Avamar backup solution
December 10, 2018
Avamar backup solution
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Dell EMC Avamar
Avamar is our companies backup solution. We use it to backup all servers in the environment as well as Exchange mail and file servers. A good backup solution is necessary in order to resolve issues that range from accidentally deleted files to crypto viruses which have corrupted an entire operating system.
- Creation of retention policies which can be applied to multiple backup sets. This eases administration as you can apply the retention policy across the board.
- Creation of data sets which can then be added to backup policies.
- Ability to easily manage backups and restores.
- The system is a little complicated at first, getting to know the terminology is important as it will help to make you an efficient administrator of Avamar.
- RTO can be slow depending on what system you are using in the background and how much data you are moving.
- Avamar, as any backup solution that is properly implemented would, has saved our organization countless hours of work by being able to recover files accidentally deleted or moved. It has also helped us recover from crytpo locker situations by being able to restore over infected systems.
- The only negative is the relative slowness of recovery for exchange databases. When we had on-prem exchange and were required to complete a legal hold it would take days to recover and save the databases for the legal hold process. Now we're in O365 and it takes minutes using Microsoft Native legal hold process.
Avamar was already implemented in the organization when I started so I am unfamiliar what other solutions were evaluated.