Acronis Cyber Protect vs Barracuda Intronis Backup comparison

"From my perspective, the most valuable features in Acronis Cyber Protect include ransomware protection and antivirus. These features not only add significant value but also play a crucial role in closing deals. When selling backup for Microsoft 365, these security features, like ransomware protection and antivirus, serve as a starting point to offer backup and protection."

"The most valuable feature is that you can do a bare-metal restore even with dissimilar hardware."

"It makes a full image of the hard drive. If a hard drive fails, all we do is recover to another hard drive."

"The most valuable feature of Acronis Backup is the data recovery and restoration details."

"The administration is pretty flexible in terms of defining a multi-tenant type of setup."

"It's a good solution that's very easy to use. Acronis has two valuable features. The first one is creating images, and the other is starting virtual machines in the cloud so the client can work immediately."

"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."

"The setup is very easy."

"The product is easy to install and use while doing what it is expected to do."

"Most important is its ease of use. You plug it in, follow the steps, and you have your backup file."

"We perform backup drills to test the functionality, and we don't have any problems."

"They are the best support that we have had so far. When you contact or email them, they are very quick to respond. They always have someone available for us. That's what we want as a customer, we want someone to listen to us."

"The most valuable features are the deduplication that analyzes data to identify duplicate patterns and granular restore."

"The cloud side of it is nice. Everything happens behind the scenes without you realizing it, which is nice. It doesn't interrupt usage. There is also the freedom and ease of use of the cloud portal, which you can use to manage your backup. One of the strong points of Barracuda is that you can go from zero to having your first backup running within 10 minutes. If you have access to admin accounts and everything else, it can happen in 10 minutes. The ability to go in and just restore a particular file without having to do a full restore is also very useful. You can just go in and pick the files that you need to restore, and the same is with email. You can just go in, find an email, and restore that email without having to do a full backup of all the data or a full restore of the data. I feel very safe because it is not just about the backup; it is about the protection of the data from outside threats. They have a lot of areas of ATP, that is, advanced threat protection. You don't see that much on the backup side. You see it more on the email side. In the email protection, you know it is there at the back. It moves the quarantine emails that come through into a sandbox area, and then you can choose in the sandbox. You can open up an email in the sandbox to make sure that if there is a virus, it can't harm you. You can also plan how often your backups run, such as every six hours or four hours. It is the same with email. They also have a great PhishLine package, which is phishing attack training. You can have the strongest and the best backup and security that you can, but the end user is always the weakest link. They send almost like testing emails to end users to help them identify and understand phishing emails and prevent user or phishing attacks. It is a very good package."

"Easy, immediate protection for data that is virtually infinitely scalable."

"Of all the backup products we have used, this by far is the simplest to install and use."

"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."

"We have issues with the SQL databases which are a little shaky."

"The replication part and failover are areas in which improvements are required."

"The initial setup was complex. We had to deploy it through an external consultant team."

"I have no suggestions for improvements as I have only used the product for a month and have yet to really discover all of its aspects."

"We needed to have help from the vendor for implementation. The vendor used two personnel. We have system administrators and they do the server backups themself."

"The reporting can be improved."

"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."

"It is not always stable."

"I would like to see better integration with third-party applications."

"I would like to see a way to increase space."

"I am working in some of the more rural areas of Sweden, and some of the customers here are a little bit wary of cloud technology at the moment. It is not like in Gothenburg or Stockholm, where people rely on it so much more. In the rural areas, companies are saying that we do need to use the cloud, and they are being very wary about their data, especially with GDPR and all that kind of stuff. Having more control and having an option for backing up locally, even if you don't want to use it, would be something very good. The cloud backup is brilliant, but there should be an option to take that cloud backup and save it locally as well. If you lose connection to the internet or you lose access to your data in the cloud, having a backup copy of the latest data on your server is helpful. You need to be able to get access to your customers' files, especially with GDPR, where you need to know where your customers' details are. If they're in the cloud and you've lost access to them, then you'll go into those GDPR regulations. This is somewhere where both Barracuda and Veeam haven't gone as far. As far as I have understood, with Veeam, you can back up your local servers to the cloud but not vice versa. I haven't worked on it much."

"The web interface needs to contain a more up-to-date view of the hardware."

"I would like to see the automatic backup of critical applications to the cloud."

"The solution depends on your connectivity, so it is essential to have a proper connection to the cloud."

"The restore time can be improved. The restore time for large quantities of folders is slow. Sometimes, if I'm doing a full recovery of a server, it takes multiple hours, which probably is natural. It might also be because of our internet speed to the cloud."

"I would say that at the pricepoint that it's at, it's definitely worth the money."

"It is very cost-effective for the SMB segment, especially for start-ups and smaller environments. It is cost-effective for on-premises and on-cloud deployments in such environments."

"It has already paid off itself in the first few months that we implemented it."

"Licensing fees are billed annually and there are no extra charges."

"The license is a perpetual license. The cost is an area for improvement."

"We use the free version that provides very basic functionalities."

"The cost of updates is less than $100 USD yearly."

"The pricing model is a little complex to find the right size for what you need. It takes a lot of hours to figure it out."

"You have two options, which we have. We pay for it bi-monthly. Then, you can purchase the project hours and support annually."

"They're on par with their competitors."

"What I like best about Barracuda Backup is the licensing model."

"The price of the five-year contract was approximately three million Rupees ($42,000 USD)."

"All the storage is included in Barracuda, so you're just paying for the package. I think with Veeam, you pay for the package, and you pay for the storage."

"You don't need to buy an extra license or agent. With one box, you have licenses for any amount of devices that you want to backed up for whatever is backed up."

"The tool's pricing is reasonable."

"The licensing is charged yearly. It's my understanding that the cost of the solution is somewhere around $7,000 every two years."