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What is BDRSuite?
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.
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- Platform support (58)8.585%
- Retention options (56)8.484%
- Incremental backup identification (57)8.383%
- Management dashboard (58)7.272%
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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
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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
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| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux |
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
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.
BDRSuite starts at $12.
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 02, 2021
Best for virtual servers
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
January 23, 2021
Vembu - simple, easy to use backup
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
October 15, 2020
Vembu BDR Free Edition
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
October 14, 2020
If you're looking for a reasonably priced backup solution then you should definitely consider Vembu BDR
- 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.
October 02, 2020
Vembu BDR 4.2.01 Review
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
October 02, 2020
A Multitool for All Your Backup & DR Needs
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.
May 08, 2020
My Vembu perception
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.
April 29, 2020
Nice free product for small businesses.
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.
March 25, 2020
No frills but it works
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.
December 05, 2019
Vembu is an excellent value for the money and TOP NOTCH support
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.
November 26, 2019
Vembu Backup with the personal touch
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.
November 05, 2019
Easy VM Backup and Restore.
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.
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.
September 05, 2019
I choose VembuBDR
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.
August 27, 2019
Vembu BDR - freshening VMs backup scene
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 :(((((
July 27, 2019
VembuBDR Smokes Other Overpriced Backup Solutions
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.
June 20, 2019
Awesome Product
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.
June 18, 2019
It's Great and the Price is Great!
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
April 09, 2019
Vembu: a good Linux option for Home labs or SOHO
Currently, I use VembuBDR in my home lab, due to the free option providing a greater feature set than other free option. I am running the Vembu BDR on a Linux VM, and am using it to back up a series of VMs from a vSphere cluster to an external NAS over iscsi. This back up process is scheduled to run every few days, and seems to run pretty quickly on 99% of the configured VMs.
- Linux installer and web UI: unlike some other options, a Linux installer can be acquired and provides an easy to use web UI.
- Quick Support: support has been quick and helpful when needed.
- Easy to configure: the backup process is easy to configure and can be done in 15 to 20 mins.
- Logging: The Free version doesn't appear to provide any alternative to alerting/logging other than email. Syslog or something similar would be nice
- Iscsi config: the process to use iscsi as a backup target requires configuration on the OS itself. Putting this and NFS configuration in the UI would be a plus
- Self Signed Certs: the ability to create a CSR and load a certificate from an on-site CA using the UI.
March 04, 2019
Vembu BDR Review
It is being used by the Systems team within our IT department to handle backups of our VMs in VMWare. We backup VMs from our headquarters and our collocated datacenter, and ship an offsite copy to our DR data center, all using the Vembu BDR Suite.
- It's incredibly simple to get up and running. We provided credentials for our vCenter server, set up the storage where the backups would go, and that was it.
- Doing a restore is just as simple as backing up. Within moments I was able to launch a new VM from a backup. I even launched it to a different data center from the one it had originated.
- We have backups that store sensitive information, and Vembu BDR made it incredibly simple to encrypt our backups.
- There's no active directory support, so I can't authenticate with my AD user.
October 26, 2018
How Vembu BDR takes part in our business
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.
September 13, 2018
Vembu BDR Suite Review
It is used by the IT department to back up all of our server VMs. It addresses the business problems of disaster recovery and continuity.
- User-friendly web UI
- Ease of setting up a backup VM
- Responsive customer service
- Cryptic error messages that can be hard to troubleshoot
- Licensing requirements can be difficult to understand
- More information on what is fixed in releases would be helpful
August 31, 2018
Vembu Review
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I used it just as a file backup application. It did not solve any problems, and instead created more.
- None
- The whole GUI interface needs a revamp. The reporting is terrible.
- Push installation/adding clients to backup does not seem to effectively work.
- I believe that there can be a lot of improvements done and they can base it out of existing backup softwares.