BDRShield vs. UpSafe (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BDRShield
Score 7.4 out of 10
N/A
Vembu BDR Suite is a universal backup solution catering to the backup, recovery, and disaster recovery needs of diverse IT environments. It is also optimized for service providers who deliver BaaS and DRaaS to their customers.
$12
per year per endpoint
UpSafe (discontinued)
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
UpSafe was a solution for storing and backing up data stored in Gmail, Google Drive, Google Contacts, and Google Calendar, or Outlook. It has been discontinued.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Endpoint / Workstation Backup
$12
per year per endpoint
SaaS Backup
$12
per year per user
VMs, Servers & Cloud Backup
$48
per year per VM
Apps & DB Backup
$72
per year Apps
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BDRShieldUpSafe (discontinued)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
BDRShield
9.2
61 Ratings
8% above category average
UpSafe (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Universal recovery9.750 Ratings00 Ratings
Instant recovery9.051 Ratings00 Ratings
Recovery verification9.752 Ratings00 Ratings
Business application protection8.543 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations9.143 Ratings00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification9.158 Ratings00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud8.536 Ratings00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression9.648 Ratings00 Ratings
Snapshots9.245 Ratings00 Ratings
Flexible deployment9.354 Ratings00 Ratings
Management dashboard8.859 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform support9.459 Ratings00 Ratings
Retention options9.557 Ratings00 Ratings
Encryption9.451 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
BDRShieldUpSafe (discontinued)
Small Businesses
Cove Data Protection
Cove Data Protection
Score 9.7 out of 10
Cove Data Protection
Cove Data Protection
Score 9.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.6 out of 10
Druva Security Cloud
Druva Security Cloud
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.6 out of 10
Druva Security Cloud
Druva Security Cloud
Score 9.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
7.4
(64 ratings)
8.5
(9 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.2
(62 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(6 ratings)
8.3
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BDRShieldUpSafe (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
Vembu Technologies
It provides reliable daily backup tasks and it is important for us to have no worries of system crush. BDRSuite is full featured, I had been using BDRSuite to replicate servers from Hyper-v to ESXi, it's quite useful and easily to process than other VM migration tools between different platform. BDRSuite costs less than other backup product because I can decrease/increase/allocate license between VMs easily. The license charge two ways, server or VM. We choose VM license.
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If your company is using a lot of G-suite products such as Gmail, Google Drive, etc..., it's easy to backup your important documentations and texts from email via Free Gmail Backup. You can also schedule your backup automatically. Very easy to use. One downside is this is only for Google users.
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Pros
Vembu Technologies
  • Seed an offsite backup. A simple checkbox to seed a large backup prior to backing it up to our datacenter. Previously with another well knows backup provider this was convoluted and time-consuming.
  • Backup Speed. Vembu BDR is fast and allows me to schedule multiple jobs within time constraints that prohibit some backup products from working.
  • DR - Vembu BDR provides an option to mirror your backups to an offsite datacenter without taxing production servers with a secondary backup job.
  • Bare Metal Recovery: the ability to create a custom bootable ISO that you can quickly recover a failed physical server or workstation.
  • Ease of use: The console is consistent and very easy to use. From initial install to being fully configured takes just a few minutes.
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Discontinued Products
  • Google Cloud Account backup app.
  • All-in-one solution to backup your Google Account.
  • Able to restore the whole Google account or just selected files or emails in a few clicks.
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Cons
Vembu Technologies
  • User interface on the servers do not have enough tools to better monitor the systems and finding information is difficult.
  • User interface at portal is difficult to navigate and confusing
  • Support documentation is too generic and rarely answers my questions.
  • Licensing and acquisition. As a reseller and partner the licensing model is confusing and the portal interface to manage licensing should be scrapped and rebuilt. It is difficult to navigate and the available information is too vague.
  • Recently, communication with new channel contact. My previous contact was articulate and answered my questions.
  • Did I mention licensing? This is the most confusing and difficult process I've dealt with in 25 years. Makes Microsoft look simple.
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  • Sometimes it slows down your computer.
  • It doesn't restore selected emails and you have to do it twice.
  • The UI interface could be more aesthetically pleasing.
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Likelihood to Renew
Vembu Technologies
Because of the product functions and possibilities: - it's easy to use through WEB browser - installation process is not complicated - Vembu BDR solution is reliable, and works properly. It does the job. This product could get extra points for the appliance that could be imported to virtual environment (no need for windows server license or some linux knowledge).
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Usability
Vembu Technologies
Friendly web interface very clear, nicely and professionally designed. Usability, setup and forget. It has all features you need for hybrid environments even if you don't use it. You know the features are there when you needed. Email report is so informative. You get all the details about completed backup without logging in the system
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Support Rating
Vembu Technologies
It often takes a very long time to get an issue fixed. the support folks seem committed to getting it fixed but they often seem to be trying different things and hoping something works. I did not get the sense that they had a clear idea what was wrong.
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The support for this software has been very impressive. I have not had any problems as I have been using it for the past year. I never have to worry about what may happen if I lose a file because I know it can be recovered by the support provided here.
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Implementation Rating
Vembu Technologies
It wasn't difficult at all, it fact, it was mostly simple, implementation doesn't require much skills and knowledge, but the configuration part does require some skills to create the jobs and configure certain settings, overall, its an easy implementation, especially for experienced IT People
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Alternatives Considered
Vembu Technologies
I tested Vembu against Veeam and for the price, Vembu was the better option. I also had a great support experience as I had to contact Vembu twice after mistakes I made. While using Veeam the software was not as intuitive and support responses were not as swift and accurate.
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Discontinued Products
I prefer Upsafe Free Gmail Backup as it works to effectively save and protect our important brainstorms and conversations, as Google auto-saves in real-time. Cloud Backup for Office365 is slightly clumsier and harder to share as so many team members don’t pay for Microsoft Office since the Google Suite does pretty much the same work.
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Return on Investment
Vembu Technologies
  • For organizations that use different tools for Backup and recovery, this could be the single tool for Storage and Backup Administrators to automate and work effectively.
  • Software cost is lesser thus the money can be invested for other tools/software procurement
  • I don't think there is any negative impact as of now
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Discontinued Products
  • We have caught employees lying about email usage in the past.
  • ROI is high, always being able to track where your emails/ files go is important.
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ScreenShots

BDRShield Screenshots

Screenshot of EncryptionScreenshot of Multiple recovery optionsScreenshot of ReportsScreenshot of RetentionScreenshot of SchedulingScreenshot of VM Selection

UpSafe (discontinued) Screenshots

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