N2W Backup & Recovery for AWS Advanced Edition
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Automated cross-account backups have reduced disaster recovery time and support reliable drills
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
N2W has positively impacted our organization by allowing us to conduct recovery drills and share information with our customers about our improvements. We have managed to reduce the disaster recovery time from four hours to one and a half hours, which is sufficient for our needs.
What is most valuable?
The best feature N2W offers is the cross-region, cross-account capability.
What stands out about the cross-region and cross-account feature is that I don't need to handle API calls to copy from one region to another region. I simply create the backup plan and schedule the time, and N2W takes care of copying the snapshot. Additionally, I can set up the subscription for monitoring, and in case of any failure, it sends an email to the corresponding team.
What needs improvement?
I wonder if there is any pathway for backing up other solutions such as OpenSearch and other services.
I chose a rating of nine out of ten because I expect the ability to back up Elasticsearch or something other than RDS and EC2, with OpenSearch being the primary solution I desire.
For how long have I used the solution?
I did not evaluate other options before choosing N2W, as this was referred by one of my friends.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
In my experience, N2W is stable, and I do not see any issues; the support is excellent.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
From a scalability point of view, I do not see any issues in our environment. The accountability of the resources covered in N2W remains constant, so I do not face any issues with scalability.
How are customer service and support?
Customer support for N2W is excellent, as they are able to answer quickly, and I do not have any issues.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We have not used any different solution before N2W.
How was the initial setup?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is smooth, as I have not faced any issues while spinning up the instance from the marketplace, and the documentation is very comprehensive.
What about the implementation team?
I did not evaluate other options before choosing N2W, as this was referred by one of my friends.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is smooth, as I have not faced any issues while spinning up the instance from the marketplace, and the documentation is very comprehensive.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We have not used any different solution before N2W.
What other advice do I have?
My advice to others looking into using N2W is that if they need multi-region snapshot copies, they can definitely try N2W, as it is a straightforward and simple setup. I provided a review rating of nine out of ten.
N2WS for the win
A solid platform that gives lots of flexibility to the customer for their DRAS and backup solution. I appreciate N2WS for include a resource control group to control EC start/stop. This helps the business financially. I appreciate the scheduling option and the automated restore option to test backups. The only criticism is lack of training in the platform. The video's exist, but it would be helpful to have quarterly business reviews to make sure all customers understand the platform and fully understand how to automate backups.
A highly stable and easy-to-use solution that can be used for backing up EC2 instances
What is our primary use case?
We use N2WS Backup & Recovery for backing up EC2 instances.
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?
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
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?
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Super Easy Backup Solution
N2WS is the simplest and most easy to use Backup Solution for AWS. Once configured it does a pretty good job. Even upgrades are super easy.
Backup and Recovery Ease
As someone once said, "Backups are easy...it's the recovery that's the real test." They are exactly right. I got my first chance to do a Microsoft Windows server recovery (instance root restore) using the CPM product. The process really was quite straightforward and took only a minute to restore the instance back to a working condition. Would highly recommend giving the product a trial.
Done and done, well mostly..
The Cloud Protection Manager product provides an easy to use interface that enables you to backup and restore out of the box.
After spinning up our AWS infrastructure it became quite clear that managing snapshots for multiple volumes with many instances was not going to be something that would happen easily. We started off with some basic scripting to create nightly snaps that were scheduled via cron and another script that would remove the old snaps after X days. The largest issue came when we needed to restore a full instance and all of its respective volumes. In a disaster situation the number of steps needed to manually recover an instance combined with multiple instances immediately had us searching for a solution.
We had the requirement for the solution to be hosted in our infrastructure. We were not interested in leveraging a SaaS provider that had our credentials and remotely accessed the system. We came across CPM and immediately started a trial. Out of the box we were backing up and restoring systems without any issue. We have used the backups several times to help replicate PROD issues by restoring a full instance into a different VPC and Subnet with just a few click of the mouse.
The developers and support have been very responsive to our questions and have offered several suggestion to assist with our deployment. We have now converted to the Advanced edition and are quite happy with the speed at which we were able to get backups up and running with very little effort on our part.
Why not 5 stars? The major issue that we have is relating to the way scripts are handled to deal with databases and setting them into and out of hot backup mode. The functionality is there to do this but in a large enterprise with many DB servers the current solution does not scale well in our opinion. We are working around it with some external automation but we hope that this changes in the future. IN addition the ability to restore across AWS accounts is missing. This is important to us as we have multiple accounts to separate some functions and occasionally need to put a backup of a system in the other account. Currently we have to do this manually, again we hope that this is supported in the future.