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Netvault Backup

Score7 out of 10

7 Reviews and Ratings

What is Netvault Backup?

Netvault Backup is backup and recovery software from Dell, based on technology obtained via that company's acquisition of BakBone Software in 2011.

Top Performing Features

  • Instant recovery

    Instant recovery is the ability to restore operations very rapidly

    Category average: 8.6

  • 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: 8.5

Areas for Improvement

  • Management dashboard

    Web-based dashboard allowing configuration and monitoring of all backups

    Category average: 8.6

  • Retention options

    Provision of best-practice and customizable retention policies with reporting

    Category average: 9.1

  • Platform support

    Product supports multiple operating systems and applications

    Category average: 8.7

Conveniently backup and restore all your environments.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Netvault is a convenient application to use for all system backups and restores in our organization. As a financial organization, it is crucial to have our data backed-up regularly and we use Netvault specially to backup our stand alone servers. In addition to this, the great benefit is being able to encrypt our backups on specific data sets via Hardware encryption. Also on some occasions, we are required to share our backups with the other parties and we can easily do this task on the platform with users who are also using Netvault as their solution.

Pros

  • Rapid recovery helping in data protection.
  • Daily backup of entire physical and storage environments.
  • Supported on Windows, Linux, VMware, Unix and HyperV platforms.
  • Backup different file servers on SQL

Cons

  • Smartdisk disconnect oftenly.
  • Web interface can be improved as it is clunky and looks outdated.
  • User guides and support services need to be improved.
  • Limited with VMWare plugin.

Most Important Features

  • Reliable backups and restores
  • Share backups with external NV users.
  • Plugin library

Return on Investment

  • Highly reliable system backups
  • Great pricing compared to competitors.
  • Manual interference has gone down from almost 40% to initiate backups/recoveries.

Alternatives Considered

Veritas Backup Exec and MSP360 Managed Backup

Other Software Used

ProofHub, Timely, Scoro, NetSuite ERP