BDRShield vs MSP360 Backup comparison

Vembu Technologies and MSP360 are both solutions in the MSP Backup category. Vembu Technologies is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.0, while MSP360 is ranked #8. Vembu Technologies holds a 6.7% mindshare in MB, compared to MSP360’s 10.4% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of Vembu Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of MSP360 users who would recommend it.

BDRShield

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2025

BDRShield and MSP360 Backup both compete in the backup and recovery software category. While BDRShield has a slight edge in backup comprehensiveness, MSP360 Backup leads in cloud integration versatility.

Features: BDRShield offers automatic backup replication, multiple backup options including Hyper-V and VMware, and supports MSP rebranding. MSP360 Backup provides multi-cloud support, flexible backup configurations, and seamless execution with diverse cloud integrations.

Room for Improvement: BDRShield needs enhanced time zone support, granular control in customer interactions, and clearer licensing. MSP360 Backup would benefit from a more intuitive user interface, better customer support responsiveness, and the addition of live chat options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: BDRShield is usually deployed on-premises and can require significant effort for setup. Its customer support feedback is mixed, with varied response times. MSP360 Backup is praised for its straightforward installation in public and hybrid clouds, though its support reviews are inconsistent, especially during critical times.

Pricing and ROI: BDRShield is cost-efficient with competitive pricing and flexible licensing, offering good ROI over time. MSP360 Backup, while initially costlier due to its licensing, remains competitive through cloud service integration, but careful management of high storage costs with providers like Amazon is crucial for maintaining ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

BDRShield

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

21st

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

10th

Ranking in MSP Backup

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

MSP360 Backup

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

60th

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

33rd

Ranking in MSP Backup

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (47th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the MSP Backup category, the mindshare of BDRShield is 6.7%, up from 6.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MSP360 Backup is 10.4%, down from 15.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

MSP Backup Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
BDRShield	6.7%
MSP360 Backup	10.4%
Other	82.9%

MSP Backup

Featured Reviews

Thomas Roes

Director at Switact

Ease of backup and restore improves data management with reliable support

The interface of BDRSuite Backup & Replication is pretty intuitive. Regarding their marketing strategy, I'm very bad at marketing. I always get a little edgy when people try to shove their product in my face. There are two sides to the story. If you don't know something exists, you might not even start to look for it unless you really know that you need it. If you are explicitly looking for a solution, then you'll find it. People that don't know that they should do backup don't have a place in IT. I rate BDRSuite Backup & Replication 8.5 out of 10.

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CONRAD FORREST

President at MTS Consulting Group, Inc.

The solution provides the ability to backup all types of cloud drives, is inexpensive, and has decent support

MSP360 Backup provides the backup functionality, but we need to provide the storage component. We can use Azure, AWS, or another provider, but we need to choose the storage provider and create a bucket to store our data. The vendor is making changes to improve the functionality of the service and the separation of storage, but I would like to see more integration and a knowledge base of the tool. Currently trying to understand why the storage is separated and how to implement the storage properly is a challenge. Using the solution incurs additional charges for the device storage and backup which are not included in the service. Unlike other solutions such as Kohl which includes everything at one price. MSP360 Backup can be improved by adding inclusive pricing.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It was very difficult to find a product that supports Red Hat Virtualization natively and to take a snapshot of the VM or a full backup or a dump from the machine. The option that Vembu proposed, to take the machine as an image, take it from the system, is also good."

"It backs up our virtual machines with the CBT, Changed Block Tracking."

"Because all our servers are hosted on VMware, the VMware backup is the most valuable feature. The integration and backup with VMware are very good."

"The most valuable features for me are that I can back up the entire virtual machine, but when restoring I can restore at the file level."

"We have seen ROI. The real return is when something bad happens. All the proof of concept work that we did, all the testing we did, it all panned out for us. We're already seeing a return on that."

"The main difference I see between Vembu and the other solutions we've tried is that with Vembu, you don't need anybody to tell you what to do. Once you have done the installation you just look at the user interface — it's very friendly — and you can do things yourself without resorting to help from anybody."

"Their support is great. I think they work 24 hours a day. I get a very quick turnaround time from them no matter the day or time that I send them an email."

"The main benefit is that it's inexpensive. We get a lot for a little bit of money. I'm very happy with the savings and with the features. It allows me to do everything I need."

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"One massive advantage of this solution, as compared to more enterprise products, is that no firewall changes are needed on the client's premises. For the product to back up from the client's premise to the cloud, it just needs port 8 and port 443, which are anyway always open. This was one of the things that made us decide to go with the product. It is very difficult to justify a firewall change for a small client who doesn't even know what a firewall is and how to maintain a firewall, or doesn't have anybody maintaining their firewall. You then have to maintain the firewall. MSP360 Backup takes away firewall change requirements, VPNs, or channels that are needed for the backup."

"MSP360 Backup's most valuable feature is its backup interface."

"The most valuable feature of MSP360 Backup is its reliability."

"The feature that I have found most valuable is its online backup capacity because you don't have to do an entire backup again and again, it just does whatever you type in, you type a, it goes a, you type b, it goes b. It doesn't take an entire site up again and again. So that incremental and bit by bit backup is important, it is a nice feature here."

"Client-side encryption minimizes worries about data being captured on the back-end."

"The solution is easy to access and handles things efficiently."

"The best feature is that it's very user-friendly to do scheduled backups and version maintenance."

"The solution is simple to use and easy to configure."

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Cons

"I had a small problem integrating VMware and Hyper-V when customers used a free VMware license to create VMs. This is a problem because many customers use the free version of VMware. There are also some issues backing up old systems. They have a little difficulty but can always get strong support from customer service."

"The API uses a common data image to store the data for the sets, but unfortunately, it's limited to consecutive sets only. That's the only limitation I have observed so far."

"What I would love to see on the dashboard are graphs, per backup job. I want to see the month and the days in it... If a job has failed, when did it actually fail and what percentage of it failed? Did it fail completely, 75 percent or 100 percent or did it only fail partially?"

"We had a lot of problems getting it configured in the first place. They also wanted us to allow them remote access to our machines without us watching what they're doing, which is a huge security risk for us. We said we couldn't do that, and they said they don't offer any phone support whatsoever."

"Vembu BDR currently supports backups of O365, although it does not currently have an email archiving function to the O365 backups."

"I don't know if it exists, but it would be helpful to get email notifications when there are issues with the backup. I'm sure it probably exists, but I just don't know how to do it. They also have an Azure proxy feature where you can restore to Azure. It's not really well documented. I think they should document how to do that a little better."

"It would be good to have a volume licensing discount. We're a managed IT service provider, so we're backing up not just our own systems but all our clients'. In that regard, as we grow, we're putting business through Vembu. There is not any specific partner incentive at all. So that would be nice to see."

"I would like to have a different set of products instead of having a single software which does everything."

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"The graphics are looking a bit old and should be updated."

"There are some things that we don't like about it. That is why I was exploring alternatives in a hyper-scale environment. That is why I was checking IT Central Station."

"The Linux GUI leaves a lot to be desired. It lacks many of the features of the Windows version and is buggy, but it is still usable."

"We could basically use just a more concise visual dashboard reporting on the status of the various machines."

"The solution needs a better graphical user interface. It's a graphical user interface that is very old-school right now. They could give it a little more modern feel."

"They can add some production backup capabilities and the ability to do single instance back up. At the moment, it doesn't do deduplication on the standard backup. So, the issue is backing up PSG files for customers who have limited bandwidth. The other issue is that I don't like the implementation of the SQL backup. We do use SQL ourselves using a PowerShell script with the VDA tools as a module. That's how we back up. The rotation feature would be nice to have, but I know that they've got it on their dashboard or on their list to look at. They can also do a few tweaks to the dashboard. I would like the reporting capabilities on the portal to be much more granular. Normally, I export it to a text file, and then I run it through a pivot table in order to look at it from a cost-recovery point of view and to see when the backup last ran and if it was successful when it ran two or three days ago. Such a feature would work really well for my market. They can also add a cost-effective backup for Android and Apple cellphones. I've had one or two customers who were looking for this feature. I haven't found this functionality at the moment. I've been looking for a product that does that."

"The interface feels like it is targeted for end users who typically are looking for an all-in-one integrated push button solution. It would be better if the interface had a beginner mode and an expert mode."

"The initial setup is a little complex as it has to be done in the office and requires someone to come in and install the solution on your server, then configure the scheduling, backup pushing, and so on."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The only thing with room for improvement, as everybody says, since I'm in a home lab, would be the price for the CPU; the cost... As far as competitors' prices go, Vembu was definitely better than all the competitors I found."

"The pricing is reasonable. I am okay with it."

"It's just the license per host with one CPU, but if I did choose offsite cloud replication, they do charge for the data. They charge per gigabyte, or something like that. They have plans."

"It has actually benefited my operation a fair bit. VMware requires a special hardware while Hyper-V runs on pretty much anything. It doesn't require any special hardware, so it saves a bit of money. Because Vembu does Hyper-V backup, there is no limit on how many VMs you can have. The newer version has a 100 VM limit on the single license, which has been greatly beneficial, because on one host a 100 VMs is a fair bit."

"Previously, we used Veeam Backup, but we replaced it with Vembu. We switched because Vembu is more cost-effective. So, price was a factor."

"The price point of this software is good, and I can do everything I need. In terms of the affordability of the solution for businesses with a tight budget, we're on a small business enterprise package, which is half the price of the regular enterprise package. It's super affordable. The features you get for it are enterprise-level. I'm very happy with the pricing."

"The license is per unit and is expensive."

"The price for BDRSuite is justified."

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"The cost is pretty inexpensive. Around four to five dollars per device, per workstation on each server."

"The solution is expensive."

"We have a very good return on investment."

"Pricing is reasonable although can be quite a large upfront cost."

"MSP360 is vastly cheaper than its competitors and has almost all the same features."

"I rate the price of MSP360 Backup a seven out of ten."

"It provides a good cost savings compared to our previous cloud backup."

"It includes a standard licensing fee. Once a year, there is a rebranding fee. The licensing costs are available on the internet for MSP360 Backup. There is a discount structure where if you have over 50 devices, you get a 50% discount. So, my cost is $2 a license per month."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

19%

Manufacturing Company

Performing Arts

Marketing Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Real Estate/Law Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	44
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	10

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	2

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BDRSuite?

The best part of BDRSuite is how user-friendly it is and how it does not require any maintenance after the initial setup.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BDRSuite?

BDRSuite is cost-effective because you can purchase a perpetual license that covers multiple environments. You only renew the support costs annually. It offers advanced features at roughly 75 perce...

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What needs improvement with BDRSuite?

I really don't know what could be improved about BDRSuite Backup & Replication. I've never had anything that I thought would be nice if that was possible. Every time I thought that, it was alre...

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Also Known As

Vembu BDRSuite, BDRSuite Backup & Replication

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Overview

BDRShield offers seamless backup and recovery, catering to VMware and Hyper-V environments. It's designed for ease-of-use with high efficiency in data management and storage.

BDRShield offers a suite of capabilities designed for effective data protection and recovery. It is known for its user-friendly approach, allowing Java-free agentless backups, and high compression rates that optimize storage resources. central management provides straightforward setup and maintenance, reducing complications. Tailored to suit multi-tenant needs, it seeks to provide comprehensive backup solutions for managed service providers. Incremental backups and quick virtual machine recovery are standout features, alongside a focus on cost efficiency. While users find value in its core functionality, enhancements in customer support responsiveness and an intuitive dashboard are desired. Compatibility with technologies such as Red Hat Virtualization and improvements in data deduplication and cloud storage are areas of growth.

What are BDRShield’s main features?

User-friendly UI: Simplifies navigation for a better experience.
Efficient Backup & Restore: Ensures data security and swift recovery.
VMware & Hyper-V Compatibility: Supports leading virtualization platforms.
High Compression Rates: Saves storage space without sacrificing quality.
Centralized Management: Streamlines configuration processes.
Agentless Backup & Replication: Reduces overhead and simplifies deployment.
Encryption & Deduplication: Enhances security and storage efficiency.
Multi-tenant Support: Benefits managed service providers extensively.
Incremental Backups: Conserves storage and reduces bandwidth usage.

What benefits does BDRShield offer?

Cost Efficiency: Balances performance and value.
Quick VM Restoration: Minimizes downtime and accelerates recovery.
Disaster Recovery Options: Provides robust solutions for data protection offsite.

BDRShield is leveraged widely across industries to protect virtual and physical server environments. Its ability to back up crucial applications, databases, and files both on-premises and in the cloud makes it a versatile choice for various businesses. Small to medium-sized businesses benefit from file-level and image-level backups, ensuring data integrity across platforms like VMware, Hyper-V, and ESXi.

Vembu Technologies

MSP360 Backup is a comprehensive data protection solution designed for businesses of all sizes. It offers a wide range of features and capabilities to ensure the safety and security of critical data.

With support for various storage destinations, including local drives, network shares, and cloud storage providers, MSP360 Backup provides flexibility and scalability. It also offers advanced scheduling options, allowing users to automate backups based on specific time intervals or events.

The solution supports both full and incremental backups, minimizing storage requirements and optimizing backup speed. MSP360 Backup also includes built-in encryption and compression, ensuring data privacy and reducing storage costs. Additionally, it offers easy file and folder recovery, allowing users to quickly restore lost or corrupted data.

With its intuitive user interface and robust set of features, MSP360 Backup is a reliable and efficient solution for businesses looking to protect their valuable data.

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NASA, Intel, CISCO, PHILIPS, Atos, HEXAWARE, Motorola

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