Dell EMC Avamar

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 ...

Excellent Backup and Restore Product

What do you like best? I can restore virtual machines in their entirety. I can also restore on a file level. We also replicate to a secondary site. What do you dislike? Configuration is a little challenging. There’s a lot of places to configure, and associate objects. Recommendations to others considering the product It’s reliable. Make sure you check everything, since configuration can be difficult. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you ...

Back up and Restore tool

What do you like best? I like the simplicity on the tool and the option to back up multiple devices running different operating system. The way list of devices is showing gives you easy and fast access to it. you basically can do a restore by doing a couple of clicks. the new skin looks much better. What do you dislike? I don't like the fact you have to use a specific version of java depending on the version of EMC avamar that your running. if java gets updated you will need to uninstall ...

Wonderful Storage Solution!

What do you like best? While the EMC Avamar product itself is amazing, the support from the staff is where EMC really shines. Everything from the demos to the constant support for the product has been wonderful. What do you dislike? While lower than some other products on the market, I found that the was a little on the steep side, although for a company that requires a large storage solution, large budget often go hand in hand. What business problems are you solving with the product? ...

painless deployment and management with EMC avamar

What do you like best? painless deployment and management best product that uses variable-length deduplication technology fits right into all machine & data types, NAS (filedata, remote office, virtual environments(VM's, desktop\laptop, exchange and DB applications What do you dislike? the main down side is process or ability to to tape outs for long-term retention data, there is proper software that integrates\works smoothly with avamar for tapeouts datasets cost and limitation to ...

I love Avamar!!!! <3

What do you like best? Avamar is incredibly stable and fast. I backed up all of my physical and Virtual server with our grid and also replicated that to an off site grid. The Compression and Deduplications allowed for me to backup so much more data than what the system physically was provisioned with. What do you dislike? The way backups are setup is a little different. Once you are use to the process it is easy to setup new jobs. Upgrading the software on the Avamar could sometimes be a ...

Avamar

What do you like best? Dedup and replication - Was able to backup 8 Servers local including Exchange and 4 plant servers in 45 minutes. After successful backup we replicated that data to our secondary data center. What do you dislike? Upgrades were a little cumbersome. Ended up having EMC log in and take care of our upgrades. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Solid backups for an almost 24/7 automotive supplier.

excellent backup solution

What do you like best? Easy interface, tapeless, de-dupe, excellent tech support What do you dislike? nothing about it i dislike blah blah blah 40 chars nothing about it i dislike blah blah blah 40 chars nothing about it i dislike blah blah blah 40 chars What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Backups with varying retention requirementts

5 years of my experiance

What do you like best? Source De-dupe De-dupe Rates VM level Snapshot Backups WAN Backups Server footprint RTO & RPO What do you dislike? Missing Granular Level recovery (Exchange Public folder Database, Active Directory object level Problem in identifying exact backend size of clients. Not supporting old OS's comparability. Most of companies still use windows 2000, XP etc due to various issues and each Avamar production version is leaving out old OS. Other Backup tools like ...

Avamar is a great tool

What do you like best? I love the options for backup for specific software and operating systems. I can choose a different profile for virtual machines, linux, SQL, exchange etc. It is very easy to restore anything from 1 file or the entire snapshot. Restoring mailbox objects have been extremely useful. What do you dislike? Some basic tasks need to be done with command line - such as changing DNS and can be a bit challenging. Some error messages about batteries occur often but when shown ...