BDRSuite Reviews & Ratings 2023

Name: BDRSuite - Delivering unified data protection for your diverse IT infrastructure
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Description: BDRSuite - Delivering unified data protection for diverse IT infrastructure

BDRSuite

Starting at $6 per year per user

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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.

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

Vembu BDR Suite Review - Endpoints

8 out of 10

February 22, 2022

We are trying to use Vembu BDR Suite for data backup for user laptops who are traveling a lot. It seems fine.

Vembu BDR Suite Review

8 out of 10

January 20, 2022

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

My Vembu BDR Suite Review

6 out of 10

December 17, 2021

We use Vembu BDR Suite to backup physical servers, HyperV VMs, and workstation in a combination of the full image and file backups. We …

VembuBDR 4.2

10 out of 10

August 18, 2021

We use Vembu BDR Suite across our organization and implement it at client sites. It addresses all of our backup and DR needs by providing …

Reliable, Affordable, Best Value

10 out of 10

July 29, 2021

Vembu is used in backing up our data in our whole organization. The need for a better compression method for our backup data was essential …

Vembu is the best backup on the planet!

10 out of 10

July 13, 2021

We are a 20+ year distributor for various online backup companies over the years. We now use Vembu BDR Suite as our go to solution to …

Vembu BDR Suite Review

5 out of 10

June 13, 2021

It was used to make a backup plan of our main hardware server.

Vembu BDR Suite Review

10 out of 10

June 12, 2021

There’s a reason Vembu BDR Suite is renowned in the world of backup software. It’s capable, flexible, and rock-solid reliable. Indeed, …

Vembu BDR

9 out of 10

June 07, 2021

We use Vembu BDR Suite to backup our ESXi VM's for our entire organization.

Vembu BDR Suite Review

8 out of 10

April 28, 2021

We use Vembu BDR Suite across our company as our server and data backup solution. Vembu BDR Suite addresses all of our disaster recovery …

Vembu the best backup solution I can recommend!

10 out of 10

February 25, 2021

Vembu [BDR Suite] is being used in our organization as the main backup platform for our entire cloud computing business line, thus …

Best for virtual servers

8 out of 10

February 02, 2021

We currently use Vembu BDR Suite to back up 12 virtual and two traditional servers. Each of these servers is critical to our business. …

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How BDRSuite Differs From Its Competitors

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 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

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.

Decision Factors

Used free version as a secondary backup. Looking to purchase full version

Decision Factors

We didn't purchase Vembu BDR, we used the free version; Veeam was not available any longer as a free product which is why we used Vembu.

Physical Server Support

The multi-environment support was not important for us as we only had the virtual infrastructure.

Other Considerations

We tried with Veeam but the free version had been discontinued.

Decision Factors

In these difficult times, the cost is a very important factor, and an investment in any product goes through a long decision-making process. In our experience, being able to test the product first was key to decide if it fits our needs or not. After our testing phase, we found that the features we …

Physical Server Support

We have a fairly complex environment with various virtualized and physical workloads, although cloud instances are not part of our setup, backup the cloud was, and it worked without any issues. Something to note here, being future-proof is a good thing, and Vembu won't be an issue for us should we …

Other Considerations

We considered Veeam Backup and Replication suite before going through with Vembu BDR. What we found is that Vembu covered all of the features we needed for much less cost. Our focus was on virtualized workloads and Vembu does that perfectly well, the cost savings were big for the value.

Decision Factors

I was looking for a backup solution that was ideally free or low-cost just to back up less-critical servers.
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 …

Physical Server Support

I have only used Vembu for physical servers, and for the 2 years or so that I've used it, it's worked absolutely fine for us and done what I need it to do.

Other Considerations

I did do some research into the other, more 'well-known' backup solution providers, but the costs for their software (for my needs) were too high. I chose Vembu mainly because it's free and was relatively easy to get a grip on.

Decision Factors

The single most important decision was a solution that covered all areas of our business requirements for backup and disaster recovery, namely image, file/folder, virtual machines, replication to co-location/cloud.

Physical Server Support

Our internal organization has a good mix of both physical and virtual systems. In addition, our customers range from small to medium companies and their backup needs typically vary as well across physical, virtual, or hybrid environments. Some solutions don't do a very good job of backing up …

Other Considerations

The primary competitor solution we considered was Veeam. Based on our tests it did everything well and support was quick and concise. After reviewing both Vembu and Veeam extensively, we ultimately decided to go with Vembu, because the cost for Veeam was much higher. These days the costs for …

Decision Factors

As we only have one single server we were looking for a very cheap solution, most tend to be expensive and back up multiple hosts which we didn't need. We found Vembu and thought this was a lite version but it fitted our needs and does exactly what we need it to do.

Physical Server Support

We only use it in a virtual environment but it has been a huge benefit to us especially as it's free for a single server.

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.

Decision Factors

The most important factor is reliability. It needs to work with very little management.

Physical Server Support

This is a bit more cumbersome using different parts of the suite to manage so I don't use it where possible.

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.

Physical Server Support

I only have a physical environment and for that, it works very well.

Decision Factors

Vembu Backup was already configured and running when I joined the company so as it was working according to my expectations, it was an easy decision to extend the use of it.

Physical Server Support

As explained previously, we have a mixed environment and therefore Vembu Backup is working fine in both physical and virtual.

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.

Decision Factors

I had confidence that I could recover and backed up VM. I ran it in a test mode before purchasing it and confirmed the back-up and recovery processes.

Physical Server Support

We use it for the physical backup of all the desktop PCs in our offices.

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Top Rated

2022

Popular Features

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Platform support (48)
7.9
79%
Instant recovery (84)
7.7
77%
Incremental backup identification (46)
7.6
76%
Management dashboard (48)
7.3
73%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Compression
Time zone gap

Verified User

Administrator in Corporate

Construction Company, 1-10 employees

Free Workstation or Endpoint Backup
License Assignment could have been better

Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Pricing

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SaaS

$6

On Premise

per year per user

Endpoint Backup

$7.5

On Premise

per year per endpoint

VM Backup

$18

On Premise

per year per VM

Entry-level set up fee?

No setup fee

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Offerings

Free Trial
Free/Freemium Version
Premium Consulting / Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

$6 per year per user

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Product Demos

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Features

Data Center Backup

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

7.8Avg 8.2

8.7
Universal recovery
(43) Ratings
Universal recovery is the ability to restore backups to any machine regardless of the platform
7.7
Instant recovery
(84) Ratings
Instant recovery is the ability to restore operations very rapidly
8
Recovery verification
(44) Ratings
Recovery verification is automated testing and verification of backups
7.4
Business application protection
(35) Ratings
Protection of all applications running in the data center
7.8
Multiple backup destinations
(36) Ratings
Multiple backup destinations is the ability to backup data to more than one location
7.6
Incremental backup identification
(46) Ratings
Incremental backup identification is the ability to identify incremental changes since last backup
7.1
Backup to the cloud
(28) Ratings
Ability to store and back up data to the cloud
6.7
Deduplication and file compression
(36) Ratings
Integrated deduplication and compression capabilities
8.6
Snapshots
(36) Ratings
Ability to take regular snapshots to ensure that Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is met
7.6
Flexible deployment
(44) Ratings
Deployment on any servers with full support for all applications being used
7.3
Management dashboard
(48) Ratings
Web-based dashboard allowing configuration and monitoring of all backups
7.9
Platform support
(48) Ratings
Product supports multiple operating systems and applications
8.4
Retention options
(45) Ratings
Provision of best-practice and customizable retention policies with reporting
9.1
Encryption
(42) Ratings
Data encryption to ensure that data is safe while being backed-up

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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.
Reduce Data Loss.
Ensure 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.