Forum Discussion
Back-up tools for Office 365
*Disclaimer, I didn't find a product that would meet/match the requirements Tony*
At the last company I worked for I was tasked with evaluating products to backup O365. I reviewed Barracuda, Backupify, Unitrends, and one other that slips my mind (I skipped AvePoint due to the price point). While none of these products were perfect we did end up going with Backupify. The reason we chose them were the ability to redirect restores both in Exchange, OneDrive, and SharePoint, they provided unlimited storage, and the method of restores were obvious for the user and provided security against overwrites. They also had the ability to backup O365 group SP content. With that said I had concerns about the data center reliability (I think they had two), the interface was clunky and didn't provide a lot of basic reporting I would like. I also had an issue trying to restrict backing up certain things (which might sound counter-intuitive). Was this a great product? No, but it met the basic requirements of what we needed balanced against price. My review of the products was in July-Aug 2017 time-frame so this product and others might have changed since then.
Chris
Hey Christopher Moor,
sorry I didn't got back to you earlier. You're right, I'm working for AvePoint, but that's not the point. I like your wording (something like) "if it's the perfect tool, no, but it covers the use case..." This is exactly my view! I'd like to encourage people to compare options and chose the right one for their needs, not the perfect one. Therefore I was interested, why you're directly excluding options without really comparing.
Times are changing very fast and cheap products could be very expensive 6 months later (or the other way around) as well as missing features can be included a few months later. Hence, I'm not pushing for a certain product, I just want to encourage everybody to really compare in order to find the best product for their use cases. :-)
Have a great day- Pricing isn’t necessarily the primary criteria but, as for many orgs, it looms large. In this case I didn’t look at AvePoint more fully due to the price point. You work for AvePoint right?
Hey Christopher Moore,
great use case, that you shared.
It's funny with the AvePoint pricing. :-D Although they have changed their pricing entirely, there're always these rumors with too high prices. Would you check tool capabilities independently of prices or is it your first filter criteria?
