Dell EMC Avamar

Is a simple solution to perform online backups. It does files and folders, which also allows to select which specific data sets to choose to control how much data you would like to send to the cloud. Also, it has many different types of plugins, to make it easy to backup different types of files and help make the deduplication efficient. The rest of the application is mostly user friendly and it makes it easy to perform restores, create users and monitor the servers activities. The Avamar client is easy to install and set up to backup.

The application is not secure enough to be compliant. It does have basic encryption for the transfer of the backups but it doesn't allow to encrypt the backups itself to make them more secure. The creation of users is very simple, doesn't have password restrictions and doesn't have strong user profiles that can allow to restrict the access based on specific options. The management of the application is not cloud, it requires to install Java and a Console to access the settings and perform restores. Is not intuitive to configure the datasets, schedules, alerts, among other things. You have to go to different options to finish the configuration of these features. And lastly, the software requires to have a proprietary hardware for the cloud always up to date on the generation, otherwise it could easily reach its end of life in several years, which would require a new big investment, which makes it an expensive.

This is useful to consider when the needs to transfer data are very specific and you just need to do simple files and folders to the cloud. But if there's a need for business continuity might be best to search for a different tool.

It is a simple tool that allows to backup specific information, only files and folders, and it does a good job with deduplication. That flexibility makes it easy to set up and inexpensive for our customers, because they can control the amount of data they send to the cloud and what they pay.

Well we used to have this solution implemented for backups of physical and virtual servers for data around the 2TB of size. For this requirements this is a good solution. It is a appliance so the solution is pre-configure and with a fix sized of data for every data node you added. I like the most is that with just install the agent you can rapidly start backup jobs and the deduplication features are good for to backups on average 2 x the data.

The solution works good and the admin gui is simple. You can be asure that when you grow the solution, you will get both processor and capacity , so the performance stay almost the same.

Ok the solution is sell as a appliance so there is a downside to this. When you need more capacity over the years you cannot add newer storage nodes that have more capacity or better processor power. You are stuck with the data node generation that you first bought. So this is a a drawback. We where growing raplidly with the backup needs and it turns out that for data over 2TB of size, it doesn't perform very well. So the solution are for small and medium business size.

You can use EMC Avamar for your backup needs that are target at small to medium business. If you are planning to grow quickly say backup sizes over 2TB, you can look at EMC data domain. But for backup sizes under the 2TB mark. it is a good solution and the implementation is really easy. It is a good product and easy to administer.

We started to do backup from some virtual environments and some physical servers that were not big databases. Also we used it to backup end point. mainly critical data from staff members. The backups perform well and the agents you install works instantly. The restore process also is simple to use.

performance can't be beaten, especially when teamed up with other EMC products

UI feels like something I wrote in the 80's. installation is stupidly complex

devote plenty of time to deployment

BCP and small windows were problematic. These went away once the products was installed... but it took a long time to get there.

Integration with Data Domain is the best way to use it.

The interface and reporting is terrible. It is also too expensive.

Backups and data availability.

I can restore virtual machines in their entirety. I can also restore on a file level. We also replicate to a secondary site.

Configuration is a little challenging. There’s a lot of places to configure, and associate objects.

It’s reliable. Make sure you check everything, since configuration can be difficult.

Virtual machine backups and site replication

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.

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 it and re-install the version compatible with EMC avamar.

I recommended, but make sure you have a good agreement in terms of support.

Able to restore files that users deleted by accident. The benefit is that you have a reliable back up.

Reliable & safe, securely backs up our files without worry of "did they backup okay?"

Restoring files occasionally experience hiccups with file path.

Great backup solution

Backing up system files.

The delete ratio is higher than other backup devices.

The management is easy but the underlying algorithm is not open source.

The restore speed is fast.

You can not expand the storage of avamar. If the storage reach the capacity, the only way is to buy another avamar or clean some less important backup.

If the amount of data is not quite huge and most of the data is almost the same, you can try to use avamar which is easy to set up and manage.

For Oracle database dump files backup and restore.

Easy management of Oracle database backups, you can design several policies for different backups to apply.

Scalability, ease of use. Runs on ded up location which is extremely efficient. Integrated with Data Domain backups are incredibly fast.

Not much I dislike but database compressed files and Avamar deduplication will create chaos in your environment.

N/A

Disk backup eliminates the need for tape, restores are relatively simple. Protecting all the data is a plus.

It gets the job done once it is setup properly

Product interface is severely lacking and makes backup more complicated than it has to be

Be sure to have a full time resource dedicated to the product

Backing up and restoring data