BDRShield Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the BDRSuite Backup & Replication Vembu Backup to protect our virtualized environment in a clustered Hyper-V setup. In our experience, the software's restoration options are very poor and not intuitive. Some restorations have never been completed, despite running for many hours. File restoration on an NFS simply does not even open the protected content. For us, backup jobs are slow and fail to complete most of the time. In our experience, the space used by the generated backups consumes a lot of space, and the cleanup of old data does not happen most of the time, requiring manual deletion - which is also very difficult to do. I do not recommend using this tool.

Likelihood to Recommend

For us, on a Hyper-V cluster enviroment, BDRSuite Backup & Replication never worked, so we've abandoned it. Restore of protected data never worked, old data management need serious atention, speed of backup jobs need improvements, NFS retoration fails on simple display content to choose what to recover, cluster protection is absent. I do not recommend it.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have about 20 virtual machines on about several ESXi 7 host server. Every day We use Vembu BDRSuite to backup virtual machines from hosts to offsite USB disk connected to Vembu server, all the virtual machines are replicated daily to other ESXi 7 hosts. Sometimes virtual machine is defective, we will recover immediately by turn on replication VM or restore from USB backup disk if we need history version.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have this software to back up our VM servers. VMs are not easy to manage and having this software helps.

Likelihood to Recommend

Again we use it to back up our VM servers and it does a great job of this.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are Cyber Security and Technology consultants. We are also partners/resellers of Vembu BDRSuite backup products. We use Vembu BDRSuite in our organization and four of our clients are using Vembu BDRSuite. Three of our clients need simplified disk-to-disk-to-cloud backups and one is using cloud M365.

Likelihood to Recommend

This product is great for small businesses who need a cost effective, efficient, and simple method preserving data and disaster recovery for information this product does not provide more details on backups and of enough information to troubleshoot issues.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use BDRSuite to backup several VMware hosts to local storage as well as pushing key backups to an S3 bucket.

Likelihood to Recommend

For small to mid size companies, BDRsuite is a viable alternative to Veeam. While lesser known, it has proven to be very functional and easy to setup.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the Vembu BDRSuite for Office 365, Google Workspace, local Hyper V, local file and folder backups, and offsite replication. Recovery is very robust with several options. The product offerings are very affordable. We have been a customer of Vembu for over 15 years and have been extremely happy. The customer support and technical support are reliable and quick.

Likelihood to Recommend

While it is hard to be a catch-all backup solution, I think they do a great job with so many variations of products that really give us peace of mind in case recovery is needed. Most of the diverse products we will never use, but I can see other larger companies having the need.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We mainly use BDRSuite to backup ESXi VMs. Creating backup is very straightforward and recovering is easy with few clicks. Backups also consume very low space on the NAS storage. BDRSuite is the best option for all in one backup needs for our company. Also their pricing is very budget friendly compare to other costly Enterprise products.

Likelihood to Recommend

First of all Web UI makes it so much easier to manage, with few clicks you can schedule a backup, you can see the progress and you can instantly recover it. There is a multiple environment support which is great for hybrid environments. Pricing is more reasonable than other high priced backup solutions.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I run a small, one-man software development company. I have two physical Hyper-V servers hosting a total of eight VMs, three of them servers with two of those Active Directory Domain Controllers. I use BDRSuite to back up all of those VMs to local hardware nightly. BDRSuite gives me the confidence I need to ensure my essential data is safe and can be restored in the event of an unexpected data disaster.

Likelihood to Recommend

I only use the software for a limited scope of its capabilities, but I'm able to report that it works quite well for nightly VM backups.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use BDRSuite on the servers for my clients. They are my primary go-to for backup purposes. I set up my clients' servers in a Windows Server Hyper-V environment. BDRSuite backs up each of the VMs on each of my servers and sends me reports of its successes/failures daily. When an issue comes up and I can't resolve it personally - Vembu's technical support team is prompt to respond. Sometimes it takes longer than others for them to get to the bottom of an issue but they will stay on the case until the issue is resolved.

Likelihood to Recommend

I use Vembu's BDRsuite exclusively for my Hyper-V servers for my clients. I have been with them for the past 5+ years and plan on continuing.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use BDRSuite for backup purposes and provide backup as a service to our customers. By means of BDRSuite our customers don't need to handle backup themselves. Also we can keep a backup copy at our data center in case of a disaster in order for the customer to survive a devastating fire or similar catastrophy.

Likelihood to Recommend

BDRSuite is great at doing traditional server backup and/or backup of selected workstations. BDRSuite can do quick restores since the backup server is running at the customer site. In addition security can be enhanced with an Offsite DR server to maintain a replica of the backup data.

In case of small businesses with only a few workstations and no centralized server BDRSuite is less usable. It would nice though if the Offsite DR server could do a backup of single workstations over the internet.