Solarwinds Backup and Recovery Reviews in June 2026: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

MIGRATED TO N‑able Backup

Very good backup product

What do you like best? I like that it actually works well and integrates into N-Central. Alerting and reporting appears accurate. What do you dislike? I wish I could use this technology to virtualize a machine on site in the event of a hardware outage. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? My backups used to be hit and miss. Now I never have to worry about reliability.

Easy to implement and good margins

What do you like best? We like the fact that it is so easy to deploy and the costs are extremely reasonable. Fully 20% of our clients use this product for their backups for both workstations and servers What do you dislike? We are finding it difficult to diagnose issues related to not being able to VM it during a restore but we are currently working with support to diagnose. Recommendations to others considering the product: Always implement a local hard drive (we create them and ...

very easy backup

What do you like best? how easy it is to deploy and monitor in the portal. Also it just works. What do you dislike? When the portal don not work and there is an issue with the reports What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We had an issue were a client server was dying and we user the recover tools to keep a machine ready on our cloud network until it died

New to the service

What do you like best? Offsite backups. Single pane window for results. What do you dislike? Cost per device, minimum monthly investment, and low fair use policies What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Offsite backups

Backup

What do you like best? The ease of deployment and quick view on the status of backups What do you dislike? The encryption choices when setting to lock the backups What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? The problem we are solving is the ability to quickly perform backups of servers and workstations. Benefit of ease of use removes the need for heavy training.

Great Backup, Steep Price

What do you like best? SW makes it incredibly simple to backup servers and workstations. Compared to other backup solutions that my org has used, there's no drama, no sort of "backup anxiety". It is the most hands off process that I've seen when it comes to backup. What do you dislike? Of course, with the quality and ease of use with SolarWinds Backup comes a fairly high price. Compared to other vendors, it is hard to justify this price to our clients. We would love to use SolarWinds ...

Backup Experience

What do you like best? Easy to monitor on one page. If any issues do occur, the details are provided in 1 click. What do you dislike? I have not experienced any issues yet using this product. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Any issues that come back in the results of backup errors. They are often describe exactly what caused the error or failure.

Backup is useful and important

What do you like best? I like that its able to be managed in the same dashboard. I also like how easy it is to implement it on workstations. A third thing I like is the recovery process it works well and it pulls the required data. I also like the backup verification aspect in the dashboard. What do you dislike? I dislike how long it takes to pull a backup. I also dislike the limit on data. several of our clients have several Terabytes of data and it requires a different backup ...

Easy to Use and a solution you can trust

What do you like best? Pricing, ease of use, reliability and capability. What do you dislike? No on premise (but we have an alternative solution for that so it's a moot point) What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Desktop Backup, Full Cloud dependence, cost barriers removed.

Good potential but still in need of some features

What do you like best? Dashboard is easy to read. Process by which backups are built makes it easy to do single item restoration and rollbacks. What do you dislike? Testing full system restores can be a pain. Whenever a backup is failing it requires fairly extensive research to determine the fix. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Providing a great service to our customers and increasing the value of our offerings.