Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Reviews

I use Acronis Backup as my disaster recovery solution.

The most valuable feature is disaster recovery.

The user interface is very good.

Technical support needs to be improved because they do not respond in a timely fashion.

I have been using Acronis Backup Cloud for about three years.

I have had no issues with respect to stability.

There was no problem with scalability. We have about 12 users and we plan to increase our usage in the future.

I am not satisfied with the technical support from Acronis. They do not respond in time.

The initial setup is straightforward.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We currently have 12 users of this solution in our company and hope to increase that in the near future. We are partners with Acronis and I'm a technical support engineer. 

I like the disaster recovery feature of this solution and the interface is great. 

Technical support could be improved, they're not very timely in their response. 

I've been using this solution for about two years. 

The stability of the solution is good. 

The scalability of the product is good. 

The initial setup is straightforward.

I highly recommend this product and would rate it an eight out of 10. 

This is the file and data backup solution that we use.

The most valuable features are its ease of use, the speed, and its got a reasonable amount of granular control. It also has another big advantage, which is built-in protection from ransomware.

I would like to see enhancements made to the security.

We have been using Acronis Backup Cloud for about six months.

This solution is very stable. It is a 24/7 application.

It is extremely simple to scale Acronis Backup Cloud.

We have been in contact with technical support and we are satisfied with it.

It is very easy to set up and only took a couple of minutes to deploy.

It was entirely self-setup.

There is a free trial available in order for people to evaluate it.

This is a solution that I recommend everybody try. Even if you are trying something else, they offered a free trial and it is worthwhile to see how easy, fast, and powerful this solution is.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

In general, the solution is primarily used to externalize backups. Most customers don't want to take an active part in the maintenance or verifying of everything daily, so they revert the backup process to us and we use the solution to ensure it's happening regularly and properly.

The ease of implementation is the solution's most valuable feature. 

With the previous version, it was possible when having a cloud solution, to back up the data on-premises. Now it is no longer possible, and I don't really know why. When we have the cloud subscription we have to pay to have on-premises capabilities. That is not really ideal for customers.

To make the solution better, the pricing should be a big consideration. When I'm talking about pricing, I'm addressing specifically the African market. Most of the time pricing causes our customers to back away.

Technical support needs improvement. They are too slow to respond, and when it comes to backups, it's critical to deal with issues quickly.

We have some bugs, but the solution is stable. Even if the support part of the solution is a weak point because I find that the support is not really reactive. We had some bugs, but on average, it is stable.

The solution is scalable but the pricing model is not good for my point of view. If we integrate the pricing part with the scalability capabilities, it is not really great for us. We are trying to figure out if this problem is due to the partner we are working with or something else.

Technical support isn't great. Out of five, I'd rate them at two.

Most of the time when we contact technical support, they take a long time to respond and give us an answer. Time is money. We cannot afford to wait so long when there's a problem. When there's a problem with backup, it means that we are at risk, and we need to sort it out rapidly. 

We previously used Veeam Cloud Connect. We still use it for some customers. The customer decides which solutions they choose to use and we, as integrators, implement it for them.

The initial setup is straightforward. It's very easy.

The amount of time deployment takes depends on how the architecture was designed previously. It depends on the studies, etc., which are supposed to be taken into consideration before the implementation. If everything has been sized and studied well, implementation, depending on the size of the existing infrastructure, could take from a few hours to many days. In summary, it really depends on the size of the company, the workload which should be taken into consideration, and how the study has been put in place before starting the implementation.

You only need one person for deployment and maintenance.

We handled the implementation ourselves.

The pricing depends on the customer. Most of the time, the first year is prepaid. After that year, some customers choose to switch to monthly billing, while others continue to pay yearly. There are extra costs as well, for example, for technical support.

I've been using the solution for two years. We're an integrator and we deploy the solution for our customers who typically use the cloud deployment model.

It would not be the first solution I would direct a customer to, but this solution has many impressing features.

In our market, technically the solution is good, but we also have to look at the ecosystem, the pricing policy, and such things. I would tell customers to watch out, to pay attention to the pricing model and prepare for it in their budget before moving to this solution. If this fits the customer's budget, they can go ahead. Technically, the solution will fit their needs. However, the way the solution prices on-premises versus cloud deployment models, if a customer wants both, they really need to pay attention to how the pricing will be calculated.

I'd rate the solution six out of ten. Technically, the product is good, but the pricing and technical support are not ideal.

As a managed IT services provider, we have a wide array of clients with very diverse backup needs. These clients range from small mom and pop shops to individual users to retailers to Fortune 500 companies. Each of these clients has a vastly different approach when it comes to backups.

We chose Acronis as our backup solution because of the diversity in the types of backups it can provide.

One of my favorite features of the Acronis backup product is the ability to replicate the backups. Backup data can be replicated to a second, third, or even fourth data source.

One of the areas where the product could be improved is its online cloud backup. I do appreciate the way the product is easy to navigate, however, sometimes I have difficulty managing the security permissions on my backups.

While using Acronis I have not encountered any issues with stability.

Acronis backup scales very well, and I use it in many different cases from single users to Fortune 500 companies.

The level of technical support is very good. I would give them a nine out of 10. 

Part of the reason we selected Acronis as our backup solution is their amazing support and installation. It is easy to deploy products anywhere in the world, across our wide variety of clients, and the support is right there for us if we need help with anything.

I have used other solutions, such as Norton Backup and Arcserve. Acronis is by far the most cost-effective.

The setup could not be easier. It installs without fail in 100 percent of my setups.

I advise my clients to seriously look at the cloud offering because the hardware to have a good onsite backup is still pricey.

I did not look at any other products.

I would suggest to anyone using this product to take advantage of the support and the advanced features such as replication of their backup set.

Basically running backup plans for servers (daily basis), workstations (managers) and Office 365 (inbox).

I am from Perú, and IT departments are not very advanced here. Basically, it is way better than whatever we are used to using, tapes, etc. 

I would say compression, which was about 95% on the databases. The fact that the agent, which is installed on the system, can do Quality of Service. Therefore, I do not need to touch my firewall, especially when it is managed by the provider and takes ages to do a single NAT. I would only imagine how long will it take for them to do a QoS rule.

The logs could be better. Logs through the website are just too simple and basic.

For you to actually see the full logs, you have to use additional tools or even contact support so they can pull them with own tools.

Probably the connectivity between the agent to the cloud console, because for some reason, sometimes I need to refresh.

No issues.

It is good. Basically, they can do the whole deployment, you just need to provide them remote access.

I personally have used corporate solutions, such as Dropbox, Veritas, and Veeam. Veeam is good as well.

The only complicated part was talking to my FortiGate provider to allow the ports.

I have been using pay as you go with Acronis, so the price is good.

I personally evaluated Dropbox, Veritas, and Veeam. Veeam is good as well.

Make sure to set the download for the right client. Acronis has multiples, especially for the SQL.

It provides reliability and the confidence when a server disaster happens, that the product is actually doing what it says it's doing. For example, we have a backup of our servers. It's the only important thing in a backup software, at least for a company our size, is that we actually get our data backed.

Normally, I don't care how long it takes to get the data. It's important to a point, but ultimately, as long as the data comes back, that's all that we care about.

Acronis has curved out a really good name for themselves and they're a trusted backup software system, and it's mainly from reliability. That's the main reason why we use it. It lets you know if anything has gone wrong with the server. It'll email you.

They have online cloud support. Basically, it allows you to monitor multiple servers from one location, so they've their control panel/dashboard, which allows you to monitor more than one server. So, we've got three primary servers, then I use one of those as control dashboards to get in and go look at see what's going on with the other servers. It lets me call up programs real quick.

When you come in the morning, it will tell you if it made the night's backups the night before, which is really cool. You can do validation. That's one of the best features that's available with it: validations.

That means when you make a backup, they've got this thing where you can validate the backup and Acronis tells you whether or not the backup is valid. You're not just recording garbage. This would be one of the big advantages of using it. They have some centralized vaults and personal vaults, paid management, disk management, and mounted images. They allow you to make an ISO image of the server which you're working on.

A super big feature: If a server crashes, you just can't go back in there, because everything you've had on it crashed. So Acronis lets you create a CD. It's called an ISO CD. It's an imaging CD, and you drop that in the server. That lets you back into the server environment through Acronis to get Acronis set back up on that machine. This is what is critical to the whole thing, because you got to have a way back into the environment so that you can rebuild the server.

I can sleep at night. Seriously, that's important for an IT system's administrator, knowing that the data which we're doing our day-to-day business on is being backed up nightly. If we lost our software that we run on, it is around $120,000, and if we lose that, we're pretty much up the creek. So Acronis backs that up, it validates the backup, and I know, the backups which we have are supposedly good.

They have cloud storage technology. The problem with it, it's slow. Say if all of our backups here failed, like the week back up locally to tape drives and different types of masses, and we store our data locally here where I'm at in RPI. However, say lightning hit the building, the servers blew up, everything was bad/corrupted, and I had to go buy a new server. So a new server shows, so how do I get my data back? Then, I would have to connect through Acronis Cloud.

Now, I can get the data back; however, the amount data that I got to get back is so big that I would actually end up telling them, "Okay, you know what? Record the data to a tape and mail me the tape. Or, mail me the backup on a giant flash drive or some type of hard media that I could get back from them."

Because the data that companies are backing up nowadays, it's so big even if you have high speed internet, it's still not big enough. It would probably take me three days to get the backup downloaded. It takes a really long time to get really big backups back from the cloud.

That's not Acronis's problem, that's the Internet's problem. If we all get fiber optics internet, that would solve it.

That only thing that's bad about the company... the naming of their product. The names that they have for their products are insane: Acronis Backup, Acronis Backup 10.5, Acronis Backup 11, Acronis Backup 11.5, Acronis Backup for Windows, Acronis Backup Advanced, Acronis Backup Advanced 11.5, and Acronis Backup 12.5 Server. It gets the customer confused. That's the issue I have was with the naming of their product. Once you know the product, you need and you actually get the product, it's perfect. It runs great, works well, and the tech support is fantastic.

For the last four years.

I've never had a problem with Acronis crashing. The product is completely stable. Speed might help, but it backs up within the proper parameters of what it's doing. So, I don't know what else you would actually do to try to improve with it.

If you're looking for a scalable tool, Acronis is definitely the way to go. They've pretty much thought about just about everything. Even it emails you at night, I know every step of the way what's going on. It gives me all of the server information as it's making the backup. I've got to get a really good disaster plan back up. You can even get an email telling you how the steps to actually reinstall the system once it goes down. Thus, their disaster recovery program is real good, too.

Excellent. They have excellent tech support people.

I wish all the companies were like them. I always get a live person in a timely fashion. If they don't know the answer, they've got another Tier 2 tech support that they can go to and ask. They have always answered a question when asked.

I used to run Microsoft Backup. It was built into every single copy of the Windows server. The problem with this (everybody knows about this) is they require you to use a floppy disk. Nobody has floppy disks anymore, you have to buy a USB floppy disk to get the little files saved and that the entire backup to depends on.

When it was time to make an upgrade, I used a variety of different programs. Backing up stuff in a server environment is different than backing up a home computer, so I mainly went with the Acronis product, because they're world-renowned for server backups and if you need a reliable backup you go to Acronis. I don't know what else anybody else would want. I know Symantec has a couple of different backup products, but I don't think they're as reliable as Acronis.

I discovered Acronis when I started doing some research on backups and my father-in-law, who was an IT guy, he was like, "You should put Acronis on that system." I was like, "Well, all right, I'll go check it out." So, I did a lot of research on it, then I just ended up picking Acronis. After reading about what they do and how they do stuff, it just seemed like the right company to pick.

It's literally, click setup, enter, and that's it. It'll install it. It does everything. It installs Acronis machine services. That's what runs on the servers.

Symantec was the other choice, it and Retrospect. But I don't use Retrospect for server backups. I wouldn't trust it for that. I trust it for file backups, but not for server backups.

Buy it sooner than later. If you don't have a backup solution or a disaster recovery program in your company, you're flirting with disaster.

The tool is really important for me, because I have my job because of this program and making sure that we can restore the company. It's a big deal when you lose server capability.

It’s easy. We are resellers for small and medium businesses in this market segment, so we appreciate this feature.

Provides automatic backup operations for middle sized servers and desktops.

User interface Improvements: I think this needs to be done in the navigation path into the UIs, mainly for the reseller interfaces. Some useful options initially seem “hidden”, but instead they really exist. After the initial disorientation, however, the use is easier.

We have used this for two years.

In terms of stability, the agents probably need to be improved

There were no scalability issues.

I would give technical support a rating of 9/10.

Because my company is under a re-seller agreement, we switched to this product. We evaluated other products, but for our target segment market, we chose Acronis.

The initial setup very straightforward, but the integration with our cloud automation engine was a little bit complex.