So, I like it, and it works well enough to justify using it. I used the lite version on a VNXe3300 with a few hosts, and the backup and recovery rates seemed decent enough, retention periods weren't a maze to navigate and the interface was understandable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Few options outside of the "EMC Approved" Methods to get the data to multiple locations to make the backups secure by holding in multiple ways. It seemed like using it more was leading us down a path of spending more and more money with EMC. The deduplication rates weren't anything to get excited about despite our environment being very homologous. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That it will back up when you babysit the product. It took a while to get everything set up with the correct features we needed in our environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was difficult in the initial set up. We were told one thing and when we finally set everything up it was not was what needed. We needed to add additional storage and reconfigure everything a couple of times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Avamar is great at doing backups, the fact that is can backup also VM's and even backup data inside the VM's is great. I worked extensivey to integrate Avamar with a custom Web Application and the use of the AvamarCLI was just pure magic.

They worked perfectly and allowed us to manage backup in a simple, straight forward manner.

The Avamar Admin console works also very well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very hard to get up&running for the integrator, understanding the proxies and it's requisites is quite hard. And the Avamar Administrator console is just terrible looking, java has come a long way, EMC should upgrade the looks.

We had to buy the accelerator to correctly integrate it though, and this cost us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It gets the job done once it is setup properly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Product interface is severely lacking and makes backup more complicated than it has to be Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Moving to Avamar from Arc Serve, we decreased our backup times from days, sometimes more than a week, to hours / a couple of days.

Restoring VM's is VERY easy. Avamar integrates so well with VMWare.

Coupled with a Data Domain storage target this solution can ingest an unbelievable amount of data in a short period of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Restoring files. On a monthly basis we have to restore a few specific folders from several VM's.

The folder restore is easy if you only need a few files. In order to restore several hundred files the best practice is to restore the VM and copy the files off of it.

We also restore our Exchange Db's to a file to send offsite. Avamar won't do that unless there's an Exchange server it can restore to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the options for backup for specific software and operating systems. I can choose a different profile for virtual machines, linux, SQL, exchange etc. It is very easy to restore anything from 1 file or the entire snapshot. Restoring mailbox objects have been extremely useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some basic tasks need to be done with command line - such as changing DNS and can be a bit challenging. Some error messages about batteries occur often but when shown to EMC support - they say to ignore these messages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Everything. I love the dedupe rates, the reduction in complexity, and the speed. I love the application specific plugins as well. The VMWare integration works very well. Support is incredible. It runs Linux on the back end, so you can overcome a lot of what would be shortcomings if you know what yo are doing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The main things that come to mind are that sharepoint GLR doesnt come baked in. I also don't like that we need to be full SA on SQL to do backups. Reporting is a little sparse, you need to know SQL commands in order to bake your own. The lack of automated SQL and file level restores is a pretty major shortfall. Some of the older hardware had reliability issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Changed block tracking for file level restores from VM's is fantastic. Although setup is a bit complicated, if done properly you will be thankful for all the time you've spent. Don't even get me started on grouping sets of systems in a policy and then backing up by that policy... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I still struggle backing up windows clusters. It just seems that the software is not enterprise ready for cluster backups.

There should be more data available when a backup fails. Now that we've had the system in place for a while, we're able to better determine cryptic description like "Administrative error occurred". Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Avamar is ideally suited for a large corporate environment, with many virtual servers, thousands of desk top systems, and many remote offices. It optimizes bandwidth, maximized storage utilization, and makes backup and recovery of these systems a breeze. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Avamar still struggles with very large Databases, and with clustered applications, such as SQL and Exchange. No single backup product can be effective at backing up every kind of data set. I'd recommend utilizing native tools to backup these systems, and storing the data on Data Domain storage for maximum performance and deduplication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Avamar is incredibly stable and fast. I backed up all of my physical and Virtual server with our grid and also replicated that to an off site grid. The Compression and Deduplications allowed for me to backup so much more data than what the system physically was provisioned with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The way backups are setup is a little different. Once you are use to the process it is easy to setup new jobs. Upgrading the software on the Avamar could sometimes be a little difficult or confusing for me. The software seems to evolve between each release and in fairness it seems to get better each time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.