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Currently have a Unitrends BCDR and checking into Datto BCDR appliance. The interface in Datto seems ultra simple & somewhat limited and the Unitrends is over-the-top detailed and boarderline complicated. Unitrends seems to be in a transition with buyout of Kaseya? Datto tech support has been very good and available, where as Unitrends tech support has been less available.

What do you like or don’t like about these two companies/products? Any input from personal experience would be great!

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Have you looked into Veeam? They have excellent support and their backup & recovery tools are awesome!

@andrew-veeam @kirsten-veeam

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I’ve used Unitrends and Datto. I was not a fan of Unitrends as the interface was not intuitive, at least for me. For Datto it was very easy to setup & use. It also backs up to their cloud, where you can also test VM recovery before doing restores on-premise. I don’t know how well it backs up Azure or AWS VMs. I’d suggest Datto out of the 2 because my experience was less than stellar for Unitrends.

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Agreed. We are a service provider and absolutely love Veeam, plus lots of customers are already running it.

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Hi OP, glad to see that you have some interest in Unitrends. If you’re interested, you can actually demo Unitrends with a specialist who can walk you through how to use it and you can try it free for 30 days. If you have any questions, feel free to message me!

@Spanning

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I’ve used Datto 10+ years ago- pretty simple, but the price rises a ton as you update to larger appliances. Depending on how many servers your backing up, you might just be better off using ShadowProtect, which is what Datto is built off of, Acronis, or enterprise-worthy options like Veeam or Arcserve UDP. For me, the best part of the later two was I could build the hardware I used, so I wasn’t constrained by space, and could use RAID 10 instead of RAID 5 so if I had to run machines off the hardware it performed better.

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+1 to Veeam. The problem with Veeam is that Datto and Unitrends products mentioned above are essentially backup appliances while Veeam offers software only. But other vendors build Veeam-powered backup appliances, so that is a valid option to consider as well.

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@supaplex Thanks for mentioning one of our top products!

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https://community.spiceworks.com/products/39961-starwind-software

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