Item: Unitrends
Rating: 9
Author: Andrew Moore

Overall Satisfaction with Unitrends

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Unitrends is being used to back up all of our servers and VM. We use Windows server 2012 R2 but still have a legacy windows server 2003 on a VM. It is being managed by myself and backs up everything in the district. The "business problem it addresses" is the risk of data loss or corruption that exists in any server environment.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Fast restoration and easy set up.
Fast backup.
Is based on lynx and therefor unlikely to be effected by a virus outbreak on a windows server environment.

Cons

It would be nice if it had more affordable ways of archiving.

Return on Investment

So far we have had no major data loss and so have not had to really put it to the test. We do use it for small recoveries due to accidental deletions and it works great for that.

Alternatives Considered

Evault

Evault is cloud based but rather expensive compared to Unitrends.

Likelihood to Recommend

More suited to medium or large companies but not micro startups.

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Jennifer Sipala
commented 9 years ago
Andrew, First, thanks for being a customer... and thank you for taking the time to post a review! We appreciate all the feedback you have provided. In regards to long term retention options, you may want to consider our new(ish) Forever Cloud offering. This allows you to store a set of daily, weekly and monthly backups and an infinite number of annual backups for one base price. You simply pay for the amount of protected data. Not only does this remove the burden of managing long-term retention, but also enables you to reduce capital expenses and operating costs by leveraging a hybrid cloud storage model.

Unitrends is a great backup solution.