IDERA SQL Safe Backup Review
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using IDERA SQL Safe Backup couple of years new on MS-SQL clusters servers.
The the backup and restore process is cross data centers and cross countries for the QA and prod environment.
We are using the capability of logs, diff and full backups. In some cases with encryption and some without encryption.
Pros
- History visibility
- Very intuitive
- Easy to set up
Cons
- The UI are old
- Need to babysitter the system all the time
- Events not reflecting the reality
- The support is terrible, in my opinion
Likelihood to Recommend
It may be cheap but the system stuck in the 90's, the UI\UX are not as you will expected.
The alerts are not provide reliable evidence and human supervision is needed constantly.
The system not knowing how to backup automatically the secondary server in the availability group, you need to configure that explicitly.