There's a lot to be said for not having to worry about backup and recovery.
July 01, 2020
There's a lot to be said for not having to worry about backup and recovery.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery
Commvault is used across the whole organization to provide disaster recovery and operational support for Windows and several versions of UNIX and Linux. Operational support includes database refreshes and data migrations. As far as I am aware, we no longer use it for Archiving because of a disastrous mistake someone made when performing some cleanup in the GUI, which resulted in loss of data. Commvault and a Data Recovery company were unable to put Humpty Dumpty back together again, although they both tried very hard. The data structures on disk are just too complex, and the purpose of the cleanup was permanent deletion of some old data, so in that sense, it worked perfectly.
Pros
- Manages thousands of backups across multiple OS types and releases
- Provides an easy way to locate, view and restore the content of those backups.
- Permits distributed configuration and control through role-based user accounts
- Balances the workload against the backup infrastructure capabilities.
Cons
- The new "extent-based-backup" feature is potentially a huge win and Commvault advantage for sites with enormous files to back up (terabytes), but the assignment of extents to backup streams could use some optimization, and there should be some tuning tools for extent-based backups.
- It shouldn't be so hard to figure out how to get the GUI to use a larger font. The default font is extremely small and completely unsuitable for many of us with "Senior" in our titles.
- It should be trivial to clone an existing backup set or client configuration and then update just the unique bits.
- I am not privy to ROI, but just having confidence and trust that Commvault will back up whatever needs backing up, and that we will always be able to restore it quickly, allows our technical people to concentrate on the problem at hand, knowing that we do not have to worry about the safety of the data. This saves time for some very expensive human resources and shortens schedules by eliminating a whole class of data safety and disaster recovery issues.
I was not part of the decision to adopt Commvault, and having developed and used many other backup/recovery tools I was a little skeptical that it could do everything that we needed, but I can say that I'm glad that they chose Commvault. It has delivered even more than we had counted on.
Do you think Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI delivers good value for the price?
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Did Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI live up to sales and marketing promises?
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Would you buy Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI again?
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