Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery Review
March 11, 2021

Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Unitrends Forever Cloud
  • Unitrends Backup Software
  • Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliance

Overall Satisfaction with Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery

We are backing up key desktops, Hyper-V Hosts and Virtual Servers across multiple sites. These backup to a local NAS and replicate the data to a central appliance located at Head Office. The Head Office appliance backs up to local storage and then replicates key servers to the cloud for DR. This gives us both quick local recovery if needed and a DR solution.
  • Reliability.
  • Single pane of glass for management.
  • Quick support.
  • Updating virtual appliances.
  • Updating agents.
  • Reporting to GUI when there are issues.
  • Reliability - Backups should be set and forget.
  • Allowed me to focus on other IT tasks than constantly managing a backup solution.
  • Offers a solution for O365 backup also but we have not leveraged this as yet.

Do you think Unitrends delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Unitrends's feature set?

Yes

Did Unitrends live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Unitrends go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Unitrends again?

Yes

I have not re-visited Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery for a few years, so the comparison is hard against current offerings. However, when looking at feature set and price, I believe Unitrends is competitive. Once invested in initial licensing/hardware maintenance is relatively cost-effective.

Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery as a cloud backup solution for Cloud services, that although I have not leveraged yet is on the radar for review, it will allow consolidation of all backups that we currently perform.
Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery has performed well for us across multiple sites offering both Virtual appliances and Physical appliances, We only use for physical backup and Virtual Servers, using an agent therefore not using Hyper Visor backup, so can't comment [on] that.

I would recommend this be part of any IT Manager's review process for backup options.

Unitrends Feature Ratings

Universal recovery
Not Rated
Instant recovery
Not Rated
Recovery verification
Not Rated
Business application protection
7
Multiple backup destinations
8
Incremental backup identification
8
Backup to the cloud
8
Deduplication and file compression
8
Snapshots
Not Rated