--- description: Review of VM Backup Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: VM Backup | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice GB --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Server Backup Software](/directory/4348/server-backup/software) > [VM Backup](/software/408168/altaro-vm-backup) # VM Backup Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/408168/altaro-vm-backup Page: 1 / 9\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/408168/altaro-vm-backup?page=2) > Hornetsecurity‘s VM Backup is a powerful, reliable and easy-to-use backup and replication solution for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines (VMs) and physical Windows servers, to protect against enterprise data loss. The award-winning solution provides robust, streamlined and enterprise-level functionality. Thanks to Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and WAN-optimized replication, your backup files are available in just minutes in the event of a data loss scenario, and your organization can continue working as usual. Storing immutable backups leveraging object locking on cloud storage locations gives you additional peace of mind as your backups are protected from ransomware attacks and other malicious actors. The unique Augmented Inline Deduplication also results in massive storage savings for your backups and reduces unnecessary costs. VM Backup is a robust Virtual Machine backup and replication solution for Hyper-V and VMware. One of its strengths is ease of use - you can get started with your first backup in less than 15 minutes. VM Backup offers enterprise-class functionality, providing all the tools needed by systems administrators without unnecessary complexity and cost. Finally, Hornetsecurity invests in Support, based on the belief that outstanding support should be part of the package when you buy a backup solution: we pride ourselves on our 24/7 lightning-fast support call response of less than 30 seconds. > > Verdict: Rated **4.7/5** by 194 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 194 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Hornetsecurity - **Location**: Hannover, Germany - **Founded**: 2007 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$875.00 - **Pricing model**: Other (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Pricing varies depending on number of hosts, starting at €485 per host for one host using the standard edition. Contact Altaro for more information on pricing. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Windows (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium and 209 more ## Features - API - Activity Dashboard - Alerts/Notifications - Archiving & Retention - Automatic Backup - Backup Log - Backup Scheduling - Backup and Recovery - Billing & Invoicing - Capacity Management - Cloud Backup - Compression - Continuous Backup - Dashboard - Data Capture and Transfer - Data Recovery - Data Replication - Deduplication - Differential Backup - Disaster Recovery ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Server Backup Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4348/server-backup/software) ## Related Categories - [Server Backup Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4348/server-backup/software) - [Virtual Machine Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4688/virtual-machine/software) - [Backup Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4294/backup/software) - [Business Continuity Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4137/business-continuity/software) - [Virtualisation Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4190/virtualization/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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[SqlBak](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/201592/sqlbak) — 4.8/5 (44 reviews) ## Reviews ### "Excelente VM Backup Software" — 4.0/5 > **Gustavo** | *2 August 2022* | Higher Education | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: What I most like about it, is the pricing model per Host instead of VM, it is very similar to the competitor, but has better pricing, its easy to try before buying, it is super intuitive to set it up, you don't even need to read the how to documentation, because is is really easy to use. > > **Cons**: Some times the Altaro Services drops or Backups stops working (don't understand exactly why) SO You have to contact support (that is excellent and immediate) to solve it. This is the only reason we have been paying for the continuous support. > > We backup 6 hosts we over 40 VMs Onsite and offsite, and it works really well, no complains, also it is a very goood way to test new environments by restoring backups from any server. ----- ### "Altaro offers complete protection and peace of mind." — 5.0/5 > **Mark** | *1 August 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: The software is easy to use and fully automated. The continuous protection and replication features to an offsite server are included and fantastic. We are able to have complete system image backups to another location, all within Altaro. > > **Cons**: Sometimes the error messages are not very helpful, but the support from altaro is great, and they are always on hand to assist if needed right from within the product. ----- ### "Poor Support and issues with disk space" — 3.0/5 > **Ricardo** | *8 March 2019* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 3.0/10 > > **Pros**: Easy of use. It take some time to learn the software schema, but after that, it is very easy to use on the day to day experience. > > **Cons**: Support is almos informal. There is a ticket number, but the follow up is poor. Chat is almost always offline. About disk space, the backups keep groing indefenitely, even if the VM has not much updates. The optimization tool to recover space does not work properly, takes too long to execute, while it runs, it blocks ALL backups funcionality and at the end there is almost no space freed. There is no limit for backup space per VM or per storage. You need to always keep following up the disk usage. There is no support for ReFS, what is a shame for a software that runs on Windows Servers and ReFS has been around for a while already. > > We use Altaro to backup our hosts with hundreds of VMs. We are now migrating to a different plataform, due to the lack of support to ReFS and the other limitations stated above. ----- ### "7 years of Altaro in practice" — 5.0/5 > **Patrick** | *12 July 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Very quick and easy to install, after that all customer installations can be monitored, controlled and also updated centrally via a website, this saves us an extremely large amount of time when supporting our customer systems. If a problem really occurs, you can rely on the easily accessible support. We now only use Altaro, why should we pay more for other solutions without added value. > > **Cons**: The representation of the backup in the CMC could be better presented more clearly > > Very quick and easy to install, after that all customer installations can be monitored, controlled and also updated centrally via a website, this saves us an extremely large amount of time when supporting our customer systems. If a problem really occurs, you can rely on the easily accessible support. We now only use Altaro, why should we pay more for other solutions without added value. ----- ### "Astoundingly Good; Very Affordable" — 5.0/5 > **Matthew** | *12 July 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: The ability to schedule sandbox restores drew me to Altaro, but honestly, the few times that I have needed Tech Support (including one time on a holiday) it was outstanding. The quality of the support, the speed with which I can reach someone, and the genuine politeness of the staff make getting support painless. I also like the ability to do off-site copies of the backups. This work s great when I use a direct-attached targets like ioSafe drives and then replicate the backups to portable USB drives to go off site. > > **Cons**: The software is amazingly full featured, but I would like to see the sandbox restore take a snapshot of the services snap-in on the restore once started, shut down the sandbox, delete the restored machine, and send me the image so that I know it worked. The first time you put in the license code it is a bit convoluted. This is nit picking. > > Veeam is the Cadillac of backups, and there are lots of Chevys that will get the job done but really make you work at it, but Altaro sits in the sweet spot of a great value with lots of features. I have deployed it at every client that runs VMs on Windows, and it has saved the day several times. Setup takes about five minutes, especially if you are using an attached target. Even complicated NAS-based backups with off-site copies (another great feature) can be set up in less than 30 minutes for every VM on a server. ----- Page: 1 / 9\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/408168/altaro-vm-backup?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/408168/altaro-vm-backup) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | fr | | ----- ## Structured Data