Acronis Cyber Protect Reviews

It is used as a backup for production services.

Its ability to back up and recover our production environment from ransomware.

Acronis Cyber Protect shows only a few features. We are using their default type of security.

I am using the default features of Acronis Security.

I use Acronis Cyber Protect for backing up my entire server infrastructure, which comprises around 40-50 servers, including both virtual and digital servers.

In our recent experiences, Acronis Cyber Protect proved most valuable during instances of colleagues facing migration challenges due to ransomware impacts. In these situations, where servers and backups were affected, having a backup stored in external drives or other devices within our data centers posed risks. To address this vulnerability, we decided to shift to a cloud backup solution.

Acronis CyberProtect has the deduplication feature, reducing server data by approximately sixty percent, which contributes significantly to cost savings. It supports various operating systems such as Linux, Windows 7, Windows 2019, and Windows 2022. It enables backups for file servers, specific applications, and even Gmail accounts, streamlining our backup processes.

The tool requires just one or two individuals to manage effectively. Additionally, the day-to-day reporting feature enhances our monitoring capabilities. It sends alerts in case of backup failures, providing timely notifications via email. This eliminates the need to manually check the backup status by logging into the system

Its dashboard is easy to navigate for daily operations. The UI simplifies tasks and is accessible on mobile devices. Attaching a machine involves obtaining a code, and entering it during registration. Understanding the functionalities takes about four to five hours. A person with four to five years of IT experience can easily comprehend all the functionalities of the platform within four to five hours, making it a user-friendly platform for administrators.

Version 11.7 was good, but 12.5 is much more sophisticated. It does a lot of things that 11.7 didn't do, like protecting from ransomware. The structure and the organization of it is better than 11.7. In terms of backups, it works more efficiently. It takes less time to do the backups than 11.7 did, and a whole lot less time. From my perspective, it does what it's supposed to do. It backs up and secures my data.

If you get hit by malware and it says, "I'm gonna crash your machine in five minutes," or something like that, this software finds it out and recovers it right away. It restores your machine automatically to where it was. That's an enormous stride forward.

If you need to recover, it's the best recovery software I've ever used and I've been in this business for over 30 years. Plug a disc in and tell it to recover this machine and it's done. You walk away from it and it's done. Reboot it and it's perfect.

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This might be a lack of understanding on my part, but it's difficult to purge old backups.

Also, there's something in it that detects ransomware. But it's detecting a program that runs in the background of my machine that it thinks is ransomware. But it's a printer equipment utility that runs in the background. I copied the link and put it in the "these are okay" section of the software, but it still gives me errors.

Backup and recovery are the most valuable features.

We are able to remotely backup machines from locations across the United States from one centralized point. We are also able to restore/reimage machines the same way. This saves us the ability of shipping and configuring, which kills a lot of time and puts the machine back in service.

Acronis Backup is a backup solution offering license-based and per-GB options for its customers. Customers may purchase a license per device, enabling them to install and manage backups for the respective device. Alternatively, customers may opt for a per-GB license, choosing a specific storage amount such as 200 GB or 50 GB. Our role is to support customers and users based on their chosen license basis.

Acronis Ransomware Protection is one of the best features of the tool. Another feature or advantage of Acronis Backup is its compatibility with multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, and macOS. It also supports database servers and mailing solutions, such as G Suite.

We use the solution for virtual machine backups, physical file backups, and converted file backups. So, we do three individual-style backups using Acronis Cyber Protect.

The main reason we went with Acronis Cyber Protect is because it provides a virtual machine backup feature. We can take a snapshot of our whole virtual machine. Because it's Linux, we could only restore on a volume level with our previous software. We could take the physical volume and restore it one by one, which is not necessarily fast enough.

If we need to restore a whole machine, Acronis gives us the ability to replicate that whole machine. We're using that feature a lot.