Comet Backup vs. Dell Avamar

Comet Backup

Comet Backup

1 Reviews and Ratings

Dell Avamar

Dell Avamar

83 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Comet Backup	Score 5.0 out of 10	N/A	Comet is a backup platform for businesses or IT providers, offering control over the backup environment, and storage destinations. It can be used for cloud backup, computer backup or data backup. Comet provides solutions to protect and restore partitions, databases, servers, files and folders. Comet supports Windows, MacOS and Linux backup.	N/A
Dell Avamar	Score 6.9 out of 10	N/A	Dell Avamar is a hardware and software data backup and deduplication product. It provides protection and recovery through a complete software and hardware solution when paired with Dell Data Domain for virtual environments, remote offices, enterprise apps, NAS servers, and desktops/laptops.	N/A

Pricing

Comet Backup

Dell Avamar

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Comet Backup	Dell Avamar
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Optional

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Community Pulse
	Comet Backup	Dell Avamar
Considered Both Products	Comet Backup No answer on this topic	Dell Avamar Verified User Anonymous Chose Dell Avamar Avamar has a light and simple management interface. Backup operations can be configured easliy. Job tracking is detailed and descriptive. Platform-independent working flexibility is a big advantage. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Dell Avamar I would say that Dell EMC Avamar is really nice for an on-premise proposal, so it's hard to compare against another tool. Incentivized Helpful? IS Ivan Sytchev Supervisor, Information Technology Chose Dell Avamar We had an agreement with Dell so we got a good deal on the IDPA appliance. Unfortunately we didn't review other solutions, which was a horrible mistake. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Dell Avamar The upside to Avamar versus Veeam is that Avamar has a machine tied to the software. Veeam is good software but it is only as good as the back-end storage. Incentivized Helpful? RR Ratnodeep Roy Senior System Analyst Chose Dell Avamar EMC Avamar is always incremental and deduplication rate is higher for variable block-level deduplication, restoration is faster as compared to other tools, backups cannot be accidentally deleted as there is an option for retiring the backups, retention is straightforward. EMC … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Dell Avamar Avamar has simplied the back up approach in their VE edition and is much easier to use than Data Protector. Backing up multiple VMs takes minutes instead of hours now. Creating policies, retentions, and schedules, is vastly improved and much easier. Incentivized Helpful? Emmanuel De Oleo Technical Support Specialist Chose Dell Avamar EMC Avamar offers backup and recovery for desktops and laptops, allowing users to extend the power of Avamar "deduplication" backup software with the aim of eliminating the risk of data loss. Backup processes are performed automatically and in the background to ensure … Incentivized Helpful? Shawn Kane Sr. Systems Analyst Chose Dell Avamar Each one of these products did one thing well. Avamar was able to backup all of the different OS types and different types of data. Also, the reliability and support of Avamar are so much better. Incentivized Helpful? WP William Pavlock Sr. Systems Engineer Chose Dell Avamar I personally would put Dell EMC Avamar at the top of the list for backup/restore data protection. Given the size of the deployment and the technical expertise of the engineers the implementation was flawless and timely. We vetted other companies backup solutions against Dell … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Dell Avamar Unfortunately, Avamar has stayed behind solutions like Solarwinds Backup and Datto in many different things, like the management of the applications being only desktop, the old fashion interfaces and configurations and specially the fact that it doesn't work as a business … Incentivized Helpful? Paul Lemmons Lead Systems Software Engineer Chose Dell Avamar I have evaluated ComVault, Cohiesity, and Rubrik. All three were better choices based on: VMWare support: Live mounts, instant recovery, and file-based recovery from VM snapshots Incentivized Helpful? Juan Ignacio Carriches Alvarez Consultor avanzado de ECM Chose Dell Avamar Data Protector (formerly HP Data Protector) Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Dell Avamar Avamar was already implemented in the organization when I started so I am unfamiliar what other solutions were evaluated. Incentivized Helpful? Brian Munn Network Services Manager Chose Dell Avamar Reliability. Avamar is hands down more reliable than any other backup solution I have used. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Dell Avamar Avamar was selected for me to use by our corporate office. The user interface of Backup Exec was easier to use, but as far as reliability, Avamar was much better. I always had failures with Backup Exec backups and restores. That is one thing I never had to worry about with … Incentivized Helpful? JC Jarod Cummings Sr Systems Administrator Chose Dell Avamar BackupExec and NetBackup both would choke on data that was being replicated by DFSR. I needed a product that could handle that data, as well as do client side deduplication and compression. Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Belonzi Service Team Engineer Chose Dell Avamar Avamar is just overall easier to use and seems to be more versatile. And user-friendly is key when training new team members here at the organization. Incentivized Helpful? Rodney Barnhardt Server Administrator Chose Dell Avamar Originally, we evaluated CommVault with Avamar and due to some differences at the time we decided to go with Avamar. Some of those reasons against CommVault no longer exist, but we have been satisfied with Avamar. Other more current products have been reviewed such as Rubrik … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Dell Avamar We were considering going with the newer version of the tape backup method we have been using for years. However tapes deteriorate and off site storage adds up. Backups are slow, recovery from incremental backups is slow and unreliable. FireEye backup to the cloud was cost … Incentivized Helpful? Rhapsody Budiono Web Application Developer Chose Dell Avamar We had different backup system before. We used 2 different ones the last 2 years but we ended up with Avamar. Since then we never really change our backup system because we got the result we wanted from Avamar. Incentivized Helpful? Tim Knarr IT Manager Chose Dell Avamar I started with Avamar as a tape backup replacement. I had drives at each location and a tape robot at the central data center. Moving to disk backup with no tape switch out was incredible. With tech today, almost all backup is disk backup. Avamar's quality hardware and … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Comet Backup

Dell Avamar

Data Center Backup

Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
	Comet Backup - Ratings	Dell Avamar 7.8 Ratings 8% below category average
Universal recovery	00 Ratings	8.50 Ratings
Instant recovery	00 Ratings	8.60 Ratings
Recovery verification	00 Ratings	9.40 Ratings
Business application protection	00 Ratings	8.60 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations	00 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification	00 Ratings	9.40 Ratings
Backup to the cloud	00 Ratings	3.60 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression	00 Ratings	8.60 Ratings
Snapshots	00 Ratings	8.60 Ratings
Flexible deployment	00 Ratings	7.70 Ratings
Management dashboard	00 Ratings	8.40 Ratings
Platform support	00 Ratings	4.70 Ratings
Retention options	00 Ratings	8.60 Ratings
Encryption	00 Ratings	8.60 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Comet Backup	Dell Avamar
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	8.4 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.5 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.8 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Comet Backup	Dell Avamar
Likelihood to Recommend	No answers on this topic	It's well suited when you are looking for something to keep your on-premise environment safe and you don't want to spend a lot of time doing the setup. It's easy to scale and a very reliable solution. I think it is not a really nice solution in terms of pricing, so the challenge here is to check if the value [is] worth it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	New and improved interface no longer requires separate program to run on a management server. The avamar interacts with the data domain device to allow for cloud storage. The Avamar AVE footprint is much easier to install and use, given the new GUI. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	The technology is stagnant. It's had the same basic interface and feature set over all of the years we used it. A clunky java based management GUI. It only supports RedHat for the management console under Linux. Meta-data continues to grow even when backup sets do not cause nodes to fill, requiring professional services to clean it up. Fork-lift upgrades. It requires a lot of care and feeding with a lot of time on the phone with support. Incentivized Paul Lemmons Lead Systems Software Engineer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	I have been using the product for over five years. This has performed so well that with the current system reaching its End-of-Life with EMC next year, I have proposed replacing it with the latest version of the product. Now that it integrates with Data Domain, the cost has been greatly reduced. Instead of the need to purchase many nodes, one Data Domain can replace them creating a significant cost savings. Incentivized Rodney Barnhardt Server Administrator Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	The system overall is easy to monitor and see your backup/restore status. The user interface could use updating as it relies on Java and any updates to Java cause the interface to stop working need to be reinstalled Incentivized Brian Munn Network Services Manager Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Support is very convincing, always eager to solve issues from the root rather than workaround, don't hesitate to take webex, describe the issues to the core and recommend configuration to avoid further issues. We can ask few questions other than the main issue. They don't hesitate to answer. Incentivized RR Ratnodeep Roy Senior System Analyst Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	Unfortunately, Avamar has stayed behind solutions like Solarwinds Backup and Datto in many different things, like the management of the applications being only desktop, the old fashion interfaces and configurations and specially the fact that it doesn't work as a business continuity tool, which makes it mostly and out-dated application when you compare it with how the market is evolving. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	Absolute Zero ROI This appliance does not work in its current state and to update we need to wait 2-3 months Can't wait to get rid of it and replace it with something else. (not even sure if we will be able to get it running before that) [I think] this is one of the worst mistakes we made Incentivized IS Ivan Sytchev Supervisor, Information Technology Read full review
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