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.
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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
How BDRSuite Differs From Its Competitors
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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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Hive File System
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Awards
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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
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- Competitors
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- 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
(1-4 of 4)Vembu BDR Suite Review
- Easy to use interface
- Fast backup configuraion
- Easy to use restore operation
- Delete old backups
- improve reports
- Universal recovery
- 90%9.0
- Instant recovery
- 80%8.0
- Recovery verification
- 90%9.0
- Snapshots
- 90%9.0
- Management dashboard
- 90%9.0
- Platform support
- 90%9.0
- Retention options
- 80%8.0
- Encryption
- 90%9.0
- Great flexibility and RPO minimize business downtime
- Backup my primary backup server
- Duplicate some of backup jobs of primary solution
- Backup test environment
- None
- Maybe migrate from Free Edition to Standard version
- it's easy to use through WEB browser
- installation process is not complicated
- Vembu BDR solution is reliable, and works properly. It does the job.
This product could get extra points for the appliance that could be imported to virtual environment (no need for windows server license or some linux knowledge).
- Ease of Use
- Other
- Implemented in-house
- Prepare virtual machine with proper Linux distribution
- Prepare storage for backup repository
- Create Backup Jobs
- Add users, create mail notification
- Restore VM from backup
- No automatic software updates/notifications
- No "backup" role for user in Vembu BDR Free edition
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.
- Universal recovery
- 100%10.0
- Instant recovery
- 70%7.0
- Recovery verification
- 100%10.0
- Multiple backup destinations
- 60%6.0
- Incremental backup identification
- 90%9.0
- Deduplication and file compression
- 80%8.0
- Snapshots
- 70%7.0
- Flexible deployment
- 60%6.0
- Management dashboard
- 40%4.0
- Platform support
- 70%7.0
- Retention options
- 90%9.0
- Encryption
- 100%10.0
- Positive to meet DR requirements
- Better insurance rates if DR issues are met
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 increasing recurring revenue stream allows for better support and technical skill to be available to support the product.
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 Vembu is better at granular backup and restore options..
- Regular backup of key database systems
- Daily user data or images backups
- Disaster Recovery
- Domain controller backups
- N/A
- N/A
- N/A
- N/A
- N/A
- N/A
Limitations with Altaro and unreliability of built in Windows Backup. We needed an application that backed up physical servers, VM's on Hyper-V and Windows workstations.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Setting up file backups is easy
- Image backups of client devices can be cumbersome
- The forced reboot when loading the agent is an issue
- The web interface is slow to use and on a low resolution remote session part of the screen is hidden.
- The need to ensure the server license reports to Vembu is irritating.
- Performance is an issue
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.
- Universal recovery
- 100%10.0
- Instant recovery
- 100%10.0
- Recovery verification
- 100%10.0
- Business application protection
- 70%7.0
- Multiple backup destinations
- 90%9.0
- Incremental backup identification
- 90%9.0
- Backup to the cloud
- 90%9.0
- Deduplication and file compression
- 90%9.0
- Snapshots
- 100%10.0
- Flexible deployment
- 50%5.0
- Management dashboard
- 60%6.0
- Platform support
- 80%8.0
- Retention options
- 70%7.0
- Encryption
- 70%7.0
- The product price and availability of a free edition is excellent with the offered features.
- Reliability, probably the most important factor. The solution runs and works in the long run, making your investment worthwhile.
- Restores are generally fast, a critical factor in backup solutions.
Skills in IT Infrastructure services and technologies is surely required
- Disaster Recovery
- VM Replication
- Daily Backup Operations
- We have a backup repo onsite and we also use WAN Links to export backups to another site using Vembu
- Replicating VMs to other sites
- Cloud Instances Backups
- On-Premises Backup to Cloud
We don't like switching technology much and BDR solutions shouldn't be something that a company replaces every few years., that's why most likely we will keep using it.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
I would however, consider bigger/wider range of features, not that Vembu BDR doesn't provide what we need, but in terms of being future proof, i would widen the range of features i am considering in the product.
- Implemented in-house
- Lack of support for MS SQL Server as a configuration DB for the deployment
- Forced use of PostgreSQL which was not preferred by the organization
- Installation
- Initial Backup Operations
- Restore Process
- Web Management Interface isn't something I always prefer
- Extracting Backup Files If the Vembu Installation Fails (In case of a major disaster)
Vembu so-so
- Scheduling backups
- Backup pruning
- Integration with Hyper-v
- Stability. Our VMBackup product on Windows 2012 keeps crashing the Hyper-V Management Service and then failing.
- Upgrade process. Going from 3.5 to 3.8 was paiiinful.
- Support process. Getting support has often required many days of support personnel being continuous connected to our production server via TeamViewer.
- Universal recovery
- 80%8.0
- Instant recovery
- 70%7.0
- Recovery verification
- 80%8.0
- Business application protection
- N/AN/A
- Multiple backup destinations
- N/AN/A
- Incremental backup identification
- 70%7.0
- Backup to the cloud
- N/AN/A
- Deduplication and file compression
- 40%4.0
- Snapshots
- N/AN/A
- Flexible deployment
- 60%6.0
- Management dashboard
- 40%4.0
- Platform support
- 50%5.0
- Retention options
- 70%7.0
- Encryption
- 80%8.0
- When working and stable it is "set and forget" so that reduces time to maintain.
- Flexibility on number of backups to retain and additional full backups to make have allowed NAS storage management and avoided significant additional storage purchases.
- When the product is unstable, as our 2012 VM backup is, it costs us time monitoring and restarting services or servers and dealing with Vembu support who have directed us to Microsoft for VSS support although the product worked fine on the platform prior to upgrade, and no additional software has been installed since.
- windows backup and backupexec
- Virtual Machines
- Local Drives
- Network Shares
- Nothing comes to mind
- Virtual machine cloning based on a "before recent update" need.
- Price
- Product Features
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Implemented in-house
- No issues, really.
- Set and forget backups, and deduplication (retention) are easy to configure.
- Determining backup failure reasons was not very easy
- Doing an immediate backup was difficult
- Changing backup options was challenging