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LiveVault

Score10 out of 10

3 Reviews and Ratings

What is LiveVault?

LiveVault is a data backup and recovery option acquired by J2 Global from Iron Mountain.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Instant recovery

    Instant recovery is the ability to restore operations very rapidly

    Category average: 8.7

  • Business application protection

    Protection of all applications running in the data center

    Category average: 8

  • Multiple backup destinations

    Multiple backup destinations is the ability to backup data to more than one location

    Category average: 8.5

Areas for Improvement

  • Flexible deployment

    Deployment on any servers with full support for all applications being used

    Category average: 8.3

  • Universal recovery

    Universal recovery is the ability to restore backups to any machine regardless of the platform

    Category average: 8.4

  • Recovery verification

    Recovery verification is automated testing and verification of backups

    Category average: 8.4

LiveVault - A Cloud Backup Review

Pros

  • Easy to install the client piece.
  • Easy to setup the backup policies.
  • Data encryption and security.

Cons

  • It does not play very well with virtual servers.
  • Support is not always responsive.
  • Issues with failed backups have cost our company time and money.

Return on Investment

  • LiveVault has initially cost us more labor time than we anticipated for our IT staff.
  • Installing cloud backup has given us a piece of mind that our data and our customer's data is safe.