We use N2WS Backup & Recovery for backing up EC2 instances.
N2W Backup & Recovery for AWS Standard Edition
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A highly stable and easy-to-use solution that can be used for backing up EC2 instances
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
N2WS Backup & Recovery is very easy to use and configure backup for AWS instances. Since it's deployed on AWS, it's very easy to use and gives multiple reporting features.
What needs improvement?
N2WS Backup & Recovery efficiently takes cloud backups on EC2 instances. The solution has the option to take backup on-prem servers, but it's not very efficient.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using N2WS Backup & Recovery for more than six years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
N2WS Backup & Recovery is a very stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
N2WS Backup & Recovery is a scalable solution.
How are customer service and support?
We have contacted the solution's technical support team, who are very helpful and help us solve our issues. If there are any product issues, they involve the development team to sort that out.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
N2WS Backup & Recovery's initial setup is easy.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend N2WS Backup & Recovery to other users.
Overall, I rate N2WS Backup & Recovery a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Easy to use and setup
What is most valuable?
One valuable feature is the easy-to-use GUI.
What needs improvement?
There is room for improvement in stability.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for a few months. We currently use the latest version.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is a scalable solution.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support of N2WS has an amazing team. They are prompt in closing out issues and are responsive to emails.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is easy.
What about the implementation team?
We have received help from the team of N2WS. The enterprise team told me how to go forward with the setup.
For maintenance, only one person is enough because basic algorithm, you can work with it.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I used the free version. I don't have much experience with the paid version. But I'm trying to compare the pricing between different options.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We're currently exploring our options. We are comparing N2WS Backup & Recovery with antivirus and Veeam. So, I'm trying to compare the features of the software.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. I would recommend staying in contact with N2WS's team for help.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
N2WS Review
What do you like best about the product?
How quick you can backup and recover the data in AWS and compatibility with AWS S3 an Glacier
What do you dislike about the product?
individual item level recovery is not available for application items such as Microsoft Active Directory, SharePoint, SQL Servers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
N2WS directly integrates with AWS and doesn't require agents to take backup. Also, you can directly backup to S3 and Glacier which is not available with other systems.
N2WS Backup - Highly Recommended
What do you like best about the product?
Works well, good interface, good service
What do you dislike about the product?
Daily summary should show most recent 1st
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
N2WS makes backups much easier than using the AWS snapshots manually - much more automated with reports and a daily summary of jobs. Good granular scheduling. VPC backups are great. Can send snapshots to another account or region.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This should be one of your top choices for cloud backups.
Excellent AWS backup solution
What do you like best about the product?
The easy of use and the speed performing backups.
What do you dislike about the product?
Maybe is a little expensive, but it is a lifeguard for our systems.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Backup speed, recovery scenarios
A great product to protect your AWS resources
What do you like best about the product?
The product, in general, makes it easy to backup and restore (especially important) your AWS infrastructure. The new GUI fixes a lot of issues, although these were minor and more annoyances than issues. I have used this product at two different companies and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's not really much I dislike about CPM, well, maybe the new name. Old habits can be hard to shake. I've been using the product for a while so I'm used to it, which may make it a bit more difficult to be objective to issues. I know my way around the product. The configuration for the Copy to S3 can be a little difficult but given the feature is something not available within AWS I tend to overlook that.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Initially, AWS did not have a decent native backup solution. AWS Backup has made some great improvements but it is still nowhere near as easy to implement and manage as N2WS Backup & Recovery. The ease and speed of recovery make regular restore testing simple.
Simple efficient intuitive AWS backup solution
What do you like best about the product?
The User interface is organized so it is easy to navigate and the configuration of the software is easy to understand.
What do you dislike about the product?
DR testing has not been fully flushed out. The latest release appears to solve some of those issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Backup of the AWS environment with audit able backups and alerting. Reports of unprotected resources ensure that new instances are not overlooked in the backup solution.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Setup the free trial in your environment and test how quickly you can have backups configured.
Great product and great Support
What do you like best about the product?
It very easy to get the CPM server setup and doing basic backups to start protecting your AWS instances. Also like the new 3.0 user interface.
What do you dislike about the product?
The user guide is not always clear on how to implement a given solution leaving me to contact support for clarification
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The ability to have a cross account for direct S3 DR vault backups is huge. Makes the process of securing and retrieving a DR backup so much easier that the previous method we had engineered using a different vendors product
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Its easy to try plus support is great
Best solution for Backups
What do you like best about the product?
It has a relatively Simple interface. The recovery time feature is good. Flexible backup policies and scheduling which is very helpful
What do you dislike about the product?
Ease of backup policy abstraction must be improved. Users must have access similar to IAM roles.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ease of scheduling backups and restoring then when needed with small number of steps .
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Go for it. It's easy to use and makes your backups an easy one click job at most if not automated.
Good for backup and recovery, annoying to ma
Works as intended for backup and recovery. Saves time for things you can do manually with the aws api.
The reason this is 4 stars instead of 5 is the way the service is provided as an AMI. It basically runs a web server and database on an ec2 instance and becomes a single point of failure like everything else. It is good for N2WS because they don't incur any infrastructure cost but it is a pain in the butt to have to keep upgrading versions by either patching or relaunching and reconfiguring instances. Changing subscription levels is also a pain. In my opinion, this service should be offered primarily as a SaaS service for all UI and state, and the ec2 instance should just be a self updating agent that can interface with the API. Even better would be to just give N2WS an IAM user and make it a pure SaaS solution. In 4 years I have had to upgrade CPM multiple times but I have only had to do an actual restore once which was to create a replica environment for testing a major upgrade.
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