Unitrends Recovery Series Backup measures up!
May 03, 2017
Unitrends Recovery Series Backup measures up!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliance
Our entire environment is virtualized. We use both file-based backup and snapshot backups to protect our VMs. Unitrends provides a backup to disk. It also replicates to a remote appliance so you have offsite protection. We've added an RXDA unit to do archiving and add longer retention than can fit on the size hardware we have.
- Awesome Tech Support! I was new to Unitrends and they went over the environment and fixed some serious setup issues and made sure everything backed up correctly!
- I was researching a larger appliance to increase the size of data I backup. I needed to compare other vendors as well. Unitrends was a lower cost than other appliances I researched in the market.
- Clear reporting to make it easier to sleep at night!
- Only feature I can think to add is one I saw in a competitor Datto, being able to run the VMs on the appliance without using an ESXI host. Unitrends can do instant recovery and run the files on itself but you need a working ESXI host to connect to.
- We've been lucky and not having to need to recover much. Backups are an insurance policy. You only realize it when you need it.
- In quoting out other backup appliances we get more storage for lower cost on Unitrends.
We compared Unitrends to Datto. Datto has a hypervisor and the ability to run VMware VMs locally on their appliance for disaster recovery. Unitrends has the ability to do an instant recovery which runs off their appliance for storage but you have to have an ESXi host for CPU and RAM. Datto has some nice features but cost is quite more expensive for a Datto. We're going to stick with Unitrends as we grow our data size.