BDRSuite - A Great Solution for Hyper-V
November 10, 2023

BDRSuite - A Great Solution for Hyper-V

Kenneth Lombardo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review

Overall Satisfaction with BDRSuite

Robust in its offering. Sometimes, it's hard to find the feature you're looking for in the menus.
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 Server Hyper-V environment. BDRSuite backs up each of the VMs on each of my servers and sends me reports of its successes/failures daily. When an issue comes up and I can't resolve it personally - Vembu's technical support team is prompt to respond. Sometimes it takes longer than others for them to get to the bottom of an issue but they will stay on the case until the issue is resolved.
  • Backup my entire server and VMs in Hyper-V
  • Sync offsite to other remotely located servers
  • Provides backup reliability reports
  • Language barrier when dealing with issues
  • Time zone issues with support
  • Not all support agents are thoroughly trained and they need to escalate often
  • Neutral
  • I can say that I have never not been able to restore files - as needed
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.
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.

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

Do you think BDRSuite delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with BDRSuite's feature set?

Yes

Did BDRSuite live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of BDRSuite go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy BDRSuite again?

Yes

I use Vembu's BDRsuite exclusively for my Hyper-V servers for my clients. I have been with them for the past 5+ years and plan on continuing.

BDRSuite Feature Ratings

Universal recovery
10
Instant recovery
10
Recovery verification
10
Business application protection
Not Rated
Multiple backup destinations
10
Incremental backup identification
10
Backup to the cloud
Not Rated
Deduplication and file compression
10
Snapshots
Not Rated
Flexible deployment
Not Rated
Management dashboard
10
Platform support
9
Retention options
9
Encryption
Not Rated