We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Protect and Unitrends based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the fact that you can archive backups quite easily and minimize the amount of space you're using."
"Acronis is a flexible solution. It can back up workstations, endpoints, and even your virtual environments and cloud-based environments. So, we can do the backup of the whole gamut of products."
"Acronis Backup is easy to use, intuitive, and has high performance."
"The most valuable feature is the extra protection, especially for the backup."
"It is fast and easy for an image-based backup across all platforms."
"The main reason we went with Acronis Cyber Protect is because it provides a virtual machine backup feature."
"It's always stable. It's very good, useful, and user-friendly."
"In my opinion, it's the best product for end-users and PCs."
"When we talk about a backup point of view, from a backup perspective, it's a good one."
"What I found most valuable in Unitrends is its simple user interface. It also works reliably."
"The ability to backup both physical and virtual machines, along with having an appliance store the backups locally instead of on a file server, NAS, or SAN."
"It's not easy to scale it."
"It is fairly stable."
"When I have had to use tech support, they've been very good."
"I really like the reporting options you get for various email reports."
"Backup/archive to multiple locations."
"They've got an agent to back up Microsoft SQL, to our Office 365, but there is not an agent to back up my SQL databases."
"We have sometimes issues with the child copies and other similar functions, but it's normal with any backup solution. We need to fix those issues first in order for us to be able to do the backup properly."
"The problems that we face are often related to the customer's network, although sometimes there are problems with the software, such as an error in the configuration."
"When you are using enterprise hardware and software that increases over time, there need to be better and more management features. For pure backup software, it is fine, but when it comes to managing a large infrastructure it is lacking."
"It could back up more things. I don't think it can back up Box and some of the other third-party ones. Not that we use them that much, but the more they can do, the better it would be. There could also be better integrations with RMM tools."
"When an error occurs, the information is not always easy to understand and these messages should be made more clear."
"The backing up of virtual machines in VMware and Nutanix needs better integration and the performance of the solution needs improvement."
"The pricing could be improved."
"If the interface could be less complex, it is would be great."
"It would be great to have the job throttle/limit the max number of backups on a single ESXi host."
"The ability to run just differentials without pulling the full on your archive."
"There are a few quirks where the GUI, agent, and back-end are not precisely meshed."
"The solution’s UI can be improved. I am saying this because I have seen solutions with better UIs."
"Follow up for the DRaaS service setup. I'm still waiting to schedule a DRaaS test after upgrading several months ago."
"The solution’s support and onboarding process needs to be improved."
"The solution's base operating system needs to be improved."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 117 reviews while Unitrends is ranked 44th in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while Unitrends is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect writes " Good backup solution but challenges with the stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". Acronis Cyber Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Azure Backup and Commvault Cloud, whereas Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Arcserve UDP and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Acronis Cyber Protect vs. Unitrends report.
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