Carbonite Server

Carbonite Server

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Carbonite Server

Overview

Recent Reviews

Happy Camper

9 out of 10
May 17, 2017
[It's] used to backup the whole organization's servers. It solves protecting data files and is part of the DR strategy.
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EVault Review

9 out of 10
May 17, 2017
We use EVault organization-wide to back up and store critical systems and data on local and off-site storage. It addresses quick backups …
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Popular Features

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Backup to the cloud (20)

10.0
100%

Incremental backup identification (19)

10.0
100%

Multiple backup destinations (15)

10.0
100%

Business application protection (14)

10.0
100%

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Pricing

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Power

$800.04

On Premise
per year

Ultimate

1,300.08

On Premise
per year

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting / Integration Services

Features Scorecard

Data Center Backup

8.6
86%

Product Details

What is Carbonite Server?

Carbonite Server (also replacing the former EVault products acquired from Seagate in 2016) is a full backup and discovery solution. Designed to recover anything from a single file to an entire system with the click of a button, Carbonite Server users can protect virtually any type of file on both physical and virtual servers, NAS, SAN and external hard drives. The vendor’s value proposition is that their solution assures that users without an IT department and those that are the IT department can rest easy knowing their data is safe. According to the vendor, Carbonite Server is easy to configure and schedule automatic backups (full, incremental and differential) that require zero user interaction. Users can choose local, cloud or hybrid backup targets.

Carbonite Server Features

Data Center Backup Features

  • Supported: Business application protection
  • Supported: Multiple backup destinations
  • Supported: Incremental backup identification
  • Supported: Backup to the cloud
  • Supported: Snapshots

Additional Features

  • Supported: Hybrid Cloud: Ability to store and back up data to the cloud and/or locally.
  • Supported: Hot Backup: Backups occur automatically after you set policies with no disruption to normal workflow
  • Supported: Image Backup & Bare Metal Restore (BMR): Restore to new, existing or dissimilar hardware from bare metal with no OS or other software installation required
  • Supported: Hyper-V Image Backup: Complete snapshot protection with full backup capability
  • Supported: Exchange Online Backup: Mailbox-level backup of Exchange Online mail and calendars and cross-user data restore between local Exchange and Office 365
  • Supported: Scheduling & Management: Perform full, incremental or differential backups for more efficient, more frequent backups and more relevant recovery points
  • Supported: Security & Compliance: Provides 128-bit encryption and Transport Layer Security (TLS) by default, with a 256-bit private key encryption option; supports FERPA, GLBA and HIPAA compliance.
  • Supported: Dedicated Support: Call, email or chat with our U.S.-based business support team 7 days a week. With our free valet install, a Carbonite business team member will install and optimize Carbonite Server Backup for your business at no extra charge.

Carbonite Server Screenshots

The Carbonite Server Backup user-friendly interface lets you choose what you back up, where you back it up and on what schedule.

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Carbonite Server Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesWorldwide
Supported LanguagesEnglish, German

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Carbonite Server's best feature?

Reviewers rate Business application protection and Multiple backup destinations and Incremental backup identification highest, with a score of 10.

Who uses Carbonite Server?

The most common users of Carbonite Server are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees) and the Information Technology & Services industry.

Reviews and Ratings

 (65)

Ratings

Likelihood to Renew (6)

4.8
48%

Usability (1)

5.5
55%

Support Rating (2)

5.5
55%

Implementation Rating (2)

6.4
64%

Reviews

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June 13, 2021

Carbonite Server backup ensures our data is safe.

MN
mike nugent
Quality Manager
BC Systems (Military, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Review Source

Likelihood to Recommend

There is no situation where a computer, especially something as critical as a server, does not need to back up its contents. You know to "Save your work often". What good is saving your work if the data gets corrupted? An offsite backup is critical to ensuring that your data is safe.
June 13, 2021

Easy enough for non-IT experts and a solid pick for most small sized company

Verified User
Administrative Assistant in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 1-10 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Review Source

Likelihood to Recommend

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.
December 09, 2019

Carbonite - A friendly tool to handle your all backup operations

SA
Santhosh A O
System Analyst
Stratogent (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Review Source

Likelihood to Recommend

It is a very good tool and most reliable, efficient and user friendly so even freshers can easily understand. But it needs to be improved in Reporting section - need more information about reports in depth and detail. We need DR environment so that we can perform the DR activity whenever we want and perform and explore other things too. Stable environment and no doubt in configuration part.
November 22, 2019

Carbonite Backup has good versatility but has to include reporting which is the crucial part that is missing.

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Review Source

Likelihood to Recommend

This is suitable for VM infra and physical server backup. It offers application level backup and restore. However, it does not support DAG backup. It offers very good data management as you don't have to worry about the space utilized in the Cloud vault or Base vault. Not suitable for audit report, and it won't be available if there are any business needs that you failed. We have suffered in this section as we could not provide the reports to our audit team. We failed and the product itself failed. Not advanced compared with Veeam, Druva, and Acronis backups.
May 26, 2017

Carbonite EVault Backup and Disaster Recovery made easy

Timika Hite | TrustRadius Reviewer
Timika Hite
Senior IT Analyst
City of Lancaster (Government Administration, 201-500 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Review Source

Likelihood to Recommend

Carbonite Evault is a very good backup and disaster recovery system. We have had no issues restoring when we have lost entire servers. You can also stay in compliance with your records policies and have the data deleted after specific time periods.
May 22, 2017

Small Company Flexible Solution

Eric Romaine | TrustRadius Reviewer
Eric Romaine
Trading, Operations, IT Support
Magee Thomson (Investment Management, 1-10 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Review Source

Likelihood to Recommend

In a regulated industry where backup recovery is essential and required, Carbonite provides a nice outsourced solution, reducing stress and overhead of most in-house solutions.

Bandwidth could be an issue with larger data companies, so an internet based solution would need to be analyzed from the trade-offs of cost and functionality.
May 19, 2017

EVault's ease-of-use works for us

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Mining & Metals Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Review Source

Likelihood to Recommend

For a disaster recovery process of restoring your system at a remote site, EVault makes that process easy and way faster than my previous experiences with rebuilding a system on a different system.

Every time I am asked to restore a file from a backup, if a copy from the last week is acceptable, using EVault is by far the easiest and quickest way to restore a file.

May 17, 2017

EVault for small/medium businesses

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Wholesale Company, 201-500 employees
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Review Source

Likelihood to Recommend

EVault works well in small companies where the rate of change with servers and backups is low. Medium and large companies will probably be better off with a more proven platform that offers enterprise features like global deduplication and centralized management. The cost is relatively low and you don't have to buy proprietary hardware.
May 17, 2017

Happy Camper

Kirk Phillips | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kirk Phillips
President / Chief Consultant
InTuitive Technologies (Computer Networking, 1-10 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
Review Source

Likelihood to Recommend

Great for SMBs who have limited resources for backup but need a world class solution. Large companies are hesitant as they are not a big player and I've heard that their compression/deduplication is not as good as others. Some of the SMB on-prem units seemed cheap to me and not a world-class piece of hardware.
March 31, 2017

Double C - Carbonite & Confidence

Verified User
Administrator in Corporate
Aviation & Aerospace Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Review Source

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for home use if you have files, photos, sensitive data that would be devastating to you if lost if computer crashes
Well suited for small businesses as a secondary backup for quick & easy restore of a lost or corrupt file.
Less appropriate for businesses that require high level of data encryption
March 22, 2017

Small business review

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 11-50 employees
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Review Source

Likelihood to Recommend

It's really great for any business but you have to always buy more space than you need due to them not allowing extra space temporarily for the active backup and before the secondary one is removed. This causes problems constantly for us.
March 16, 2017

I stumbled across Carbonite Backup, and I fell in love.

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Review Source

Likelihood to Recommend

It's an incredibly simple application for SMBs; has an intuitive user interface and great customer support. It's helped me recover from something as big as a full blown server crash, to doing something as simple as recovering a lost file. Pricing is perfect for small business clients, and the customer support is only a phone call away if you run into any trouble.
December 30, 2016

Do you think you will ever need your backup?

Danny Cockrell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Danny Cockrell
Technology Director
Summit Christian Academy (Education Management, 201-500 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Review Source

Likelihood to Recommend

It you are looking to backup locally on a machine or from a server, it is ideal. If you are limited on local storage for your backup, you can't use this efficiently to backup directly to the cloud unless you have major bandwidth at your disposal. Even then, if you are having issues, it is nice to have a local backup.
December 21, 2016

Carbonite works for us

Janet Kowal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Janet Kowal
Head of Computer Services/Reference Librarian
Connetquot Public Library (Libraries, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Review Source

Likelihood to Recommend

Our organization (library) is probably relatively small compared to other companies, so I don't know if my experience is typical. I feel that Carbonite is well suited for our situation and does exactly what we need, which is back up our data to the cloud so that it's more secure. We needed an off-site solution, and Carbonite worked well for us.