Acronis Cyber Protect vs BDRSuite Backup & Replication comparison

Acronis and Vembu Technologies are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Acronis is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.1, while Vembu Technologies is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.3. Acronis holds a 4.8% mindshare in BRS, compared to Vembu Technologies’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Acronis users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Vembu Technologies users who would recommend it.

Acronis Cyber Protect

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Acronis Cyber Protect and BDRSuite Backup & Replication compete in the comprehensive data protection solutions category. Acronis Cyber Protect has the upper hand with robust features, competitive pricing, and initial support, while BDRSuite offers extensive features for virtualization, despite higher costs.

Features: Acronis Cyber Protect offers real-time protection, multiple backup options, and integrated security tools. BDRSuite Backup & Replication provides extensive virtual machine support, flexible recovery options, and advanced configuration capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Acronis Cyber Protect needs better integration with different platforms, improved customer service response times, and streamlined management tools. BDRSuite Backup & Replication requires enhanced documentation for complex configurations, a more intuitive interface, and optimized management tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Acronis Cyber Protect offers a straightforward deployment process but can be cumbersome for advanced configurations. Customer service is better initially but needs improvement for ongoing support. BDRSuite Backup & Replication is flexible but can be complex to set up, with mixed feedback on customer assistance.

Pricing and ROI: Acronis Cyber Protect has competitive pricing with substantial ROI from integrated features. BDRSuite Backup & Replication has higher setup costs, but users feel the extensive feature set justifies the investment, providing significant value for advanced needs.

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Categories and Ranking

Acronis Cyber Protect

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

10th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

120

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (5th)

BDRSuite Backup & Replication

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

8th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (7th), MSP Backup (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Acronis Cyber Protect is 4.8%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of BDRSuite Backup & Replication is 0.7%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Stuart Grigor

Senior Manager Governance and Quality Assurance at Motus Car Rental

Good backup solution but challenges with the stability

It is recommended that people know what they are starting with. A part of our challenge was we bought and needed to implement it. So by the time we went to implement it, we were running into support issues. Also, make a market comparison to ensure that the product you choose is what you want to end up with. I would give it a six out of ten because restoring from a backup takes longer than usual. It should happen in a matter of hours, not a matter of days. We are yet to have an experience when trying to restore from Acronis that we haven't had to wait at least a couple of days for our server to be available for testing or working.

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Redha Benlaksira

Technical Sales Director (Owner) at HSR IT Services SARL

The ability to maintain multiple restore points is critical because it lets customers choose to restore their data to an hour or a day ago

BDRSuite is better than competing solutions because it can protect, back up, and recover data. A feature called live migration allows you to recover the same data in different environments. For example, I can back up the data from a VMware machine and restore it to a Hyper-V. You can also create repositories and back up environments to a cloud platform like GCP and AWS S3 buckets. BDRSuite allows you to back up virtual machines hosted on an EC3 instance or Microsoft 365 mailboxes, SharePoint, etc. The solution allows us to recover data instantly. We can recover all our data in under 15 minutes. In a virtual environment, we can recover a virtual machine and all its data in under 15 minutes. It's the same for a NAS, SAN, or DAS disk. The ability to boot instantly enables customers to maintain their business operations without interruption. BDRSuite's ability to maintain multiple restore points is critical because it gives customers the option to restore their data to an hour or a day ago. They can choose a full, incremental, or synthetic backup. Incremental backup makes sense if you are backing up the same data daily and you want to save space and network resources. It only backs up the differences or updates in every block. I've worked with lots of backup solutions, and BDRSuite is the easiest to use. It's simple to install and create backup jobs. It doesn't require many tasks to install the solution. You can easily back up and restore from one console

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature is its consistency."

"The most valuable feature is the fact that you can archive backups quite easily and minimize the amount of space you're using."

"There is advanced management where we can do passing, software inventory, and hardware inventory."

"Acronis has many features, which are really very interesting, when it comes to data backup and recovery, especially disaster recovery (DR)."

"Consistency and reliability. The interface is easy to understand and consistent across applications. While not 100%, it is a very reliable backup solution."

"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."

"It is a very stable solution."

"The user interface (UI) is easy to use."

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"Backup of the VMware server is the most valuable feature."

"The initial setup is easy and very nice."

"I can choose a point in time and issue the command to back up and I don't need to go in and restore the last full backup and then apply iteratively, sequentially, all the incrementals... I can pick a point in time and tell it I want to go to that state and it's transparent to me. It happens in the background for me."

"The compression, encryption, and deduplication features all work fine."

"The product is very reliable and works well out of the box; many of our customers are buying it."

"The most important features are the backup and the availability of the Universal Explorer. The in-transit compression is great."

"While BDRSuite offers a variety of functionalities, our primary focus is its disaster recovery capabilities, which we find to be the most valuable aspect of the software."

"Their technical support is very good to work with, as they are able to propose alternate solutions to problems that work well for us."

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Cons

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

"Some of the default settings out-of-the-box should already be set up for the novice user. For instance, the warnings that say a hard drive has bad sectors and stops the backup from performing."

"I wish Acronis had a feature that would allow me to set an expiry date for customers when I send them Acronis, such as when I create a customer workload or gigabyte."

"I can't select a network location. I have to map a drive on the server, and then I have to select the mapped drive in order for it to put the backup out there."

"There are some limitations to the backup."

"Because Acronis Backup is an on-premises solution, there is extra overhead. It's harder to manage, and there's no real remote access. You have to physically log in to the machine to manage it. The reporting feature works fine, and you will be able to send out reports. However, that is where it stops. The deployment could be improved and could be through a network chain. If we need to deploy two machines that are not connected to the internet but connected to two different networks, it would be great to have a machine with dual mix that has access to the backup server and to those machines. It would be like a relay that you can install on the machine with a two-mix, and that machine can then connect to your backup server and to the other machines. You should be able to see the other machines on that network and be able to deploy to it and push jobs to it."

"Improved support for immutability and Utility AirGAP could be beneficial."

"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."

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"I would like to have a different set of products instead of having a single software which does everything."

"The API uses a common data image to store the data for the sets, but unfortunately, it's limited to consecutive sets only. That's the only limitation I have observed so far."

"For the more sophisticated backups that do not have a set backup process, procedures that are outside of the norm, it would be nice if we had more control and did not have to use their technical support. While they're very responsive and have always come through in a reasonable time frame, we would like to be able to manage everything on our own."

"Vembu will tell you the next scheduled backup, but it doesn't show you the last successful backup. I would have them include a column under "List of Backup Jobs" and have two other columns which say, "Last Successful Backup" and "Next Scheduled Backup", because you don't know now if it's backed up successfully. It just says, "The next scheduled time is this." You don't know from looking at that pane of glass when the last time it actually happened without digging further into reports."

"It's not that stable yet. Every two weeks, my backup will stop and I have to check it."

"We do a lot of internal automation, so the Vembu API definitely has some gaps. The Vembu API could definitely use some improvement. We do rely a lot on automation outside of just the regular interface. We've noticed that the Vembu GUI is good, but we do leverage the APIs for a lot of stuff, and there's definitely some room for improvement there."

"The process is a bit cumbersome when you remove an agent, delete that job, and add the agent to the same server. Even though the agent is already installed in that server, the system does not recognize it. We have to uninstall the current agent, restart the server, install the push agent - a new agent - and then restart the server. I think they should try to avoid that."

"I don't know if it exists, but it would be helpful to get email notifications when there are issues with the backup. I'm sure it probably exists, but I just don't know how to do it. They also have an Azure proxy feature where you can restore to Azure. It's not really well documented. I think they should document how to do that a little better."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We pay a yearly subscription fee and the pricing is reasonable."

"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."

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

"We were on a perpetual license for Acronis Backup."

"If the solution was less expensive it would be better."

"Doing what this is capable of doing, the cost of it is in line."

"You don't have to pay for licenses. You can pay per gig per month. It is pretty reasonable, especially when you do it per gig."

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"For our needs, the price of the backup system is not too much... We checked out Veeam and Acronis but both were very expensive compared to Vembu."

"The product's pricing is a good value. Vembu is cost-effective versus using VMware Essentials. Regarding licensing, make sure you find the right workstation or server that you're going to install it on, and know the number of sockets it has, since the price depends on that."

"I think it is a good value for the price."

"The pricing is good. The tough part is estimating storage needs."

"The licensing model is quite complicated; it's not simple. An example: If you have a physical server, you have to pay more for that license than you do for a host. It could be running several VMs and that could be a server VM as well. Then, for web station machines, there is no license for those machines and they have no desktop OS - the free version has all this functionality. Their license model needs to be looked at and simplified."

"We were able to take advantage of a promotional pricing campaign."

"We are saving $6,000 every three years versus having another product."

"The pricing is reasonable. I am okay with it."

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Computer Software Company

84%

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Questions from the Community

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How does Acronis Backup compare with Veeam Backup & Replication?

Acronis Backup is a versatile backup-as-a-service solution for service providers. It allows you to protect workloads on-premises and in the cloud and provide backup to any storage. The deployment i...

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What do you like most about Acronis Backup?

One of its most valuable aspects is its user-friendly interface.

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What do you like most about BDRSuite?

The best part of BDRSuite is how user-friendly it is and how it does not require any maintenance after the initial setup.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BDRSuite?

BDRSuite is cost-effective because you can purchase a perpetual license that covers multiple environments. You only renew the support costs annually. It offers advanced features at roughly 75 perce...

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What needs improvement with BDRSuite?

I had a small problem integrating VMware and Hyper-V when customers used a free VMware license to create VMs. This is a problem because many customers use the free version of VMware. There are also...

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Also Known As

Acronis Backup, Acronis Backup 12.5 Standard, Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced

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Overview

Acronis Cyber Protect offers a revolutionary approach to cyber protection by integrating data protection with cybersecurity. This integrated method eliminates complexity challenges, delivers better protection against today’s threats, and maximizes efficiency by saving time and money. With its full-stack antimalware protection and comprehensive endpoint management, Acronis Cyber Protect combats advanced cyberattacks with a unique integration of protection technologies while simplifying daily IT operations, endpoint deployments and management, and reporting. Now you can manage all cyber protection aspects from a single pane of glass.

BDRSuite by Vembu offers comprehensive and cost-effective Backup and Disaster Recovery software tailored to meet the diverse data protection requirements of Businesses and Service Providers. BDRSuite provides robust backup solutions for a wide range of IT workloads, including virtual machines, servers, endpoints, SaaS applications, cloud VMs, NAS/File Shares, and databases & applications. It offers the flexibility to store backups anywhere and centrally manage the entire backup infrastructure.

BDRSuite is designed to help businesses keep their data secure and ensure it is easily recoverable in the event of data loss or ransomware attacks. With BDRSuite, businesses can achieve reliable data protection and ensure business continuity – all at an affordable price.

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PRICING DETAILS

VMs, Servers & Cloud Backup at $48 per workload/year (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, oVirt, Proxmox, Windows, Linux, AWS, Azure, File Share-500 GB)

Endpoint/Workstation Backup at $12 per endpoint/year (Windows, Linux, Mac)

SaaS Backup at $12 per user/year (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace)

DBs & Applications Backup at $72 per application/year (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint Server)

Sample Customers

Kings Academy, Rush Memorial, Pentagon Credit Union, Oxford School District, New York City Probation, Dolmen Insurance, New Bedford Community Health, Gerard Darel, Ready Honda

NASA, Intel, CISCO, PHILIPS, Atos, HEXAWARE, Motorola

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