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February 25, 2021
Vembu [BDR Suite] is being used in our organization as the main backup platform for our entire cloud computing business line, thus covering all the needs, not only backup but also replication and failover.
Additionally, we support all our channels to implement it in their own infrastructures and those of their clients.
In short with Vembu [BDR Suite] your IT staff will have one less headache to think about.
- Hybrid local and cloud backup
- Intuitive and easy-to-use administration console
- Vembu Hive will allow you to use any available storage for your backups
- Application-level backup
- File-level backup
- Vembu Backup for AWS
- Vembu Backup for G Suite
- Centralize all backup administration in your Vembu BDR console
- Allow replication role in Hyper-v
- Allow remote management of physical computers
The most important factor in acquiring Vembu [BDR Suite] is the cost-benefit ratio, as it is a tool with affordable prices and that meets the robust characteristics of an enterprise backup solution. In addition to this, there is an intuitive solution that allows for easy administration and does not require strong IT training for staff.
We use Vembu BDR Suite across our company as our server and data backup solution. Vembu BDR Suite addresses all of our disaster recovery needs.
- Easy to manage backup and restore
- Centralized management solution
- Backup encryption
- Good versioning of files
- Web based layout can be tricky
- Licensing portal is cumbersome
- Backup alerts can be obnoxious
We were looking for a robust disaster recovery suite with support for physical servers as well as virtual as our push moving forward was to virtualize more of our environment. The most important factor was cost of the solution versus what the solution offered. Vembu BDR Suite met and surpassed my requirements.
We currently use Vembu BDR Suite to back up 12 virtual and two traditional servers. Each of these servers is critical to our business. When I came on with this company they had no sort of backup system for files on their servers. After some research, I chose Vembu BDR Suite to fill that need.
- File backup and recovery
- System snapshots
- Ease of use
- Could have a little better user interface
- Make it easier to back up to a network location
The most important factors in choosing Vembu BDR Suite for our backup solution were cost and ease of use. Compared to other solutions, Vembu BDR Suite is relatively cheap. At half the price of other solutions, it was an easy choice after testing the free version.
January 23, 2021
Currently used to backup all file servers on site to a NAS as an additional backup measure. Runs automatically on schedules and notifies via email job completion and errors where applicable. All managed from a simple to use web interface. Only management required is deletion of old backups. System currently running on a Windows 10 desktop PC
- Backup schedules
- Easy web interface
- Reliable
- Historical backups not deleted automatically. Could be due to my version
Used free version as a secondary backup. Looking to purchase full version
October 02, 2020
Vembu BDR is used in a wide variety of ways. We use it across the whole organization to backup physical workstations and servers, files and folders, and virtual machines. It's a centralized solution that allows us to reduce downtime for our internal organization as well as our customers.
- Image backups of workstations and servers
- File/folder backups
- Virtual machine backups
- Replication to off-site locations
- Support could be better (occasional language barrier).
- Troubleshooting logs are cryptic; need more natural language explanations.
- Updating the location of the backup server for clients should be included in client UI, not via CLI commands.
The single most important decision was a solution that covered all areas of our business requirements for backup and disaster recovery, namely image, file/folder, virtual machines, replication to co-location/cloud.
Our organization is small, so Vembu BDR was used to back up all our server infrastructure but it was also used to back up some demo infrastructure that we used for product demonstration and training. Our infrastructure was all virtual using VMware's Vsphere. The main purpose was for backup and replication to recover in case we lost complete VMs or we needed to recover data that was lost from within a VM.
My main issue with Vembu and the reason why I wouldn't recommend it is because the way it manages the backup volume is complicated and difficult to use. In my case the backup volume was on a shared drive on our storage unit and at some point due to some issues unrelated to Vembu, it lost access to the volume; once remounted we could not use that volume any more and had to create a new one thereby having to redo all the backups.
There are other solutions, equally good that don't have such complications.
- It is generally easy and straightforward to use
- The performance was adequate
- Management of the backup volumes
- GUI interface
We didn't purchase Vembu BDR, we used the free version; Veeam was not available any longer as a free product which is why we used Vembu.
October 14, 2020
- The product works and takes backups fairly easy
- Simple and quick to install and configure
- Once configured, it doesn't require much maintenance
- Generally a simple interface
- Although its interface is simple, a web-only interface for a backup solution isn't recommended as the main interface.
- Using PostgreSQL as the configuration DB Source is OK. But, the lack of options for the Database isn't OK. Especially on a Windows Environment, admins prefer using a centralized MS SQL Instance, and this is not possible with Vembu.
- More work needed on SharePoint, Active Directory, and Exchange Restores. All three are critical workloads in almost any infrastructure.
- Reporting can be greatly improved.
In these difficult times, the cost is a very important factor, and an investment in any product goes through a long decision-making process. In our experience, being able to test the product first was key to decide if it fits our needs or not. After our testing phase, we found that the features we were looking for are all there and fits our business needs, the cost vs. benefit factor was the most important factor.
We currently use Vembu BDR to backup some of our less-critical servers. It ticks all the boxes for us, in that it's easy to use, provides email notifications on the job status, is easy to install, configure, and manage, and finally, the support team (when needed) has been super-efficient to help assist and resolve the odd issue that arises.
- Easy To Install and Manage
- Support Team is Efficient
- Free!
- Regularly Updated
- User Interface
- Editing Existing Job Schedules
- Better Reports
I was looking for a backup solution that was ideally free or low-cost just to back up less-critical servers.
Having searched high and low on the Internet, I came across Vembu which was little-known I believe (at the time), and I thought I'd give it a try. It also had to be relatively user friendly and easy to set up and manage, which Vembu is.
Having searched high and low on the Internet, I came across Vembu which was little-known I believe (at the time), and I thought I'd give it a try. It also had to be relatively user friendly and easy to set up and manage, which Vembu is.
We use Vembu BDR Suite to backup physical servers, HyperV VMs, and workstation in a combination of the full image and file backups. We also install and manage Vembu for a number of our clients. It is a comprehensive package but has a bit of a learning curve to understand and use. A key element is the ability to boot and image backup as a VM for disaster recovery and to add a level of ransomware recovery. Recovery of individual files is fairly simple but would like to have the facility at the client level so users could restore files from backup without IT intervention. The granular recovery of SQL data is essential and supported. Vembu offers a free version that allows potential users to become familiar with the product before opting for the paid features. During the trial period, all features are available. For many small businesses and Sole Proprietors, the Free version is more than sufficient.
- VM and Physical machine backup - Boot as VM for DR recovery
- Granular restore
- Image backup client implementation now done from the server console. Do not have to go to the client workstation to run the installation.
- DR backup to an off-site system
- Recovery boot tool needs to be USB. At this time it requires a CD/DVD to be created. A clean bootable USB image file should be made available for download.
- Access to all downloads from Vembu main download page. Should not have to install Vembu to gain access to client installers.
- File backup fails if a file is in use such as Outlook.pst file. This is problematic for users that have Outlook permanently open. Backup reports show as failed, partial. This is essential to address as we have to do full image backups at a cost to backup storage space when it is not essential.
- As an IT integrator, we need products that offer a recurring income to build a viable revenue stream. Vembu only offers a commission on the initial purchase of a subscription. Subsequent renewals do no qualify. This factor means that we are not incentivized to really recommend Vembu when other equally good backup solutions are available with long term commission plans.
The most important factors for us are disaster recovery and a guarantee that backups are recoverable. Test restores and sandboxing are essential.
Vembu is used by some of our clients mainly for long retention backup purposes. Some also use it to back up and replicate VMware VM.
- Reliable - few problems.
- Good and quick support.
- Easy to setup.
- Too few administrative features vs Storegrid.
- Requires too many support requests for simple tasks like storage move.
Price, support, easy to use.
November 26, 2019
We use Vembu Backup for all our shared and dedicated hosting servers across our datacenters for both on-site and off-site backup, and the restore of system code and respective databases on a weekly full and daily incremental bases.
- Vembu Backup is an easy to configure and setup service.
- Vembu Backup has powerful reporting functionality and alerting capability.
- Vembu Backup benefits from a smart GUI to set up and manage backups and restores from or across systems.
- In my opinion, there is only one area to improve Vembu Backup and that's the license manager. A good metaphor would be, you can't see the forest through the trees.
Vembu Backup was already configured and running when I joined the company so as it was working according to my expectations, it was an easy decision to extend the use of it.
December 04, 2019
We are using the software to backup approx 60 workstations and laptops—all Windows 10 Pro based.
- Both incremental and Bare Metal backups.
- Very fast backups over network.
- Nice email notifications.
- Top Notch technical support, VERY fast support.
- Quicker install and setup of workstations if you could set default values.
Flexibility and overall cost per workstation.
April 29, 2020
We use Vembu free edition to backup a single virtual production server in our organisation, this gives us a good known backup of our company data each day. The data doesn't take up much space and when we have needed to use the restore feature we have always got back what we needed.
- Nice interface.
- Easy to use.
- Fully automated.
- Email notifications
- Limited features for free use.
- Sometimes the service stalls and needs manual intervention.
- Indexing feature takes some time on complex folders/files.
As we only have one single server we were looking for a very cheap solution, most tend to be expensive and back up multiple hosts which we didn't need. We found Vembu and thought this was a lite version but it fitted our needs and does exactly what we need it to do.
It is used across the company to provide logical separation and single-pass backups of virtualized infrastructure.
- Single pass backups are good.
- Deduplication levels using the Vembu File System are good.
- Support levels are high.
- The web interface can be slow.
- The management of Offsite Dr isn't great.
- Storage utilization and management can be difficult.
The most important factor is reliability. It needs to work with very little management.
November 04, 2019
Testing of new product software is performed on a single VMWare Server. We use VEMBU to back up the 60+ VM's on that VMWare Server to an external Hard drive.
- It reports test results via e-mail.
- We can run reliable backups without bringing VSphere server down.
- It organizes full and incremental back-ups coherently.
- Upgrading to new versions is relatively labor-intensive.
- VMs to be backed up sometimes fail due to a lack of ability to create a snapshot. Vembu should find a way to work around this issue.
- Supporting external storage (cloud) could be easier to configure, use, and integrate into the back-up processes.
I had confidence that I could recover and backed up VM. I ran it in a test mode before purchasing it and confirmed the back-up and recovery processes.
We used VembuBDR to provide a managed backup service to our customers. It addresses data protection and great support.
- There's a great support team available 24x7 even though you are not a paid user yet!
- It covers most of the common applications, and it's easy to configure and install.
- Attractive pricing.
- Documentation.
Support, cost, and stable product. We need great support and they provide 24x7 support, and are fast to resolve issues.
August 27, 2019
Vembu BDR is used across whole organization both for backups and replicas of VMs. It's being used thoroughly to implement a disaster recovery strategy. In two occasions it has already helped to recover from a disaster occurred.
- Web interface, it's easy to configure and requires no proprietary client
- Multiplatform approach
- Postgres database and not usual Microsoft buggy bloatware
- Outstanding customer support!!! A++++
- Missing Linux file level recovery
- Replicas section needs improvements (already debugging it with customer support) and new features: add of VM to existing replica and merge of two existing replicas.
- The loss of the BDR VM itself means that in a total disaster scenario restore of the backupped VMs may be cumbersome or impossible: you should copy the strategy of veeam, which allows to import seamlessly an entire backup pool; this can be done, in my opinion, by also making a full postgres DB dump to the backup pool whenever a job completes.
- Some parts of the web interface should be refined: e.g. the part for email notifications is not enough clear (difference for mails sent for every event and just unsuccessful ones); also, I required as a feature timestamps in 24H format (most of the world is NOT anglosaxon); some actions which are possible in the interface sort out NO EFFECT, like adding a VM to an existing replica, but are yet accepted by the interface; also backup pool section needs refinement, especially to add a new one and to manage existing ones.
- It should be possible to instruct the software to take advantage of existing LACP network configurations, running parallel processes to speed up data transfer.
- An improvement of speed of overall throughput would be greatly appreciated.
- Possibility to backup/replicate BSD (e.g. OpenBSD, FreeBSD) and Solaris VMs
- PROXMOX support is missing :(((((
Ability to work just with one ESXi node and its architecture (web+postgres) with lower cost license
July 26, 2019
Vembu BDR Suite is used as a backup/recovery, disaster recovery solution and can also be used for Hyper-V and ESXI VM replication and migration. There's an image-based backup client for Windows/Server and Mac, and a file-based backup client for Windows/Server, Mac, and Linux. No client needs to be installed on the hypervisors for backup - you can run the backups directly from the backup server.
- Fast VM backups
- Fast image backups
- Fast file based backups
- Easy restore options
- Excellent support with minimal hassle
- Excellent value
- I would like image based backups for Linux and FreeBSD.
- I would like the ability to directly restore an image backup to ESXI or more cross-platform restore options.
- Managing storage by yourself (without support helping you out) can be tricky. I wish there were easier options to assign storage to users/backups, especially "after the fact."
- Windows image-based backup needs to assign drive letters to partitions that don't usually have them (system reserved, etc.). There should be a way for the program to identify the drives by different means.
Best bang for the buck, period.
- Fast
- Hostable
- Great support
- Fast
- Good pricing
- Fast
I have been using other Backup Solutions but they really like their prices so I was looking for a different solution and I found it with Vembu. It fits my business model, my business needs, the backup works and can be exported out in a variety of forms and can perform bare metal restores. It fits my needs, it's easy to set up and the pricing is significantly cheaper than the "big guys". Look into it, I think you'll really appreciate and like it.
- Backup
- Restore
- Alert
- Export to the major VM file systems
- Bare metal restores
- Changing to a different server name or IP address is a bit cumbersome but works.
The price is great. The features and the options of BMR recovery and export to ESX and HyperV are great. Lots of options for backups.
May 31, 2019
We are a disaster and recovery business that uses this software for our small business clients and protects their data. It has worked tremendously in being able to protect small businesses on a nightly basis and even help them out when they had a minor OR major computer/server issue. Our IT support engineers have said that it is an extremely easy software to install and provide support.
- IT does a great job at doing nightly backups and super easy job at going in and being able to restore a single file or folder (which ever is needed).
- It has an extremely easy web interface that anyone who is a end user can learn and be able to restore their files.
- It is extremely easy to install and whenever there are updates for Vembu BDR, it will be an update that takes less than a minute to install.
- Only improvement I can think of is, compatibility issues to older operating systems. Have to make sure when new updates come out if you have an older machine... Make sure it still supports it.
All of the different types of operating systems (and other devices) Vembu supports is what helped us decide to go with Vembu. Its a real easy, universal software that can really protect your office/environment.
September 12, 2019
Backup service and disaster recovery system.
- Simple to install and setup.
- The recovery procedure is easy and fast.
- Good technical support team.
- Translation on local languages.
Price, flexibility, and usability.
May 22, 2019
Vembu BDR is used to backup our file server nightly and to replicate it to another site for redundancy.
- Vembu BDR is easy to use with a simple, straight forward user interface.
- Vembu support is outstanding, responsive, and quick, with great follow up.
- The speed at which Vembu BDR works is very impressive with little resource requirements.
- The Vembu BDR status emails are short and informative.
- The price for the Vembu BDR functionality is a real bargain!
- I am not aware of any short comings in the functionality of the Vembu BDR offering.
- The Vembu BDR offering meets all our needs and more.
Our backup solution must be able to backup TBs of data in hours not days. It must provide data replication across the Cloud. It must facilitate easy data recovery. Vembu BDR software easily satisfied these needs and at a price that fit in our budget.
Across most of our customers. We use it as a great/reliable backup tool.
- Easy interface which makes setting up/restoring backups easy.
- Light weight and doesn't slow down the network.
- Great customer support team who is quick to answer/resolve issues.
- Vague failure messages make troubleshooting hard sometimes.
Easy to use and easily deployed/managed for multiple clients and offices.
October 26, 2018
We really had a tough time backing up virtual machine images. We were using traditional backup tools to do the job and it was a time-consuming job. Moreover, it was not a reliable solution. When we learned about Vembu BDR, we downloaded and evaluated it to its full potential. To our surprise, it was very easy to use, faster and reliable.
Vembu really helped us with automating virtual machine backups. It saves a lot of time and we have peace of mind. Vembu meets important fundamental needs of our organization.
- The most important things is that it's very easy to configure and has faster deployment.
- Very good compression ratio and backups are faster than traditional VM backup tools.
- Forever incremental is another useful feature which will save storage space.
- Mount image as volume is not working for Linux VMs, it would have been better with this feature working.
- The web management console should be improved with detailed VM backup reports.
- Easy to configure and use.
- Pricing was quite cheaper compared to other solutions.
- Overall we have been satisfied with the performance.
We switched to Vembu BDR Suite to replace an aging Tape Backup system to perform on-site backups of all of our VM Hosts and VMs.
It has greatly improved the speed of recovery, and the time it takes to perform a backup is significantly faster than our previous solution.
This software has resolved our worries about moving away form Tape drives as a primary backup system.
It has greatly improved the speed of recovery, and the time it takes to perform a backup is significantly faster than our previous solution.
This software has resolved our worries about moving away form Tape drives as a primary backup system.
- Recovery time is very fast
- Can set many recovery points down to 15-minute intervals
- Schedule Rollups to improve storage
- Easier to eliminate old storage locations
Cost-effectiveness was the initial reason I explored Vembu, but performance kept my attention. The ability to manage backups from a web GUI on any PC and assign permission to other team members and delegate tasks has been fantastic. The performance boost has allowed us to focus on more business-driven tasks and reduced outstanding issues for our department.
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What is Vembu BDR Suite?
Vembu BDR Suite is a comprehensive universal backup solution catering to the backup, recovery and disaster recovery needs of diverse and heterogeneous IT environments. Through its flagship offering, Vembu can backup VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Physical Servers, Workstations, Exchange Items, SharePoint Items, SQL Items, Office365, G Suite, etc. – and they can back that up on-site, off-site, or even to the cloud – not to mention that most of this is done within a single UI. Also, Vembu offers one of the most complete free edition for SMBs as well. Post 30 days trial version, user can either opt to purchase the product or continue using the free edition. In Free edition user has two options to proceed with backup configurations : Full featured free edition for limited VMs or Limited featured Edition for unlimited VMs
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Vembu BDR Suite?
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.
What are Vembu BDR Suite's top competitors?
Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas Backup Exec, and Datto are common alternatives for Vembu BDR Suite.
What is Vembu BDR Suite's best feature?
Reviewers rate Live recovery highest, with a score of 8.4.
Who uses Vembu BDR Suite?
The most common users of Vembu BDR Suite are from Small Businesses and the Information Technology & Services industry.