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BDRShield

Score6.9 out of 10

101 Reviews and Ratings

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What is BDRShield?

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.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

Encryption
Multiple recovery options
Reports
Retention
Scheduling
VM Selection

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features BDRShield has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 101 ratings of BDRShield's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Universal recovery

    Universal recovery is the ability to restore backups to any machine regardless of the platform

    Category average: 9

  • Recovery verification

    Recovery verification is automated testing and verification of backups

    Category average: 8.7

  • Deduplication and file compression

    Integrated deduplication and compression capabilities

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Management dashboard

    Web-based dashboard allowing configuration and monitoring of all backups

    Category average: 8.9

  • Business application protection

    Protection of all applications running in the data center

    Category average: 8.5

  • Backup to the cloud

    Ability to store and back up data to the cloud

    Category average: 8.5

Reviews

What users are saying about BDRShield.
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BDRSuite Backup & Replication - Vembu Backup

Incentivized
Luiz Eduardo GarciaView profile
System Administrator in Information Technology at JET e-business (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the BDRSuite Backup & Replication Vembu Backup to protect our virtualized environment in a clustered Hyper-V setup. In our experience, the software's restoration options are very poor and not intuitive. Some restorations have never been completed, despite running for many hours. File restoration on an NFS simply does not even open the protected content. For us, backup jobs are slow and fail to complete most of the time. In our experience, the space used by the generated backups consumes a lot of space, and the cleanup of old data does not happen most of the time, requiring manual deletion - which is also very difficult to do. I do not recommend using this tool.

Pros

  • Interface for initial configuration is intuitive
  • Backup job configuration and scheduling is easy
  • Admin interface is web-based

Cons

  • Backup restore need some improvement
  • Old data management need serious atention
  • Windows based cluster are not easy to setup

Return on Investment

  • Negative ROI
  • When we needed, no restoration even finish
  • After uninstallation, old data remains on VM folder

Usability

Other Software Used

Veeam Data Platform, Hornetsecurity VM Backup, NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Easy to Use and great Support

Incentivized
Ron Redmond
Project Manager in Product Management at Protect-IP Global Solutions (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have this software to back up our VM servers. VMs are not easy to manage and having this software helps.

Pros

  • Backs up VM Servers
  • Easy to use
  • Fantastic Support
  • Solid software
  • We are able to call and get support super fast

Cons

  • The software once used is manageable, but takes a little to get there. There are so many settings
  • Pricing could be a little lower

Return on Investment

  • The ROI is great as if data is lost we all lose

Usability

Other Software Used

BDRCloud Backup & Recovery

BDRSuite is helpful to backup and recover our virtual servers

Incentivized
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have about 20 virtual machines on about several ESXi 7 host server. Every day We use Vembu BDRSuite to backup virtual machines from hosts to offsite USB disk connected to Vembu server, all the virtual machines are replicated daily to other ESXi 7 hosts. Sometimes virtual machine is defective, we will recover immediately by turn on replication VM or restore from USB backup disk if we need history version.

Pros

  • Daily email report provides all necessary details of the tasks.
  • Scheduled Image Integrity Check confirmed backup data reliability.
  • I can easily allocate Vembu license between VMs on portal. It's useful when I just want to test some VMs.
  • BDRSuite has powerful reports to let me review task status from different direction.

Cons

  • On my BDRSuite server, some backup task reports couldn't show backup data size, then Vembu support solved it.
  • BDRSuite task name can't be changed once it's created. It's not convenient for us if the tasks content is changed.
  • I can't sort task name. For example, our backup task name is started by weekday names, if I want to check Monday tasks brief information, I need to use search box to find out, not able to sort Monday task together.

Return on Investment

  • License can be reused to production virtual machines
  • BDRSuite provide seconds level recovery when server is defective
  • BDRSuite is full featured on different environment and it save money

Usability

Other Software Used

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

All in one backup solution your company will need

Incentivized
Emre Dikici
System Administrator in Information Technology at Lattice Group Inc. (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We mainly use BDRSuite to backup ESXi VMs. Creating backup is very straightforward and recovering is easy with few clicks. Backups also consume very low space on the NAS storage. BDRSuite is the best option for all in one backup needs for our company. Also their pricing is very budget friendly compare to other costly Enterprise products.

Pros

  • Backup
  • Web Interface
  • Support multiple environments
  • Reasonable pricing

Cons

  • Having different section for managing old backups
  • Full backup and Incremental backup is a little bit challenging, should be more friendly setup
  • When I click on configured backup it should go to the list of backup history instead of its configuration.

Return on Investment

  • Budget friendly. BDRSuite pricing is very reasonable for small and mid size companies.
  • Provides all in one solution that you don't need any other backup solutions.
  • Best fit for disaster recovery.
  • It's not complicated solution you don't need to invest so much time to learn the product in and out.

Usability

Other Software Used

Iperius Backup

Vembu BDR Suite Review

Incentivized
Pawel Sokol
IT Administrator in Information Technology at Kontri Sp. z o.o. (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is just used for backup servers (virtual machines) running on VMware ESXi hosts.

Pros

  • Easy to use interface
  • Fast backup configuraion
  • Easy to use restore operation

Cons

  • Delete old backups
  • improve reports

Return on Investment

  • Great flexibility and RPO minimize business downtime

Usability

Other Software Used

Veeam Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Backup

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