VM Backup
About VM Backup
Altaro VM Backup is a virtual machine backup and replication solution for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware environments. The cloud-based application ensures business data is always secure with tools for automatic backup, WAN-optimized data replication, cloud storage management, continuous data protection (CDP), and more. Designed for IT departments, IT resellers and consultants, as well as managed service providers (MSPs), Altaro VM Backup provides robust, streamlined, enterprise-level functionality for backup, replication, and deduplication.
Data backup and replication can be managed within Altaro VM Backup through features including augmented inline deduplication to speed up backups, WAN-optimized replication to any remote site, continuous data protection (CDP) for more frequent data backups, and concurrency to facilitate more backups simultaneously. All backed-up VM versions can be booted from the backup location at any time in the case of a disaster, and individual files can be retrieved from VM backups in a few clicks. The Altaro VM Backup backup health monitor continuously tracks backup storage health to ensure data is available at all times, and any corruption is automatically repaired as part of the next backup.
Key benefits of VM Backup
• Manage backup of VMs with features including backup scheduling, continuous data protection (CDP), 3-2-1 backup, cloud backup to Azure, grandfather-father-son archiving (GFS), and more.
• Be prepared for any disasters or loss of data and instantly boot any VM version from backup logs, and utilize granular restoration of full VMS or individual files.
• Monitor and manage all Altaro VM Backup installations from one central dashboard, configure all backup jobs remotely, and queue or schedule backup jobs for later.
• Backup VMs from the Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware platforms within one single console, and backup, restore, or replicate multiple VMs at any one time.
• Replicate VMs using Altaro VM Backup’s WAN-optimized replication tool which allows users to replicate to a remote site continuously.
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- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Excelente VM Backup Software
Reviewed on 2022/08/02
We backup 6 hosts we over 40 VMs Onsite and offsite, and it works really well, no complains, also...
We backup 6 hosts we over 40 VMs Onsite and offsite, and it works really well, no complains, also it is a very goood way to test new environments by restoring backups from any server.
Pros
What I most like about it, is the pricing model per Host instead of VM, it is very similar to the competitor, but has better pricing, its easy to try before buying, it is super intuitive to set it up, you don't even need to read the how to documentation, because is is really easy to use.
Cons
Some times the Altaro Services drops or Backups stops working (don't understand exactly why) SO You have to contact support (that is excellent and immediate) to solve it. This is the only reason we have been paying for the continuous support.
- Industry: Computer Networking
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
It really does what it says on the Tin!
Reviewed on 2020/01/22
The whole experience wrapped up is just - Good!! We had a situation causing us to move away from...
The whole experience wrapped up is just - Good!! We had a situation causing us to move away from another backup vendor due to issues (not being able to depend on a backup to simply do its job causes sleepless nights after a while). We installed Altaro VM Backup, configured it - all in 15 minutes, including set-up of the email alerts and left it for the evening. Next day - Emails are usually our first encounter as to what occurred overnight - They were all Green! Seriously - a big wow from us! 7 Virtual Machines all backed up successfully and in a time window that seriously made me look twice. The compression and the speed of backups - wow!
Pros
I have a few things I like - but the most nicest thing: The user interface on Altaro product always seems so simple, and logical. Being in IT support, I dread those times when it takes 20 minutes to work out the GUI or interface to try and restore a file or check a backup log.
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OK - Not being funny - I'll have to come back to this question, because I struggle to think of something I really don't like right now.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10
Poor Support and issues with disk space
Reviewed on 2019/03/08
We use Altaro to backup our hosts with hundreds of VMs. We are now migrating to a different...
We use Altaro to backup our hosts with hundreds of VMs. We are now migrating to a different plataform, due to the lack of support to ReFS and the other limitations stated above.
Pros
Easy of use. It take some time to learn the software schema, but after that, it is very easy to use on the day to day experience.
Cons
Support is almos informal. There is a ticket number, but the follow up is poor. Chat is almost always offline. About disk space, the backups keep groing indefenitely, even if the VM has not much updates. The optimization tool to recover space does not work properly, takes too long to execute, while it runs, it blocks ALL backups funcionality and at the end there is almost no space freed. There is no limit for backup space per VM or per storage. You need to always keep following up the disk usage. There is no support for ReFS, what is a shame for a software that runs on Windows Servers and ReFS has been around for a while already.
Response from Hornetsecurity
We are sorry that your experience with our support team has not met our usual high standards. Our support team prides itself on the great feedback it receives from customers, so feedback like this really does stand out. We answer support calls within 22 seconds on average and follow up email tickets within 2 hours on average. Our customers have the option to use chat or phone for quicker responses, our chat is online 24 hours a day.
Do email [email protected] with more information about when you were dissatisfied, and we'll be glad to investigate further.
Your backup repository will grow only if the VM has new data - our deduplication and CBT make sure of that. Re the optimization tool, we are working on a better backup format that uses the freed-up space more efficiently. We're sharing your feedback about no limit for backup space as a feature request - thanks. Our recently launched `Mount Virtual Disk' option allows users to grab their backed up files from ReFS partitions.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Altaro offers complete protection and peace of mind.
Reviewed on 2022/08/01
Pros
The software is easy to use and fully automated. The continuous protection and replication features to an offsite server are included and fantastic. We are able to have complete system image backups to another location, all within Altaro.
Cons
Sometimes the error messages are not very helpful, but the support from altaro is great, and they are always on hand to assist if needed right from within the product.
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Much simpler to use and far more cost-effective.- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
7 years of Altaro in practice
Reviewed on 2022/07/12
Very quick and easy to install, after that all customer installations can be monitored, controlled...
Very quick and easy to install, after that all customer installations can be monitored, controlled and also updated centrally via a website, this saves us an extremely large amount of time when supporting our customer systems. If a problem really occurs, you can rely on the easily accessible support. We now only use Altaro, why should we pay more for other solutions without added value.
Pros
Very quick and easy to install, after that all customer installations can be monitored, controlled and also updated centrally via a website, this saves us an extremely large amount of time when supporting our customer systems. If a problem really occurs, you can rely on the easily accessible support. We now only use Altaro, why should we pay more for other solutions without added value.
Cons
The representation of the backup in the CMC could be better presented more clearly
VM Backup FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for VM Backup.Q. What type of pricing plans does VM Backup offer?
VM Backup offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$875.00/year
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Pricing varies depending on number of hosts, starting at €485 per host for one host using the standard edition. Contact Altaro for more information on pricing.
Q. Who are the typical users of VM Backup?
VM Backup has the following typical customers:
2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does VM Backup support?
VM Backup supports the following languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Q. Does VM Backup support mobile devices?
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Q. What other apps does VM Backup integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations VM Backup has
Q. What level of support does VM Backup offer?
VM Backup offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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