We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Protect and Veritas Backup Exec 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."I've reimaged servers and been back up and running in exactly no time with the completely new hardware."
"Centralized management is valuable to us."
"The interface is easy to use. They keep on adding new features. Acronis recently added multi-platform support."
"This is a full software so deployment time is very quick."
"The solution is exceptional for desktop backup."
"There is advanced management where we can do passing, software inventory, and hardware inventory."
"The most valuable feature of Acronis Backup is the data recovery and restoration details."
"One of the most valuable features of Acronis is its AnyData Engine which allows any device to connect to any other device for the purpose of data restoration."
"The interface, dashboard, and pricing are all perfect."
"Synthetic backup is valuable. It gives you the possibility to do a synthesized backup, which means that it combines a full backup and incremental backup data and gives it to you in one stream. So, you don't have to restore the full backup and then later go and restore the incremental backup. You can do that in one go."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"Setting up Backup Exec is straightforward. It took less than two weeks to get it up and running. You need maybe two people at most if you have a Veritas-certified engineer."
"The ease-of-use in general is great."
"It is responding very well, and its performance is good. It has a lot of options. For backup, you can connect it to a cloud or a physical hard drive. They also provide an API for integration with different platforms and products. However, we have not integrated it with another product."
"This solution is not complex and you do not have to be too technical to use it."
"It is easy to set up and use for daily processes and a good solution for preserving crucial data."
"The initial setup was complex. We had to deploy it through an external consultant team."
"The solution needs to have better stability. I would like to improve the tool’s support through calls."
"It would be nice to have a partition that I can boot and reinstall when taking a backup image from the operating system."
"In the span of six months, maintenance is done at least twice and you are told that it is coming up, with apologies for the inconvenience. It's a distraction, and it interferes with the backup schedule."
"The product would be better if they offered more integration capabilities."
"A little bit more integration would be good. It should support broader platforms."
"Acronis Backup has a straightforward initial setup process and an easy-to-use interface. However, a potential issue for Acronis partners is that registered partners do not have access to marketing materials, which can make it difficult for them to reach mass markets and sell the product. This could be improved by allowing registered partners to access marketing materials and tools, such as email templates, that would help them to promote Acronis Backup effectively."
"If I could create a protected image backup on a computer partition that just would be just for the image backup; and only the program could access it to prevent viruses from getting into it. That would be very, very good."
"The solution lacked local support, which became an issue for us and our customers. They needed to have more presence on the ground."
"Whenever a job fails, it would be a great improvement to be able to resume the job from that feature. Suppose a job was started this morning and that it is going on while there are interruptions like network issues, server restart issues, server connectivity issues, services stopping, etc. For some reason, let's assume that the job failed or that it was mistakenly canceled by another person. It will be a great improvement if that failed job can be continued."
"Expanding is difficult because if I want to add, for example, a terabyte of data, then I have to buy a disk shelf and it will cost me a lot."
"The solution is too heavy and complex with 1,000 menus and options that make it messy rather than lightweight."
"Maybe they could improve reporting capabilities and predictions."
"The cost is quite high. Along with the general costs, the supposed agents that you have to buy for the various options that you want to use ends up driving the costs higher as well."
"Firstly, the GUI for 2014 is mostly confusing, i.e., if you need to add any additional technical features, then it doesn't require a change to the GUI."
"More stable environment in a WAN infrastructure."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 117 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while Veritas Backup Exec 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 Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Acronis Cyber Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Azure Backup and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud, Veritas System Recovery and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Acronis Cyber Protect vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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