Best backup solution on Reddit

314 reviews from r/Office365, r/sysadmin, r/msp and 20 more subreddits

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Veeam

4.6

(44)

"Veeam in first place and the rest, especially before updates or before reconfiguring something."

"Veeam is solid."

"I suggest Veeam, suits your needs."

"For Windows, Veeam is hands down the best option for whole image backups."

"Veeam."

"Well, Veeam does all that and it can work perfectly fine with a standalone host."

"All are super satisfied with the restore options and testing has always been smooth."

"Just Veeam it."

"Just use Veeam like any sane person would."

"Veeam is hard to beat and is completely free for personal or commercial purposes."

Restic

4.3

(12)

"I really like Restic for backups."

"For me, restic is the king of backup."

"Consider using Restic. Restic is pretty flexible and allows keeping as many backup copies as you need."

"Personally I use restic (auto restic) for quick backups and proxmox backup server for VM backups."

"Restic backup to local and Backblaze."

"I can recommend restic."

"I personally use restic."

"I would suggest reconfiguring everything from scratch and using Restic for local and offsite backups."

"Backrest for restic gui to backup on scaleway object storage."

"Restic + syncthing for multiple local and cloud copies."

NAKIVO

4.6

(11)

"It supports incremental NAS backup, is affordable and has advanced features like immutability, encryption, and backup malware scan."

"It offers image-based incremental backups."

"Try out Nakivo. It supports incremental backups for SMB/NFS file shares."

"I used Nakivo to recover my files, and it worked perfectly."

"It's reliable and has a cheaper price compared to other options."

"I've switched to NAKIVO for its cost-effectiveness and robust features."

"Have you checked out Nakivo? It supports Windows 7 and XP clients, encrypts backup data at rest."

"Nakivo."

"Check out Nakivo. The pricing is very affordable."

"If you're switching from Veritas Backup Exec, try NAKIVO."

Synology

4.5

(11)

"Buy a synology box. It’s a perfect solution."

"Very easy and cost effective."

"A bottom-of-the-line Synology would check all your boxes."

"The point of a NAS with RAID (all version except RAID 0) is that you can loose a drive."

"I’m about to setup a synology sync and then offload to glacier storage as well"

"Check out Synology for non-tech users."

"For a small business, I would suggest a Synology unit."

"Synology makes it dead easy"

"Synology boxes sitting in a datacenter."

"A bottom-of-the-line Synology would check all your boxes."

Datto

4.6

(10)

"We use Datto SaaS Protection."

"Datto has some really solid backup solutions."

"Just get a Datto or Veeam appliance and call it a day."

"Datto is best in class IMO."

"Datto is best in class IMO"

"Datto ALTO is designed for small businesses and offers a hybrid backup solution."

"Datto SaaS can work for you, it's great and it covers M365."

"Datto SaaS"

"Datto does all 365 data."

Acronis

4.0

(11)

"Acronis, Casper, or Macrium Reflect are your best options."

"We like Acronis for this"

"+1 on Acronis. Really competitive pricing"

"Our pricing is very competitive."

"Acronis Cyber Protect or Synology Active Backup."

"Have you considered Acronis software yet?"

"I kicked out an acronis recovery USB drive."

"Acronis with cloud storage (not saying it’s the best option) starts at like $200/year/endpoint."

"We like Acronis for this."

"Acronis."

Dropsuite

4.1

(8)

"We use dropsuite"

"DropSuite costs £1.65 per mailbox per month."

"DropSuite, Axcient, Acronis, Synology, take your pick."

"Dropsuite"

"I like Dropsuite."

"Yes, we do that with DropSuite."

Cove

4.1

(8)

"We use cove backup."

"Cove"

"We use cove, it’s around $1nzd per user and covers exchange onedrive SharePoint teams"

"Cove is a very solid product, i use it for some of my clients."

"Cove should work for this."

"Cove also supports this."

BDRSuite

4.1

(8)

"Checkout BDRSuite backup solution for Linux server backup."

"Try BDRSuite for Microsoft 365, backup and recovery solution for OneDrive contents."

"I think BDRSuite backup solution might be suitable option for you."

"Another option to consider could be BDRSuite."

"Consider trying out the BDRSuite Backup solution."

"It's a cost-effective solution for backing up Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, and Teams."

"Try BDRSuite, a robust and comprehensive alternative to other usual vendors."

"You can checkout BDRSuite backup solution for vmware where you can backup up to 10 VMS for free forever."

#10

Backblaze

4.0

(8)

"BackBlaze or BlackBlaze don't really remember a name."

"You get reliable backup that only charges you for the storage space you actually use."

"For cloud backups, I use Backblaze."

"I do dupliciti backup of library to backblaze."

"Plan is to get a DS923+ with 2x8TB drives on SHR for redundancy."

"Backblaze (or any other reasonable provider) is good."

"For example, in B2 or Wasabi."

#11

ManageWP

4.4

(7)

"I am using ManageWP for both backup and managing all of my clients websites."

"Try ManageWP"

"I use ManageWP for almost 100 paid maintenance sites, it’s solid and reliable."

"You could use something like ManageWP or WP Umbrella to automate most of your management tasks."

"I use manage wp. It's cloud based, and you can set it up for automatic backups."

"I used to use managewp for this, recently switched to wp-remote."

#12

iDrive

4.7

(6)

"Use idrive mini. $10 for 500GB for the year."

"It has never let me down."

"I chose iDrive because it is fairly priced at less than $100/year for 5TB."

"IDrive ticks every box for linux."

"Idrive offers this both workspace and office 365 back."

"Idrive"

#13

rsync

4.4

(5)

"Rsync is magic and will only copy new data."

"Rsync is one of the best solutions out there."

"Rsync to external media, more than one, like u/knuthf suggested, and even the cloud, is a good idea."

"Rsync checks most of your boxes."

"I rsync that to another backup server."

#14

Duplicacy

4.2

(5)

"So, long story short, PAID for Duplicacy and never looked back."

"Duplicacy has a paid gui and usually they have a lifetime sub on black friday."

"Have you looked at Duplicacy?"

"I would recommend Duplicacy or Kopia."

"One application that I believe could check all your boxes is open source Duplicacy."

#15

Bacula

4.2

(5)

"For your diverse backup needs, Bacula is a great choice."

"Bacula would be a great fit for your needs."

"Bacula, if you're looking for something enterprise-grade."

"It is versatile and can handle pretty much anything you throw at it."

"I would suggest Veeam or Bacula but they're client based - still pretty good though."

#16

Unitrends

4.2

(5)

"Unitrends"

"Unitrends can be a good fit given the features you are asking for."

"Unitrends is pretty good and simple to use."

"Unitrends is great for the least effort."

"Unitrends can work for this. It can do image backups and has a good variety of disaster recovery features."

#17

Spanning

4.0

(5)

"Spanning integrates very well with M365."

"Spanning is a great product that does sharepoint, onedrive, email, and teams backup."

"We use Spanning for M365, no complaints here."

#18

Duplicati

4.0

(5)

"I use duplicati on all our family systems."

"Duplicati is what you need."

"Duplicati as backup tool."

"Free software solutions like Duplicati / Restic / Kopia ...might be a good choice."

"Duplicati is my choice."

#19

Axcient

4.0

(5)

"Axcient works well and simple to setup."

"I'm happy with Axcient."

"Axcient or synology box."

"Pricing via Pax8 is reasonable."

#20

Avepoint

3.8

(5)

"AvePoint is awesome."

"Avepoint."

"Take a look at avepoint backup"

"They have commercial, us sovereign, and FedRAMP versions."

"Avepoint , Skykick."

#21

Backblaze B2

4.5

(4)

"Backblaze B2 is a popular recommendation."

"Backblaze B2 is what I use. $6/TB/month."

"I use Backblaze B2 for smaller backups such as databases, config, etc through Duplicati."

"Running an added backup to, for example, Backblaze B2."

#22

Borg

4.3

(4)

"I really love Borg with borgmatic."

"I use borg to do nightly backups to a Synology NAS."

"There's a GUI wrapper for Borg called Vorta."

"Use borg or restic, rsync is not very efficient."

#23

Commvault

3.2

(5)

"Something like Commvault, Spectrum Protect, or NetBackup."

"Commvault."

"We did but we have retired the iSeries."

"We used commvault for two years and found it performed badly."

#24

Kopia

4.0

(4)

"Works great!"

"I do kopia backups."

"Kopia is what I'm using, running as a root service."

"I am on kopia now. Its kinda young project, but I went for it."

#25

Time Machine

4.0

(4)

"If you need it to be an exact clone of the last backup then Time Machine is good."

"I use timemachine to a 4tb nvme disk on my nas."

"Time Machine is the free, built-in and easy backup solution."

"I’m familiar with hourly incremental backups using the builtin Time Machine process."

#26

Datto Alto

4.0

2.5

2.0

(1)

"For mission critical things, you use tools that have proper support."

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