Carbonite by OpenText

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Carbonite by OpenText
Score 7.6 out of 10
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Carbonite by OpenText (also replacing the former EVault products acquired from Seagate in 2016) is a cloud backup solution for small business. Designed to recover anything from a single file to an entire system with the click of a button, Carbonite users can protect virtually any type of file.N/A
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Carbonite by OpenText
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Carbonite by OpenText
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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The competitors offer a cloud solution, but in more of a clouded document management way. There is no way to live edit files with Carbonite Safe. Dropbox and OneDrive offer you the ability to open the file and use it from the cloud.
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Ease of use. Carbonite Safe is superior when it comes to this. Again customer service. You can not beat their staff or technicians.
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Carbonite Safe is the only one that I know of that is autonomous. The other solutions require the user to place things in a certain spot or to copy it manually. Carbonite Safe is "set it and forget it".
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We use Easus backup as our on site backup solution. Carbonite is definitely in line with what the industry is offering, with the added reliability of multiple offsite storage locations. I am not sure of a company with as good a reputation.
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Carbonite Server's direction wasn't really for cloud companies as they are more specialized in robust local backup services. I'm a novice when it comes to server backups and replication, but have learned and picked up a lot from talking to the customer center compared to Veeam …
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I prefer code42's admin console, it was cleaner, more responsive, and easier to navigate. The backup system was very similar.
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As the Carbonite Server Backup tool is one of the best among all backup tools in the market, we like to opt it for several customers. It's very user friendly and most reliable. Deployment part and support is also good.
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We migrated from NetBackup as we wanted to get rid of our Tape library and media used. We also compared with Veeam to replace the Carbonite server backup. We changed our plan, as we needed storage. It is not in our budget. We continued with Carbonite as they are cheaper in …
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We originally used a backup product from Microsoft. It was so glitchy and difficult to set up. We spent a lot of time on the phone with their tech team trying to get it to work. They would come up with different reasons and fixes but in the end, it couldn't do the job so we …
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Carbonite Safe is a great solution for startup entities. It ranks nicely with Acronis and Carbonite Server Backup. Carbonite Safe is very good for backing up workstations including home computers. This is a good solution for home office users. Acronis does image level backups …
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We use Mozy in this client setting because he was more familiar with the user interface and workflow than the other products.
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Amazon Cloud Drive deleted TONS of photos I backed up years ago. I'll never trust it again. I liked Dropbox better than Box b/c of its interface and intuitiveness. Google Drive is easy but doesn't back up automatically.
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EVault came back as a solid choice, without the added cost of retrieving our data in the event of the emergency.
Chose Carbonite by OpenText
We used Symantec before EVault and our backups were large and took a long time. We were not confident in incremental backups given the amount of data we have, so we needed something that would take a backup and then only grab the changes. Carbonite EVault does that for us.
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We're in the financial industry, so there are certain standards that we make sure we're following. Outsourcing that role to a specialist in the area helps lighten our work load to we can concentrate on day-to-day business activities and not outside regulations. Flexibility, …
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We have looked at Symantec Backup Exec and actually use it for some of our less important systems. We are currently taking a look at Veeam as an alternative to EVault because of the real-time replication to live machines that Veeam may be able to provide. But so far, EVault has …
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We have not used or evaluated other similar products. My only experience in disaster recovery involved backing up to tapes and taking those tapes to an off-site location to restore the system, which was a much longer process.
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I have used HP Data Protector in the past - prefer EVault because I value the cloud solution for its ease of use and reliability. Like the online portal to manipulate backups because it provides mobility. Also like EVault central control software which is very easy to use just …
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Product was in place before I started working here. It works well for us because the cost was low and it supported our applications and operating systems. We will be evaluating backup and recovery within 12 months to see if EVault is still the best product for us.
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I was not involved but major factors were the cloud, no tapes and remote site management
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Went out of business but they had a sweet appliance that could be moved and the agents could still find it through a cloud/web site that directed it to it's serial number. Made it great to backup laptops too since they moved around and it wasn't always possible to reconfigure …
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EVault is a cheaper and more reliable solution and has less management and moving parts than the other vendors.
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Used Symantec Backupexec before Evault. Have not needed to evaluate another product in 8+ years.
Chose Carbonite by OpenText
Mozy Pro is a great product for entry level and small businesses. It provides simple, effective backups with little to no technical expertise being required by the end users to benefit from it. I found that Code42's CrashPlan, was better when our storage needs increased …
Features
Carbonite by OpenText
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Carbonite by OpenText
8.9
24 Ratings
3% above category average
Universal recovery10.09 Ratings
Instant recovery3.811 Ratings
Recovery verification9.79 Ratings
Business application protection9.015 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations10.016 Ratings
Incremental backup identification9.721 Ratings
Backup to the cloud9.623 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression9.013 Ratings
Snapshots10.011 Ratings
Flexible deployment8.912 Ratings
Management dashboard8.912 Ratings
Platform support8.913 Ratings
Retention options6.714 Ratings
Encryption9.814 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
Carbonite by OpenText
8.6
3 Ratings
1% above category average
Continuous data protection8.73 Ratings
Replication8.62 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics7.23 Ratings
Malware protection9.01 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities8.32 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery10.02 Ratings
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User Ratings
Carbonite by OpenText
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(49 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
5.0
(8 ratings)
Usability
8.9
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
8.2
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.4
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Carbonite by OpenText
Likelihood to Recommend
OpenText
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
OpenText
  • Simple administrative web interface - It's easy to provision users, look at data usage stats, disable users, and update policies to control what folders users are allowed to backup, and what options they can access
  • Easy client installation - Installing and updating clients was very simple. The client would notify the user when a new update was approved by the site admins, and they typically went very smoothly.
  • Good performance - Backups went fairly fast, and were generally invisible to the user, other than the icon updating on files to indicate whether the current version of a file was backed up or not.
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Cons
OpenText
  • While overall file restoration is easy to do, obtaining earlier versions is not as user friendly as it could be. You need to enter a date and click search to bring up the latest versions as of the date entered. That’s fine, but what is missing is the ability to see all versions of an individual file. If I am looking for a past file version I want to be able to view the file history as a subset of that file (in other words I should be able to click a + sign and expand to see past versions of the file). Otherwise I am just guessing which dates the file was changed in the past. Sometimes that’s OK, but Mozy needs to build in this enhanced, but necessary feature.
  • A couple of years ago, for non enterprise users, Mozy made radical storage and pricing changes forcing myself and many users off their system, as the price for the same storage was going up significantly. So be careful when using Mozy as past experience has shown they are willing to make major changes regardless of the negative impact on their users.
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Likelihood to Renew
OpenText
Carbonite Server Backup does not integrate or support any reporting; it is not good at it. We required monthly and quarterly reports for audit. If we fail in that we get fined or we have to pay a certain amount of money to customer. It does not support cloud instances and we are using N2WS for the cloud instances. This is an additional burden for customers.
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Usability
OpenText
Out of all the vendor we deal with they are one of the best when it comes to customers service. Reliable,you can reach them by telephone easily, Great overall can not say anything to the contrary. Usibility is excellent. I recommend them highly whether you need a simple backup ofr more complex for servers etc.
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Support Rating
OpenText
I usually find what I need to know by looking in the Carbonite knowledge base online. We haven't had any major problems, usually we just need clarification on a point or more details about a feature so we look it up. We haven't had to call in for help in quite awhile.
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Implementation Rating
OpenText
We had appliance and we just needed to setup the Director Console which was straight forward and easy.
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Alternatives Considered
OpenText
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
OpenText
  • We have a safety net that we didn't have before.
  • Key players are now backed up through an automated system that was easy to silently install.
  • The resources used impacted our exchange server negatively and slowed email until it was disabled.
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