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Quest Rapid Recovery vs Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] comparison

 

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Quest Rapid Recovery
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (29th)
Veeam Agent for Microsoft W...
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
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Featured Reviews

Adam Augustín - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 15, 2024
Granular recovery, replication is good and offers good speed
It is for any kind of company that uses their own servers. From a global perspective, our clients are small-sized companies. All the SMEs, compared to the Slovakian market, are quite small. It's a small market with small companies. They just want to enhance security and follow regulations It's…
Muhammad Ibtehaj - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 1, 2023
Easy to use and mange with reasonable pricing
It's not a big use case. It's just to install and back up the users.  I recently had a project with a client with 500 users, and they wanted the client to back up from a specific folder or a specific file. I just deployed a backup portal, and then I pushed the agent on the client. I discover it, I…

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The general backup for replication and virtual standby are the most valuable aspects. It does what it says it does. It's a decent tool for not a big budget."
"The best feature of the solution is the user interface."
"The fact that it can take a snapshot of everything on a server and replicate it on another server in real-time is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Quest Rapid Recovery for our organization is the VM recovery functionality."
"The local mount utility is most valuable. I do restores fairly regularly. Thankfully, I have not ever lost an entire server that I've had to resurrect, but I certainly have people who erroneously saved over a file or have deleted a file. So, we've done that quite a bit. We still have the DL4000 appliance, and we had, kind of, extrapolated that out over a five-year period. Now, we're in year six, so we had to add storage, which we did as a SAN next to DL4000, but prior to adding in that extra storage, we, here and there, would run into situations where for whatever reason, it would want to be pulling a new base image, and then we would run out of storage. So, we would utilize the archive feature and archive the old data that we want to hang on to, but we don't necessarily need it taking up current data storage. Being able to export out really old data is most valuable to us. Then, we just store that on a NAS that we keep in another building."
"Probably the point-in-time recovery is most valuable. The other piece that is really nice is that you can mount a whole server at any point in time. So, you can mount the server with all the drives to a Z drive or something like that. It will just mount it all up, and your data is accessible right there on one drive, which is nice."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is its ability to back up a physical server to another physical or virtual server."
"Just knowing that the data is easily recoverable is our ROI. It definitely lowers risk."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to navigate inside a backup point to look for a specific folder or data you want to recover."
"The Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is easy to use and performing a recovery is easy to do."
"This is a reliable system that supports Veeam backup and recovery for Windows."
"Veeam is very useful for the Hyper-V environment."
"Solution provides good security."
"The most valuable feature is that it's a VMware environment."
"It is a stable solution."
"It is good and easy to use for backing up physical servers. It is working fine, and it is stable and scalable."
 

Cons

"One area where Quest Rapid Recovery has room for improvement is in the handling of snapshots on Hyper-V."
"In terms of what needs improvement in Quest Rapid Recovery, though the solution is seamless, right now, they are just giving the software which means we'll need to arrange the hardware. If they can combine the appliance and software, that would be a great approach. In the next release of Quest Rapid Recovery, it would be great if they'd add a folder backup feature because only a snapshot backup feature is available at the moment."
"I think the self-paced learning and knowledge base can always be improved so that users can self-service without having to contact either a reseller or Quest. I know there are things that I would have been looking for to try and solve. And the only way I could get there was to actually open a ticket rather than go through self-service through the portal."
"The initial setup can be tricky, and if not done right, the whole solution needs to be reinstalled."
"Sometimes, when we have certain batches for Windows, it needs to be restarted. When it's restarted, the service is configured as a delayed start. Sometimes, you need to wait too long until it rights itself, or you have to do it manually."
"You can only take a snapshot from a virtual environment. It should have the ability to take snapshots from both a virtual and physical environment."
"Rapid Recovery can only backup the machine or disc, but it can't back up from folders, and files, and things like that."
"For the most part, it is really good in terms of flexibility and choice of recovery methods. What we found lacking was being able to back up virtual volumes that are clustered. We ran out of luck there. There should be an option for backing up clustered virtual volumes."
"There isn't really anything I would like to improve. Maybe the solution could be more secure."
"It is not always easy to update this solution to the newer version, so the update process needs to be improved."
"Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows should improve by having more features, easier deployment, and compatibility with Unix boxes."
"I would like there to be more integration with other platforms."
"They should improve the solution's automation features."
"The backups can go slow."
"With the currency exchange, the solution ends up being quite expensive."
"It fulfills our needs in terms of features. In terms of improvements, they can maybe improve its documentation."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's very expensive which is why I want to drop it. They charge us per core and we have a six-core server. It's expensive to pay for maintenance charges. I want to switch to something cheaper."
"It is a little expensive. However, I haven't compared it to other solutions. Being a nonprofit, it is always good to have nonprofit discounts on products."
"Licensing fees are based on the amount of data that you want to store, which is related to how many customers you want to cover."
"Its price is okay. It is reasonable in terms of the way it works."
"When I purchased the change to the license, it was $1,600. I think that was for changing the license. I don't believe that I had to purchase technical support in a while, so I must've bought maybe for five years, but I don't feel there was a huge cost involved in technical support. Its cost was definitely worth it because we've had a fantastic experience with them."
"The pricing is on the higher end."
"I'm not aware of the exact cost of Quest Rapid Recovery because I'm from the technical team, but in general, the solution is quite competitive cost-wise."
"I don't think the licensing for the product is very expensive."
"We have a license package."
"We have the Community Edition and I believe we bought a license for 200 instances. Veeam Agent is mainly used for our branch offices. Those only have one or two Hyper-V servers, so it's covered with the Community Edition. Basically, it's free. I remember Veeam 7.0 or 8.0 wasn't free, but the Community Edition is."
"The licensing fees are billed on a yearly basis, and the fees are much lower than what I pay for NetBackup."
"We are on an annual license to use Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows. There are not any additional fees to use the solution."
"There are costs in addition to the standard licensing fees, and pricing can be a disadvantage or a weakness for this solution."
"The solution is inexpensive, more so than other products."
"We have a cloud provider agreement with Veeam. We are also paying for the agent."
"The pricing model is based on CPU and must be declared as Microsoft or VMware licensing."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Government
8%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Computer Software Company
19%
Retailer
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Quest Rapid Recovery?
The most valuable feature of Quest Rapid Recovery for our organization is the VM recovery functionality.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Quest Rapid Recovery?
Dell solutions are approximately 30% to 35% more expensive than Veeam.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows?
The pricing is very good compared to Micro Focus. It is very affordable.
What needs improvement with Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows?
We don't have any issues with the solution. We do not need any other features. The integration with MS Storage and Dell Media needs to be simplified. Micro Focus may be better in this area as it of...
 

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Sample Customers

PRIME aerostructures GmbH, Tamworth Regional Council, Rhondda Housing Association, Stadtwerke Pforzheim GmbH & Co., Guangdong Aiyingdao Childrens Department Store, Nspyre, Tarrant Technology Partners, CloudRunner
ContinuitySA, Landmark Information Group
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