BDRSuite Backup & Replication - Vembu Backup
January 03, 2025

BDRSuite Backup & Replication - Vembu Backup

Luiz Eduardo Garcia | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with BDRSuite Backup & Replication

I do not recommend it simplely becouse it does not work form us. The overall usability is kind of nice, but need much more improvements. Features as Windows based cluster initial configuration are very confused and not intuitive. Restore job needs to work.
We use the BDRSuite Backup & Replication Vembu Backup to protect our virtualized environment in a clustered Hyper-V setup. In our experience, the software's restoration options are very poor and not intuitive. Some restorations have never been completed, despite running for many hours. File restoration on an NFS simply does not even open the protected content. For us, backup jobs are slow and fail to complete most of the time. In our experience, the space used by the generated backups consumes a lot of space, and the cleanup of old data does not happen most of the time, requiring manual deletion - which is also very difficult to do. I do not recommend using this tool.

Pros

  • Interface for initial configuration is intuitive
  • Backup job configuration and scheduling is easy
  • Admin interface is web-based

Cons

  • Backup restore need some improvement
  • Old data management need serious atention
  • Windows based cluster are not easy to setup
  • Negative ROI
  • When we needed, no restoration even finish
  • After uninstallation, old data remains on VM folder

Do you think BDRShield delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with BDRShield's feature set?

No

Did BDRShield live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of BDRShield go as expected?

No

Would you buy BDRShield again?

No

For us, on a Hyper-V cluster enviroment, BDRSuite Backup & Replication never worked, so we've abandoned it. Restore of protected data never worked, old data management need serious atention, speed of backup jobs need improvements, NFS retoration fails on simple display content to choose what to recover, cluster protection is absent. I do not recommend it.

BDRShield Feature Ratings

Recovery verification
Not Rated
Business application protection
Not Rated
Multiple backup destinations
Not Rated
Incremental backup identification
Not Rated
Backup to the cloud
Not Rated
Snapshots
Not Rated
Flexible deployment
Not Rated
Management dashboard
Not Rated
Platform support
Not Rated
Retention options
Not Rated
Encryption
Not Rated

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