Dell EMC Avamar

Backups made simple

What do you like best? Reliable & safe, securely backs up our files without worry of "did they backup okay?" What do you dislike? Restoring files occasionally experience hiccups with file path. Recommendations to others considering the product Great backup solution What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Backing up system files.

Avamar

What do you like best? Scalability, ease of use. Runs on ded up location which is extremely efficient. Integrated with Data Domain backups are incredibly fast. What do you dislike? Not much I dislike but database compressed files and Avamar deduplication will create chaos in your environment. Recommendations to others considering the product N/A What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Disk backup eliminates the need for tape, restores ...

I've worked with Avamar for over 4 years delivering private/public and hybrid deployments.

What do you like best? Avamar is an Enterprise Grade Platform and we deliver it in a fairly unique way - utilising our own proprietary portal to make managing the backups simple and intuitive. It supports all major business critical applications and it's client side de-duplication ensures backups are completed well within backup windows. What do you dislike? On the rare occasions that you do encounter problems it can be a pretty painful process when dealing with EMC support which does ...

The only backups solution that is actually kind of fun to work with

What do you like best? Everything. I love the dedupe rates, the reduction in complexity, and the speed. I love the application specific plugins as well. The VMWare integration works very well. Support is incredible. It runs Linux on the back end, so you can overcome a lot of what would be shortcomings if you know what yo are doing. What do you dislike? The main things that come to mind are that sharepoint GLR doesnt come baked in. I also don't like that we need to be full SA on SQL to do ...

Avamar by itself is good, but press the turbo button and back it with DataDomain

What do you like best? Changed block tracking for file level restores from VM's is fantastic. Although setup is a bit complicated, if done properly you will be thankful for all the time you've spent. Don't even get me started on grouping sets of systems in a policy and then backing up by that policy... What do you dislike? I still struggle backing up windows clusters. It just seems that the software is not enterprise ready for cluster backups. There should be more data available when a ...

EMC Avamar is possibly the best backup software on the market.

What do you like best? Avamar is ideally suited for a large corporate environment, with many virtual servers, thousands of desk top systems, and many remote offices. It optimizes bandwidth, maximized storage utilization, and makes backup and recovery of these systems a breeze. What do you dislike? Avamar still struggles with very large Databases, and with clustered applications, such as SQL and Exchange. No single backup product can be effective at backing up every kind of data set. I'd ...

Involved in implementation and management for less than two years.

What do you like best? Moving to Avamar from Arc Serve, we decreased our backup times from days, sometimes more than a week, to hours / a couple of days. Restoring VM's is VERY easy. Avamar integrates so well with VMWare. Coupled with a Data Domain storage target this solution can ingest an unbelievable amount of data in a short period of time. What do you dislike? Restoring files. On a monthly basis we have to restore a few specific folders from several VM's. The folder restore is ...

Product worked very well, it is worth the money if you are an enterprise.

What do you like best? Image backups are seamless and you could easily restore files that are missing. The backup process never took long at all, because of deduplication. I like the user interface as well from EMC Avamar. It was relatively easy to use in comparison to EMC's other product NetWorker which primarily focused on tape backups. Avamar is a great piece of software you can look at and as long as you know the computer host names you are backing up you know exactly where everything ...

Long time Avamar user

What do you like best? I like the integration of the backup target with the client software. What do you dislike? Bare Metal Restore capabilities could be better. Recommendations to others considering the product Try it and you'll like it. Use the AVE (Avamar Virtual Edition leveraging VMware, and you can use any storage you want, and not have to rely on dedicated storage for your backup target. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? ...

EMC Avamar review

What do you like best? file system backups are very fast , always incremental , easy to administer , faster and simple BMR. easy to set up replication to DR . What do you dislike? cache file dependency , if any cache file got corrupted then the next will be full backup . virtual machine individual files restore limitation . during maintenance window only few backup can be run . Recommendations to others considering the product for filesystem backups , for BMR restore and managing is ...