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What Is Comet Backup?
Start running backups and restores in less than 15 minutes! Comet is a fast, secure all-in-one backup platform for businesses and IT providers. You control your backup environment and storage destination (local, AWS, Google Cloud Storage, Azure, Backblaze, Wasabi, or other S3 storage providers).
Our backup software supports businesses across 120 countries in 15 languages. No contracts. Support, updates, replication, and re-branding are all free. Test drive Comet with a 30-day FREE trial!
Who Uses Comet Backup?
IT Providers, Managed Service Providers (MSPs), IT Service Providers, IT Companies, VARs, System Integrators, Backup Providers and in-house IT Teams
Where can Comet Backup be deployed?
About the vendor
- Comet Backup
- Founded in 2015
Comet Backup support
- Phone Support
Comet Backup pricing
Starting Price:
- Yes, has free trial
- No free version
Comet Backup does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. Comet Backup paid version starts at USD 19.00/month.
Pricing plans get a free trialAbout the vendor
- Comet Backup
- Founded in 2015
Comet Backup support
- Phone Support
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Features of Comet Backup
Alternatives to Comet Backup
Reviews of Comet Backup
Comet backup for a Cloud provider
Comments:
We were looking for a backup application that should be able to store efficiently the backup jobs to a cloud storage without using local temporal space.
After a few evaluations we came to Comet, has a good pricing model, it's easy to start with and we are a happy user for more than 2 years.
We are running hundred of backup jobs each day, and a few restores each quarter (we are lucky), and we never had any issue caused by Comet Backup.
Pros:
I was impressed by the ease of use of the server, how to deploy agents and how easy was to extract information from the server to report to our users how the backup was protecting their information. Also, every time we opened a case with Comet, response time and quality was top notch.
Cons:
It doesn't integrate (yet) with change tracking with the hypervisor so all the virtual disk has to be read each time, and that it'd be nice to integrate with S3 protocol Object locks to hedge against potential ramsonware attacks. I know that they are on it on both things but still not available.
Our MSP trusts Comet Backup for all of our customers
Comments: We are very pleased with Comet Backup as an MSP. We are using it to serve hundreds of customers and device and I can sleep well at night knowing it's taking care of backing up our critical data for all of our customers.
Pros:
The software works very well! We do mostly disk image backups and they have been flawless, fast and storage efficient. I love that Comet Backup has a self-hosted option which we are using. The support has been top notch and very responsive and helpful when we need them to answer questions. Their documentation is also top notch.
Cons:
I don't really have any cons but I do have some feature requests such as more integrations, like Discord integration and Twilio SMS integration. Comet Backup does support custom webhooks and we've been able to achieve what we need with that but then I have to support our custom webhook integrations. I would rather Comet have native integration for Discord and Twilio for alerting and reporting.
Alternatives Considered: MSP360 Managed Backup and Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
Reasons for Choosing Comet Backup: Axcient was very error prone and higher cost. Datto was more like a less configurable black box compared to Comet with less options.
Switched From: Datto RMM, Datto EDR and x360Recover
Reasons for Switching to Comet Backup: Comet has the enterprise features we need without being super expensive.
Review Cloud Web
Comments: Overall it's between OK and good. Hopefully there will be big updates to smooth out the ease-of-use.
Pros:
The pricing, the featureset and the scheduling of tasks.
Cons:
The Server back-end, sometimes there are weird errors backing up restored VM's, sometimes slow performance, no instant disaster recovery from the data.
Great Backup Software for MSP
Comments: Overall the software is better than others that I have tried and I think it's a good value for the money.
Pros:
I like the ease of use as well as the ability to see what is going on quickly with my end points. Since it works with my MSP software I can get reports and such through there.
Cons:
There isn't much that I don't like, but selecting what needs to be backed up and retention can be a little confusing.
Alternatives Considered: Acronis Cyber Backup
Reasons for Choosing Comet Backup: Price and the fact that it worked with my MSP software without addons.
Switched From: MSP360 Managed Backup
Reasons for Switching to Comet Backup: The price was a big factor of my decision.
COmet backup for small business
Comments: I liked using it and when they changed the pricing model, I attempted to move away from them. I did not have any luck with three other vendors so I came back. They are priced fairly now and have a good product.
Pros:
Ease of setup and use. I also like the ability to see all backup status on one page.
Cons:
I didn't care for the new pricing model, but I was not alone. Comet changed it, so everything is good now.
Alternatives Considered: NAKIVO Backup & Replication and BDRSuite
Reasons for Choosing Comet Backup: Price and ease of use. Intronis was very difficult to use in terms of their website.
Switched From: Barracuda Intronis Backup
Reasons for Switching to Comet Backup: Pricing was one factor. The other was, I could not get the other products to work reliably. They obviously work for others, but I had issues.
