--- 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) ![Kevin S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kevin S.") KS Kevin S. Owner Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/9/2015 "FAS8020" 5/5 What do you like best about NetApp Backup and Recovery? 3 year warranty, Clustering capabilities, reliability, and ease of use. OnCommand System manager very solid. NetApp's Integrated Data Protection technologies not only protect customer data and accelerate recovery, but also integrate with leading backup applications such as SnapVault Software, OpenSystems and SnapProtect Software, for easier management. Customers moving to a cloud infrastructure struggle to manage their data freely across both private and public clouds. The FAS8000 series addresses this challenge by enabling enterprise customers to flexibly and efficiently manage and control their data through a single storage and data management platform.his suite of industry-leading management products unleashes the power of the clustered Data ONTAP® storage operating system, to help maximize system utilization, meet storage SLAs, minimize risks, and boost performance. Used the OnCommand portfolio’s intuitive graphical user interfaces, automation, and integration to simplify data management of our on-premises and hybrid cloud environments. NetApp's training has also been very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about NetApp Backup and Recovery? No problems as of yet. Service and support have been exceptional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering NetApp Backup and Recovery: NetApp's product, service and support in unparallelled. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is NetApp Backup and Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? Faster, more reliable scalable storage was needed by the customers I work with. Cloning is awesome. SDK very useful and complete. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Shannon H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shannon H.") SH Shannon H. Lead Systems Administrator Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/4/2015 "Experience with the full product suite of backup and recovery for NetApp" 4.5/5 What do you like best about NetApp Backup and Recovery? The B/R applications are very intuitive. NetApp has hooks into the application it is backing up so that you not only get the efficiency of snapshots on the backend storage but the application can truncate logs because it is application aware. Snapmirror replications makes DR possible and easy to setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about NetApp Backup and Recovery? I have not run across anything that really stands out as a dislike regarding NetApp backup and recovery options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering NetApp Backup and Recovery: Use the applications anywhere and everywhere you can. They are worth the time to deploy and make management of snapshots a breeze. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is NetApp Backup and Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? I have effectively removed the reliance on tape backup by utilizing local snapshots, snapmirror replications for offsite backups, and snapvault to keep retention for archival purposes. The backup window has been reduced exponentially. The ease of use and confidence in the product has brought a "set it and forget it" attitude for backups. Recovery times are decrease and couldn't be easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Frank A. P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Frank A. P.") FP Frank A. P. MultiValue Practice Manager Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/4/2015 "Simplify backup and recovery while dramatically improving service levels" 4.5/5 What do you like best about NetApp Backup and Recovery? The NetApp solution has significantly enhanced the backup and recovery speed. Our backups can now be performed four-five times faster, eliminating the risk of backup delays. We also have seen better performance in data recovery, which is even more important than out traditional backups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about NetApp Backup and Recovery? Nothing so far. Everything promised has performed as specified. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering NetApp Backup and Recovery: At the remote sites, we no longer need an administrator to run backups—it’s all done automatically with SnapVault back to Las Vegas. And again, because of the efficiency of SnapVault, we have been able to utilize existing T1 and higher connections. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is NetApp Backup and Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? Infrastructure backups, Time savings across the board which permits resources to be utilized in other areas where needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ron C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ron C.") RC Ron C. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/30/2015 "NetApp Backup and Recovery" 4/5 What do you like best about NetApp Backup and Recovery? 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 but would like to see more improvement in replication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering NetApp Backup and Recovery: Great product must give it a try Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is NetApp Backup and Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? Exchange restore issues. Can restore individual emails easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Banking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Banking") CB Verified User in Banking Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/5/2015 "Professional Services Consultant" 4.5/5 What do you like best about NetApp Backup and Recovery? --Netapp provides excellent Customer support from Start to finish! In my opinion, the best of all the storage vendors. Their hardware and software is very reliable and easy to upgrade. --SnapMirror! An easy and cost effective way to backup your data to another set of local disks and then move your data off-site. Awesome Tool. --NetApp being an all in one product is a plus (SAN & NAS - Plus all Protocols - FC\FC0e\NFS\CIF\iSCSI). This provides excellent cost savings - in man-hours, data center costs and space savings. The built in efficiency tools are included in the equipment purchase - No A-la-Cart type purchases to run up coasts your bottom line costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about NetApp Backup and Recovery? --NetApp tools utilize JAVA - this is very painful - as different products, require different Java versions - very annoying!. --NetApp provides some excellent tool sets, however, there are too many of them. It would be great if some of these tools could be folded together. One or two tools to monitor the environment. --Snap Protect (OEM Commvault) is very cost effective, but doesn't scale out well. The product is fairly easy to install\set up, but hard to scale out. This product needs better integration into existing environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering NetApp Backup and Recovery: Ensure you understand your existing infrastructure and Business requirements before you make ANY decisions with Storage and\or Backup and Recovery infrastructure. Ensure you deploy a solution that best fits your existing infrastructure and future plans. Fold into your network, vice tear down and rebuild! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is NetApp Backup and Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? Data growth is out of control and IT budgets are not keeping pace. I am trying to ensure that Storage engineers control their data vice letting the data control them. Leverage data efficiency at all times (Dedupe, Thin provision, link clones etc). Use of NetApp Cluster mode is also an excellent way to get off the IT Refresh cycle. Once your running a clustered environment you no longer have to do expensive data migrations when it's time to retire an old system. You can do Non-Disruptive Upgrades of Hardware and Software. You can now grow your storage infrastructure both horizontally and vertically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Shahid H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shahid H.") SH Shahid H. Manager - Financial Services, Technology Solutions Enablement Management Consulting Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/4/2015 "Snapshot are the best for quick data recovery." 4/5 What do you like best about NetApp Backup and Recovery? Quick recovery with no reliance on tape. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about NetApp Backup and Recovery? Limited to only 256 snapshots per volume. Snapshots are taken and stored on the same volume, if users delete large amount of data without coordinating with the storage team, it could cause the active file system to run out of storage and lead to an outage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is NetApp Backup and Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? Quick data recovery. Users can restore the data themselves without waiting for tape restore and creating tickets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Petros N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Petros N.") PN Petros N. Storage Engineer Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/16/2015 "NetApp Backup and Recovery" 3.5/5 What do you like best about NetApp Backup and Recovery? Ease of management and proved technology. Snapshots are very useful and do not take much space. Backups are instantaneous. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about NetApp Backup and Recovery? Tools are not up to speed with command line. They are very corky and need a lot of development. Some other tools require too much work and setup, to the point where a dedicated person is required to manage the tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering NetApp Backup and Recovery: Snapshots are the best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is NetApp Backup and Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? Retention and archiving. Be able to take backups very fast and restore just as fast also be able to enable users to do the restores themselves cutting down in administration staff time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite HR Himanshu R. System Administrator Telecommunications Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/8/2015 "i have arround 3 years experiens with Netapp" 4.5/5 What do you like best about NetApp Backup and Recovery? provides cost-effective ways to store a larger volume of data while cutting down power and cooling costs considerably. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about NetApp Backup and Recovery? Restoring data from tape takes a long time. Finding a particular file or directory on tape is time consuming Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is NetApp Backup and Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? Using Thin Provisioning to streamline storage provisioning to “on demand” provisioning. Reduced data space consumption with data Deduplication. Space saving data FlexClones for development, testing, rapid virtual machine deployment and disaster recovery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 7/29/2015 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") CC Verified User in Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/22/2015 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Great underlying technology, but could use a catalog and a good centralized management interface" 4/5 What do you like best about NetApp Backup and Recovery? Very efficient snapshot and mirroring technologies. This helps taking more recovery points without affecting storage performance and capacity. It also has wide range of applictions supported. So for a app development or a dba its reduces a burde on running frequent dumps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about NetApp Backup and Recovery? Depending on what you are using, it becomes very complicated to manage. There is no centralized catalog or an easy to use single pane of glass management. FlexClone is a great technology, but without a catalog and an orchestration layer it makes it very difficult to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering NetApp Backup and Recovery: Different customers have different requirements. This is ideal for fast short term recovery. Als consider other options for longer term archival requirements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is NetApp Backup and Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? Leveraging the storage for different workloads and different environments. My goal is to utilize the copies for spinning up DR environments and provision data to test and development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jags R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jags R.") JR Jags R. Enterprise Storage Solution Architect Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/4/2015 "Great and simple snapshot technology product.." 5/5 What do you like best about NetApp Backup and Recovery? Awesome snapshot replication technology Quick and simple management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about NetApp Backup and Recovery? DFM (Protection Manager), when compared to the original DFM, BCO Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering NetApp Backup and Recovery: If u are looking for a Vendor independent Backup solution, Try using commvault Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is NetApp Backup and Recovery solving and how is that benefiting you? Vendor Agnostic Data protection solution. 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