to the cloud

Deduplication and file compression

Snapshots

Flexible deployment

Management dashboard

Platform support

Retention options

Encryption

Pros

Backups - it's what it does.

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Chief Executive Officer

Hoffman Management GroupMarketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees

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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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Owner

Open Source TailorsInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Cons

Not so easy to use
A little pricey
The backup is in the cloud; make sure to keep an offline backup (the problem of all of this kind of solution)

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Verified User

Engineer in Other

Environmental Services Company, 11-50 employees

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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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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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Carbonite Server 4.8

Based on 6 answers

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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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Usability

AWS Backup 9.5

Based on 2 answers

Very easy to use and is as plug and play as you can get. There are configuration options for multiple schemas that best fits your organization.

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CTO (Chief Technical Officer)

CureusPublishing, 1-10 employees

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Carbonite Server 5.5

Based on 1 answer

Product needs a lot of improvements in some features like Cloud and Reporting.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

AWS Backup 9.4

Based on 5 answers

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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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Carbonite Server 5.5

Based on 2 answers

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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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

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Carbonite Server 6.4

Based on 2 answers

We had appliance and we just needed to setup the Director Console which was straight forward and easy.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Being an AWS service, AWS Backup integrates in a native way with other AWS services, providing an easy way to backup those services. Being able to create separate backup plans that meet specific business and regulatory compliance requirements provides us with capabilities to face auditing processes.

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DevOps

Aval Digital LabsFinancial Services, 201-500 employees

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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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Realtor

RE/MAX Advantage RedlandsReal Estate, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Being able to offer live hot storage in the cloud for production environments allows me to get more people in the creative space with vast demand for speed.
Great integration with all my hardware, firewall and backup software was great.
Being able to network path my files like a native drive to my computer from the cloud made the designer not complain so much able learning new stuff.

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Co-Owner

Dawn till Dusk TekInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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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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Senior IT Analyst

City of LancasterGovernment Administration, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

AWS Backup Editions & Modules

Edition

Backup Storage - Warm Storage	$0.095¹
Backup Storage - Cold Storage	$0.01¹
Restore - Warm Storage	$0.02¹
Restore - Cold Storage	$0.03¹
Restore - Item-Level Restore	$0.50²

per GB per month
per request

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Carbonite Server Editions & Modules

Edition

Power	800.04¹
Ultimate	1,300.08¹

per year

Additional Pricing Details

Trial 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.

Rating Summary

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