--- title: NetApp Backup and Recovery Reviews meta\_title: 'NetApp Backup and Recovery Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 33 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how NetApp Backup and Recovery works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.0 review\_count: 33 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Backup url: https://www.g2.com/categories/backup --- # NetApp Backup and Recovery Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by NetApp Backup and Recovery but has limited features. Are you part of the NetApp Backup and Recovery team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! The NetApp Console simplifies the implementation of any backup strategy, including the spectrum of 3-2-1 backup variants, without needing multiple resource managers or specialized personnel. Users can easily define local snapshots and replication schemes or back up to any object store in the cloud or on-premises using an intuitive interface. NetApp's block-level, incremental-forever technology preserves all storage efficiencies, significantly reducing the amount of data that’s replicated and stored. This approach optimizes bandwidth consumption, minimizes the performance impact on production, and makes it easy to meet the SLAs of even the most demanding workloads. Data copies are independent and can’t be modified. Backups are locked and monitored. Alerts are raised if someone attempts to corrupt the data.  Backup and Recovery gives users more control over how backups are created without adding overhead and complexity. Users can restore entire volumes, directories, or even single files by using a searchable indexed catalog.  Customers pay only for what’s protected, using the lowest-cost storage tiers available.  * * * Seller [NetApp](https://www.g2.com/sellers/netapp) Discussions [NetApp Backup and Recovery Community](https://www.g2.com/products/netapp-backup-and-recovery/discuss) Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Ashley Maurier Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 3 months ### Return on Investment 23 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/netapp-backup-and-recovery/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Veeam Data Platform](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Veeam Data Platform") Veeam Data Platform 4.6/5(748) ](https://www.g2.com/products/veeam-data-platform/reviews) [ ![IBM Storage Protect](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "IBM Storage Protect") IBM Storage Protect 4.1/5(76) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-storage-protect/reviews) [ ![Arctera Backup Exec](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Arctera Backup Exec") Arctera Backup Exec 4.2/5(275) ](https://www.g2.com/products/arctera-arctera-backup-exec/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/netapp-backup-and-recovery/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 33 real user reviews. Implementation Time 3 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Ravi C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ravi C.") RC Ravi C. Cloud Engineer Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/5/2022 "Taking backup of Amazon S3 is quite easy in our infrastructure environment using NetApp Cloud Backup" 4/5 What do you like best about NetApp Backup and Recovery? Netapp Cloud Backup provides a convenient backup service that is both easy and cost-effective for our organization. It's highly reliable, and we can quickly restore our data present in our on-premise location. Business continuity is critical in our production environment, and Netapp Cloud Backup offers restoration of our client information in our cloud platform with minimal data loss. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about NetApp Backup and Recovery? With Netapp Cloud Backup, I can schedule it with my incremental expression, which scales automatically. This ensures efficient performance in our storage utility and reduces cost. It enables optimized data storage with superb encryption standards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is NetApp Backup and Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? In our organization, NetApp Cloud Backup can retrieve data at any instant point in time that we specify. We can also migrate the data from any source system to our specific client system. Using its file catalog feature, I denote either full load or individual load for Amazon S3 backup facilitation depending upon business requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sarthak P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sarthak P.") SP Sarthak P. Consultant, Storage Operations - Shell, G.E.G Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/26/2021 "Review based on technical expertise on NetApp Backup and Recovery." 4/5 What do you like best about NetApp Backup and Recovery? Solution provided by NetApp for backup and recovery is SnapCenter, SnapMirror, SnapLock. These solutions are the best in the market offered by NetApp and are reliable sources for backing up your data. SnapCenter or SnapManager automates the processes associated with backup, restore, and recovery. Generally, people managing windows use this for backing up snapshots on the OS level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about NetApp Backup and Recovery? The UI interface for SnapCenter, SnapMirror, and SnapLock should be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering NetApp Backup and Recovery: I would highly recommend you to use NetApp backup and recovery software if you have a complex environment and you are looking for stabilizing your data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is NetApp Backup and Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? Problems associated with NetApp backup and recovery solutions are many. There are a lot of cases we need to provide restore based on the backups to the clients. We can use SnapMirror, SnapCenter for providing the restore manually and also by GUI. If the client asks for point-in-time backups we can use SnapCenter to provide it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Dave T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dave T.") DT Dave T. IT Storage Manager Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/19/2018 "The NetApp Trio" 4.5/5 What do you like best about NetApp Backup and Recovery? We have several of the NetApp products and they all fit very well together in our environment. We use E-Series for deep and cheap storage and FAS and Solidfire for our Citrix and VM Farms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about NetApp Backup and Recovery? No cohesive management system between the products. Although this is true the systems provide enough management analysis for our needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering NetApp Backup and Recovery: Although the cost can be high, the storage is very sound and provides us with what we need I would recommend this to any one looking for enterprise storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is NetApp Backup and Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? We use NetApp for our Enterprise storage and ar now close to 1 pedibyte of data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/16/2018 "Easy and Nice GUI based Backup" 4/5 What do you like best about NetApp Backup and Recovery? The GUI is very nice and easy to understand even for someone who's not used to of using NetApp Backup solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about NetApp Backup and Recovery? It's very slow. When you click something on the GUI, it takes lot of time to process the request. Moreover, some packages have lot of dependencies when installing on Linux. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering NetApp Backup and Recovery: Try this in presence of vendors from NetApp first. You might need to understand some basic stuff before using it on your own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is NetApp Backup and Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? As compared to Symantec Backup, NetApp backup solution is easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Proby P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Proby P.") PP Proby P. Sr. Enterprise Storage Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/10/2016 "Great snapshot and backup integration with many enterprise apps! " 4.5/5 What do you like best about NetApp Backup and Recovery? NetApp Snapshots lightning fast, great backup schedule with snapshot retention, fast and easy to use end user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about NetApp Backup and Recovery? You must follow the BPG (best practices guide) otherwise snap based backups will fail! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering NetApp Backup and Recovery: Get trained and train your end user DBAs on this software, get Platinum support from NetApp, read all IAGs and BPGs and engage NetApp PS for the implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is NetApp Backup and Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? Quick backup and recovery time, cloning of prod databases to lower environments, quick restores. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 2/21/2017 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mabel M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mabel M.") MM Mabel M. Database Administrator Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/30/2016 "DBA uses netapp back up" 4/5 What do you like best about NetApp Backup and Recovery? Fast and easy to backup and recover, save lots of resources Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about NetApp Backup and Recovery? This product is expensive, not all company can afford it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering NetApp Backup and Recovery: It is fast to do backup for large databases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is NetApp Backup and Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? Back up took too long to finish by than, netapp is way faster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Jack R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jack R.") JR Jack R. Sr. Server Engineer Hospital & Health Care Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/30/2015 "Management of NetApp Backup and Recovery needs more work." 4/5 What do you like best about NetApp Backup and Recovery? I have used NetApp backup and recovery for several years. I like using the Snapshot/SnapMirror technology. It is very reliable and I quit using tapes because I used SnapMirror between two datacenters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about NetApp Backup and Recovery? There is not much reporting associated with the built-in snapshot technology. NetApp protection manager is too difficult to try to use. But it is still not as bad as SnapProtect. If we were talking about SnapProtect, I would say that I don't like any of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering NetApp Backup and Recovery: Considering SnapProtect? Don't! Will Snapshot and SnapMirror meet your needs? This is the right choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is NetApp Backup and Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? I am able to restore individual files to within the last hour on CIFS and NFS volumes. This is a big win for IT when you are able to rescue a file for individuals quickly. Restores of virtual machines is also very quick. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Anthony J P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Anthony J P.") AP Anthony J P. Linux Systems Administrator Broadcast Media Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/21/2015 "NetApp Backup and Recovery" 5/5 What do you like best about NetApp Backup and Recovery? I have been using NetApp Backup Recovery solutions for some time now. It has benefited us in more way than one. We tons of Media to be captured and backed up, this solution was key for our business. The recovery solutions to safeguard our critical data. Drive operational efficiencies by reducing backup time, improving data recovery, and cutting infrastructure, tape, and administrative costs. The use of Snapshot™ and replication technologies to simplify virtualization and big data management was key. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about NetApp Backup and Recovery? There are more good than bad in using NetApp Backup Recovery solutions, but my standpoint, I have none. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is NetApp Backup and Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? Some problems that we are solving are r/w speeds, bandwidth access, data retention, etc... The benefits that we have realized is that by creating disk-to-disk backups in native format is a pulse for us..this allows for reduced backup times and with data de-duplication, at time able to save on disk space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 6/4/2015 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Miguel R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Miguel R.") MR Miguel R. Solutions Architect Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/5/2015 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Efficient, low Administrative Backups" 4/5 What do you like best about NetApp Backup and Recovery? Remote sites can be administered remotely with ease and automatically. The efficiency of SnapVault, enables utilization of low bandwidth connections. Use of the VSC makes the protection of a virtual environment an easier task. The integration of the SnapManager products with VSC give a consistent portal when used with Operations Manager. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about NetApp Backup and Recovery? You have to ensure that retention schedules are followed and be able to troubleshoot from the bottom up. System manager helps with this task, but it takes discipline and routine to follow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is NetApp Backup and Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? SnapVault helps to leverage a more cost effective solution which can store many backups to disk. SnapVault disk backup is economical due to the use of SATA disks. Due to the leveraging of block-level backups instead of file-level backups, minimal bandwidth is required, which allows a more consistent experience with remote and branch offices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Trinh T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Trinh T.") TT Trinh T. Sr. Technology Engineer Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/7/2015 "NetApp Best Selling Points" 3.5/5 What do you like best about NetApp Backup and Recovery? These are NetApp Sweet tools. Replicating data from one NetApp filer to another filer or from one NetApp Cluster to another using their snapshot technology is how NetApp does it backup. Replicating data using snapmirror to a dr site as a solution for disaster recovery. Using snapvault to backup a volume to secondary filer with denser, cheaper disks to keep the data for a longer retention requirements is easy and fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about NetApp Backup and Recovery? The tools does what they are designed to do and it's working great. It would be nice if data replication between 7-mode to cluster is as simple as going from 7-mode to 7-mode. For example of replicate a volume from one filer to another using a particular snapshot, and then perform a volume restored base on a snapshot on the destination filer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering NetApp Backup and Recovery: I would also test other storage vendor that also provide the same snapshot technology and replication to see if it fit with your requirements and future plans. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is NetApp Backup and Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? Data replication is fast after the initial full copy. In case of a disaster, your data is protected and online at a dr site. There are work needed to be done to have the secondary site replace the primary site if the primary site is down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about NetApp Backup and Recovery? 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