Hornetsecurity a backup solution that won't sting your wallet
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What is Hornetsecurity VM Backup?
Hornetsecurity VM Backup (formerly Altaro) is a backup and replication solution for Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. VM Backup can manage large infrastructures, with the revamped backup repository providing long-term storage and more efficient use of disk space.
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Subscription License - Standard Edition
$59.80
On Premise
per VM/per year
Subscription License - Unlimited Edition
$73.80
On Premise
per VM/per year
Subscription License - Unlimited Plus Edition
$89.20
On Premise
per VM/per year
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Product Demos
Altaro VM Backup Cloud Management Console for End Users - Demo
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MSP Video Demo
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SysAdminDay 2017 in Leipzig - Altaro VM Backup for Hyper-V - Demo by Haiko Hertes
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Altaro VM Backup v7 - Demo and introduction
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An Introduction to Altaro VM Backup v8
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What is Hornetsecurity VM Backup?
Hornetsecurity's VM Backup (formerly Altaro) is a backup and replication solution for Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. VM Backup can manage large infrastructures, with the revamped backup repository providing long-term storage and more efficient use of disk space.
Designed for IT departments, IT resellers, IT consultants and Managed Service Providers (MSPs), the solution provides enterprise-level functionality. With its WAN-Optimized Replication and Continuous Data Protection (CDP), it helps companies to achieve minimal RPO and RTO, i.e., and reduces the length of time virtual machines are down and the amount of data lost when disaster strikes. Additionally, its augmented Inline deduplication helps to reduce storage costs.
For organizations with multiple sites, VM Backup provides a cloud-based management platform that gives a central view of all installations. This gives IT resellers/consultants a centralized multi-tenant view across all their customers.
Hornetsecurity VM Backup Features
- Supported: Fast performance
- Supported: Minimal RPO and RTO through CDP
- Supported: WAN-Optimized Replication
- Supported: Boot from Backup
Hornetsecurity VM Backup Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Hyper-V, VMware |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Worldwide |
Frequently Asked Questions
Hornetsecurity VM Backup (formerly Altaro) is a backup and replication solution for Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. VM Backup can manage large infrastructures, with the revamped backup repository providing long-term storage and more efficient use of disk space.
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of Hornetsecurity VM Backup are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Easy Backup and Restoration: Several users have found the backup process for Hyper-V environments to be super easy and hassle-free. They appreciate how simple it is to restore emails into a PST file.
Excellent Training Portal: Many reviewers have praised the product's training portal, which they found reliable and easy to use for setting up and configuring the software. This feature has been highly appreciated by users.
Effective Notifications: A common positive sentiment among users is their appreciation for the product's notifications when backup jobs fail. This prompt action allows them to quickly address any issues that arise during the backup process.
Pricey Replication and Cloud Backups: Some users have mentioned that Altaro can get pricey if replication or cloud backups are desired. They feel that the cost associated with these features may not be worth it for their specific needs.
No Automatic Updates: According to multiple reviewers, Altaro doesn't automatically update itself. This means that users need to manually initiate updates, which can be inconvenient and time-consuming.
Limited Features in Free Edition: Several users have noted that the single file restore feature is not included in the free edition of Altaro, even for 2 VMs. This limitation can be frustrating for those who rely on this particular feature for their backup and recovery needs.
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January 02, 2024
Hornetsecurity a backup solution that won't sting your wallet
- Backs up virtual machines
- Compressed backups to save space with on local storage
- Restores servers and data
- Helps in migrating VM from server to server
- Helps backup virtual machines off-site.
- Make the upgrades better and easier
- You don't have to create backup from scratch after upgrading versions
- You could backup 3 servers with the free version.
November 25, 2021
Altaro VM Backup - A legend in the making.
- Backup of Hyper-V environments for me is super easy to do
- Restoration of emails into a PST file hassle free.
- Licensing is awesome.
- Excellent training portal
- I think, from my side, there is not really major issues in Altaro.
September 01, 2021
Easy Setting UP for Backup using Altaro Backup
- Fast setup , no need of any documentation
- Easy restoration and backup
- Easy support
- It helped us in restoring rep VM which was saved with huge time invested for data backups
July 13, 2021
Great value for backing up your virtualized systems
- Verification of successful backups
- Full backups of VMs for disaster recovery
- Option of having multiple backup restore points
- I had some issues with the initial setup, and getting the clients to sync with backup software.
- Had issues trying to save the backups to a NAS. It eventually worked, but it didn't seem very intuitive.
April 01, 2020
Altaro VM Backup: Reliable and good price/value
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Fast, reliable backup
- Easy restore of whole VMs
- Good price/ value
- Backup speed could be better
March 19, 2020
Easy-to-use VM backup software
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Reliable.
- Easy restore jobs.
- Notifications when jobs fail.
- Can get pricey if you want replication.
- Can get pricey if you want cloud backups.
- Doesn't automatically update.
March 02, 2020
Long Time Customer
- Pricing.
- Reliability.
February 19, 2020
Awesome product!
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
- File granular restores.
- Very user-friendly.
- Faster maintenance mode.
February 15, 2020
Best HyperV backup solution
- Fast setup and configuration.
- UNC path as Backup repositories.
- Single file restore is not included in the 2 VM free edition.
- Can't restore a single SQL database, you have to restore the entire VM.
- Backup Hyper-V VM.
- Deduplication the backup.
- We had issues while backing up to a file share, lots of errors.
- When the datastore is too big, it can corrupt.
November 22, 2019
Altaro VM Backup - Quick, Easy and Great Value.
- Fast and simple setup. I didn't need to read through ANY documentation to set up and have a backup running.
- Easy and cost-effective licensing. I didn't need to count CPU's or VM's or other random facts to work out my licensing. Just how many hosts, and then one of 3 feature levels of which two have unlimited VM licensing. Hosts x Feature Set = Cost.
- Easy Restores. Backing up is one thing, but restoring and having confidence in the restore is another. It just works, simple and effective.
- Help is easy to find if you need it. From within the app, it gives you options of email, phone, and live chat, which is usually available even with odd time zones in play.
- More cloud-based storage options. Currently, only Azure is supported, which is excellent, but it would be good to have AWS and Google storage options too.
- It would be AWESOME if they could do a restore from Azure cloud direct to an Azure VM instance. Currently, you need to set up an Azure VM machine with nested Hyper-V, install Altaro on that, and then restore into a nested VM, this gets crazy expensive.
- Better notification of errors, or more around having a threshold, so if it misses one backup of a constant backup that happens every 5 minutes but recovers at the 10 minutes back, it is ok. Just think it needs to identify significant or long-running issues better than the occasional little issues.
October 25, 2019
Altaro - Great Value
- VM Backups - very strog
- Sandbox - system has tools to test restore procedures
- Versioning - ability to choose from numerous backup versions quickly and efficiently
- File backup - currently there is no way to backup/restore any individual files
- Bare Metal - Altaro is great at VM backups, but no bare metal capabilities
October 24, 2019
Fast and reliable VM backups
- Fast VM backups
- File-level restores
- WAN backups
- Easier to manage console
- Automate multiple off-site backup locations