IDERA SQL Safe Backup Review
We are using IDERA SQL Safe Backup couple of years new on MS-SQL clusters servers.
The the backup and restore process is cross data centers …
The the backup and restore process is cross data centers …
Starting at $1,036 per instance with first year maintenance included
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What is IDERA SQL Safe Backup?
SQL Safe Backup from Houston based software company Idera is a data recovery and protection option.
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1,036.00
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per instance with first year maintenance included
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- No setup fee
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- Free/Freemium Version
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What is IDERA SQL Safe Backup?
SQL Safe Backup helps database administrators to back up and recover instantly across Microsoft SQL Servers. It provides virtual databases with access to back up files without consuming disk space, instant restore, centralized management across Microsoft SQL Servers, and alert notifications for success and failure of operations.
IDERA SQL Safe Backup Features
Data Center Backup Features
- Supported: Universal recovery
- Supported: Recovery verification
- Supported: Multiple backup destinations
- Supported: Incremental backup identification
- Supported: Backup to the cloud
- Supported: Deduplication and file compression
- Supported: Snapshots
- Supported: Management dashboard
- Supported: Encryption
Additional Features
- Supported: Backup, restore, instant recovery, and virtual databases
- Supported: Backup faster and save space via dynamic compression with encryption
- Supported: Choose from multiple options for advanced and instant recovery
- Supported: Ensure organizational compliance via policy-based management
- Supported: Reduce failures due to temporary network problems
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Why use SQL Safe Backup?
Backup and instant restore for SQL Server with SQL Safe Backup
Restore databases instantly and set up virtual databases with SQL Safe Backup
Manage policy-based backup, restore, and log shipping with SQL Safe Backup
Use advanced restore features in SQL Safe Backup
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IDERA SQL Safe Backup Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Languages | English |
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December 03, 2022
IDERA SQL Safe Backup Review
We are using IDERA SQL Safe Backup couple of years new on MS-SQL clusters servers.
The the backup and restore process is cross data centers and cross countries for the QA and prod environment.
We are using the capability of logs, diff and full backups. In some cases with encryption and some without encryption.
The the backup and restore process is cross data centers and cross countries for the QA and prod environment.
We are using the capability of logs, diff and full backups. In some cases with encryption and some without encryption.
- History visibility
- Very intuitive
- Easy to set up
- The UI are old
- Need to babysitter the system all the time
- Events not reflecting the reality
- The support is terrible, in my opinion
86.25%
8.6
- cheap price
- easy to use
IDERA SQL Safe Backup winning thanks to the pricing, nothing more.
August 17, 2018
This makes SQL disaster recovery a piece of cake
I use SQL Safe throughout the entire organization to manage backups for all of our SQL Server instances. SQL already has a very solid backup mechanism, but when you start having to manage more than a few instances, checking to make sure backups run every day and scheduling time to do test restores of your backups becomes tedious. SQL Safe allows me to spend only a few moments per day doing a disaster recovery health check and allows me to quickly to test restores without impacting production loads.
- Rather than having to copy scripts between SQL servers when you create a new instance, all I have to do is design a policy that predetermines backup location, what to back up, the schedule, encryption settings, etc and then simply assign instances to it as they come and go. And if I need to pause backups to troubleshoot something I simply go to the policy and disable it. SQL Safe handles the rest. Policy-based management of SQL backups is the way to go.
- Any good DBA knows that backing up data is important, but that isn't what we're paid to do. We are paid to RESTORE data when needed. And unless you're 100% certain that you can restore any database to an acceptable point in time, then you should rethink your strategy. SQL Safe makes it easy to not only backup the data, but restore it. In addition to vanilla restores, which are amazingly simplified, you can also do test restores without affecting the production load, and even schedule restores to a development (or other) server to keep a test environment refreshed with current data.
- If there are failed events, not only does SQL Safe let you know, it provides a very easy way to retry the missed or failed backups. Making sure your environment is okay is a simple as opening the SQL Safe management console and making sure all of the lights are green.
- I probably know more about SQL backups than most and can easily manage a set of SQL servers without this tool. But it makes it so darn easy! I would venture to say that even people that know nothing about SQL (general sys admins, small business owners, etc) could learn to use this tool without having to know much about SQL or how backups/restores work. The interface is powerful, but very simple to learn.
- When you're adding a new SQL server, sometimes the install from the management server to the SQL server will fail. I'm guessing this happens because of some version difference in Windows components or similar. Not a huge deal because you can just copy the agent to the SQL server and install it there, but considering how easy everything else is, I would expect this to be a little more fluid.
- I ran into a situation where part of our business decided to move their servers to a third-party data center. When they took away a SQL server that I was managing with SQL Safe, anything having to do with that policy took forever. Click. Wait 10 minutes. Window reacts. I'm guessing this is because the Management Console is trying super hard to contact the server in question, but I wish it handled losing a server better than it does.
85.83333333333334%
8.6
- SQL Safe allows me to spend less time managing my DR plan and still maintain confidence that my backups and restores are solid. Saving my time means saving money.
- SQL Safe does an amazing job at backup compression over and above SQL's native compression. SQL backups are probably our single largest consumer of network drive space. Any product that helps reduce my network footprint, saves money.
SQL Safe is the first managed backup solution I've used. Before SQL Safe I used SQL's native backup mechanism and scheduling. And as an extension of that I used Ola Hallengren's SQL Server Maintenance Solution (which is a set of scripts that take amazing advantage of SQL's native capabilities). However whenever changes were needed (moving backups to new storage, adding/removing a server), it just took a long time because I had to touch each server. With SQL Safe, I can seriously change the backup location of every server I have by changing one policy setting. Likewise, I can quickly add or remove a server from being backed up with a few simple clicks.