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Vembu BDRSuite for my clients.
March 25, 2024

Vembu BDRSuite for my clients.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller

Overall Satisfaction with BDRSuite

I'll repeat- the product does a great job but, in my opinion, the user interfaces suck. I'm often left guessing what is going on in the background and navigating the interfaces is cryptic - maybe it's a language or translation issue. I need to give my clients better reports than stuff is backed up and restorable. With cleaner interfaces and more tools to evaluate the backups this could be a superior product. Then the licensing! In my opinion, the licensing model is worse than Microsoft and after three years it still is a mess. This needs to be fixed!
We are Cyber Security and Technology consultants. We are also partners/resellers of Vembu BDRSuite backup products. We use Vembu BDRSuite in our organization and four of our clients are using Vembu BDRSuite. Three of our clients need simplified disk-to-disk-to-cloud backups and one is using cloud M365.
  • Easy to install and configure
  • Backups are granular for easy recovery
  • Low resource overhead
  • User interface on the servers do not have enough tools to better monitor the systems and finding information is difficult.
  • User interface at portal is difficult to navigate and confusing
  • Support documentation is too generic and rarely answers my questions.
  • Licensing and acquisition. As a reseller and partner the licensing model is confusing and the portal interface to manage licensing should be scrapped and rebuilt. It is difficult to navigate and the available information is too vague.
  • Recently, communication with new channel contact. My previous contact was articulate and answered my questions.
  • Did I mention licensing? This is the most confusing and difficult process I've dealt with in 25 years. Makes Microsoft look simple.
  • Low cost as compared to other products/services
  • Simplified disaster recovery and deployment
  • Less time spent managing the backups
  • More time and energy wasted on the licensing and acquisition- BAD
  • We have a new channel contact - communication is very poor
After working enterprise and consumer grade products, this is a good entry level product for small businesses. Cost effective and mostly reliable. Recovery is simple so that end user clients can restore.
Primarily using physical and cloud services. Our clients have benefited because of multiple restorations of data that were quick and correct.
Yes we did. We researched: Carbonite, idrive, backblaze, wasabi, Acronis, crashplan, icloud, and others. Ultimately we recommend Vembu BDRSuite because it does disk-to-disk-to-cloud backups which gives my clients added protection.

Do you think BDRSuite delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with BDRSuite's feature set?

No

Did BDRSuite live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of BDRSuite go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy BDRSuite again?

Yes

This product is great for small businesses who need a cost effective, efficient, and simple method preserving data and disaster recovery for information this product does not provide more details on backups and of enough information to troubleshoot issues.

BDRSuite Feature Ratings

Data Center Backup
6.1
Instant recovery
4
Business application protection
5
Multiple backup destinations
7
Incremental backup identification
5
Backup to the cloud
8
Deduplication and file compression
8
Snapshots
6
Flexible deployment
7
Management dashboard
2
Platform support
8
Retention options
6
Encryption
7