We performed a comparison between Azure Backup and Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The fact that Azure Backup is integrated is one of its biggest advantages."
"First of all, you can schedule a backup for the client. You can schedule it as you like. You can also control the bandwidth, so the backup will not utilize. The internet will depend on the bandwidth."
"Azure Backup is good because it is entirely cloud-based, which means that you can be 99.9% sure that your backup is safe."
"The product is cost-effective compared to other vendors."
"It's easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Backup is the native backup capabilities."
"We are happy with this product and have not found any issues while using it."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Backup is its ease of use and good integration with other Azure services."
"The ease of use of the solution is its most valuable feature. The interface is also excellent."
"The most valuable feature of Altaro VM Backup is its ability to backup and restore various types of data, including Active Directory, application servers, and SQL Server databases."
"We frequently use the granular restore option for when our users accidentally delete files or to recover emails from mailboxes. We have found that to be a must-have feature and it comes with the solution at no extra cost."
"Reverse Delta is Altaro proprietary backup deduplication technology. With Reverse Delta, the latest version of a file is always made available in its entirety, not as a delta file."
"VM backup and the item level recovery are the most valuable features."
"We use the latest feature in Altaro called CDP (Continuous Data Protection) to back up our VMs as often as every five minutes. It allows us to make sure no data is accidentally deleted or overwritten."
"The CDP backup feature is very nice, as it allows you to take backups at high frequencies and with application consistency."
"The ability to test the backups without having to manually mount the VHDs after restore allows us to check the integrity of the backups."
"Azure lacks sufficient solutions for a particular scenario, we may need to resort to using third-party applications. In such cases, these applications can be employed to facilitate backup, replication, and the efficient utilization of internet connectivity and bandwidth. They enable us to effectively manage and transfer data while ensuring optimal utilization of network resources. However, it would be a benefit if we did not have to use third-party applications for these operations."
"The extensibility onto hybrid environments needs a bit of tweaking for those on-prem."
"Technical support can be slow to respond at times."
"There is a limitation of 99 files restores per day which means that we can't complete a huge file restore. We would like Azure to increase the number of the possible file restorations."
"The solution is still in its infancy; it's not a mature product yet."
"Azure Backup's licensing model is very challenging because it doesn't give a clear picture."
"The monitoring and tagging features could be improved."
"In Avamar, the file-based restores are very quick and fast, whereas, in Azure Backup, VM restore is super easy, but if I have to do a file or a folder restore, I have to mount the entire VM image. I have to wait for some time for it to be mounted, and then I have to go inside and then check the file and copy it somewhere. It's a bit of a manual process, whereas in Avamar, you can directly select a file and folder, and it'll recover with whatever permissions you want."
"If you look into the performance of a virtual machine and you look to the performance of the physical machine, the correlation between these is totally unclear."
"The cloud backup and VMware support (now available in the latest releases), could do with some improvement."
"Availability of physical server backup would be an added advantage."
"Backup speed and comparisons between versions used to be slow on big VMs but that was improved greatly later on."
"Stability."
"It would be nice to see a feature that backs up the host so that, in case of a server failure, an entire server could be restored all at once."
"The application could include a feature to install a set size of data, such as the ability to store a single application with all its registry information for easy transfer."
"Basically, how it works is that you have a single local drive, and then you have a cloud backup. It'd be nice if you could rotate the single local backup drive. As of now, you can't."
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Azure Backup is ranked 7th in Backup and Recovery with 51 reviews while Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is ranked 55th in Backup and Recovery with 29 reviews. Azure Backup is rated 7.8, while Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Backup writes "Straightforward to set up and manage and allows us to monitor all backups in one place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup writes "Offers a comprehensive feature set offered at a competitive price". Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup and Acronis Cyber Protect, whereas Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Datto Cloud Continuity and BDRSuite. See our Azure Backup vs. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup report.
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