Acronis Cyber Protect Reviews

Image based backup, restore Windows based images quickly and on different hardware.

Quickly restore backups with minimum fuss.

GUI for management of backups. Using 11.5 more difficult with keeping on tabs with all backup schedules and status of backups, even when using the management console feature of the software.

16 months.

Yes, combining with Hyper-V host to backup Hyper-V Virtual machines.

Yes performance issues were encountered whilst backups were performed, especially on large file servers.

Due to having previous issues V10 installed, a straightforward upgrade could not be completed. Need to perform an uninstall of previous software first.

3/5.

Yes to perform install on Hyper-V posed a number of challenges, needed to ensure VSS was operating properly was the main one.

In-house.

No, as this has been used always with the organisation.

Evaluate product using their 30 day trial to ensure it meets the needs of backups and restore.

Very easy to restore backups down to the item level depending on what you are backing up. We have used Acronis Backup and Recovery for around 4 years backing up our Datacentre servers and individual application servers such as Exchange, Sharepoint and SQL. Acronis Backup and Recovery has a simple interface that allows administrators to quickly achieve basic backup tasks and restoration. Administration only becomes difficult when configuring complex backup tasks.

Sometimes backups become corrupted and can not be access via the Recovery Console, You can send the backups too Acronis support (Could take months depending on the size of the backup) and they will try to recover the data, however rarely do. Installation is resource hungry. Sometimes configuration can become too confusing.Before deploying Acronis we did test multiple backup solutions and did quickly realised that - we will be using Acronis as it provides all the features that we needed.

I do recommend using Acronis Backup and Recovery for a small business.

We installed the Acronis Backup agents on the user's computer stations that require backups. We then created a schedule and a backup policy. Additionally, we deployed Acronis Backup on the Windows Server. I connected with the local discs of the server, which will be the targets of the backups.

For my first experience, it is the best software for backups, especially for a five-system backup.

The solution could improve by providing more database backup features and have better integration with many different types of databases. We cannot implement it in all of our infrastructures.

I have been using this solution for approximately one year.

I have found the solution stable and has good performance.

The solution is scalable.

The solution is simple to deploy with the provided documentation that was very detailed.

The implementation took us approximately two days with two engineers.

There is a license required for this solution and it can be on a monthly basis.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Acronis Backup an eight out of ten.

On-premises

Mounting .tibs, Live Boot Restore, and Universal Restore:

• Being able to open and mount .tib images allows for easy restoring of files.
• Live boot DVD allows for easy restore of entire system in a catastrophic hard drive failure without having to rebuild OS from scratch and then installing programs and restoring data. (I highly recommend performing at least one test restore to a hard drive of similar size, to the boot drive being imaged, to be sure images can be restored successfully).
• Universal Restore allows for moving of systems to new and dissimilar computer hardware. All are valuable and reliable with Acronis Backup 11.7.50220.

Universal Restore has made moving systems to dissimilar hardware less difficult.

Live thumb drive boot process does not work well and support for it is lacking.

No.

No.

Support for issues other than the bootable thumb drive issue have been good.

I used Backup Exec and Ghost. I liked the imaging aspect of Ghost, but found Acronis Backup got much better over the years.

Setup is fairly straightforward.

The licensing cost for Acronis Backup Workstation is fair.

I have not used other products since moving to Acronis Backup.

For businesses that collect customer data, I would not use a cloud solution. Images that can be synced to an external hard drive that can be stored offsite is the only solution I recommend.

The backups are real easy. They are real easy to restore and I can back them up in multiple locations.

We always had a certain amount of difficulty doing backups and getting them to work correctly. For instance, tape backups are always horrible. The software has made a great improvement in this area.

Off the top of my head, I can't think of any areas for improvement. It's been great.

I have been using Acronis for about a year.

I haven’t had any stability issues.

It definitely can scale because our files grow daily.

I think we only called technical support during the installation. That worked out well. I would give them a rating 10/10.

We used Windows backup and we tried a few others, but I don't remember the names. We tried a bunch of free stuff and it was time to get the real deal. This solution had the best ratings.

The setup was straightforward as was restoring the files. I've been able to just go right on and restore the files that I need.

I got recommendations from people who do the same thing as I do. They all recommended Acronis as the best product, so I just went with it.

It is very reliable and easy to use.

It is one of my favorite backup software. Its much faster and reliable than the other softwares that i have tried. Its earlier versions were having problem backing up x64 bit structure but later versions are doing fine.

Not much really. The only problem that i face while using this software is that the backup taken using its older versions do at times create problem while being restored with new versions. So what i believe is that there is something missing between different versions which cause(occasionally) the later versions not to restore the images taken by the earlier versions.

Backing up computers remotely and storing them on a network share.

It’s invaluable for disaster recovery and is pretty quick doing a restore.

Sometimes I’ve found the agent won’t install, and it doesn’t give you a reason why. You click on the event link, and it goes to the Acronis site, and the site says no information found.

Eight to 10 years (with older versions).

No.

No.

They are very good on chat, which is what I use mostly.

No.

The setup was straightforward, and it installed quickly.

Machine licenses can be a little costly, especially if you have many machines to image.

No.

Take some time to learn the program, and all the functions it has to offer.

The biggest feature is the universal restore.

No improvement, just the ability to perform backups.

None.

3 years.

I have never run into any issues.

No.

No.

Customer Service:

I haven't dealt with them at all.

Technical Support:

Tech support has been great.

I didn't start using Acronis until I came here 3 years ago - it's what the organization was using already. I found that I liked it better than Symantec.

I found it pretty straightforward.

In-house.

No, it was already in use when I started this job.