---
title: Hornetsecurity VM Backup Reviews
meta_title: 'Hornetsecurity VM Backup Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features |
  G2'
meta_description: Filter 274 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry
  to find out how Hornetsecurity VM Backup works for a business like yours.
aggregate_rating:
  rating_value: 4.7
  review_count: 274
  scale: '5'
date_modified: '2026-07-13'
parent_category:
  name: Backup
  url: https://www.g2.com/categories/backup
---

# Hornetsecurity VM Backup Reviews
**Vendor:** Hornetsecurity  
**Category:** [Server Backup Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/server-backup)  
**Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 274
## About Hornetsecurity VM Backup
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.



## Hornetsecurity VM Backup Pros & Cons
**What users like:**

- Users commend the **excellent customer support** of Hornetsecurity VM Backup, enhancing their overall experience and satisfaction. (1 reviews)
- Users praise the **ease of use** of Hornetsecurity VM Backup, highlighting its simplicity and responsive customer support. (1 reviews)
- Users find Hornetsecurity VM Backup **easy to use** and appreciate the excellent customer support provided. (1 reviews)

## Hornetsecurity VM Backup Reviews
  ### 1. We are fully satisfied.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civic & Social Organization | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2021

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

A single Restore of VMs, for example is a differential.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

We have no record of any malfunction or deficiency in the solution.

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

Technical and commercial support in our country

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Be able to assure customers a guarantee of restoration of a single VM or the entire infrastructure.

  ### 2. The easist backup system I have used!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2021

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Ease of use for granular recall of  files & emails

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Nothing so far and have been using it for nearly 3 years

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The speed of being able to recall lost files without the need to reload tapes or physical devices

  ### 3. Cost Efficient, simple setup and ease of use.

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Emmanuel D. | Manager  - Special Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

I think the title sums it all. I have seen and used multiple backup platforms in the past and Altaro sets the bar with competitive pricing and ease of use. Features like boot from backup have changed the way we manage our environment and reduced hardware footprints by eliminating redundant infrastructure use for user acceptance test.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Reporting and diagnostics tools could use some improvement.
The diagnostic tool in particular grabs takes a lot of time to gather and log files are so huge that sometimes it's a challenge for client to send information to Altaro.

Also, remote support have to be scheduled even if you have support in email or phone. Email exchanges are inefficient specially in critical incident that requires immediate attention.

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

For small and medium size business, I would highly recommend Altaro.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Problems:

* Cost effective solution replacing Microsoft Windows Server Backup.
* Single pane of glass for monitoring and reporting backup/restore state.
* Faster backup and restore turn around.
* Storage capacity.

Benefits:

* Altaro addressed all problems mentioned above.
* Features like "boot from backup" saves us time in performing test and reduce infrastructure foot print.
* support on cloud integration

  ### 4. The Altaro Man

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2021

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Friendly interface, easy to manage. Excellent support!

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Altaro missing features like : direct mailbox restore to Exchange.
Takes ages to browse backup

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

Good deduplication and compression

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

missing or deleted files can be easily recovered

  ### 5. Great tool at reasonable price

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2021

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Tech support is excellent and instant. The tool itself is straightforward to use

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

I haven't faced any issues so far. It's been great and easy.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Restoring granular files or whole VM is very easy and fast.

  ### 6. Good backup

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2021

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Very  easy to use and easy configuration

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Sometimes the backup is a little bit slow

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Hyper-V stopped  creating a snapshot

  ### 7. Simple yet powerfull & reliable! Why pay more for a VM backup software?

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** olivier o. | Directeur Infrastructure des systèmes d’information chez Groupe ALTICAP, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

You can set it in a minute and forget about it....
Extremely fast and efficient in required storage space (thank to compression and deduplication)
Backup locally or to the cloud
Manage from a cloud portal
Excellent support
Prices fit any size business

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Being a french MSP, i regret that Altaro only speaks english (support included)
I regret that a cloud backup requires a local backup first
The free version only allows to restore on the same host afrom which backup where made

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

Give it a try - it is free for  days (no hasle to be expected from sales people - don't worry)
Also subscribe to the blog and newsletter which comes with very interesting insight about IT, virtualization and market

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Altaro is great at quick and reliable backup of Virtual Machine (HyperV and Vmware)
The interface is so easy to use that it takes only a minutes to set a backup for your hypervisor even in a high availability cluster (one of my customer uses Altaro to backup daily 200 Vm within a HA cluster for a total160To of vhdx)
I have sold and maintained around 500 hypervisors protected with AltaroVM since 2011
It is an affordable backup solution for small business too
Support is excellent and very reactive
Scheduled restore checks
Optional real time replication to a remote host hosting AltaroRepository Server (which is free)
you can host your own cloud repository with AltaroRepository Server (which is free)
There is now two solution for licensing: per host/year  or per VM/month
backup are encrypted

  ### 8. Altaro VM Backup is a great tool for backup peace of mind

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Paul d. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

The new user interface is much cleaner (recently upgraded from v6 to v8), everything is easy to find and when first installed, the wizard guides you through the process of getting going very well.  Once set, with daily email reports, you can almost forget that it's there, running in the background making sure your VMs are safe.  I particularly like the de-duplication feature as it saves a lot of space, and the ease of restoring either full VMs or just a single file.  The reporting and scheduling functions work seamlessly, I can always tell if there has been an issue with a backup and take the appropriate action.  The few times that I have needed support from Altaro, they have been on hand and helpful in resolving my issues.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

There is nothing I don't like about Altaro VM Backup.  It's a complete solution for VM backup, at a cost the won't break the bank.

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

Get the free 30 day trial, it's fully functional, once tested you will want to purchase it.  The great thing is, if you want to use it in a very small environment, you can continue to back up 2 VM's for free, forever - after the trial has expired.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The problem of backing up VM's to an external, offsite location has been made much easier with Altaro VM Backup.  Although I don't use all of the features with offsite backup (directly from host server to an offsite location) I still take localized offsite backups and transfer these offsite for peace of mind.

  ### 9. Fit for Purpose

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Vytis K. | Assoc. CPM Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Does the job just right and relieves one from using clumsy native VM backup by Microsoft. Support is just fantastic - always got professional advice within hours of the request.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

I could not identify a single flaw. During the numerous years I have been using this software there has not been an issue or it has been solved by the support in no time.

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

If you are looking for a solid back-up solution for a reasonable price - Altaro VM Backup is the way to go.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Altaro VM Backup enables me as amateur sys admin to be able to be in full control of my VM back-up's, to be able to chose all different options, etc. which native VM back-up does not offer.

  ### 10. Good backup solution for VMs once you get it configured properly.

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Phillip W. | Network Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

I needed a backup solution for 2 VMs, and Altaro offers a free version for up to 2 Virtual machines. Once it was correctly configured, it's successfully backing up each day. So far, it seems to be fast and requires little interaction once you get everything setup. Backups have been successful thus far.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

the free version that backs up 2 VMs is only if the 2 VMs are on the same host. I didn't find that out until I contacted tech support.With my setup, I had 2 hosts, with 1 VM each. I solved it by applying for 2 free licenses. Free version offers limited functionality, but that's to be expected. It's free.

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

Give it a try. trial period with full functionality, then if you have only 1 or 2 VMs you intend to backup, you can use their free version.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I am using Altaro to backup a couple of Hyper-V virtual machines in an active directory environment. I have backup solutions in place to backup/recover the data that's on the virtual machines, but did not have a system in place to backup the virtual machines themselves. Altaro is helping take care of that.

  ### 11. No worries VM backup

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Simple configuration no worries setup and clear analytics. Also deduplication is great.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

You need MSP license to administer multiple customers. Had some issues with file level restore while machine level restore has proven to be easy and quite fast considered the amount of data,
It would be great if it comes with a bandwith limiter for remote backup as I had to install one in order to not consume bandwitdth available for users during remote backups

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

I think that Altaro VM Backup is a simple yet powerful solution for both local and remote backup in an hyper-v/vmware infrastructure.
Dashboard showing at a glance the status of your backup is a great plus.
Found also great data consumption in terms of disk footprint and bandwith consumption.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

VM Backup for customers both on premise on a local NAS and in the cloud via Azure.
Having a single dashoard showing the status of my local and remote backup is extremely useful.

  ### 12. Great Product for on prem data centers.

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Compression, Compression, and Compression. On a tight budget for backup media, altaro shines with its compression algorithm. We are able to keep months of backup data and protect terabytes of VMs easily utilizing deduplication and compression.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

During a recovery scenario when working with the support it felt as if I had to keep suggesting solutions in order to get a technical response on how to solve a problem we had with our config. This is as opposed to from the get-go if support knew of that particular solution, they should have brought it up as an option. As a customer, my first alternative will never be to lose my backups.

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

The only catch to Altaro is that it must run on Windows Server so plan your licensing accordingly.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We are able to create various levels of retention for different data across our different VMs.

  ### 13. Why we chose Altaro

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Paul H. | Senior System Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

The total package which includes pricing, (increasing) functionality, ease of use, deduplication functionality  and includes off-site capabilities. This combination made it clear for us that Altaro was the way to go.

Deploying Altaro (on-site and off-site) was straight forward. And since the deployment the software has been an invaluable addition to our infrastructure.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

The missing option for policies (i.e. automatically add VM's to a storage location or schedule based on hostname or by default selection) out of the box. But it might be something which can be automated through the use of Powershell.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Altaro consolidated and standized out back-up infrastructure (coming from multiple solutions and test plans.) and decreased our storage use due to deduplication.

**Official Response from Angelica Micallef Trigona:**

> Thank you for your review; we appreciate your feedback! I wanted to clarify that we do we do have default backup location options as well as settings templates that you can use. I'm including a Knowledge Base article that should help with this, but do let us know if you require assistance: https://help.altaro.com/support/solutions/articles/43000480262-using-backup-settings-templates

  ### 14. Altaro VM Backup Protected Information.

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Paul S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

The Altaro VM Backup system is very easy to configure and start in our company or on our PC, for us in the company I find the interface pleasant and how useful it can be to save information as a backup we have managed to archive large amount of information in order to avoid loss or problems of any situation in the companies in this way with Altaro VM Backup is kept safe, any loss of important information and Altaro keeps it safe with backup copies in turn we have achieved link the mail and cloud to keep the data in its base.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

A negative point that I have respect, although it is not something that affects the system, there may be companies that do not like to download software and install it since other systems are managed in the cloud and perform the same function as this software, I indicate again is from a comparison point of view it does not affect the system but it is necessary to mention.

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

I definitely recommend the service because it has worked with respect to the information saved, we have not had any kind of inconvenience when operating Altaro VM Backup, for this reason I recommend the service to other users or companies that need to keep their data duplicated and safe, each file is hidden and It can only be used by the user of the system.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It definitely keeps the information safe and duplicated, it is an important point that Altaro VM Backup has done in an incredible way since we have not had any point or inconvenience regarding the saving of the information, the internal backup function, which is all our files, computer documents and company and external base that would be our emails and cloud which is duplicated and saved automatically keeping the information safe, very happy with its interface and tools.

  ### 15. For me: The best !

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Stephan S. | Geschäftsführer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Altaro does what I expect to do. But for me the important difference to others is:
The support is fast and perfect.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Nothing. May be the price, but not really. It helps me to verify
that I have allways a WORKING backup.

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

Use the Trial version and find out by yourself, how useful it is.
I am sure, you will never miss it after the test :-)

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Backup of virtual environments without any
manual support is needed. It simply works.

  ### 16. Works and is cheaper than Veeam

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Tomasz S. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

WAN Compresion, easy planning and easy restoration

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Slow interface, and issues with linux disk backed up vrom VM without granular restore.

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

Very good competitor to other more expensive solutions. Has most of finctions that are needed by most of us.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Problems with Budget. But solution is worth spent money. Dara is being repliaced to multiple places so wverthing works as it should.

  ### 17. Safe and reliable

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Olaf S. | IT-Leiter, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

I really like the simple backup and the reliable restoration of the fuses. I can also praise the easy installation and the stable function.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

The nested retention policy is not good. The settings should be improved through a calendar view.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Virtual machines are backed up and can be safely restored.

  ### 18. Works very well. Easy set-up and easy accurate restores.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Steve J. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Easy to use and configure. Peace of mind at a great value.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Nothing to complain about that I have found.

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

You cannot go wrong with this solution. I was worried at first but after 5 years, it has not failed me once.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Fast backup and recovery of all VM'S, ability to restore single files.

  ### 19. Hassle-free backup

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

It is very easy to set up the backup of a VM with Altaro - the backups are performed fast and with extraordinary good compression.
Likewise, the restore process is fast and easy to go through.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Would be nice with a "catch-all" feature, that ensured that newly created VM's automatically gets backed up (via a default setup).

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Ensuring a safe, trustworthy backup of critical servers

  ### 20. Altaro VM Backup Review

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** michelle f. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2021

  ### 21. Very useful and relyable backup Tool

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Elmar Z. | Chief Operations Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

We backup our complete Hyper-V and VMware Environment with Altaro and it realy looks very stable!

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

as far as I see at the moment, there are no further points - but I quess Altaro will permanently develope the tool.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We backup our complete Hyper-V and Veem Environment with Altaro. If we need any restore of lost files, we take the tool.

  ### 22. Hands Down Best backup solution

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

The ease of installation and use as well as the features

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

renewal of license process seems to be a bit clunky and not clear per pricing breakdowns

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

none to consider, this was incredibly easy to use and has been 100% stable

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

backup of servers and the ease at which they can be backed up with Altaro

  ### 23. Altaro VM Backup Review

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Investment Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Simplicity and ease of use, also support is stellar.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Minor issues but support has helped and not even worth mentioning.

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

Altaro is a great product, easy setup and system to understand as well support is stellar.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

With Altaro VM Backup I'm solving the need for all my clients backups where I have an onsite backup along with a cloud backup to Azure.

  ### 24. Great solution

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Leandro K. | System Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

I really like the simplicity of the Altaros panel, is really very simple to use.
I also enjoyed the integration with Wasabi Storage.
Backup storage with Altaro is very cheap by integrating Wasabi
It is possible to set up local and remote storage locations very easily.
CDP provides an additional layer of security in case of a ransomware attack.
Deduplication is amazing, saves approximately 70% of the data!

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

It does not back up Linux physical machines or Windows desktops. It would be perfect if it did.
could have option for cloud disaster and recovery, possibility of performing a backup restore directly on Amazon or AWS, it is will be a great feature if exists.


**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

It should be considered that it does not back up linux physical machines.
There is only support for physical Windows Server and provisioning will only be possible on a hyperV VM

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I'm just using it to back up my clients virtual machines.
The backup process runs perfectly, and I sleep more peacefully now, with the logs sent daily in my email.
Deduplication is amazing, saves approximately 70% of the data!

**Official Response from Angelica Micallef Trigona:**

> Thanks for your review of Altaro VM Backup for MSPs.  We really appreciate your input. Should you wish to back up physical Windows desktops, you can do so with Altaro EndPoint Backup for MSPs, managed via the same multi-tenant console you are already  used to. We don’t yet support direct recoveries on cloud infrastructure but will be starting with Azure VMs (launch date as yet to be confirmed).

  ### 25. Altaro - Making Backup Easy for MSPs

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Julian S. | Founder and Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Altaro for MSPs is so simple and easy to use.  The intuitive web portal is great and appealing to users with any level of skill and experience in a BDR solutions role.

The Altaro Management Server allows us to fully manage and maintain our own clients backups within our own control, without the need for a third-party solution. Our clients are reassured and love this 'one supplier' solution.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

We had significant issues in setting up the Off-Site Server. This has now been resolved but took some time initially.

When we would like to manage a client server backup, we must login locally on that client server and run the Altaro agent locally. If we were able to manage the server from the Altaro Central Management Server it would be brilliant and save a shed load of time.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Replication and Verification of backups is just awesome. A great feature that allow us to demonstrate the exceptional level of resilience and protection provided with Altaro software.  Spinning up server backups is a quick and simple process.

Altaro will allow us to generate new new revenue streams.

  ### 26. This was a game changer for our company!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Curtis B. | General Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

There are many VM backup products out there, but few that can compete with the likes of DATTO and this was it for me. With a centrally managed web interface for all my clients, I can setup my own on-site and off-site backup locations. This is VERY powerful as I'm no longer a slave to specific server hardware or high priced third party off-site locations. Glandular restore, including exchange mailboxes and messages are even easier than all others I've tried. The overall cost to our company is pennies compared to the rest, and I believe this product is just as good, if not better, than all the rest. I've been with Altaro since it's beginning and I can honestly say their support team only gets better and better every year.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

For a perfect product, Altaro needs a physical server backup solution that can restore to physical hardware. The current version will only restore as a VM, and while that's powerful in it's own right for migrations and transitions, A physical server backup and restore to physical server would make this product the very best solution for smaller MSPs like us.

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

Sign up!

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The immediate problems solved are the elimination of high cost off-site storage and the high cost of hardware for the local backups. This product is a game changer for us.

  ### 27. Finally a reasonably priced and High quality

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Christopher S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

The backups are so reliable that I almost don't have to monitor it.  I have been using it for years and Altaro is constantly adding new features and improvements to the software.  From a pricing point, I think its the most attractive in the market.  I have used other vendors for backups and cost has always been an issue as well as ease of use.  Altaro is great in all these areas.  Lastly, the offside backup function is impressive even over lower speed connections.  I have not had to seed an offsite backup in more than two years because the de-duplication and speed is so good that its just not necessary.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Possibly adding more hyper-visors to the list of compatible systems.  Altaro is adding new features all the time so I cant really complain about anything.

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

The trial period is all you need to test the product out and love it.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It is critical that physical and virtual servers are backed up and also stored offsite.  With Altaro, I can offer a solution to my customers that is cost effective and world class.  I no longer have to rely on someone in the office to take the backups offsite since I can get daily offsite copies to a remote storage repository.

  ### 28. Very easy to use software

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

I like the easy of use, it's very simple

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Nothing, everything works well. Thank you

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

It works as it should, it's easy to implement and a good price. I really like it

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It's an easy to use back up solution which works quietly and without failure.

  ### 29. Altaro is good backup software for virtual environments.

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Steffen D. | IT-Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

It is easy to set up, works reliably, and the support functions well.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Unfortunately, no German-language user interface.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Backups of various virtual machines under Hyper-V as well as VMware.

  ### 30. Best Backup Solution for Hyper-V

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Jens L. | Geschäftsführer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Offsite copies via WAN are best. It is fast and secure

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Missing S3 support. Would be nice for Offsite copies

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Fast backup and recover of Hyper-V VMs.

**Official Response from Angelica Micallef Trigona:**

> Many thanks for your review! We appreciate your input. I wanted to clarify that you can in fact save offsite copies to Amazon S3 using the "Add Offsite Location" button. Please contact us should you need any assistance with this: https://help.altaro.com/support/home

  ### 31. MSP VM Backup & Recovery Made Easy

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Brett C. | Technical Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

We have been using Altaro VM backup pretty much since its inception. the product has gone from strength to strength.  As an "All Inclusive" MSP we offer backup as default on our service packages so we needed a simple, solid, reliable and easy to maintain solution to satisfy these requirements.  We use the CMC to centrally manage all our clients and there associated hosts and guest VM's.  The CMC gives us a single windows to view backup health, replication health as well as the technical information of each host.  The CMC is also great as a single source to update all our clients hosts in one swoop.!

Clients asked about Offsite backups and it was around that time that Altaro released the Offsite Server Solution, is was easy to setup,  we host ours at a local data centre and as a bonus its FREE :)

With the addition of replication we no longer have to use the Microsoft Solution of multiple servers to achieve what Altaro VM backup will do with just 2, this saves time and more importantly the client money.

Most MSP's will realise the advantages of "Per Month Per VM" billing too, no expensive one off costs per client.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Occasionally we have had issues with software versions not upgrading and getting stuck in an install loop, however this is cured by rebooting the host server, not a major issue but rebooting a clients host does mean downing the clients guest VM's.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Clients like the fact that we can report back daily by email the backups are complete, both Local and Offsite.

Replication is a real winner, having a standby system ready to roll in an emergency is great news for the clients

Restoration of the complete guest VM, Virtual Disk, Folder, File is also a winner, especially if you use shadow copies and they have lapsed.

Multiple archiving options also help with longer term backups.

**Official Response from Angelica Micallef Trigona:**

> Thanks so much for your kind review, Brett!

  ### 32. Straightforward and reliable

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Daniel H. | IT Consultant / Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Altaro is not overly complicated, functionality is great (running backups and more importantly restoring), support is there the instant you need them, and the pricing structure is great for the clients and the MSP.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

We've had compatibility issues in the past where newer versions of Altaro didn't like BUs taken with older versions.  Took a bit more time but no major issue.  As time goes on that will be less of a problem.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The multi-tenant platform, where we can get an overview and manage all our clients from a webpage is awesome.  We couldn't go back!  We also love the ability to host an Altaro Off-Site Server, that we can give clients secure access to, that doesn't require a VPN.

  ### 33. Excellent backup solution

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Alberto B. | Proprietario, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2019

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

The after-sales technical support is very helpful and efficient.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Considering the features, the price is competitive

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Cluster backup

  ### 34. Altaro - A must have backup for VM's

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Shane S. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

We first tested Altaro in 2016 and have never looked back. 
We are a small MSP who relies heavily on this as a sound backup solution for our SMB clients.
The ease of use is outstanding and this has only become better over time. 
The de-duplication and compression is second to none, easy to read dashboard, fast backup and restore, 
boot from backup, physical machine backup for the host, built in health monitor, continuous data 
protection and the list goes on and on. Support team is knowledgeable and available when required.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Not much to dislike about Altaro backup, if anything I would like the reporting to be a little more 
comprehensive for failure emails, other than this Altaro meets all of our requirements, including backup for O365.
A workstation backup would be handy.

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

If you want fast reliable backups with a very easy to understand console then I would definitely recommend you trial Altaro.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Altaro requires minimal administration, takes very little time to configure and have your first 
backup under way. More often than not restore of files or folders is required and this is fast and reliable. 
We have been extremely satisfied with Altaro, utilised in Hyper-V environments, definitely worth a trial if you are 
in the market for a good backup solution.

  ### 35. Intuitive, Fast and reliable Backup

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

We moved from DATTO, Solarwinds Backup and Veeam and love the intuitive design, configuration and use of Altaro.  They also keep making it better each month we are very excited to partner with Altaro!

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

I wouldn't say we dislike anything but hope one day they will also have the ability to remote into our systems when we have an issue to see it first hand rather than forwarding them logs or voice and chat only.  It has all worked out and support has been great I just think issue get solved quicker ifbboth parties can see with their eyes.

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

Give it a try if your using any other BDR solution or looking to backup your Office365 and or Physical and Virtual Servers

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We were able to create our own BDR Solution with providing our customers a high powered micro PC as a backup server running Altaro with backups every 15 minutes we are extremely satisfied with our move to Altaro and neither would any one else who did.

  ### 36. Easy to use and dependable

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Ben G. | Network Systems Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Altaro VM Backup is simple to setup but very powerful with some excellent options for more advanced requirements.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Nothing really with the server app i dislike, an iphone and or android app to monitor backups easily on the move would be a good idea.

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

This will make your life so much easier

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Our clients love being able to outsource their offsite backup to us and avoid having to have a member of staff responsible for remembering to change the backup drive every day and take it off site and also avoids the chance of backup media being in someones bag which in a fire situation might get left behind.

  ### 37. Great backup solution for both small and big clients.

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Lars Z. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Easy to setup and use. Can be used for both small and big clients. Great monitoring on successful and failed backups.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

You have to wait for the maintenance mode to finish before you can restore files or folders. It would be nice to be able to pause the maintenance mode.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

With Altaro VM Backup we are able to fully restore production environments quite quickly if needed. We can also guarantee recovery by using off-site backups.

Monitoring and performing daily backups.

Incidentally we use it to recover files or folders for clients if we cannot recover them from the Windows shadow copies.

  ### 38. Save Time and Money on Backups

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** mason a. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Easy to setup and deploy, completely manageable from the CMC Dashboard, which saves times and money. With many different backup options for both on and offsite you can fit most clients needs without deploying new physical infrastructure. It it just works.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

No option to backup to Backblaze B2. The physical machine backup does not have a cloud option

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

We recommend a Synology NAS to back-up local backups to, especially if using the physical device backup.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We had a convoluted backup process that was hard to monitor and deploy. This scales nicely and solves that for a very affordable price.

  ### 39. Altaro

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Clay S. | Network Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

It has a very simple user interface, thats easy on the eyes

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

I haven't really had any complaints so far.

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

If you are looking for a software that has lots of bells and whistles but is a fraction of the cost of big names, this is your best option.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We have good backups and retention, and it puts our users minds at ease.

  ### 40. Why we chose to leave the competitor and move to Altaro 

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** shlomo f. | Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2019

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Extremely easy to install, configure and get running. Within 15 minutes, all the Hyper-V hosts and the VMs were recognized and ready for backup. A non-experienced junior employee can get the product up and running.   
User GUI is very clean, clear and intuitive. We managed to perform all the tasks without reading any instructions. 
Altaro is fast, very fast. The first time we performed a full backup, there was concern that it completed too soon, and that the backups were not usable. But we restored to a test drive and they all checked out.  The incremental backups with deduplication are even faster, taking only a minute or so per VM.
The Deduplication compression is very good. We are currently looking at over 80% savings of space.
The price is right. They have a very fair pricing structure for both licenses and support services and offer discounts and incentives when needed. 
Offsite backup feature easy to implement. Using their offsite server setup file, any computer within the intranet/internet can become an offsite backup location.  
Consistently improving their offerings. With every new release of the software, clients are introduced to new features and functions, many of which have come from the clients themselves. They listen to the client’s feedback.
Exemplary support services. One of the few companies that offer 24/7 support staffed with senior technical resources. We have always been able to receive support and assistance almost instantly. 


**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Too sensitive with error codes from storage devices. In cases that other products complete the backup and restore, Altaro fails due to minor errors reported from storage devices. I wish they would complete the backup and just add a warning that there was an error code reported. Using a new storage device resolved the issues in our case. 
No support for backup JOBS. You can only define one  primary and one offsite backup source, and each VM can only belong to these 2 sources. It would be nice to be able to backup a VM multiple times, to multiple primary sources, each source with different retention policy. This can be achieved only by a many to many relationship between VMS and Primary/Offsite sources. I was told this may be coming out in the next release. 



**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

make sure your backup locations are new and error free

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

While we are a smallish company, we have a pretty large virtual environment, mostly for development and testing purposes. We currently house about 80 VMs and have at our disposal about 60 TB of disk space. We were unhappy with our current backup software and started looking for alternatives.  Altaro was chosen as the replacement software primarily due to their exemplary support services, fair pricing structure and a rich set of features and functions.  As a software company ourselves, we are very aware and sensitive to the level of support that comes with purchasing a software. Altaro offer 24/7 technical support, and they are very good at resolving issues and answering questions. 

**Official Response from Angelica Micallef Trigona:**

> Thanks for your kind review of Altaro VM Backup - we greatly appreciate your input. I'm pleased to confirm that the support you require for backup jobs will become available later this year.

  ### 41. Great for clients that need simple and affordable VM backup

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

This is a great fit for smaller clients that might need to backup a server VM or two, especially Hyper-V ones as the software can reside on the Hyper-visor. 
Price-point and functionality are hard to beat and the product keeps getting better. Most of the functionality is intuitive after a quick read of the help documentation and support is available. My only gripe is with the management console as you can't change backup configurations in detail but still need to login in o the on-premise client to do so, also reporting could be better. Again for the price point provides good value and keeps evolving.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Management console is more of an overview console as the detailed configuration needs to be done on local client installs. Some of the reporting could be more elaborate (example. Off-site backups could report more detail on size of backup from particular VM's and provide better insights).

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

Great for MSP's providing services to the SMB market space. Pricing is more affordable without sacrificing on the functionality.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Great solution for clients that don't need an Enterprise level backup (especially if running on Hyper-v). Great flexibility for backup locations and continuously improving functionality.

  ### 42. Simple and Easy-to-Use-Product with fair Pricing

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Sascha K. | IT-Experte, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Altaro MSP is simpel and easy to use, needs no extra machine or sql, is with a fair accounting and pricing that fits my requirements perfectly

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Altaro MSP is only available in english language - german would be desirable ;-)

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

Think differently, not always stick to other standards, try and experience yourself the product

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Altaro MSP is my preffered product to backup the virtual and also physical servers of my customers

  ### 43. Perfect backup solution

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Barry C. | IT Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

The speed of the support is awesome! Our account manager keeps us up to date with new features. And the simplicity of the suite means a very small learning curve.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Granular restore on physical server backups is not present currently. However, this is on the product roadmap.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Offsite backup's to a controlled environment means we can test our restore procedures within minutes.

  ### 44. Altaro for MSPs is an effecient and valuable tool for backups management. We like it very much.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Marek . | Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Central management of backups for all tenants, full Altaro functionality, Backup templates are also very usefull. This all is covered with a reasonable pricing.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Sometimes it is a little bit slow but it is acceptable since it is a cloud platform. It would help to be able to manage client server backup centrally via Altaro CMS.

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

I can not think of any advice, everything with Altaro has been pretty straight forward. This is what we like in your software.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The best benefit is a central management for multiple tenants, also possibility to use Altaro on multiple hosts! Per VM model is very efficient.

  ### 45. U paralleled light weight VM backup software

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Adam D. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

We have been using this for some years now and not only is there tech support excellent , the product updates regularly but the solution works perfect! Total package

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Dislike , cannot think of anything? It works

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

Check out http://www.shadowsupport.co.uk . Altaro UK Midlands reseller and consultant for on and offsite Altaro backup solutions. Tel: 0121 705 1999

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Altaro allows our clients to backup multiple levels of security on and offsite automated with email notifications for peace of mind saving them money and time.

  ### 46. Altaro Backup Review

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Louis M. | Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Altaro is very user friendly and quick to setup offering enterprise onsite and offsite capability. The standalone physical to virtual restore program has helped   us a lot to help our customers get rid of aging equipment.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

We haven't come across anything we dislike.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Having data when customers get hit by ransomware has helped us many times. Also reducing old and aging equipment by doing P2V's have helped us.

  ### 47. Altaro VM Backup

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Altaro VM Backup is very easy to use and does what it is supposed to for a good price/value

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Altaro VM Backup has no downsides so far.

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

Altaro VM Backup is easy to use and does backups reliable for a good price.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Automated backups of all my virtual machines. Restore is quite easy and works well.

  ### 48. Easy to setup, simple for monitoring

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Zlatko M. | Technical manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Setup was very easy, onpremise and cloud. Reporting is OK

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Recovery migt be problematic. Boot from backup was problematic in some cases

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

Very good for virtual enviroments, not so good for backup of entire physical workload

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Easy monitoring of all remote backups was big step forward in our services

  ### 49. Altaro VM Backup has completely changed how we manage our client's backups

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

The backup compression is incredible, the feature set is comprehensive and the CMC is very intuitive.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Whilst not necessarily an Altaro specific issue, I was a little surprised that the physical server backups cost £8 per server per month via our cloud supplier, as opposed to £4 as per the virtual machines.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Before implementing the Altaro products for our clients, attempting to manage backups was almost a full time task. Now we simply monitor the console and / or check our email alerts to ensure that operations are running smoothly. We have already utilised the software to completely recover two separate clients from ransomware attacks - this recovery was completed within 24 hours, something which would have simply been impossible prior to our adoption.

  ### 50. Altaro Backup review

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Antonio R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2020

**What do you like best about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

Easy to install, manage of entire process is very easy and clean.
One console and show entire partners and status of theirs backups.

**What do you dislike about Hornetsecurity VM Backup?**

only one situation with the data that do not appear in the backup from one client.
the support was not give any help with that.

**Recommendations to others considering Hornetsecurity VM Backup:**

Good tool for backup, give it a try, over other sellers.

**What problems is Hornetsecurity VM Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?**

management with only one console, all information regarding backup status in one place, not need to take much time to understand the status.


## Hornetsecurity VM Backup Discussions
  - [Can I monitor multiple Altaro VM Backup installations?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/can-i-monitor-multiple-altaro-vm-backup-installations) - 2 comments, 1 upvote
  - [Do I need to re-install if I want to upgrade from the Free Edition?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/do-i-need-to-re-install-if-i-want-to-upgrade-from-the-free-edition) - 2 comments, 1 upvote
  - [Do you offer volume discounts?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/do-you-offer-volume-discounts) - 2 comments, 1 upvote
  - [Do you offer discounts to educational, government, non-profit or NGO organizations?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/discounts-756d1aa1-42bf-4a0f-9fcf-1f9c8154b410) - 2 comments, 1 upvote
  - [How does your pricing work?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/pricing-143907bd-08fc-450c-8ee8-38e4e51ea695) - 2 comments, 1 upvote

- [View Hornetsecurity VM Backup pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/hornetsecurity-vm-backup/reviews?page=3&section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-13+16%3A23%3A44+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=2010cfcb-a931-4d80-a810-c6059aef02d6&secure%5Btoken%5D=6041b73946d38854795edb8e1623fb1e23d382a9cf8d538f30eef4bf879c2882&format=llm_user)
## Hornetsecurity VM Backup Integrations
  - [DiskStation](https://www.g2.com/products/diskstation/reviews)
  - [Wasabi Object Storage](https://www.g2.com/products/wasabi-object-storage/reviews)

## Hornetsecurity VM Backup Features
**Compatibility **
- File Server Backup
- Database Server Backup
- Virtual Machines
- Repository Models

**Management**
- Disaster Recovery
- Remote Backup
- Storage Formats
- Scheduled Backups
- On-Demand Restoration

**Management**
- Continuous Backup
- Disaster Recovery
- Storage Capacity
- Remote Backup
- Activity Monitoring

**Reporting**
- Activity Monitoring
- Documentation
- Alerts/Notifications

**Compliance**
- Security Standards
- Cloud Data Protection
- Data Deduplication

**Security**
- Data Encryption
- Security and Compliance
- Deduplication 

**Agentic AI - Server Backup**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making

## Top Hornetsecurity VM Backup Alternatives
  - [Veeam Data Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/veeam-data-platform/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (682 reviews)
  - [NAKIVO Backup &amp; Replication](https://www.g2.com/products/nakivo-backup-replication/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (328 reviews)
  - [MSP360 Backup](https://www.g2.com/products/msp360-backup/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (532 reviews)

