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.

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 8, 2026

BDRShield and MSP360 Backup compete in the backup solutions category. BDRShield stands out with its comprehensive feature support, while MSP360 is preferred for its simplicity and cost-effectiveness.

Features: BDRShield offers robust support for virtual machine backups, automatic backup replication, and high data compression rates. It supports multiple hypervisors, ensuring easy client management. MSP360 Backup features extensive cloud connectivity, agentless backups, and ease of use for basic backup needs. Its appliance-free setup allows flexibility and efficient online backup capabilities.

Room for Improvement: BDRShield users report inconsistent customer service and time zone challenges requiring improvements in software integration and support responsiveness. MSP360 Backup could enhance its reporting features and improve scheduling flexibility. Users also mention the complexity of setup due to licensing and high initial setup costs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: BDRShield is used in on-premises and hybrid cloud deployments, offering a versatile yet complex installation experience with remote management options. Its support is responsive but sometimes hindered by time zone differences. MSP360 Backup is easily deployable in cloud environments, appreciated for its straightforward installation process and knowledgeable support, albeit with occasional response delays.

Pricing and ROI: BDRShield is seen as cost-effective with competitive pricing and flexible licensing models, offering good ROI when its full feature set is utilized. MSP360 Backup has a lower entry cost, appealing to small businesses, but its pricing structure can become complex with additional fees. Some users feel the value is offset by higher recurring costs, necessitating careful cost management.

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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%

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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

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Pros

"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."

"The Vembu BDR product is very intuitive and easy to use."

"The network solution is the most important feature, because we have our own backup server and are doing file backups for our customers."

"The initial setup is easy and very nice."

"The features I find most valuable are ease of backup, ease of restore, the full restore, just getting some data out of a backup server or even the applications that are in the server, going through the database or going to Exchange."

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

"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."

"I back up one particular server with close to 1.2 TB, and the way the software compresses it is close to 600 or 700 TB. Vembu compresses it to close to 450 gigabytes, that's gigabytes. So that’s really amazing, the way in which the backup compression happens."

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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."

"It has allowed me to implement a cost effective, highly configurable solution."

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

"The most valuable feature for me is that I can see what has has been successfully backed up and what not. I do not mean the file or folder view, because that's problematic with GDPR, but I mean which machines have successfully backed up. It's very valuable because you don't have to check the machines. The second feature is that you can change backup settings in the portal."

"The initial setup is very easy. It's not overly complex."

"The UI is pretty good. It's very simple. That is one thing that we like about this. It's very user-friendly."

"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."

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Cons

"Maybe they can add some features regarding working with the vCenter cluster to be able to have more power over the cluster overall, not just over a single or specific host. Also, I would like some enhancements in technology for the web interface, e.g., some interactive technologies to advance the interface of Vembu. Although the current interface is very good, maybe they can use more advanced technologies for its web development."

"It is very easy, unless you know exactly what you're doing, to corrupt the virtual machines and they get locked up. Just brief detail: When you are creating a system, if you don't have absolutely every other little background processes in place, it creates Snapshots of the virtual machines. Once it does that, it then won't be able to have a backup. From that point on you have to destroy the virtual machine, which is completely counterproductive on a large system. There is a fundamental flaw in the setup that can be very dangerous, potentially."

"The deduplication could be better. It doesn't give the level of deduplication that I would get with a product that's stored in a more standard file format. I would prefer to be able to use a non-deduplicated store on a third-party deduplicated medium."

"I have had issues where it was working and then it stopped and I had to diagnose what had changed or gone wrong to get it back up."

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

"BDRSuite could improve support for XenApp Citrix Backup."

"There were issues with the implementation because of incompatibilities between the tool implementation and our current VMware installation. So, it was an implementation issue that doesn't allow me to use it for VMware backup in the manner in which we would want to use it. That wasn't clear from the evaluation stage nor was it clear from the first utilization of it because it worked in the environment that it was being evaluated in. Based on that, we went ahead and made the purchase of the full implementation. At that point, it became clear that there would be limitations in that implementation that could not be overcome without doing upgrades to the production environment."

"The system died twice and it was apparently the result of corrupted disk sectors. I tried to work with tech support to fix it, but they essentially gave up. So twice, I had to rebuild our server."

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"The product could be more user-friendly."

"The solution's pricing is very high."

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

"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 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."

"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."

"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."

"Using the solution incurs additional charges for the device storage and backup which are not included in the service."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's very affordable. We are very satisfied with the cost. It's very affordable for us."

"Pricing is fair enough. What was not clear enough in the documentation on the website was that that you're licensing per CPU socket and you are only licensing on the restore sockets, not the backup sockets. It's a bit technical, but it was very well explained during the demonstration that we had during the evaluation period."

"The product is affordable, and we focus on SMBs for our customer base."

"We are saving $6,000 every three years versus having another product."

"There is a drawback in the whole approach about how the licenses are managed. There are two consoles: cloud and on-premise. It seems that on a daily basis we have to manage both consoles, which isn't user-friendly. Ideally, it should be either a single on-premise console or only a cloud console. A single platform approach is the better solution. For now, with full licensing, you have to manage your instances on the Vembu Portal, then reassign licenses, and go back to your on-premise management console to do the real management. It is a bit awkward."

"The pricing is fair."

"For someone who doesn't want the Application-Aware feature to work, everything else is up to par. The licensing is straightforward. They license it per CPU."

"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."

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"Its pricing needs improvement."

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

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

"We have a very good return on investment."

"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."

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

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

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

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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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