BDRSuite Reviews & Ratings 2024

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

Starting at $12 per year per user

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.

Recent Reviews

BDRSuite is best amongst other Backup solutions.

9 out of 10

March 31, 2024

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

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

Vembu BDR Suite Review

8 out of 10

March 11, 2024

Incentivized

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

Vembu BDRSuite Review

10 out of 10

March 10, 2024

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

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

BDRSuite Review

10 out of 10

February 16, 2024

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

Best Vembu-BDR

9 out of 10

February 27, 2023

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

Physical Server Support

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

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

Decision Factors

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

Incentivized

Physical Server Support

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

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

Other Considerations

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

Incentivized

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 …

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

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 …

Incentivized

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 …

Incentivized

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 …

Incentivized

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 …

Incentivized

Physical Server Support

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

Incentivized

Other Considerations

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

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

Other Considerations

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

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

Physical Server Support

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

Incentivized

Other Considerations

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

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

Decision Factors

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

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

Other Considerations

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

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

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 …

Incentivized

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 …

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

Physical Server Support

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

Incentivized

Other Considerations

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

Incentivized

Decision Factors

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

Incentivized

Other Considerations

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

Incentivized

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 …

Incentivized

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 …

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

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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

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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

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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

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Product Details

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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
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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Bruce Redfern

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Higher Education, 51-200 employees

Score 4 out of 10

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the NetworkImage, ImageBackup, and VMBackup products associated with VembuBDR to backup our main production servers and Hyper-V hosts.

Pros and Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

I only know we've had issues in our usage scenario. I would recommend never upgrading the product - always remove the old and install new. The Hyper-V backup is stable on Windows 2016 but has issues on Windows 2012. We don't run it on 2012 R2.

BDRSuite Feature Ratings

Data Center Backup (14)

45.71428571428571%

4.6

Universal recovery: 80%
8.0
Instant recovery: 70%
7.0
Recovery verification: 80%
8.0
Business application protection: N/A
N/A
Multiple backup destinations: N/A
N/A
Incremental backup identification: 70%
7.0
Backup to the cloud: N/A
N/A
Deduplication and file compression: 40%
4.0
Snapshots: N/A
N/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

Return on Investment

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.

Decision Factors

Reasonable price for a complete solution to Share, Drive, and VM backups. Relatively simple to use once installed, if it is stable. Relatively easy restores.

Physical Server Support

Yes, we backup physical drives, network shares, and Hyper-V virtual machines with the product.

Hive File System

I do not believe we were aware of this file system. I'm not sure how we would benefit from its use.

Usability

Easy setup of backups although the available selections are not well explained within the product. Restoring is also not as intuitive as it could be. Reporting seems adequate but often reports things like "backup failed because backup is in progress" without telling you what backup was actually in progress and without giving any hints as to how to fix the issue.

Alternatives Considered

windows backup and backupexec

Beats Windows backup hands down - but that's not hard. Beats BackupExec on ease of use.

Users and Roles

IT Director, IT Manager

Support Headcount Required

The same people who use it, support it. We were a small IT department when we bought Vembu.

Business Processes Supported

Virtual Machines
Local Drives
Network Shares

Innovative Uses

Nothing comes to mind

Future Planned Uses

Virtual machine cloning based on a "before recent update" need.

Likelihood to Renew

Stability is an issue on Windows 2012 and the upgrade process was painful

Products Replaced

Key Differentiators

Price
Product Features
Prior Experience with the Product

A colleague had used the product an recommended it as a cost-effective solution.

Evaluation Lessons Learned

I would seek out more 3rd part reviews. A single person's experience in a dissimilar environment wasn't really enough to go on.

Implementation Details / Implementation Partner

Implemented in-house

Implementation Phases

Change Management Lessons

Change management was minimal

Since we did not have an enterprise backup solution prior to implementing Vembu we did not need a lot of change control.

Implementation Issues

No issues, really.

Implementation Rating

Not really.

Premium Support

Available support seems adequate. Not sure premium would be worth the money although I don't know what it would cost.

Support Rating

It often takes a very long time to get an issue fixed. the support folks seem committed to getting it fixed but they often seem to be trying different things and hoping something works. I did not get the sense that they had a clear idea what was wrong.

Bug Resolution

Yes

Several interface bugs were reported. Often the suggestion was "switch browser", "start in private browsing", or "clear cache." However, these did not fix the problem and just wasted time. Also, installing some driver component caused an immediate server reboot without warning - not cool in a production environment.