Avamar - Expensive but it does what it says it does... almost.
April 08, 2016
Avamar - Expensive but it does what it says it does... almost.
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Avamar
Avamar was purchased as an enterprise wide solution. It was used around the world at all of our locations, and would back up all of our data to our centralized data center. From there data would replicate to our disaster recovery site.
- Avamar's deduplication and compression rate of data in transit and on disk was impressive. Once everything was going I was able to backup my entire enterprise in a 12 hour window. Prior to that backups that were only getting one site were taking 5 days.
- Avamar is the only product that I have found that can backup data that is replicated by Microsoft DFSR.
- Cost. Avamar is too expensive.
- The tape out feature is garbage. It's repackaged Legato Networker and while I never worked with Legato Networker before, I can say it didn't take much for it stop working with Avamar.
- Avamar shrank my backup window from 5 days to 12 hours.
- BackupExec, Symantec NetBackup Appliance and Veeam ONE
BackupExec and NetBackup both would choke on data that was being replicated by
DFSR. I needed a product that could handle that data, as well as do client side deduplication and compression.
Veeam, as well as some other VM backup solutions, were horrible at managing their own snapshots. If I wasn't on top of them, there was a good chance we'd have critical systems go down. Avamar was excellent at managing snapshots as well as backing up my ESX environment.
DFSR. I needed a product that could handle that data, as well as do client side deduplication and compression.
Veeam, as well as some other VM backup solutions, were horrible at managing their own snapshots. If I wasn't on top of them, there was a good chance we'd have critical systems go down. Avamar was excellent at managing snapshots as well as backing up my ESX environment.