Acronis Disaster Recovery vs Datto Cloud Continuity vs Veeam Data Platform comparison

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Acronis and datto are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Acronis is ranked #22 with an average rating of 7.3, while datto is ranked #27. Acronis holds a 1.7% mindshare in DRS, compared to datto’s 2.1% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Acronis users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of datto users who would recommend it.

Acronis Disaster Recovery

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90% willing to recommend

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Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of Acronis Disaster Recovery is 1.7%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Datto Cloud Continuity is 2.1%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veeam Data Platform is 9.8%, down from 20.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Veeam Data Platform	9.8%
Acronis Disaster Recovery	1.7%
Datto Cloud Continuity	2.1%
Other	86.4%

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Featured Reviews

Sagar Bargode

Technology Specialist at Ideeya technologies

Effective data recovery with strong backup features

I am not using the blockchain-based data integrity verification feature. We have not implemented proactive ransomware protection and anti-malware features, so they have not been helpful to my customers. For shared drives, when configuring SharePoint services for backup, licensing becomes difficult to understand, so that would be a point of interest for improvement. The licensing features should be improved. The licensing for SharePoint should be more visible for SharePoint services backup to make it more feasible and understandable. In terms of management, group management is not available for bulk activities, which I have previously given feedback on in a training session conducted by Acronis. If you want to do any recovery for bulk users, the option for bulk activities is not available in Acronis currently. Bulk activity should be available. Technical support from Acronis requires some improvisation; we do not get on-time support, and we face issues connecting with the account manager, which needs to be improved.

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TrevorSmith

Assistant Director, Network Operations at Premier Marine Insurance

Provides enterprise-level protection from ransomware attacks

Speaking about how the product is deployed in my company's business operations, I would say that it is an appliance with a critical infrastructure. In terms of data protection capabilities, the tool's ability to boot a device and have a separate network has saved the day for many of our company's clients who use the solution. If you have a collection of old servers, and if one of the old servers dies, you could be dead in the water if you cannot locally boot a server. Even the new gears in place can have an issue if people are not spending money on robust hardware tools, and replace them. It is necessary to have the local boot options if and when you have a hardware issue. The product brings the most value in the area of virtual boot when it comes to disaster recovery since it can boot up a version of the server from before an incident, which is helpful and allows your company to have a lower RPO or recovery point objective. It makes a big difference if you can have an RPO in hours rather than in days. The image-based backup functionality has revolutionized and impacted our company recovery time objectives since we deal in hours and not in days. The interface of the product is intuitive. I like the product's functionality that provides the ability to see everything at a glance, along with the alerting feature. Maintenance is required since certain drives die at times. In general, maintenance is required to deal with dead RAMs and hard drives. The former clients with small offices and the old Linux servers that used to die in production used to boot such servers with the help of Datto Cloud Continuity. The aforementioned process allows the clients to continue running their business while buying time to get replacement hardware, making a big difference that helps them reduce potential data loss or downtime. The local boot provided by the product saved the day for many of our company's clients. I recommend the product to those who plan to use it. Though the tool is not inexpensive, it provides enterprise-level protection from ransomware. I rate the overall tool a nine out of ten.

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Munichandra G

Backup Engineer at Cloud4C Services

Backup policies have strengthened security and replication but still need flexible long-term retention

The support and compatibility are areas of concern. When it comes to Azure workloads, Veeam Data Platform has limitations with only MS SQL database and Cosmos, and no other databases are supported by Veeam Backup for Azure. The main challenge I noticed is that enterprise customers may have a requirement to retain backups for 10 years or 15 years with monthly and weekly backups. In Veeam Data Platform, we do not have customization or compatibility to retain specific data backups as monthly and yearly. The retention schedule is fixed. For instance, it is the first Friday of the backup or the last Friday of the month. If it is weekly, it should be one of the weeks. If it is monthly, it should be the last Friday. For yearly, it is the last Friday of that respective month in that year. However, this should not be the case. When a customer confirms, 'Please go and take an EOD backup and retain it for 10 years,' Veeam Data Platform does not support this sort of customization. I even raised a case with Veeam Data Platform and they clearly stated that Veeam Data Platform only accepts the GFS policy according to the retention defined, and there is no customization available. This is a significant limitation. I should have the customization to go and take a backup of a specific date, month, or year, but Veeam Data Platform does not allow this and restricts me to only the policy supported. For example, if I take any backup, I do not have an option to extend the retention. If a customer asks, 'Please take a backup,' and later requests, 'No, it is very critical. Can you please extend the retention for 15 years?' Veeam Data Platform does not support this. Veeam Data Platform does not allow me to extend the retention in the way other tools do. These are limitations I came across in my experience, and I feel these are minimal requirements. The same features are offered by other third-party backup tools available in the market. From the analytics point of view, I personally feel some challenges. Veeam Data Platform has two different products: VBR and Veeam Backup for Azure. As we are running on cloud platforms, if we are in Azure, we must go for Veeam Backup for Azure. If we need to create copy jobs, I must again come to VBR. However, Veeam ONE is not capable enough to integrate both platforms. For instance, if I am taking backup of workloads through Veeam Backup for Azure, I could not find an option to integrate it into Veeam ONE for reports and analytics. It is only limited to VBR. Whatever jobs we created in VBR are displayed there, but Veeam Backup for Azure does not integrate, at least from what I have explored, and it should not be this way. Veeam ONE should support all Veeam Data Platform products.

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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

"Acronis Disaster Recovery has good scalability."

"Acronis Disaster Recovery is worth the investment because it saves data and allows backup at any time, which is particularly valuable considering the current threats from viruses, trojans, and crypto-attacks."

"The ability to automate the backup solution and recover entire mailboxes or even granular-level emails is very good for restoration and backup."

"This product is user-friendly."

"The backup and recovery options work flawlessly."

"The most valuable feature is the hot restore capability."

"Performance-wise, it works efficiently for backup and recovery compared to other tools."

"The most valuable features of the product for me are its backup and recovery functionalities."

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"The solution has the capability to scale well."

"The recovery time objective and recovery point objective were most valuable. It was easy to use, and it was easy to recover a file. I was the head of sales and a product evaluator for an MSSP, so I never had to deal with recovery from ransomware. However, I was confident that if ransomware had occurred, I would only lose a maximum of 59 minutes of data. The files were encrypted."

"The data recovery of the solution is very good."

"They are laser-focused on bringing forth proven protection technologies and stopping cybercriminals from being able to breach, break, steal, or compromise your data."

"For local backup, it works well."

"Very friendly, since it visually facilitates the control and administration of the backups."

"The product's initial setup phase is easy."

"The platform provides a faster backup process."

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"Get only one interface to manage all backup sites, secure them with replication, and manage outside LTO media."

"The product is very straightforward and very easy to use from the client-side."

"Continuous Data Protection is a game-changing technology."

"Features with the most value are Instant VM Recovery, SQL Explorer and Exchange Explorer."

"It is very easy to implement and by far a better product than any I have seen so far."

"The installation is pretty straightforward."

"The most important features of backups are them being able to make sure they're reliable, and that whatever you need to restore you have access to, and Veeam offers us that."

"The most valuable feature is the internal recovery."

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Cons

"Overall, Acronis is a good solution, but it needs improvements in some areas like IDR, XDR, and other aspects."

"Acronis Disaster Recovery should provide software information wherein I can change my setup to collect more information."

"They could provide pricing models considering the requirements of various countries and organizations."

"We need the server configuration capacity to be enlarged with the solution's help, as it does not currently include capabilities for storage expansion during recovery."

"I wish the Disaster Recovery system could do more, like integrating irregularity features and combining VLP functionalities."

"From an improvement perspective, the tool should allow users to add more data centers in the cloud."

"The product should improve compute points."

"Acronis Disaster Recovery is an expensive solution compared to other products."

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"To better integrate compatibility with other operating systems, in addition to Windows Server."

"The fact that Datto Cloud Continuity is not cheap is one of the aspects that I don't like about the product, making it an area where improvements are required."

"Datto's only shortcoming is RMM. They have a portal-based connection service like ConnectWise, but it does backups and keeps things running. Datto purchased Backupify and Kaseya bought Datto. If they upped the ante in their RMM, I could see them dominating the MSP space. At the end of the day, MSPs are responsible for networks, software, devices, and backup. Datto covers all these functions so they could offer a turnkey MSP solution."

"Right now the appliances have a functional limit of 50 protected servers each."

"The product's scalability features could be even better."

"I don't have any feedback to provide in terms of features that may be lacking."

"Datto chose to build their own cloud, instead of leveraging AWS, Azure or GCP. It looks, feels and behaves like a beta product (lacks maturity)."

"At the time I was using it, I would've focused more on signatures of malicious software in the cloud. I love Datto, and I know they're on the right path, but I probably would've focused more on the operating system update management. When you go from the desk to the cloud or from the server room to the cloud, everything changes. Everything is different. You're not in control of your servers anymore. It is from the Active Directory management perspective and not from the perspective of zero-day attacks or other similar things. At the time, more focus on zero-day attacks and business email compromise (BEC) would've been a better protection factor than just educating about how many of these attacks have occurred."

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"The replication functionality only works for VMware environments."

"There should be better use of the external hard drives."

"They need to support more platforms."

"The main challenge I noticed is that enterprise customers may have a requirement to retain backups for 10 years or 15 years with monthly and weekly backups, but in Veeam Data Platform, we do not have customization or compatibility to retain specific data backups as monthly and yearly."

"My main concern about Veeam is that I hope our backups will still be secure in the event of a security incident such as a ransomware attack. In Veeam version 11 they do state that there is ransomware protection, but until it has been proven to be effective, I don't have any assurance that it will prevent data loss."

"The solution needs more detailed reporting."

"In the future, Veeam should release a hardware backup appliance that can be integrated with their software."

"The Veeam portal should be better integrated with all the parts of the new release. But there's always a workaround to replicate the new solution. I'd like to have better integration with other solutions like SAP."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Acronis Disaster Recovery is a cheap solution."

"The solution’s pricing is average."

"The price of the solution is inexpensive."

"The tool is a little bit expensive. When it comes to pricing, there is a range for the VMs and endpoints. It depends. A set of backups on a DR probably costs around 10 to 20 USD per endpoint."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap, I rate the solution's pricing two or three out of ten."

"The product has an affordable price."

"This pricing is quite reasonable."

"The tool's pricing is reasonable."

"As the company grew from business continuity—or what used to be called business BCDR—they brought on services. Certain services, such as SaaS protection, were a value-add, but you would expect to pay for them. They are not going to be free. It is just the life that you live when you're evaluating software vendors, partners, etc. There is going to be some form of a base offering, and then there are going to be different tiers that you need to get up to a better level."

"I rate the product price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."

"We purchase a license annually."

"I would rate the product's pricing an eight out of ten. The licensing costs are yearly."

"I understand from management that the DR component is too expensive."

"The price is quite fair."

"Its price is reasonable for a big company or a big client. It is not too much. It is cheaper than VMware."

"We try to use perpetual licensing, and there are no additional costs. They have recently moved to universal licensing, which is more expensive, and I would like them to go back to host licensing."

"The subscription-based pricing of Veeam Backup Replication is competitive."

"The pricing depends on the number of clients. We pay 10,00 USD per year. On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the pricing an eight out of ten."

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Top Industries

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Outsourcing Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Construction Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

10%

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10%

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Small Business	218
Midsize Enterprise	98
Large Enterprise	144

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Also Known As

Acronis DRaaS

Datto Cloud Continuity for PCs

Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE, Veeam Backup & Replication

Overview

Acronis Disaster Recovery provides seamless data protection with efficient backup, recovery, and cloud switchover capabilities. It eliminates downtime with automation and integrated malware scanning, securing critical servers.

Acronis Disaster Recovery features an intuitive single console for streamlined management, offering comprehensive solutions for patch management, email security, automated disaster tests, and failover capabilities. Its point-in-time recovery and imaging capability ensure data integrity while enabling rapid cloud switchovers. Integration with cloud platforms and single-click recovery enhance operational efficiency, although supporting more Linux versions and appliances, improved documentation, and better licensing visibility remain areas for enhancement.

What are the most important features?

Patch Management: Keeps systems up to date and secure.
Efficient Backup and Recovery: Ensures minimized data loss and quick restoration.
Email Security: Protects against email-based threats.
Automated Disaster Tests: Regular tests enhance preparedness.
Failover Capabilities: Quick switchovers ensure continuity.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Cost Efficiency: Reduces operational costs through automation.
Minimized Manual Intervention: Automation enhances recovery speed.
Data Integrity: Point-in-time recovery ensures reliable data restoration.
Seamless Cloud Integration: Supports efficient cloud operations.

In industries like pharma, education, and manufacturing, Acronis Disaster Recovery is vital for safeguarding data against threats like ransomware. It offers reliable on-cloud backup and rapid failover capabilities during server failures, protecting critical systems and ensuring business continuity.

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Datto Cloud Continuity offers a reliable, user-friendly platform for data protection and disaster recovery, focusing on quick backup processes and scalable solutions, ensuring managed service providers are well-equipped against ransomware threats.

Datto Cloud Continuity is designed for backup, disaster recovery, and ransomware prevention. It efficiently manages backups and VM operations through an intuitive web interface. Its compelling data recovery capabilities and competitive pricing make it a valuable choice for MSPs. While the platform exhibits scalability and resilience, improvements are needed in Hyper-V integration, agent reliability, and cloud recovery options. Its pricing model and recovery duration could be optimized. Further enhancements in integration with operating systems and cybersecurity practices are suggested for broader appeal, along with stronger RMM features.

What are the key features of Datto Cloud Continuity?

Web Interface: Simplifies management of backups and VM operations.
Data Recovery: Efficient data recovery processes bolster confidence.
Scalability: Designed to handle growing data needs.
Ransomware Protection: Limits maximum data loss to 59 minutes.

What benefits should users expect in Datto Cloud Continuity reviews?

User Confidence: Built from quick backup and efficient recovery.
Competitive Pricing: Offers cost savings against potential threats.
Device Integration: Links services with ease for MSPs.
Support Attention: Ensures reliable customer support and assistance.

In industry environments managed by ConnectWise, Datto Cloud Continuity acts as a critical part of network operations, ensuring consistent backups of end-user devices and leveraging cloud synchronization for secure storage. Evaluated by companies for cost-effectiveness based on asset value and risks, it functions as a security hub, offering protection against vulnerabilities, including hardware failures.

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Veeam Data Platform is a unified data resilience solution that helps organizations recover from cyberattacks and outages, and protect workloads across hybrid and multicloud environments – all without vendor lock-in.

The platform includes built-in security capabilities designed to mitigate ransomware and other data-loss threats, including AI-backed threat detection across a broad range of workload types. This is intended to help teams identify and respond to threats before they disrupt operations.

Veeam Data Platform supports workload portability across hypervisors, cloud providers, and on-premises environments, allowing organizations to move or recover data across infrastructure without being tied to a specific vendor or platform.

For organizations looking to simplify deployment, Veeam Software Appliance provides a pre-built, hardened, and highly available option, reducing the manual setup and maintenance work required from IT teams.

Veeam Data Platform is used by over 550,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500.

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