The Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliances are hardware developed for data backup and management. They cover enterprise backup, ransomware detection, recovery assurance, proactive monitoring, and cloud continuity into a single platform for organizations of all sizes.
IT Director in Information Technology at Roosevelt Medical Center (Hospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees)
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The biggest difference between the Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliance and the other two options we used, Veeam and Windows Server Backup was the physical appliance. The other two were software based and were not giving our organization a fully unified backup strategy or …
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This was a tape library back in the day. We also couldn't snapshots at the time. I'm sure it's changed since then, but I've been a Unitrends for so long and so happy with it, I haven't had the need to question the backup. Bottom line is, it's reliable.
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Better value, easier installation but tougher deployment.
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Unitrends was more involved to install and configure, but I have more confidence in its security with it being a Linux OS as opposed to just running on a Windows box. Acronis seemed to have more frequent failures on backups, even to local storage. It was also less …
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Sytos - (I haven't seen for years) - Excellent performance, clean UI, did it job.
Retrospect - Handled 'rollup' backups (kind of like incremental forever), excellent job of desktop/laptop user backups. We would be still using this product for DT/LT had it remained under original …
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Senior Network Administrator in Information Technology at Providence University College and Theological Seminary (Education Management, 51-200 employees)
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[Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery] was presented with glowing promises. I was hoping they were true. It cost more than previous solutions to purchase (a lot more) but the ease of use and speed of both backups and recovery is incomparable. The time saved immeasurable. …
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Network System Administrator in Information Technology at Merrimack School District (Education Management, 501-1000 employees)
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We compared Unitrends to Veem as well as our ISP's cloud backup offering. We opted for Unitrends as it allows for much faster backup and recovery to our DR site, significantly faster recovery times, and [the] ability to have complete control over our data.
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Systems Administrator at Randolph Central School Corporation (Education Management, 201-500 employees)
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Other products we used are not listed b/c of their age. We used older DLT and Dat Tape backup systems from HP and software called Yosomite. Their systems were cumbersome to manage and keep a good handle on their daily backup operation. Recovery was slow and difficult with …
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Verified User
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It was a no-brainer, the all in one package with hardware and licensing made sense and it was less expensive compared to having to purchase new hardware and licensing for each feature we needed.
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Information Technology Manager in Information Technology at City of Oak Creek (Government Administration, 201-500 employees)
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In the past I have used Symantec Backup Exec, Windows Server backup and also Windows System Center. Unitrends is easier to use and I don't have to worry about licensing. Unitrends prices based on disk size not the number of units being backed up.
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Verified User
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Tivoli cost a lot more and outside of speediness of administration and cost there isn't much difference between the two for my basic needs. Unitrends was the best bang for the buck and performed great during our evaluation. We just purchased a new Unitrends backup appliance …
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Manager of Information Technology in Information Technology at Masterman's (Wholesale, 51-200 employees)
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Unitrends provided both a hardware and software solution that was 100% supported. Unitrends guaranteed that we would not run out of storage space. Reviews of the Unitrends Backup Appliance on Spiceworks were very favorable. When complaints were on Spiceworks, the complaints …
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IT/Database Manager in Information Technology at EmploymentGuide.com (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees)
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I don't recall the details. User happiness found in our web research was a big factor. Users of other products who had very bad experiences also played a part. The automatic cloud backup bundled into the package was a strong selling feature. Don't ask me if I have actually SEEN …
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Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Information Technology at BioNex Solutions (Pharmaceuticals, 11-50 employees)
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We were running backups via Windows Server and via Western Digital and via Backup Exec.
Windows Server Backups is functional, but not easy to use for others not in IT when files need to be recovered. Plus it requires storage (we used USB drives) which need to be rotated, …
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Network Administrator in Information Technology at The Benjamin School (Education Management, 201-500 employees)
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We were must interested in a turn-key system designed from the top down to be a backup solution. A similar system from Riverbed and Nimble Storage were more of the SAN / app acceleration type hardware where Unitrends met all our needs.
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Server/Network Admin in Information Technology at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers (Hospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees)
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Unitrends does a lot better job than our previous backup solition, Syncsort Backup Express. It has greater capabilities, but is also a lot more expensive.
We looked at Veeam Backup and heard good things, but at that time Veeam only did VM type backups and we wanted a solution …
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We have a traditional stack and pretty typical needs as a manufacturer. I have used and evaluated everything out there, but the Unitrends solution fits very well and was competitively priced. I would think if it fits us, it could fit anyone like us with a similar stack.
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Windows Server and Active Directory is very robust and stable, it has been a staple in every IT environment I have worked in during my career. Junior to Intermediate admins can learn Windows Server easily, the user interfaces make administration tasks very easy as well as the documentation available through a vast amount of resources. There are other Operating Systems available with no GUI which has a smaller attack surface, faster update installation and reboot time. Windows Server does have the ability to remove the desktop experience, however it is not something I have had experience with and I believe most administrators choose not to remove it.
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Errors on backup jobs could be more clearly explained. As the administrator of the device for my company, I often don't know what caused an error, and can't tell from the error information what happened or caused the error.
Updates of the devices should have an automatic option. It takes to much time to do an update to the devices if updates haven't been maintained.
Shutdown and restarting the device should be available from the main UI screen to eliminate some time when doing updates or if you're doing some maintenance on the device.
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Microsoft needs to minimize the update frequency by making the product more secure. It can become very exhausting trying to keep updated if you don't have a dedicated support team. It can become challenging where the business is unable to allow downtime for reboots as part of the update process.
Prone to security and audit vulnerabilities.
The operating system needs more CPU and memory resources compared to other options such as Linux.
Understanding the licensing model can be abit confusing.
Comes with a standard firewall, but not the most secured one available. Would suggest using a more secured firewall as part of your antivirus software.
Due to the number of vulnerabilities and the operating system being a target for hackers, anti-virus software is a must.
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We have grown very attached to the Unitrends appliances and their use for recovery and other file restoration needs as well as data archival, data replication to other appliance and data migration to other servers or long term storage requirements. The appliances work well and the support for them is very good as well.
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I've carefully reviewed the servers and services currently running on Windows Server 2012, and given the opportunity would renew them as is going forward. There are two systems I currently have in place, one is a very large Linux implementation for a large ecommerce site, and one is a very large backup solution front ended by FTP servers running Linux. Neither are well suited for Windows, but the overall network infrastructure is and will be Windows Server for the foreseeable future.
I have never used such an easy product that is stable and scalable like Unitrends. I have been running backups for MANY years. On premise, tape, disk, cloud, you name it. Unitrends is very flexible, stable and has incredible reporting features. It's nice when management requests a report and it takes you 5 minutes to run it and dump it to PDF. How can you beat that?
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Anyone new to IT could easily use the familiar Desktop Experience (GUI) version because we all know how to use Windows, whether a client or server version. Once an IT user is more comfortable with the operating system, they can move on to the Core version, which is the way to go in almost all situations.
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They're incredible, attentive, thorough. They make sure my issue is resolved and follow up. I'm usually behind on giving them a reply or an update. They have always gone above and beyond for me, and I'll continue to do the same for them.
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Microsoft's support is hugely wide-ranging from articles online to having to contact them directly for the more serious issues. In recent years when I have contacted them directly, I have found the support o be excellent as I have found myself connected to very knowledgeable people in the field in which I needed the support. The online support available is vast and I tend to find most of the time that there is always someone out there who has had the same issue as me in the past and knows something about how to resolve it! This is the advantage of using industry standard and long-established systems such as Windows Server.
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The Unitrends employees involved in the installation were very friendly and knowledgeable. A certain degree of hiccups can be expected during any installation but never shook my confidence because of the friendly and knowledgeable team that was assigned to my project.
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Make sure that you have detailed processes in place for every server instance you plan to install/upgrade, if possible get the base OS loaded and Windows Updates applied ahead of time, and if using a VM take a snapshot prior to installing each role, as well as along the way.
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Symantec Backup Exec was the primary tool used for backups for years. We also used Veeam for some Office 365/Exchange backups. Unitrends once configured and set up works very well against the competition. Backup Exec interface was more user friendly. The search tool for exploring backups was much better than Unitrends as well. Unitrends is much faster if you need to restore an entire VM or large file folders. Also once you have Unitrends all set up, it is very low maintenance, it just works. If something fails 9/10 it will correct itself on the next backup that is scheduled to run
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They are different experiences, and while the other solutions offer enterprise-grade stability and, in some cases, address Windows server shortcomings (such as patching), they all do the trick, but the other solutions require a deeper technical background/configuration of items at the command line, which some people are not fully comfortable with.
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It has saved some deleted file server data for our business department.
We have lost some reports for the business department due to an overlooked setting that make the backup reports look great, but the server was not being backed up in reality.
Less anxiety for the IT department, we have backup plan and that is worth a lot to us.
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