NetApp Backup and Recovery Reviews & Product Details

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.

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.

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.

The UI interface for SnapCenter, SnapMirror, and SnapLock should be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You must follow the BPG (best practices guide) otherwise snap based backups will fail! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fast and easy to backup and recover, save lots of resources Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This product is expensive, not all company can afford it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.