To Unitrends or not
Updated October 07, 2015
To Unitrends or not
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
8.2.0-7
Overall Satisfaction with Unitrends
We use our Unitrends Recovery-822 to backup our dev environment as well as our physical servers that are not virtualized. Backups are easy to set up and manage.
- Customer Support - Their chat feature is great and their support staff is very knowledgeable in all aspects regarding SQL and servers.
- Compression & Deduplication - Appliance has compression and native dedupe built in.
- You can backup ANYTHING - VMware/Hyper-V as well as physical servers.
- Appliance can be expensive depending on how much storage space you need.
- Agents have to be installed manually, as automatic agent upgrade stopped as of Server 2012R2. This makes the upgrade very tedious when you have over 100 servers. *As of the latest version, agents on Server 2012R2 can be upgraded via the web GUI*
- It took almost a year for SQL 2014 support to be introduced. This was unacceptable, as SQL 2014 beta came out long before that.
- Positive ROI would be just knowing that our data is backed up and secure in multiple places - appliance and backup to cloud.
- Veeam Backup & Replication
We use Veeam for our production backups. It was much cheaper for ~30TB of space. There are no agents to install with VEEAM and it was super easy to set up. Unitrends became our secondary backup once VEEAM was implemented. We are 98% virtualized in our environment, so VEEAM was the cheaper solution.