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VM Backup
Virtual machine backup and replication for Hyper-V & VMware
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VM Backup product overview
What is 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.
Key benefits of using VM Backup
• 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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4.7
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Russ H.
Retail, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Meets our business needs perfectly. Highly recommend..
We use a layered approach to both Security and Data. Using a Hyper-v environment we have all our assets immediately available through an emergency Hyper-V replica server. Both the main and replica get backed up regularly using Altaro Backup. That is THREE extra levels of protection! Now the LATEST BEST edition they can give a FIFTH layer of another Replica Hyper-V/Altero Backup Server!
Licensing is a little bit of a pain point, no the cost, just how to maintain licenses.
Giuseppe M.
Insurance, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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This product has allowed us to implement local and offsite backups of our virtual machines (2) at a reasonable price. We often use the offsite backup to restore our VMs to a test server for testing of new application software upgrades and feature. This product has proved to be very useful for us.
As we are an SMB, this software has simplified the process of backing up our two Hyper-V Virtual Machines. It has also allowed us to copy the local backups to a private offsite server nightly for Disaster Recovery purposes.
Initially the Offsite Copy option would frequently fail due to communications problems between our main and remote backup servers. Since version 8.0 of this product we are no longer having this problem.
Greg L.
Health, Wellness and Fitness, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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It was a relatively cheap to purchase product but the unreliability and hours spent every week chasing down random issues made me very glad to move on
Easy to setup and the interface was well laid out and intuitive
We had unpredictable backups and strange issues especially around log truncation with our MS Exchange backups that Altaro support claimed they had a sev 1 case open with Microsoft for months. Might still be open but they never got it resolved for the 6 months it took from when I opened the support case with Altaro until we moved to a different backup solution. Restores were unreliable as well, we could get files back with decent reliability but the machine recoveries were seldom successful
Thanks for writing in. Unfortunately, this is an unusual Microsoft issue. While it will not affect many customers, we did of course immediately contact Microsoft Premier Support about it to provide a solution. Despite many follow-ups, we never received a resolution. We felt it was only right to share our findings on the matter and you can read more about it on our KnowledgeBase at https://help.altaro.com/support/solutions/articles/43000494988. We are sorry that we were unable to do more about this on our end and apologize for any inconvenience caused.
David D.
Hospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Overall a very good backup solution for a great price.
- Easy to deploy as an MSP - Support is more than excellent. Direct response and highly skilled technicians. - Easy of use
- More detailed error messaging - Endpoint backup to the VM Backup location. (This was promised in the early days of Altaro)
Mark R.
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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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.
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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