Acronis Cyber Protect vs BDRSuite Backup & Replication comparison

Acronis and Vembu Technologies are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Acronis is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.2, while Vembu Technologies is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.7. Acronis holds a 4.3% mindshare in BRS, compared to Vembu Technologies’s 0.6% 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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91% willing to recommend

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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

8th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

121

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (5th)

BDRSuite Backup & Replication

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

12th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Acronis Cyber Protect is 4.3%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of BDRSuite Backup & Replication is 0.6%, up from 0.6% 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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It actually does its job very well and has interesting capabilities, but it has the most awful interface."

"The setup is very easy."

"It is a very fast and reliable backup, which requires less management and restores quickly."

"The performance has been fine so far."

"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."

"The solution is exceptional for desktop backup."

"I have not used other backup solutions to compare how well the features work but I have found Acronis Backup to be user-friendly, overall easy to use, and performance is good."

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

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"We have seen ROI. The real return is when something bad happens. All the proof of concept work that we did, all the testing we did, it all panned out for us. We're already seeing a return on that."

"BDRSuite can help organizations save time and money by automating backup and recovery processes and reducing the need for manual intervention."

"The most valuable feature is the Hyper-V backup - it's just one click. I don't have to worry about it."

"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."

"It makes it possible for us to back up our Unix machines without installing a host, client, or any client software. It gives us some peace of mind in regards to those servers getting backed up."

"The most valuable features for me are that I can back up the entire virtual machine, but when restoring I can restore at the file level."

"Vembu provides us with a way to instantly recover data. It offers instant data recovery through a local backup server deployed at the customer's site. We can quickly recover data either by copying it back to the main server or if the backup server is powerful enough, we can also directly start a virtual machine from the backup."

"We are now using it 24/7 because it is serving as an online backup, and very soon, the DR will activated on the product."

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Cons

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

"The licensing approach becomes intricate when dealing with SharePoint."

"On the cloud side, security could always be better."

"Their support process can be quite lengthy...This is an area that needs improvement."

"The solution's error handling can be improved specifically for Linux errors."

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

"The UI performance can be slow at times, especially when handling operations like checking backup status or initiating a restore. The response time for these actions could be improved."

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"They had a good product and tried to change things by going to a different product. They should have tried to stay with a product that is a proven solution and successful."

"The reporting can use some improvement. I still use the old StoreGrid Cloud while I'm migrating the rest of my clients over. I am able to export all of my clients' usage for the month, which I then import into my billing program. It helps me speed up the billing process. Also, I can generate a report that gives me statuses of everyone's backup, which I don't get from Vembu Backup Online either. I would like to have something similar where I can export everyone's usage at any time for all their backups, so I can use that to import them to my billing program."

"There's a feature that does syncing with AWS Cloud backup online. It's not that straightforward to get it set up."

"The dashboard should more interactive."

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

"It is very easy, unless you know exactly what you're doing, to corrupt the virtual machines and they get locked up. Just brief detail: When you are creating a system, if you don't have absolutely every other little background processes in place, it creates Snapshots of the virtual machines. Once it does that, it then won't be able to have a backup. From that point on you have to destroy the virtual machine, which is completely counterproductive on a large system. There is a fundamental flaw in the setup that can be very dangerous, potentially."

"The initial setup process can be more simplistic and quicker."

"The phone [support] system is a negative five on a scale from one to ten, where one is the worst. They wanted me to leave a message. When there is a problem with the product and you call in, you want to talk to somebody or wait to talk to somebody, not leave a message."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"Our licensing fees are on a yearly basis."

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

"The price of the solution is expensive and could be reduced a little."

"The tool is cheap compared to other products."

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

"The current subscription model of Acronis Backup compared to other backup solutions is not costly."

"I would describe the product as a mid-priced tool for small and medium businesses."

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"The pricing is pretty reasonable."

"The pricing of Vembu could be better. They have a good product, and I know good products cost money, but they need to find a balance."

"Take a look at the pricing and licensing closely. When we installed the BDR disaster recovery server, which is the duplication of the backup data on one server onto a second one where the backup data resides, it was not clear that this DR server needed two other licenses. These licenses were to back up the copy of the first backup server that had two licenses for the two physical host that it was backing up in the first place. Moving files around to a second DR server, why would I need an extra two licenses? I don't know if it's to make money, but it was not very obvious and I had to abort the project from there because I didn't plan to pay for extra licenses to copy data of the first two physical servers. I also didn't understand why it was needed. Hopefully, they will improve the explanation in the documentation for this."

"It is very cost efficient, effective. I’d say it's one-third the cost of Veritas when compared to the server backups. I even tried image backups on Acronis, but Acronis is very expensive. So these are some of the key reasons why I opted for it."

"I've purchased and been licensed for one aspect of it, which is my preferred method, but the pricing and licensing will not work for the short-term and I can't draw back."

"This solution helped us deliver an enterprise level data protection solution and reduced our budget by 50 percent. We spent $3,000 on Vembu's licenses where other solutions were almost double."

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

"For our company, the current price of Vembu against Veeam is a few times cheaper. In our infrastructure, if we picked Veeam, we would have to pay about $20,000 per year. Now, we are currently paying about $2,000 per year for Vembu. You can do the math. The price is great."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

18%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

87%

Retailer

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

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Questions from the Community

Major Differences Between These 4 Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions?

Comparing the features of the four is not the right approach. You need to develop a list of requirements for backup and DR that are specific to your organization and then compare each of the four ...

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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.

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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)

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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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