I'm going to test Solarwinds Backup tonight, it sounds kind of good... After a day of testing: TAKE MY MONEY!
December 24, 2019
I'm going to test Solarwinds Backup tonight, it sounds kind of good... After a day of testing: TAKE MY MONEY!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Overall Satisfaction with Solarwinds Backup
We are currently using Solarwinds Backup for our own company-wide usage as well as for most of our clients. Internally, we are currently backing up two Windows Hypervisors with Windows 10, Windows Server, and Linux VMs in the backup job. We are using it in a similar fashion across all of our clients. If there is a Hypervisor at a client site we install it there, but we also have it deployed purely as a file-based backup solution as well.
- Backup Reporting: Email alerts, and a great, easy to read Dashboard with detailed error logs and an easy to search Solarwinds FAQ for a lot of them.
- Restores: So far I have restored files, full VMs, and VMs to other hardware, and so far it has not only been flawless, but so flexible that I can't imagine going back to any other software.
- My only major complaint is that we migrated some clients from the standalone Solarwinds Backup portal to our N-central Server. That part was great, but we have some backup only clients that we could not import. We wanted to move our N-central clients back to the standalone portal but that is apparently not something that can be done. We were told we would have to blow them out and start fresh. So the ability to migrate them back would be nice. But not necessary. Essentially we have a page in N-central right now where we can see all our MSP clients, and then a portal for some backup only clients. If we could do it again, we would not have moved them out of the standalone portal.
- I can't speak to every dollar and cent involved, but I can tell you that the daily task of checking backup status has changed from at least an hour just to check VEEAM and Windows Backup statuses for multiple clients, to checking two pages and then digging into any problems. So as far as productivity goes, it's been wonderful!
- Veeam Backup & Replication and Windows Server
So the live recovery of VEEAM is awfully nice, and it's GUI is laid out and easy to use. Windows Server Backup is about a bare-bones as it gets. It's been my experience that Solarwinds Backup just wins at every turn. It's fast, easy to deploy (well, if using N-central), and wonderfully easy to service and fix.
Do you think Cove Data Protection delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Cove Data Protection's feature set?
Yes
Did Cove Data Protection live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Cove Data Protection go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Cove Data Protection again?
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