Cost effective backup for a small/medium sized organization with room to grow as needed.
April 14, 2021
Cost effective backup for a small/medium sized organization with room to grow as needed.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Unitrends Backup Software
Overall Satisfaction with Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery
Unitrends is our primary backup and recovery system organization wide. It solved our problem of having a Virtual Machine focused backup solution to allow for rapid backups and long retention cycle. Ability to replicate to a 2nd offsite appliance as well as cold external based backups gave us the protection we needed. Quick restores were also highly desirable.
- Good deduplication across backups to allow for longer retention cycles needed for organization needs created by having lots of annual tasks.
- Cost effective Virtual Appliance option that included a license for a secondary target for replicating backups offsite.
- Rapid recovery of VMs is very simple and easy to accomplish.
- Initial installation support and ongoing technical support has been very effective.
- Had thought the version I purchased included the automated restore and service test functionality but it did not. Ensure you're getting the right version. This was not a deal breaker for me.
- Predictive Analysis for potential mass file modification could be improved to give better information on why it triggers. By itself the alert isn't very useful without a better way to analyze what triggered the alert.
- Emailed reports are a bit clunky to look at though they contain good information.
- Lack of Active Directory backup is disappointing and a feature that is a part of many competitors products.
- Have had failed VM instances where the quick recovery greatly improved our recovery process.
- Able to run multiple backups per day gives more confidence in our recovery.
- Likely due to power/internet instability at remote site we have had difficulty and thus time lost with our replication target. This has cost time recovering the target appliance.
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
Backup Exec had become extremely bloated and showed its origins in the tape world. While it implemented VM based backups it still felt like it was trying to fit an old product into a new market. Cost was also not on par with Unitrends.