BDRShield

Score6.9 out of 10

101 Reviews and Ratings

What is BDRShield?

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.

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Recovery verification
Recovery verification is automated testing and verification of backups
Category average: 8.4
Universal recovery
Universal recovery is the ability to restore backups to any machine regardless of the platform
Category average: 8.4
Deduplication and file compression
Integrated deduplication and compression capabilities
Category average: 8.5

Management dashboard
Web-based dashboard allowing configuration and monitoring of all backups
Category average: 8.6
Business application protection
Protection of all applications running in the data center
Category average: 8
Backup to the cloud
Ability to store and back up data to the cloud
Category average: 8.3

Luiz Eduardo Garcia View profile

System Administrator in Information Technology at JET e-business (51-200 employees employees)

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.

Pros

Interface for initial configuration is intuitive
Backup job configuration and scheduling is easy
Admin interface is web-based

Cons

Backup restore need some improvement
Old data management need serious atention
Windows based cluster are not easy to setup

Return on Investment

Negative ROI
When we needed, no restoration even finish
After uninstallation, old data remains on VM folder

Usability

Other Software Used

Veeam Data Platform, Hornetsecurity VM Backup, NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Ron Redmond

Project Manager in Product Management at Protect-IP Global Solutions (11-50 employees employees)

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.

Pros

Backs up VM Servers
Easy to use
Fantastic Support
Solid software
We are able to call and get support super fast

Cons

The software once used is manageable, but takes a little to get there. There are so many settings
Pricing could be a little lower

Return on Investment

The ROI is great as if data is lost we all lose

Usability

Other Software Used

BDRCloud Backup & Recovery

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

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.

Pros

Daily email report provides all necessary details of the tasks.
Scheduled Image Integrity Check confirmed backup data reliability.
I can easily allocate Vembu license between VMs on portal. It's useful when I just want to test some VMs.
BDRSuite has powerful reports to let me review task status from different direction.

Cons

On my BDRSuite server, some backup task reports couldn't show backup data size, then Vembu support solved it.
BDRSuite task name can't be changed once it's created. It's not convenient for us if the tasks content is changed.
I can't sort task name. For example, our backup task name is started by weekday names, if I want to check Monday tasks brief information, I need to use search box to find out, not able to sort Monday task together.

Return on Investment

License can be reused to production virtual machines
BDRSuite provide seconds level recovery when server is defective
BDRSuite is full featured on different environment and it save money

Usability

Other Software Used

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

Emre Dikici

System Administrator in Information Technology at Lattice Group Inc. (1-10 employees employees)

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.

Pros

Backup
Web Interface
Support multiple environments
Reasonable pricing

Cons

Having different section for managing old backups
Full backup and Incremental backup is a little bit challenging, should be more friendly setup
When I click on configured backup it should go to the list of backup history instead of its configuration.

Return on Investment

Budget friendly. BDRSuite pricing is very reasonable for small and mid size companies.
Provides all in one solution that you don't need any other backup solutions.
Best fit for disaster recovery.
It's not complicated solution you don't need to invest so much time to learn the product in and out.

Usability

Other Software Used

Iperius Backup

Pawel Sokol

IT Administrator in Information Technology at Kontri Sp. z o.o. (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is just used for backup servers (virtual machines) running on VMware ESXi hosts.

Pros

Easy to use interface
Fast backup configuraion
Easy to use restore operation

Cons

Delete old backups
improve reports

Return on Investment

Great flexibility and RPO minimize business downtime

Usability

Other Software Used

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Veeam Data Platform

Hornetsecurity VM Backup

Arctera Backup Exec

Datto SIRIS

NAKIVO Backup & Replication

BDRShield

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Recovery verification

Universal recovery

Deduplication and file compression

Areas for Improvement

Management dashboard

Business application protection

Backup to the cloud

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