Item: Arcserve ShadowProtect
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use ShadowProtect in our enviroment to provide high volume backups. With other products we are sometimes unable to backup very often and we use ShadowProtect specifically on some machines to be able to make a backup every 15 minutes

Pros and Cons

Fast Backups
Retention Management

Offsite Backups
Disaster Recovery

Return on Investment

We use it in our "High Performance" backup solution which is a more expensive solution we provide to customers
Thanks to continuous incremental we can save on diskspace/investing in additional storage.

Alternatives Considered

Veeam Data Platform, Cove Data Protection and Acronis Advanced Backup

Speed, we rely on Shadowprotect to provide us with fast backups and also backups that are smaller in size compared to the other products.

Key Insights

Do you think Arcserve ShadowProtect delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Arcserve ShadowProtect's feature set?

Yes

Did Arcserve ShadowProtect live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Arcserve ShadowProtect go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Arcserve ShadowProtect again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Veeam Data Platform, Cove Data Protection, Acronis Advanced Backup

Likelihood to Recommend

If we have a scenario where we need very fast backup/ a lot of backups per hour we tend to go towards ShadowProtect , we have several customers with important servers that we backup each 15 minutes with a VSS consistent snapshot. The continuous incremental option also allows us to create one "full backup" and never again afterwards. This gives us the possibility to give longer retention periods to our customers.

ShadowProtect is our go to for FAST and small footprint backups.

Overall Satisfaction with Arcserve ShadowProtect