Item: Unitrends
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliance

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Unitrends appliance we have onsite is used for enterprise-wide backup, archival and restore purposes. It allows for incredibly fast restore of files that have been accidentally overwritten or corrupted.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Backup to tape works flawlessly.
Restore within the backup calendar window is quick and painless.
I appreciate the ability to mount a backed-up partition and browse it like a current drive.

Cons

The Flash-based interface is archaic and slow (although I believe this will be remedied with new hardware/firmware).
The job queue is basic and not very informative.
Resolving failures are difficult to track and diagnose.

Return on Investment

We have used it extensively in recovering accidentally overwritten files.
We have also used it extensively in recovering accidentally deleted files.
We were able to use our existing tape hardware to continue our disk-to-tape archival process.

Alternatives Considered

I have not used any other hardware platform, but I have used several other backup software solutions... it is very beneficial to have a dedicated piece of hardware to store backups, orchestrate archives, and write off to tape.

Likelihood to Recommend

I believe the small/medium business environment (<20 servers) is appropriate for the appliance size we have. The bland design of the interface would make managing an entire enterprise of backups a bit confusing and horrendous. We've had very few issues with the appliance itself, although troubleshooting failing backups was a bit cumbersome.

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Unitrends is a Great Platform!