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ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus vs pins

A side-by-side editorial comparison of ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus and pins — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.

Shared themes:cloud-storage

ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus vs pins: at a glance

FeatureManageEngine RecoveryManager Pluspins
SectorAnalyticsAnalytics
Velocity score2.50.0
Sparks · 30d00
Top themesad-backup, entra-id, disaster-recovery, cloud-storagedata-versioning, cloud-storage, databricks, serialization
Last editorial update2h ago5d ago
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What is ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus?

RecoveryManager Plus keeps widening its backup coverage across the Microsoft identity estate.

RecoveryManager Plus is a backup-and-recovery tool for Active Directory and Microsoft 365, and it is the most feature-active of the ManageEngine set here. Recent builds add real backup coverage — AD sites and subnets, Entra ID local admin passwords, S3-compatible repositories, SIEM audit forwarding, and Entra ID BitLocker recovery keys — alongside CVE patches and RemCom agent hardening. Build 6322 is the quietest of the run: a single fix for restarts triggered by an outdated ExchangeOnlineManagement PowerShell module during Microsoft 365 enumeration.

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What is pins?

pins keeps adding a storage backend per release while retiring its original API

pins publishes and versions R objects to a board, where a board is whatever storage you have. The recent releases read as a steady list of new boards - Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, Databricks Volumes, Connect vanity URLs - alongside serialization changes that track which formats R users actually want: parquet via nanoparquet, and qs replaced by qs2.

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ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus vs pins: editorial side-by-side

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RecoveryManager Plus keeps widening its backup coverage across the Microsoft identity estate.

◆ Current state

RecoveryManager Plus is a backup-and-recovery tool for Active Directory and Microsoft 365, and it is the most feature-active of the ManageEngine set here. Recent builds add real backup coverage — AD sites and subnets, Entra ID local admin passwords, S3-compatible repositories, SIEM audit forwarding, and Entra ID BitLocker recovery keys — alongside CVE patches and RemCom agent hardening. Build 6322 is the quietest of the run: a single fix for restarts triggered by an outdated ExchangeOnlineManagement PowerShell module during Microsoft 365 enumeration.

◆ Where it's heading

The direction is coverage expansion: methodically extending what can be backed up and restored across on-prem AD and Entra ID, while broadening cloud storage targets and operational integrations. The dependence on Microsoft's own PowerShell modules is the cost of that coverage, and 6322 shows where it bites — a stale module on the customer's side takes the product down mid-enumeration. Feature builds and pure-fix builds alternate at roughly a two-month cadence, so a single-issue build reads as a gap between feature cycles rather than a slowdown.

◆ Prediction

Expect continued expansion of Entra ID and cloud-native backup coverage and more storage-target options, with security patches folded into each build; the next build carrying a Features section is due on the cadence this feed has held.

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pins keeps adding a storage backend per release while retiring its original API

◆ Current state

pins publishes and versions R objects to a board, where a board is whatever storage you have. The recent releases read as a steady list of new boards - Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, Databricks Volumes, Connect vanity URLs - alongside serialization changes that track which formats R users actually want: parquet via nanoparquet, and qs replaced by qs2.

◆ Where it's heading

Two long-running processes, neither dramatic. Backend coverage expands toward wherever teams already store artifacts, which increasingly means Databricks and cloud object storage rather than a shared drive. Meanwhile the legacy pin() API from before the board model has been in a staged deprecation across at least three releases, escalated each time rather than removed.

◆ Prediction

Expect another board or two as storage platforms are requested, and the legacy pin() functions to finally become errors; the format list will keep tracking whichever serializer the R community settles on.

Alternatives to ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus and pins

Other Analytics products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus or pins.

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Recent activity from ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus and pins

Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.

  1. 1d agoManageEngine RecoveryManager PlusFixes restarts from an outdated Exchange Online PowerShell module
  2. 2mo agoManageEngine RecoveryManager PlusPatches CVE-2026-11374 in cross-product SSO
  3. 2mo agoManageEngine RecoveryManager PlusAdds AD site/subnet and Entra ID password backup
  4. 4mo agoManageEngine RecoveryManager PlusHardens RemCom agent against CVE-2026-2740
  5. 5mo agopinsqs2 replaces qs; pins can be written in multiple formats
  6. 6mo agoManageEngine RecoveryManager PlusAdds S3-compatible backup repositories
  7. 9mo agoManageEngine RecoveryManager PlusAdds SIEM/syslog audit-log forwarding
  8. 1y agopinsPin previews on Connect; Databricks host normalization
  9. 1y agopinsAdds board_databricks() and switches parquet to nanoparquet
  10. 2y agopinspin_write() arguments must be named; Connect caches removed
  11. 2y agopinsMessage clarity and Google Drive dribble handling
  12. 3y agopinsboard_gdrive() added; cache location configurable

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus and pins?

Both compete on the same themes — cloud-storage — within Analytics. ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.

Is ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus better than pins?

Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.

What are the best alternatives to ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus?

Top ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/manageengine-recoverymanager-plus for the full list with editorial commentary on each.

What are the best alternatives to pins?

Top pins alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "pins alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/pins-r for the full list with editorial commentary on each.