Likelihood to Recommend 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.
Read full review AppAssure works well for quick access to point in time backups of Windows machines without having to do a complete restore. The virtual standby function is useful as a disaster recovery or high availability solution. Recent upgrades to the product and rebranding to Rapid Recovery look promising. If your Linux machines are mission [critical] make sure your administrators test restores so they can perform them in a timely manner should the need arise.
Read full review Pros Backups - it's what it does. Read full review Continuous backup with deduplication and compression The P to V function of the software is create. To be able to back up physical machines and create a hot spare on a virtual environment was a great selling point. Can back up physical and virtual (ESX or Hyper-V). Read full review 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) Read full review Support for newer operating systems (Windows, Linux, VMware) is slow to be added. Usually takes 3-6 months from the new version being released for it to be supported. There is no way to automate the testing of the virtual standby which a lot of comparable products are able to do. The software has a backup type called "base image" which is essentially taking a full backup after an unexpected shutdown of the server. If your servers crash and they are very large, this may impact your storage requirements significantly. They do now have synthetic full backups which alleviate this issue a bit but they are not perfect either. Read full review Usability 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.
Read full review Support Rating 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.
Read full review In the very few instances we've needed support they have been quick, friendly, knowledgeable, and dedicated to servicing our needs. That has only improved since AppAssure was bought out by Quest.
Read full review Implementation Rating Our initial installation really was not optimum. With the help from Dell Profession Services we were able to get our implementation sized correctly and better understand how to get better deduplication results
Read full review 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.
Read full review I've been using Rapid Recovery for the last 6 years and before that we had used Backup Exec, but it was a different implementation as we were still running backups to LTO3 tapes using the full/incremental backup schemes. So Rapid Recovery (AppAssure at the time) was a big change for us, backing up to disk instead with base images and changes. I would assume Backup Exec can do this as well, but haven't used it since switching.
NovaBACKUP was a lower cost solution that seemed geared towards smaller and simpler configurations
Read full review 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. Read full review AppAssure paid for itself in the first year of usage. A user deleted a major file in our SharePoint sub-site, we used the DocRetriever for SharePoint Console and were able to go back to a particular incremental date and retrieved that file. One of our file shares crashed and we were able to put the physical server on a virtual standby which saved us hours of imaging and restoring of data. This allowed employees to efficiently continue their daily work without much downtime. The offsite replication alone has put an ease on the company in case of any disaster. When Hurricane Sandy hit, we didn't have a solution in place which put us on pins and needles to say the least. But with AppAssure we will be able to have some comfort that all of our mission critical data is being offloaded onto our other sites. Read full review ScreenShots