Overview
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.
Vembu BDRSuite for my clients.
BDRsuite is pretty sweet!
Vembu BDR Suite Review
Vembu BDRSuite Review
All in one backup solution your company will need
BDRSuite Review
BDRSuite - A Great Solution for Hyper-V
Flexible hybrid backup resonably priced
BDRSuite, easy to implement offsite replication and fair licensing plan. Missing some features like command line and start/end backup script.
Best Vembu-BDR
Ultimate Backup Solution
An affordable backup solution for Small Business!
Good backup solution for medium environments at affordable price
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- Straightforward setup!
- Provide Full backup: a copy of all selected data.
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We choose Vembu BDR Suite because it's easy to use.
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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 …
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- Hostable
- Great support
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- Good pricing
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- You can backup a physical Windows machine and restore it to different hardware, or spin up the backup as a Hyper-V VM.
- If you're hosting the backups from your environment, you could potentially host the spun-up backup to your clients while their instance is down.
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Popular Features
- Platform support (58)8.585%
- Retention options (56)8.484%
- Incremental backup identification (57)8.383%
- Management dashboard (58)7.272%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
Endpoint / Workstation Backup
$12
SaaS Backup
$12
VMs, Servers & Cloud Backup
$48
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
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
- 8.3Universal recovery(49) Ratings
Universal recovery is the ability to restore backups to any machine regardless of the platform
- 7.9Instant recovery(50) Ratings
Instant recovery is the ability to restore operations very rapidly
- 9.3Recovery verification(51) Ratings
Recovery verification is automated testing and verification of backups
- 7.4Business application protection(42) Ratings
Protection of all applications running in the data center
- 7.9Multiple backup destinations(42) Ratings
Multiple backup destinations is the ability to backup data to more than one location
- 8.3Incremental backup identification(57) Ratings
Incremental backup identification is the ability to identify incremental changes since last backup
- 8.6Backup to the cloud(35) Ratings
Ability to store and back up data to the cloud
- 8.7Deduplication and file compression(47) Ratings
Integrated deduplication and compression capabilities
- 7.9Snapshots(44) Ratings
Ability to take regular snapshots to ensure that Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is met
- 7.4Flexible deployment(53) Ratings
Deployment on any servers with full support for all applications being used
- 7.2Management dashboard(58) Ratings
Web-based dashboard allowing configuration and monitoring of all backups
- 8.5Platform support(58) Ratings
Product supports multiple operating systems and applications
- 8.4Retention options(56) Ratings
Provision of best-practice and customizable retention policies with reporting
- 8.6Encryption(50) Ratings
Data encryption to ensure that data is safe while being backed-up
Product Details
- About
- Competitors
- Tech Details
- FAQs
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 |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux |
Mobile Application | No |
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Reviews
(1-25 of 38)Vembu BDRSuite for my clients.
- Easy to install and configure
- Backups are granular for easy recovery
- Low resource overhead
- User interface on the servers do not have enough tools to better monitor the systems and finding information is difficult.
- User interface at portal is difficult to navigate and confusing
- Support documentation is too generic and rarely answers my questions.
- Licensing and acquisition. As a reseller and partner the licensing model is confusing and the portal interface to manage licensing should be scrapped and rebuilt. It is difficult to navigate and the available information is too vague.
- Recently, communication with new channel contact. My previous contact was articulate and answered my questions.
- Did I mention licensing? This is the most confusing and difficult process I've dealt with in 25 years. Makes Microsoft look simple.
Vembu BDR Suite Review
- Easy to use interface
- Fast backup configuraion
- Easy to use restore operation
- Delete old backups
- improve reports
Vembu BDRSuite Review
- Stabile Product
- Good pricing structure
- Good communication
- Great technical support
- Would like more technical support documents
- More explanations of fixes applied
- Easier installation documentation
All in one backup solution your company will need
- Backup
- Web Interface
- Support multiple environments
- Reasonable pricing
- Having different section for managing old backups
- Full backup and Incremental backup is a little bit challenging, should be more friendly setup
- When I click on configured backup it should go to the list of backup history instead of its configuration.
Flexible hybrid backup resonably priced
- Backup is done fast and reliably
- Backup is done secure since a backup copy can be stored off site
- It is easy to use and configure
- It works well with all types of operating systems
- The support is fantastic
- Once registered you can't change your email address easily
- User interface could be more logical
- Rentention seems to run for a long time without giving any status or prognosis. You can't see how much progress it has done or how much time is left.
In case of small businesses with only a few workstations and no centralized server BDRSuite is less usable. It would nice though if the Offsite DR server could do a backup of single workstations over the internet.
- Offsite copy.
- Web console management.
- Easy to use.
- Price performance is good.
- Backup corruption sometimes occurs, and we need to do a full backup again, which means another official copy.
- The "restart" service after 30 seconds when stopping it.
- They need urgent to provide a command line usage to allow us to use scripts.
- Start and Stop scripts possibilities.
- Backup 10 VMs with the free trial and perform restores
- Backup a Baremetal Server and Restore
- Email Reports with useful information
- Their documentation needs improvement both from a base framework perspective and from a version-to-version perspective.
- error messages that aren't helpful or documentation that isn't for the new version.
- The uninstallation and reinstallation process should be smoother if you're attempting to do a repair because a version update broke something
- When upgrading, sometimes the agent on the target server needs upgrading but doesn't auto-upgrade and so you have to dig through older versions' documentation to find the command to uninstall and then reinstall.
- Restoring a Domain Controller causes issues that aren't documented as possibilities. The issues aren't related to the DC, but due to the way, the restore is done which effect DCs specifically.
Best Vembu-BDR
- Quick and straightforward implementation procedures.
- Backup speed and accuracy of data.
- Image integrity check report feature for image servers like Hype-V and others.
- Easy data recovery once needed.Strong backup encryption features.
- Strong backup encryption features.
- The file backup feature for the new Mac OS still has hiccups.
- The new version 15 dashboard is good but it missing important information like when will be next backup schedule, only the last successful shows.
- The administrator is not able to remove an old ID from the dashboard.
Ultimate Backup Solution
- Compression
- Interface
- Support
- Price
- Time zone gap
Vembu BDR Suite Review - Endpoints
- It seems very good and easy to install
- It is easy to create jobs and we can see all these jobs in central console.
- It has good reporting facilities as well.
- We prefer to have clear information provide in the job review
- Job History could have be more better
- Dashboard can be more better
My Vembu BDR Suite Review
- 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.
Not suited to small business without experienced IT support. A small business will often use a Win 10 workstation to run the backups as Windows server can be out of the budget. This configuration has issues with drive limitations Vembu tends to be more problematic.
VembuBDR 4.2
- Seed an offsite backup. A simple checkbox to seed a large backup prior to backing it up to our datacenter. Previously with another well knows backup provider this was convoluted and time-consuming.
- Backup Speed. Vembu BDR is fast and allows me to schedule multiple jobs within time constraints that prohibit some backup products from working.
- DR - Vembu BDR provides an option to mirror your backups to an offsite datacenter without taxing production servers with a secondary backup job.
- Bare Metal Recovery: the ability to create a custom bootable ISO that you can quickly recover a failed physical server or workstation.
- Ease of use: The console is consistent and very easy to use. From initial install to being fully configured takes just a few minutes.
- Restoring VMs. Version 4.x restores a recovered VM in a default location that cannot be modified. That's annoying, especially when you have a standard for your VM locations. I can move them afterward but that's an additional step that takes additional time. I believe this is resolved in the upcoming V5 release.
- Depending on the backup job you are creating, you can't select the repository for that specific backup. You must make sure you set the repository you want as Default prior to setting up the job.
- The ability to backup the same physical hard drive to multiple local storage devices should be an option and allowed.
- Although the bare metal bootable ISO is a nice feature, it needs to be able to access the data independently instead of having to restore the data to a location first and then use the boot disk to restore the physical server or workstation. It's basically two restore jobs and if it's many TBs in size, that takes a lot of time and you need to have that extra space available for a temporary location for that first set of data to be placed. It's very rare to have to recover a physical server these days but it happens and waiting for 2 restores for one recovery increases the time needed. I have submitted a request for this feature and I believe they are working on it.
- I must also note, I believe many if not all of the above are being addressed in Vembu BDR v5 which is due to release soon.
Vembu BDR Suite Review
- Simple interface.
- Multiple types of scenarios: VMs, Windows and Linux.
- Problems with incremental backups.
- Inconsistency in the information in different parts of the software.
- Very good price.
Vembu BDR Suite Review
There’s a reason Vembu BDR Suite is renowned in the world of backup software. It’s capable, flexible, and rock-solid reliable. Indeed, it’s easily the most comprehensive data safety package on the planet.
Besides offering unparalleled backup functionality that’s both robust and easy to navigate, Vembu are able to backup while the worker is working, which protect against malware, ransomeware, and other threats.
- Able to perform Real-time backup.
- Easy to use.
- It’s the fastest software we’ve tested so far for backing up full disks and partitions.
- Boot media backup.
- Continuous backup options.
- End user can perform backup itself on the Vembu BDR Suite agent.
This software covers all the usual backup processes, and can easily create complex routines, including automated backup.
Home users are FREE for a single PC, which offers protection against data loss, ransomware, and hardware failure.
Vembu BDR
- Integration with ESXi & Hyper-V
- Easy to understand and easy to use interface
- Free Edition is good for small organizations
- Office 365 backup needs a lot of improvement. Specially integration is a bit complex. Can be made simpler.
- Office 365 restore doesn't work. I had used it as a trial, but it never worked.
Free edition is pretty attractive for SMB's
Best for virtual servers
- 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
Vembu - simple, easy to use backup
- Backup schedules
- Easy web interface
- Reliable
- Historical backups not deleted automatically. Could be due to my version
Vembu BDR Free Edition
- It is generally easy and straightforward to use
- The performance was adequate
- Management of the backup volumes
- GUI interface
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.
Vembu BDR 4.2.01 Review
- Easy To Install and Manage
- Support Team is Efficient
- Free!
- Regularly Updated
- User Interface
- Editing Existing Job Schedules
- Better Reports
A Multitool for All Your Backup & DR Needs
- 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.
Nice free product for small businesses.
- 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.
No frills but it works
- 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.
I choose VembuBDR
- 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.
Vembu BDR - freshening VMs backup scene
- 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 :(((((