BDRSuite

I wanted to take backup for all my employees on my NAS, for which BDRSuite is able to help me a lot.

Vembu BDRSuite for my clients.

8 out of 10

March 25, 2024

We are Cyber Security and Technology consultants. We are also partners/resellers of Vembu BDRSuite backup products. We use Vembu BDRSuite …

BDRsuite is pretty sweet!

8 out of 10

March 14, 2024

I use BDRSuite to backup several VMware hosts to local storage as well as pushing key backups to an S3 bucket.

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8 out of 10

March 11, 2024

It is just used for backup servers (virtual machines) running on VMware ESXi hosts.

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10 out of 10

March 10, 2024

We use the Vembu BDRSuite for Office 365, Google Workspace, local Hyper V, local file and folder backups, and offsite replication. …

All in one backup solution your company will need

10 out of 10

February 23, 2024

We mainly use BDRSuite to backup ESXi VMs. Creating backup is very straightforward and recovering is easy with few clicks. Backups also …

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10 out of 10

February 16, 2024

I run a small, one-man software development company. I have two physical Hyper-V servers hosting a total of eight VMs, three of them …

BDRSuite - A Great Solution for Hyper-V

9 out of 10

November 10, 2023

I use BDRSuite on the servers for my clients. They are my primary go-to for backup purposes. I set up my clients' servers in a Windows …

Flexible hybrid backup resonably priced

10 out of 10

March 07, 2023

We use BDRSuite for backup purposes and provide backup as a service to our customers. By means of BDRSuite our customers don't need to …

BDRSuite, easy to implement offsite replication and fair licensing plan. Missing some features like command line and start/end backup script.

9 out of 10

March 04, 2023

I use BDR as the 1st solution for Hyper-v VMs backups and offsite replication. This tool has an offsite feature that is easy to deploy and …

Versions are released faster than their documentation and you're the beta tester.

6 out of 10

March 02, 2023

Best Vembu-BDR

9 out of 10

February 27, 2023

The review for Vembu Backup and disaster recovery solution is one the best all-in-one suite packages. It's very rare to get such a …

Ultimate Backup Solution

10 out of 10

June 02, 2022

It is our current go-to product for the local archival of our backup information. Moving from an old tape-based system it has proven to be …

An affordable backup solution for Small Business!

10 out of 10

April 26, 2022

We wanted an affordable but working product that could cover our daily backup and restore needs.

Good backup solution for medium environments at affordable price

6 out of 10

March 26, 2022

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How BDRSuite Differs From Its Competitors

Physical Server Support

Yes, now I have single solution to take backup for my several application scattered across cloud, on-prem and SaaS solutions.

Decision Factors

After working enterprise and consumer grade products, this is a good entry level product for small businesses. Cost effective and mostly reliable. Recovery is simple so that end user clients can restore.

Physical Server Support

Primarily using physical and cloud services. Our clients have benefited because of multiple restorations of data that were quick and correct.

Other Considerations

Yes we did. We researched: Carbonite, idrive, backblaze, wasabi, Acronis, crashplan, icloud, and others. Ultimately we recommend Vembu BDRSuite because it does disk-to-disk-to-cloud backups which gives my clients added protection.

Decision Factors

An alternative to Veeam, which I was dissatisfied with. I tried many products, but this one has largely worked, and was affordable.

Physical Server Support

While some of these functions are locked behind paywalls, we have used the physical and virtual backup functions.

Decision Factors

The possibility to install Vembu BDR Suite on a Linux server was important. We don't need to buy an additional operating system server license.

Physical Server Support

In our organization, we used Vembu BDR Suite in a virtual environment. We were able to manage backups of virtual machines on multiple VMware ESXi hosts.

Other Considerations

We also considered Unitrends Backup. We chose Vembu BDR Suite because of its flexibility in hardware components allocation (CPU, RAM, HDD).

Decision Factors

Obviously, the most important thing to consider is the ability to recover data, systems, or applications. Response time for communication with sales and technical support in case of emergency is also a top point. Cost will always be an important point with both small and large infrastructures. The …

Physical Server Support

We have been able to utilize several of the suite offerings. The virtual backup solution is very robust, quick, and stable. multiple recovery options exist and are very easy to use. The client for physical devices is also very easy to configure and use. The cloud copy feature is a must-have.

Other Considerations

Originally clear back to the earlier days when they had a product called Storegrid I had researched many other companies that had similar offerings. R backup, Carbonite, Acronis, and Nova backup but they all seemed less sophisticated. Symantec had a good local-only solution as well. Veeam was the …

Decision Factors

Our company is a small size company that we cannot afford super expensive solutions but BDRSuite meets our needs and provided reasonable pricing. Support agents were so friendly, answered all of our questions. Web UI is so friendly, we could figure it out so quickly. Backup and Recovery simple as …

Physical Server Support

We mostly use it for ESXi VM instance backup. We take Full and Incremental backup which is very useful especially for large size VM. Backups don't consume lots of space. This feature saved us so much space on the NAS storage. We are planning to implement BDRSuite SQL server backup capability very …

Other Considerations

We considered Veeam, NAKIVO, and N-able backup solutions but these are very high priced products even testing these softwares were challenging. BDRSuite was easy to install, test and quickly adopted the environment, it wasn't complicated. Implementing the licensing was so easy, we activated right …

Physical Server Support

I haven't utilized these capabilities; I may do so in the future.

Other Considerations

I am a years-long Hornet Security customer (formerly Altaro), but their high pricing pushed me out.

Decision Factors

The single most important factor is reliability. Their backup reports provide me with peace of mind.

Their availability to support in the event there are issues is important. Sometimes language barriers or time zones are an issue, but I am confident they will eventually get back to me.

Physical Server Support

I only use physical backups and my own offsite servers to sync backups. They have performed satisfactorily. The offsite sync is a bit slow but they do allow you to preload the backup data on the offsite server to minimize the time to sync both servers.

Other Considerations

I tried Veeam and Microsoft's built-in BU. It was OK, but price, performance, and features caused BDRSuite to win out

Decision Factors

The flexible hybrid solution that BDRSuite provides along with reasonable pricing made us decide for this product instead of its competitors. Our customers wanted a solution with a backup copy stored outside their sites to protect against total disaster and they also wanted quick and easy restore. …

Physical Server Support

Today we only use backup of virtual servers, but I have experience with physical backup as well. Both have always worked great to provide a good and stable product that sells easily to our customers.

Other Considerations

We considered both Veeam Backup and Veritas/Symantec Backup Exec, but to us BDRSuite proved to be the most flexible product to a reasonable price.

Decision Factors

Basically, offsite replication and price made it easy to make my decision regarding BDR; no other tool has the ability to license one single VM for offsite replication.

Physical Server Support

We just use virtual backup, and it does the job very well; we never used it for other types of workloads.

Other Considerations

Yes, tried Veeam, but its offsite replication isn´t easy to implement as BDR, and the licensing price is much more higher.

Decision Factors

The ability to trial a product for a long period of time allows for real-world use cases to occur where you can see the strengths and weaknesses of the product. Also having a responsive support center to answer technical questions pre and post-use was helpful.

Decision Factors

Simple and straightforward BDR application that can be deployed and shows efficiency of data backup with strong encryption.

Physical Server Support

So far the virtual server image backup has been a plus point to our environment. Since we run a couple of servers with different projects system inside, make sure data are on the safe side.

Other Considerations

veeam was among the choices and many others. We had to choose vembu for its best features and reasonable prices.

Decision Factors

Purchase and support were initially recommended by 3rd party. Glad they picked this Company and product.

Physical Server Support

We use Virtual and Physical environments only. It has made us feel safer in our backup strategy in the unsafe digital work we live in today.

Decision Factors

Cost!!! Vembu BDR understands small business needs and have curated their pricing affordable.

Physical Server Support

Yes, we are using BDR to backup Physical and Virtual servers

Other Considerations

Yes, we looked into Rapid Recovery and Veeam - but they could not compete with Vembu's Pricing.

Physical Server Support

During [a] disaster, [Vembu BDR Suite] helped to instantly recover the required data with minimal downtime.

Decision Factors

We need to review it for endpoints and also look for VMware in Later stage

Decision Factors

The most important factors for us are disaster recovery and a guarantee that backups are recoverable. Test restores and sandboxing are essential.
Recurring margin income for IT Service providers is essential and the current Vembu model fails to address the requirement. Being able to build up an …

Other Considerations

Altaro - Only VM backups, not physical. We use it in conjunction with Vembu. Veeam - Too expensive and bad reports about managing licenses on the forums.
Nakivo used in conjunction with Vembu. An excellent product and well priced. Nakivo has a full set of features for Physical and VM backups but …

Decision Factors

Price and Tech Support were our major factors. There are a lot of backup options out there that do pretty much the same thing. Tech support is lacking terribly in most cases. Vembu BDR Suite is the exception to this. For the features you get along with great tech support, you simply can't beat the …

Physical Server Support

We have benefited greatly from being able to easily and securely backup VMs and data for our clients to our datacenter. This offers them the ability to store critical data offsite in the event of a disaster.

Other Considerations

I've used most of the well known products throughout my career, working in large corporations and supporting small clients too. Ultimately our choice came down to Vembu and Veeam both of which we have significant experience with. We ultimately chose Vembu over Veeam due to the price difference and …

Decision Factors

The need for compression and RTO are the most important topics for us. Thus, we decided to use Vembu BDR Suite.

Physical Server Support

We definitely got VVembu BDR Suite's benefit while backing up and replication. Its compression ratio eased our anxiety about storage.

Other Considerations

We used both veeam and acronis. We chose Vembu BDR Suite for its compression ratio, RTO values, and its affordability.

Decision Factors

Costs. Vembu is hands down the most cost effective backup solution on the market.

Other Considerations

Yes. We tested every feasible backup provider before we decided on Vembu.

Decision Factors

I used the free version for 6 months, support stopped answering as backups didn't work right. Sales were not interested in working things out, just sale.

Physical Server Support

Sadly it didn't work like I wanted on my physical server with virtual machines.

Other Considerations

I will try Veeam again, it is more expensive but may be worth it.

Decision Factors

Straightforward setup!
Provide Full backup: a copy of all selected data.

Other Considerations

Veeam is one of the options to consider.
We choose Vembu BDR Suite because it's easy to use.

Decision Factors

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 …

Physical Server Support

At the time of our search for a robust backup solution, we were also planning to begin migrating some services and servers to a virtual environment. We needed a solution that would fit not only our existing physical-based environment, but a mixed and eventually entirely virtualized environment …

Hive File System

We have benefited from the VembuHIVE file system via it's space-saving abilities as well as the added security of having our backed up data encrypted on both the BDR server and Offsite locations.

Decision Factors

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 …

Physical Server Support

Vembu [BDR Suite] has allowed us to have a good backup practice, being able to replicate the local backup to the cloud and also allowing it to be replicated in another of our locations.

All programmed and with easy administration.

Decision Factors

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.

Other Considerations

I researched several different big-name solutions prior to selecting Vembu BDR Suite. The main thing that kept bringing me back to Vembu BDR Suite over the others was cost and ease of use.

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Popular Features

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Platform support (58)
8.5
85%
Retention options (56)
8.4
84%
Incremental backup identification (57)
8.3
83%
Management dashboard (58)
7.2
72%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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reporting
Report improvement, lack detailed info about the issue.

Sarvesh Singh

Head Of Technology

Panzer IT (Computer & Network Security, 11-50 employees)

Backups are granular for easy recovery
Support documentation is too generic and rarely answers my questions.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Computer & Network Security Company, 1-10 employees

Pricing

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Endpoint / Workstation Backup

$12

On Premise

per year per endpoint

SaaS Backup

$12

On Premise

per year per user

VMs, Servers & Cloud Backup

$48

On Premise

per year per VM

Entry-level set up fee?

No setup fee

For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.vembu.com/vembu-bdr-suite…

Offerings

Free Trial
Free/Freemium Version
Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

$12 per year per user

Features

Data Center Backup

Data center backup tools send data to a secure storage location after encryption and de-duplication

8.2

Avg 8.1

8.3
Universal recovery
(49) Ratings
Universal recovery is the ability to restore backups to any machine regardless of the platform
7.9
Instant recovery
(50) Ratings
Instant recovery is the ability to restore operations very rapidly
9.3
Recovery verification
(51) Ratings
Recovery verification is automated testing and verification of backups
7.4
Business application protection
(42) Ratings
Protection of all applications running in the data center
7.9
Multiple backup destinations
(42) Ratings
Multiple backup destinations is the ability to backup data to more than one location
8.3
Incremental backup identification
(57) Ratings
Incremental backup identification is the ability to identify incremental changes since last backup
8.6
Backup to the cloud
(35) Ratings
Ability to store and back up data to the cloud
8.7
Deduplication and file compression
(47) Ratings
Integrated deduplication and compression capabilities
7.9
Snapshots
(44) Ratings
Ability to take regular snapshots to ensure that Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is met
7.4
Flexible deployment
(53) Ratings
Deployment on any servers with full support for all applications being used
7.2
Management dashboard
(58) Ratings
Web-based dashboard allowing configuration and monitoring of all backups
8.5
Platform support
(58) Ratings
Product supports multiple operating systems and applications
8.4
Retention options
(56) Ratings
Provision of best-practice and customizable retention policies with reporting
8.6
Encryption
(50) Ratings
Data encryption to ensure that data is safe while being backed-up

Product Details

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What is BDRSuite?

BDRSuite offers Backup and Disaster Recovery for Small/Medium Businesses, Enterprise Businesses, and Service Providers.

BDRSuite is a Backup & Disaster Recovery software designed for Data Centers/Private Clouds (VMware, Hyper-V, Windows, Linux, Applications & Databases), Public Clouds (AWS), SaaS Applications (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace), and Endpoints (Windows, Mac).

The BDRSuite platform can unify the backup management of a diverse IT infrastructure.
Reduces Data Loss.
Ensures Business Continuity with the Instant Restore option that allows users to recover the backed-up machines in less than 15 mins.
Granularly restore Files & Application items without restoring the entire machine.
Store Backups Locally (DAS, NAS, SAN) or on Cloud (S3, Azure Blob, S3 Compatible).
Backup data can be stored on different storage mediums (Disk/Cloud/Tape) and can be kept in different locations (Local/Offsite/Cloud).

BDRSuite can be purchased in licenses per VM, per Server, per CPU-Socket, per User, and per Instance basis.

BDRSuite also offers different editions (Enterprise/Standard/Free) which businesses can choose from based on their requirements.

BDRSuite Features

Data Center Backup Features

Supported: Universal recovery
Supported: Instant recovery
Supported: Recovery verification
Supported: Business application protection
Supported: Multiple backup destinations
Supported: Incremental backup identification
Supported: Backup to the cloud
Supported: Deduplication and file compression
Supported: Snapshots
Supported: Flexible deployment
Supported: Management dashboard
Supported: Platform support
Supported: Retention options
Supported: Encryption

Additional Features

Supported: Ransomware Protection

BDRSuite Screenshots

BDRSuite Competitors

BDRSuite Technical Details

Deployment Types	On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating Systems	Windows, Linux
Mobile Application	No

Frequently Asked Questions

BDRSuite starts at $12.

Veeam Data Platform, Veritas Backup Exec, and Datto SIRIS are common alternatives for BDRSuite.

Reviewers rate Recovery verification highest, with a score of 9.3.

The most common users of BDRSuite are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).

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February 22, 2022

Vembu BDR Suite Review - Endpoints

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Hospitality Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Hive File System

We have not yet tested this option.

April 28, 2021

Vembu BDR Suite Review

Darrian Churchill

I.T. Manager

Epworth School (Education Management, 51-200 employees)

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Hive File System

We have benefited from the VembuHIVE file system via it's space-saving abilities as well as the added security of having our backed up data encrypted on both the BDR server and Offsite locations.

April 29, 2020

Nice free product for small businesses.

Verified User

Technician in Corporate

Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Hive File System

The file system keeps disk usage to a minimum and we have benefited from this as we didn't have to buy a large backup drive. This saved us more money.

March 25, 2020

No frills but it works

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Corporate

Building Materials Company, 11-50 employees

Score 6 out of 10

Vetted Review

Hive File System

Yes, the compression levels seem very good, although I am always conscious of running a file system on top of another file system.

December 05, 2019

Vembu is an excellent value for the money and TOP NOTCH support

Tom Schmidt

Senior Information Technology Audit Manager

Almco Steel Products Corp (Automotive, 51-200 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Hive File System

I do not use this at all.

November 26, 2019

Vembu Backup with the personal touch

Kees Wals

Manager

Webvanced (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Hive File System

Since we have the luxury of enough on and off-site storage we seldom use this feature and to improve speed and lower potential overhead of compression. By default, it's set to none or low. Therefore, I don't have enough experience to comment on the performance and use of this feature.

November 05, 2019

Easy VM Backup and Restore.

Richard Voorheis

Software Engineer

Zebra Technologies (Computer Hardware, 1001-5000 employees)

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Hive File System

No, we have not.

September 12, 2019

Vembu is a very good solution for centralized backup and disaster recovery

Alessandro Gastaldello

Technical Manager & Customer Support

QUICKLINK SOLUTIONS SRL (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Lokman Hakim Mohamad Azli

Hive File System

Protection and privacy of personal data.

September 05, 2019

I choose VembuBDR

Technology Consultant

Infinite Logix System PLT (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Hive File System

Yes. We save a lot of storage space through VembuHive.

August 27, 2019

Vembu BDR - freshening VMs backup scene

Paolo Aglialoro

Consultant

Gespea Srl (Insurance, 11-50 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Hive File System

Actually I haven't yet uderstood how it works, but I just care for successful restores and replicas

July 27, 2019

VembuBDR Smokes Other Overpriced Backup Solutions

Daniel Castro

Senior Engineer

Micro Advantage Inc. (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Hive File System

It moves data fast and securely and keeps files size in check.
DC

June 20, 2019

Awesome Product

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Medical Practice Company, 11-50 employees

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Hive File System

Have not.

June 18, 2019

It's Great and the Price is Great!

Michael Pisto

Owner

Fortify I.T. Inc (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Hive File System

I have benefited from both. For my cloud Vembu server for space savings and the encryption is on by default and you can change it to whatever you want. It works.

May 31, 2019

Vembu is a great backups software that allows you to use ANYWHERE

Juan Gomez

IT Director

HEROware (Consumer Electronics, 11-50 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Hive File System

The compression feature has helped us a lot. We have a lot of clients that don't have much storage space (when they choose to backup locally). This compression feature Vembu offers helps us backup their important data and at the same time, not take up too much of their space.

May 22, 2019

Vembu BDR is the ideal backup suite. It is robust yet simple and inexpensive to use.

John DeMattia

Director of IT

MTSI (Telecommunications, 201-500 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Hive File System

We have used Vembu's VembuHIVE to quickly recover folders and files that had accidentally been deleted by users. We did not really benefit from the built-in compression as the majority of our files are already compressed.

April 09, 2019

Vembu: a good Linux option for Home labs or SOHO

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 1-10 employees

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Hive File System

Currently the amount of storage i have available is fairly limited. Having built-in compression means that I can ensure that I don't sacrifice usable storage for the safeguarding of critical infrastructure, even in a testing environment

March 04, 2019

Vembu BDR Review

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

E-Learning Company, 51-200 employees

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Hive File System

I have not yet looked into the benefits of Hive, so I cannot answer.

October 26, 2018

How Vembu BDR takes part in our business

Hariesh Nair

Assistant Manager - IT

Baird Mcnutt (Textiles, 201-500 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Hive File System

Yes, really we have benefited from this, as I mentioned earlier, the built-in compression feature helps reduce storage space which will be a boon for us with limited storage space. We can meet our backup needs. We are not using encryption as it may reduce the backup speed.

September 13, 2018

Vembu BDR Suite Review

Jesse Furr

System Administrator

National Board of Chiropractic Examiners (Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Hive File System

We have not used this feature.

August 28, 2018

Vembu BDR Suite is awesome!

Adrian Takacs

Infrastructure Engineer

X-Net Solutions (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Reseller

Hive File System

I was not aware of HIVE, we are already using the encryption option for security & compliance and the compression option to save on storage.

August 28, 2018

Happy with Vembu’s technical remote support team.

Edward Morando

Director Of Technical Services

Integrated IT Solutions, Inc. (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees)

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Hive File System

The file compression appeared to be quite effective at over 100%.

June 26, 2018

Simple yet Powerful BDR Tool, Give it a try!

Verified User

Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Hive File System

This is a nice feature. I see storage pools are handled effectively using repositories. It is beneficial and packed with file version, data deduplication features.

May 29, 2018

Vembu BDR is a great find!

Jesse Brandt

System Administrator

Mitchell Humphrey & Co. (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User