Unitrends is a Great Platform!
October 25, 2016
Unitrends is a Great Platform!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliance
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.