Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.
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Is anyone using Unitrends to backup their infrastructure? I'm currently using Carbonite Business (formerly Evault). Carbonite has served me well overall, but it's expensive. My contract with Carbonite expires in a few months and I was researching other vendors. I looked at Veeam and Unitrends. Initially, Unitrends was going to be out of my price range, but they are now offering me free hardware to get me to switch before the end of the year. I'm leaning towards Unitrends now with all the end of the year incentives they are offering me. Anything I need to know about Unitrends, good or bad? If you are using Unitrends now, are you happy? I've gotten some feedback that the entire strategy hinges on the recovery appliance. This could be a problem if their turn around time is lacking to get a new box. I'm being told their is a 24hr turnaround in the event they need to send a new recovery appliance which is reasonable to me.
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It's been a few years since I've used Unitrends. We used the software with our own storage. Support was awesome back then. The product worked well.
This sounds super expensive though. There's nothing cheap about those appliances, even when it's "free."
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@magicmarker said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
Initially, Unitrends was going to be out of my price range, but they are now offering me free hardware to get me to switch before the end of the year.
This means it is still out of your price range.
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@JaredBusch said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@magicmarker said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
Initially, Unitrends was going to be out of my price range, but they are now offering me free hardware to get me to switch before the end of the year.
This means it is still out of your price range.
Yeah, when renewal time comes, you'll likely have to buy a new appliance meaning it will likely be outside your desired price range.
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As others have said Unitrends is likely out of your affordable range. To ask more questions, what kind of systems are you needing to protect and backup, how does your backup environment look today?
What functionality do you required?
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@Dashrender said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
Yeah, when renewal time comes, you'll likely have to buy a new appliance meaning it will likely be outside your desired price range.
Quickly looking at the promotion, he might even have to purchase 3+ years of support upfront. That alone would probably cover the cost of buying a better server from xbyte
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@magicmarker said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
Is anyone using Unitrends to backup their infrastructure?
We have multiple customers who use it.
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@JaredBusch said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@magicmarker said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
Initially, Unitrends was going to be out of my price range, but they are now offering me free hardware to get me to switch before the end of the year.
This means it is still out of your price range.
I agree. Use promotions to save money, but avoid promotions for decision making. Run your numbers with full prices, then use the deal to save more.
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Unitrends has been mostly good. The interfaces are old and still not fully updated. Managing it is middle of the road, not hard, but not as easy as some. It's got a good feature set overall. Works far better for Windows workloads than Linux.
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@DustinB3403 said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
As others have said Unitrends is likely out of your affordable range. To ask more questions, what kind of systems are you needing to protect and backup, how does your backup environment look today?
What functionality do you required?
What would be nice to have?I'm running VMware and backing up Windows VM's. Need the software to be MS SQL application aware. Would like a dashboard, like I currently have with Carbonite to view backup status and management of jobs. It would be nice to also have the ability to complete granular backup of AD. I know Unitrends currently does not support that granular AD backup. I don't need any fancy retentions. I'm happy with 30 day daily retention (locally) and maybe 6-12 months monthly retentions.
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@magicmarker said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@DustinB3403 said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
As others have said Unitrends is likely out of your affordable range. To ask more questions, what kind of systems are you needing to protect and backup, how does your backup environment look today?
What functionality do you required?
What would be nice to have?I'm running VMware and backing up Windows VM's. Need the software to be MS SQL application aware. Would like a dashboard, like I currently have with Carbonite to view backup status and management of jobs. It would be nice to also have the ability to complete granular backup of AD. I know Unitrends currently does not support that granular AD backup. I don't need any fancy retentions. I'm happy with 30 day daily retention (locally) and maybe 6-12 months monthly retentions.
This sounds like Veeam would be a really good option then. Have you used it and found some issue or is it simply not an option for some reason?
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@bnrstnr said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@Dashrender said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
Yeah, when renewal time comes, you'll likely have to buy a new appliance meaning it will likely be outside your desired price range.
Quickly looking at the promotion, he might even have to purchase 3+ years of support upfront. That alone would probably cover the cost of buying a better server from xbyte
I'm not having to pay anything upfront. Unitrends has offered 36 months financing on all the line items. This is including Forever Cloud service and premium support. I'm also getting Unitrends Enterprise Plus. The free items include the hardware (10TB recovery appliance) and initial installation support which is normally a $2k line item. The monthly financing quoted is very affordable and will save me thousands per month from what I'm currently paying with Carbonite.
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@DustinB3403 said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@magicmarker said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@DustinB3403 said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
As others have said Unitrends is likely out of your affordable range. To ask more questions, what kind of systems are you needing to protect and backup, how does your backup environment look today?
What functionality do you required?
What would be nice to have?I'm running VMware and backing up Windows VM's. Need the software to be MS SQL application aware. Would like a dashboard, like I currently have with Carbonite to view backup status and management of jobs. It would be nice to also have the ability to complete granular backup of AD. I know Unitrends currently does not support that granular AD backup. I don't need any fancy retentions. I'm happy with 30 day daily retention (locally) and maybe 6-12 months monthly retentions.
This sounds like Veeam would be a really good option then. Have you used it and found some issue or is it simply not an option for some reason?
I should have mentioned that I want a cloud storage backup for disaster recovery as well. I've used Veeam before and know it's good software. I was just looking at all my options. Unitrends is coming in lower than Veeam for local and cloud storage. I priced out a Veeam cloud connect partner.
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@magicmarker said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@DustinB3403 said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@magicmarker said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@DustinB3403 said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
As others have said Unitrends is likely out of your affordable range. To ask more questions, what kind of systems are you needing to protect and backup, how does your backup environment look today?
What functionality do you required?
What would be nice to have?I'm running VMware and backing up Windows VM's. Need the software to be MS SQL application aware. Would like a dashboard, like I currently have with Carbonite to view backup status and management of jobs. It would be nice to also have the ability to complete granular backup of AD. I know Unitrends currently does not support that granular AD backup. I don't need any fancy retentions. I'm happy with 30 day daily retention (locally) and maybe 6-12 months monthly retentions.
This sounds like Veeam would be a really good option then. Have you used it and found some issue or is it simply not an option for some reason?
I should have mentioned that I want a cloud storage backup for disaster recovery as well. I've used Veeam before and know it's good software. I was just looking at all my options. Unitrends is coming in lower than Veeam for local and cloud storage. I priced out a Veeam cloud connect partner.
So you want your appliance and cloud storage provider to be the same company?
Seems like a lot of tie in. What if you don't want to use the backup appliance any longer, but want to use the cloud or vice versa?
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@magicmarker said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@DustinB3403 said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@magicmarker said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@DustinB3403 said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
As others have said Unitrends is likely out of your affordable range. To ask more questions, what kind of systems are you needing to protect and backup, how does your backup environment look today?
What functionality do you required?
What would be nice to have?I'm running VMware and backing up Windows VM's. Need the software to be MS SQL application aware. Would like a dashboard, like I currently have with Carbonite to view backup status and management of jobs. It would be nice to also have the ability to complete granular backup of AD. I know Unitrends currently does not support that granular AD backup. I don't need any fancy retentions. I'm happy with 30 day daily retention (locally) and maybe 6-12 months monthly retentions.
This sounds like Veeam would be a really good option then. Have you used it and found some issue or is it simply not an option for some reason?
I should have mentioned that I want a cloud storage backup for disaster recovery as well. I've used Veeam before and know it's good software. I was just looking at all my options. Unitrends is coming in lower than Veeam for local and cloud storage. I priced out a Veeam cloud connect partner.
For the online storage, Wasabi or Backblaze B2. Wasabi is cheaper, but I haven't used it myself yet like have B2.
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@travisdh1 said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@magicmarker said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@DustinB3403 said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@magicmarker said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@DustinB3403 said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
As others have said Unitrends is likely out of your affordable range. To ask more questions, what kind of systems are you needing to protect and backup, how does your backup environment look today?
What functionality do you required?
What would be nice to have?I'm running VMware and backing up Windows VM's. Need the software to be MS SQL application aware. Would like a dashboard, like I currently have with Carbonite to view backup status and management of jobs. It would be nice to also have the ability to complete granular backup of AD. I know Unitrends currently does not support that granular AD backup. I don't need any fancy retentions. I'm happy with 30 day daily retention (locally) and maybe 6-12 months monthly retentions.
This sounds like Veeam would be a really good option then. Have you used it and found some issue or is it simply not an option for some reason?
I should have mentioned that I want a cloud storage backup for disaster recovery as well. I've used Veeam before and know it's good software. I was just looking at all my options. Unitrends is coming in lower than Veeam for local and cloud storage. I priced out a Veeam cloud connect partner.
For the online storage, Wasabi or Backblaze B2. Wasabi is cheaper, but I haven't used it myself yet like have B2.
B2 has come down, they are pretty close.
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@DustinB3403 said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
Seems like a lot of tie in. What if you don't want to use the backup appliance any longer, but want to use the cloud or vice versa?
Great point. This is the kind of insight I'm looking for.
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@scottalanmiller said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@travisdh1 said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@magicmarker said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@DustinB3403 said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@magicmarker said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@DustinB3403 said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
As others have said Unitrends is likely out of your affordable range. To ask more questions, what kind of systems are you needing to protect and backup, how does your backup environment look today?
What functionality do you required?
What would be nice to have?I'm running VMware and backing up Windows VM's. Need the software to be MS SQL application aware. Would like a dashboard, like I currently have with Carbonite to view backup status and management of jobs. It would be nice to also have the ability to complete granular backup of AD. I know Unitrends currently does not support that granular AD backup. I don't need any fancy retentions. I'm happy with 30 day daily retention (locally) and maybe 6-12 months monthly retentions.
This sounds like Veeam would be a really good option then. Have you used it and found some issue or is it simply not an option for some reason?
I should have mentioned that I want a cloud storage backup for disaster recovery as well. I've used Veeam before and know it's good software. I was just looking at all my options. Unitrends is coming in lower than Veeam for local and cloud storage. I priced out a Veeam cloud connect partner.
For the online storage, Wasabi or Backblaze B2. Wasabi is cheaper, but I haven't used it myself yet like have B2.
B2 has come down, they are pretty close.
@scottalanmiller said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@travisdh1 said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@magicmarker said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@DustinB3403 said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@magicmarker said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@DustinB3403 said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
As others have said Unitrends is likely out of your affordable range. To ask more questions, what kind of systems are you needing to protect and backup, how does your backup environment look today?
What functionality do you required?
What would be nice to have?I'm running VMware and backing up Windows VM's. Need the software to be MS SQL application aware. Would like a dashboard, like I currently have with Carbonite to view backup status and management of jobs. It would be nice to also have the ability to complete granular backup of AD. I know Unitrends currently does not support that granular AD backup. I don't need any fancy retentions. I'm happy with 30 day daily retention (locally) and maybe 6-12 months monthly retentions.
This sounds like Veeam would be a really good option then. Have you used it and found some issue or is it simply not an option for some reason?
I should have mentioned that I want a cloud storage backup for disaster recovery as well. I've used Veeam before and know it's good software. I was just looking at all my options. Unitrends is coming in lower than Veeam for local and cloud storage. I priced out a Veeam cloud connect partner.
For the online storage, Wasabi or Backblaze B2. Wasabi is cheaper, but I haven't used it myself yet like have B2.
B2 has come down, they are pretty close.
B2 is $0.005/GB storage per month and $0.01/gb download. So the price is about as cheap as I could expect for the amazing service they provide.
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@travisdh1 said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
For the online storage, Wasabi or Backblaze B2. Wasabi is cheaper, but I haven't used it myself yet like have B2.
Very familiar with Backblaze B2. I'm using it at home for my offsite backup. I was looking for a more polished integration with my backup software. This is why I looked at a Veeam cloud connect partner. Maybe I overlooked Backblaze integration with Veeam. I know Backblaze is nicely integrated with Cloudberry. How does that look on the Veeam side?
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@DustinB3403 said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
Seems like a lot of tie in. What if you don't want to use the backup appliance any longer, but want to use the cloud or vice versa?
Except backups themselves are tied to the backup solution.
You have to have Unitrends to read Unitrends backups stored anywehre. Cloud or not.
Same for Veeam.
