BDRShield vs. N2WS Backup & Recovery

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BDRShield
Score 6.6 out of 10
N/A
Vembu BDR Suite is a universal backup solution catering to the backup, recovery, and disaster recovery needs of diverse IT environments. It is also optimized for service providers who deliver BaaS and DRaaS to their customers.
$12
per year per endpoint
N2WS Backup & Recovery
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
N2WS Backup & Recovery is a lightweight tool built to integrate into any enterprise AWS environment.
$199
per month
Pricing
BDRShieldN2WS Backup & Recovery
Editions & Modules
Endpoint / Workstation Backup
$12
per year per endpoint
SaaS Backup
$12
per year per user
VMs, Servers & Cloud Backup
$48
per year per VM
Apps & DB Backup
$72
per year Apps
Basic
$199
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BDRShieldN2WS Backup & Recovery
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
BDRShield
9.6
Ratings
12% above category average
N2WS Backup & Recovery
8.6
Ratings
1% above category average
Universal recovery9.90 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Instant recovery9.60 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Recovery verification9.90 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Business application protection9.10 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations9.60 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification9.60 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud8.50 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression9.80 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Snapshots9.70 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Flexible deployment9.70 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Management dashboard9.50 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Platform support9.40 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Retention options9.80 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Encryption9.80 Ratings8.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
BDRShieldN2WS Backup & Recovery
Likelihood to Recommend
6.6
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
6.6
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BDRShieldN2WS Backup & Recovery
Likelihood to Recommend
First of all Web UI makes it so much easier to manage, with few clicks you can schedule a backup, you can see the progress and you can instantly recover it. There is a multiple environment support which is great for hybrid environments. Pricing is more reasonable than other high priced backup solutions
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N2WS Backup & Recovery is well suited for backing up aws and aws related services and workloads. The backup management is very easier using N2WS backup and recovery, restores are also fast and N2WS Backup & Recovery provides option to restore to different regions as well and that helps in Disaster recovery kind of testing scenarios
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Pros
  • Bare metal system images. These are incredibly flexible, enabling you to do dissimilar hardware restores, local or online backups and restore to VHD
  • Full, differential and transaction log backups for SQL server, ensuring rapid backup and restore, with maximum storage efficiency.
  • Incremental backups for files, meaning only the changes which have been made to a file are backed up, dramatically reducing time to backup and increasing storage efficiency.
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  • Faster Backup
  • Faster restores
  • Easier BackupManagement
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Cons
  • User interface on the servers do not have enough tools to better monitor the systems and finding information is difficult.
  • User interface at portal is difficult to navigate and confusing
  • Support documentation is too generic and rarely answers my questions.
  • Licensing and acquisition. As a reseller and partner the licensing model is confusing and the portal interface to manage licensing should be scrapped and rebuilt. It is difficult to navigate and the available information is too vague.
  • Recently, communication with new channel contact. My previous contact was articulate and answered my questions.
  • Did I mention licensing? This is the most confusing and difficult process I've dealt with in 25 years. Makes Microsoft look simple.
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  • GUI can be improved
  • Physical and Vmware servers backup
  • Complexity of permissions
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Likelihood to Renew
I think the product will remain useful for us and as the company keeps improving features it will continue to be relevant and useful. We don't like switching technology much and BDR solutions shouldn't be something that a company replaces every few years., that's why most likely we will keep using it.
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Usability
As outlined in are parts of this review, I have various issues with the way their KB center is structured and how error codes aren't documented or KBs for a specific error provide steps for older versions of the software and aren't applicable to the current version because of a design layout change. "Go here and select Y" where the "here" has been removed and doesn't exist anymore. Or they release a new version without any supporting documentation even though they restructured a lot of the interface and updated the error messages.
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Support Rating
It often takes a very long time to get an issue fixed. the support folks seem committed to getting it fixed but they often seem to be trying different things and hoping something works. I did not get the sense that they had a clear idea what was wrong.
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Implementation Rating
Overall the implementation was not complicated. The linux version installation is rather easy step by step process. It's just when you do something for the first time, it always take a bit longer because it's new and you just need to be more focused to configure everything properly
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Alternatives Considered
I tested Vembu against Veeam and for the price, Vembu was the better option. I also had a great support experience as I had to contact Vembu twice after mistakes I made. While using Veeam the software was not as intuitive and support responses were not as swift and accurate.
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For AWS based workloads N2WS Backup & Recovery suited best comparing the features and compatibility from the compared applications for backup testing. N2WS Backup & Recovery implementation is also faster and easy to setup. Restores is faster and also provided options to recover to different regions which is not available with the other backup applications at a easy level
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Return on Investment
  • Backups complete quickly each night saving me time from always having to modify client backups to fit within their backup windows.
  • Money: We are saving hundreds of dollars per year for us and our clients by switching to this product.
  • I no longer spend significant time managing backups, checking their status, etc. Alerts are consistent and warn me if there's a problem. It just works. I rarely have to touch it other than when I do random restore tests (as I do with any backup product) and the instant recovery feature works well for that.
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  • Easier management
  • Faster restores
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ScreenShots

BDRShield Screenshots

Screenshot of EncryptionScreenshot of Multiple recovery optionsScreenshot of ReportsScreenshot of RetentionScreenshot of SchedulingScreenshot of VM Selection