Acronis Cyber Protect vs Barracuda Intronis Backup comparison

"I can encrypt the data, I can make it send me an email if it fails. It lets me choose which files I want to ignore during backup."

"Stability is always good. I have used Acronis for 10 years now, if not more. I have never had a problem with availability, etc."

"The most valuable feature is its ability to back up and recover our production environment from ransomware."

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

"Their response is quite efficient."

"The tool’s licensing and pricing are economical for SMB customers."

"For me, the cost is a significant advantage."

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

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

"The most valuable feature is the speed of backup, which is very good compared to other solutions."

"Whenever you have a crash or your service is not working, you can just live-boot the machine and have your service up and running."

"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."

"It is very stable, and I'm very happy with this solution."

"Its interface is intuitive, and it is easy to use when I am restoring files. Barracuda does a really excellent job at compression, which makes it very efficient. Eight years later, I am only halfway through to the capacity, which is very good."

"It's a one-stop shop, meaning we just program and schedule the backups, decide what is being backed up, and then it automatically replicates and deduplicates."

"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."

"No technical support and minimal documentation."

"I would ​change the GUI a little to make it a bit more interactive. It should have a slightly more updated look, not something which looks like it was designed five years ago despite the fact it is easy to follow and very appealing.​"

"It would be nice to have it on the cloud platform without using third-party equipment."

"The support and documentation must be improved."

"The support takes too much time to respond to callbacks."

"If we could have a mass deployment option using Acronis, that would be helpful."

"There are a lot of products out there that are a little bit stronger than Acronis where AV is concerned."

"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."

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

"Some features like CIFS are not supported that would help speed and flexibility."

"It is not always stable."

"Barracuda works great for smaller network environments, which are not that complex. It is hardware-based with a Linux core, which you don't have access to, and a lot of stuff happens on the back-end. Even from a troubleshooting perspective, it is a bit challenging."

"This solution could be improved with offering lower prices at scale."

"The backup feature could be a bit simpler to utilize. They should make the process of backing up individual files simpler."

"The solution is pretty expensive. This is the usual customer complaint."

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

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

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

"I find the pricing structure satisfactory, it is around $25 per year."

"Our licensing fees are on a yearly basis."

"The price of Acronis Backup could be reduced, it is expensive."

"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."

"The pricing is reasonable. However, it depends on the storage that you use. It would be great to have a package that we can use up to a certain size of the backup, this would allow us to know what the price is going to be up to that capacity."

"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."

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

"It is about 6,900 or 7,000 a year. It goes up a little every year. Its price includes live updates, support, antivirus, and cloud storage. If I increase the cloud space, then the price would increase. It has been consistent for us."

"Normally, there is the hardware on the site. So, essentially, there is a server and storage. They can price it a little lower because the customers are making a little investment upfront. Even though it is trouble-free for the end-users, and once it is set up and running, they don't have to really think about it, there is essentially an initial investment. It is not really pricey. We're actually competitive, but we are in a different market. In Asia, customers are a little more price-sensitive than in the west. It is not really a real issue."

"It allows us a low cost backup solution for hardware-based, VMware, and Hyper-V systems all from a single platform."

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

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

"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."