Vembu BDR Free Edition
October 15, 2020

Vembu BDR Free Edition

Pantelis Verginadis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Vembu BDR Suite

As mentioned before, the issues with the management of the backup volume don't allow me to really recommend this product wholeheartedly.
Our organization is small, so Vembu BDR was used to back up all our server infrastructure but it was also used to back up some demo infrastructure that we used for product demonstration and training. Our infrastructure was all virtual using VMware's Vsphere. The main purpose was for backup and replication to recover in case we lost complete VMs or we needed to recover data that was lost from within a VM.

My main issue with Vembu and the reason why I wouldn't recommend it is because the way it manages the backup volume is complicated and difficult to use. In my case the backup volume was on a shared drive on our storage unit and at some point due to some issues unrelated to Vembu, it lost access to the volume; once remounted we could not use that volume any more and had to create a new one thereby having to redo all the backups.

There are other solutions, equally good that don't have such complications.

Pros

  • It is generally easy and straightforward to use
  • The performance was adequate

Cons

  • Management of the backup volumes
  • GUI interface
  • The positive impact is that it gives us peace of mind that our data is backed up.
  • The negative impact is the time consumed when we faced issues with the backup volume.
I would only recommend Vembu BDR if there was a problem with other solutions such as Veeam Backup & Replication. On its own, it's not a bad solution but the backup volume system is not very good.

BDRShield Feature Ratings

Universal recovery
8
Instant recovery
7
Recovery verification
7
Business application protection
1
Multiple backup destinations
1
Incremental backup identification
2
Backup to the cloud
1
Deduplication and file compression
1
Snapshots
7
Flexible deployment
1
Management dashboard
6
Platform support
8
Retention options
3
Encryption
7

Comments

  • Bhavani Shanmugam | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Thanks for your review. Regarding the feedback on managing backup volumes, If the volume is remounted with the same drive letter, it will be automatically identified by the BDR backup server and the backup jobs will continue as scheduled. I recommend you contact our support through vembu-support@vembu.com to assist you in resolving this issue.

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