Barracuda Backup vs Barracuda Intronis Backup comparison

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The compared Barracuda Backup and Barracuda Intronis Backup solutions aren't in the same category. Barracuda Backup is ranked #53 in BRS , and holds a 1.3% mindshare in the category. Barracuda Intronis Backup is ranked #12 in DS , and holds a 2.2% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of Barracuda Backup users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Barracuda Intronis Backup users who would recommend it.

Barracuda Backup

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80% willing to recommend

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94% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Barracuda Backup

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (53rd), Cloud Backup (47th)

Barracuda Intronis Backup

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Deduplication Software (12th), MSP Backup (9th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Cloud Services solutions, they serve different purposes. Barracuda Backup is designed for Backup and Recovery and holds a mindshare of 1.3%, up 0.6% compared to last year.
Barracuda Intronis Backup, on the other hand, focuses on Deduplication Software, holds 2.2% mindshare, up 0.5% since last year.

Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Barracuda Backup	1.3%
Veeam Data Platform	5.4%
Commvault Cloud	3.2%
Other	90.1%

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Deduplication Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Barracuda Intronis Backup	2.2%
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain	20.5%
HPE StoreOnce	16.6%
Other	60.7%

Deduplication Software

Q&A Highlights

Julia Miller

Community Director at PeerSpot

Aug 20, 2025

What advice do you have for others considering Barracuda Backup?

When considering cloud backup solutions, such as AWS cloud, there can be latency issues while restoring data. Cloud offerings also incur additional charges from the cloud vendor. Every product nowadays provides automation and backup flow. This is beneficial, but it is not unique to Barracuda as I have experienced many other solutions with similar capabilities. For enterprises, Barracuda Backup is affordable, but for SMBs, it is somewhat expensive. Overall rating: 8 out of 10.

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GANESAN K

Senior Technical Engineer at Safezone Secure Solutions Private Limited

Rating shows fast restoration and reliable support with scope for improved integration and database backup options

The product needs improvement to become better. For example, we attempted to integrate with Postgres SQL server to backup the database alone, which was not supported. For this reason, we required a separate solution for database backups. While other SQL servers are supported, Barracuda Backup has limitations with database backups. The main area for improvement is integration and support for databases.

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Gerard Wolters

ICT manager at Oosterhof Holman

Easy to use, immutable, and provides good deduplication features

When we wanted to back up our Microsoft environment, we looked for a cloud backup. Barracuda provided a cloud backup. There were no other products that offered similar features at that time. I will recommend the product to others. It is easy to use. It is a complete package. It is easy to integrate the product with Microsoft. We have a complete package that includes antispam and email gateway solutions. We can choose any package we want. We use Barracuda Essentials. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

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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

"One valuable feature of Barracuda Backup is that it can be used as thin VMware storage."

"The most valuable feature of Barracuda Backup is that it's on the cloud, so there is no need for hardware."

"The solution has been stable for us."

"Recovering the system and system files in disaster cases."

"Barracuda Backup is cost-effective because there is no licensing cost per server or VM."

"The solution’s scalability is good because its space is unlimited. We can start in Office365 with one terabyte bit of information and leverage through an enterprise solution of 1000 users."

"Barracuda email security works effectively with O365, and we have been able to achieve many use cases that other competitive products such as Micro, Fortinet, Trellix, or Forcepoint could not accomplish."

"This is a competitive solution that stays on top of cutting edge features."

"The most valuable feature is the Live Boot solution, a feature on the Barracuda that is very helpful for critical service because 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."

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

"Barracuda's support is probably one of the best things about them, even with all their solutions. With any problem that we have, or even questions, we get the assistance that we need. The turnaround is pretty quick."

"Easy, immediate protection for data that is virtually infinitely scalable."

"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."

"Of all the backup products we have used, this by far is the simplest to install and use."

"I have found the product's LiveBoot feature to be most valuable."

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Cons

"An improvement is required in reports and backups for sharing on Linux and Unix."

"In using Barracuda Backup, sometimes the VM has issues and becomes non-functional, requiring support tickets to resolve."

"Snapshot for different kinds of virtual/physical server could be improved with new implementation functionality and related tools."

"Barracuda Backup's user interface needs to be renewed as it appears outdated."

"It would be nice if a user could delete something and then recover it themselves. That would be a nice feature."

"The product needs improvement to become better. For example, we attempted to integrate with Postgres SQL server to backup the database alone, which was not supported."

"Barracuda Backup's support could be improved because sometimes the support team is situated outside the country, leading to time zone issues."

"When we manage the box physically, we don't have as much control as we do when we manage from the cloud. The best management is from the cloud."

"The price of this solution could be improved."

"The solution needs fine-grained backup capabilities to service individual users. But this is a minor issue considering all that the product does."

"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."

"We are still trying to get confident with daily usage of the solution. It is not always stable."

"It would be nice to have some reports generated on the usage of the system such as detailed backup statistics, but it is not essential."

"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."

"The cloud backup is brilliant, but there should be an option to take that cloud backup and save it locally as well."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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."

"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."

"Because it is a single package that includes everything, they are worth the money that you need to pay for it. You are paying for the hardware, licensing, the software that runs on it, regular updates, the cloud features included with it along with the replication, and your space allocated in the cloud for replication. It is fairly priced for what you get."

"The price of the five-year contract was approximately three million Rupees ($42,000 USD)."

"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."

"Its pricing is very reasonable, but it can be reduced."

"They're on par with their competitors."

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

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Answers from the Community

Julia Miller

Community Director at PeerSpot

Aug 20, 2025

What advice do you have for others considering Barracuda Backup?

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Rashid Alsalmi

Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jun 11, 2019

I would rate this product a nine out of ten because giving it a ten is an admission of perfection. I can't do that. I don't believe they are perfect yet. I love it, I never have complaints from customers and usually most of the problems that we face are not necessarily Barracuda's issues. I can say it's quite a good product. I'll recommend it easily. There are situations where improvements can be made to anything. For example, they don't cover every possible operating system in the world. I don't expect them to do that, so that will always be something missing. Even if the same is true for any other solution, they have to be so good that they surpass my imagination. I believe they are doing some interesting stuff right now to improve what they already have. They are improving integration for example, their backup with other services will work better. They are enhancing the alert service, and so on. There are quite a few interesting things that they're doing. They are also introducing an API, which allows other products to interface with Barracuda backup. The backup can be responsive instead of a pre-scheduled function. For example, if the number of attacks on the company increases by 7%, I might have a trigger for Barracuda to do a backup just in case. These are not backup issues, they are enhancements. They're not related to the main reason why the customer asks for Barracuda backup but they're nice things to have. It's really amazing stuff they're introducing. Everything is done by Barracuda on Amazon. All we have to work with is just a simple interface. There are no problems at all. The advice I can give to people who use traditional backup solutions is to look into the benefits that you get from the cloud and the cost savings that you get.

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Nawaaz Toonah

Operations Manager at Cybernaptics

Sep 5, 2019

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Construction Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

18%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	2

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	3

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Barracuda Backup?

The pricing is very competitive. Licensing is on a yearly basis, and Barracuda even provides replacements after three years if a device reaches end of life, without any extra charges.

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What needs improvement with Barracuda Backup?

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What is your primary use case for Barracuda Backup?

We are partners with Trellix Move Antivirus and we have sold it previously. That particular bundle has changed as Trellix has moved to Complete Protection and the DLP comes under another bundle. We...

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Also Known As

LiveVault, Barracuda Virtual Backup, Barracuda Backup Appliance

Barracuda Backup

Overview

Barracuda Backup maximizes data protection for businesses by automating and managing backups, providing secure and scalable storage options both on-premises and in the cloud, and simplifying restore processes.

Barracuda Backup is designed to protect critical business data through automated backup processes and efficient disaster recovery. It ensures data integrity while offering secure, scalable storage solutions. Users value its capability to simplify backup management, reduce manual intervention, and support hybrid environments, making it adaptable to different infrastructure setups. The solution's easy installation, reliable data protection, and seamless integration across environments are notable advantages.

What are the key features of Barracuda Backup?

Easy Installation and Configuration: Simplifies the setup process for users.
Efficient Deduplication and Compression: Optimizes storage use and reduces data volume.
Robust Replication Capabilities: Ensures that backup data is consistently replicated.
Versatile Restore Options: Provides multiple ways to restore crucial data.
Seamless Integration: Works well with different environments.
Comprehensive Reporting: Offers detailed insights into backup activities.
Excellent Customer Support: Provides reliable assistance and support services.

What benefits and ROI can users expect?

Reliable Data Protection: Ensures data integrity and minimizes loss risks.
Lower Manual Intervention: Automates processes, saving time and reducing errors.
Scalable Storage: Offers flexibility with on-premises and cloud storage options.
Efficient Disaster Recovery: Provides quick and reliable backup restoration.
Better Backup Management: Simplifies the overall backup and restoration workflow.

Barracuda Backup is deployed across several industries including finance, healthcare, and education, where data protection and quick recovery from disruptions are crucial. It adapts to sector-specific needs and provides reliable backup and recovery solutions, ensuring data security and availability in critical sectors.

Barracuda Networks

Barracuda Intronis Backup is recognized for its email archiving, ease of use, and reliable performance, providing efficient data protection and recovery across systems including servers and virtual machines.

Its intuitive management interface, efficient deduplication, and Live Boot feature for quick recovery make it a popular choice. The solution supports granular file restores, offers unlimited cloud storage, and provides robust support. Users appreciate Barracuda's compression and fast backup speeds. The platform's advanced threat protection, user-friendly cloud portal, and seamless integration with multiple products add to its strong reputation. However, there is a need for improved speed, enhanced user profile backup, and better space management. Users report slow restore times for large data and see a need for improved cloud support and reporting features.

What are the key features of Barracuda Intronis Backup?

Email Archiving: Efficiently manages and stores email data.
Intuitive Management: Simplifies operations with a user-friendly interface.
Live Boot: Facilitates quick recovery minimizing downtime.
Unlimited Cloud Storage: Provides extensive storage capabilities.
Advanced Threat Protection: Secures data with superior protection.

What benefits and ROI can users expect from Barracuda Intronis Backup?

Efficiency: Streamlines data protection and management.
Reliability: Ensures consistent performance for backups and restores.
Scalability: Offers flexible solutions adaptable to growing needs.
Support: Provides strong technical assistance and reliable customer service.

Organizations utilize Barracuda Intronis Backup primarily for comprehensive data protection and recovery within sectors such as IT and cloud services. It's often implemented for system-wide backups including servers and virtual machines, facilitating cloud-to-cloud backups for Office 365 applications. Hybrid models combining on-premises environments with Barracuda's appliances and cloud integration are common, aiding in daily, weekly, and monthly backup routines to ensure disaster recovery and secure data archiving.

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Sample Customers

Ochsner Health System

Dematic, Levitt Safety, Osoyoos Credit Union, Viborel Distribuiao, European Tour, Papergraphics, Levitt Safety, Academy of Contemporary Music, Paul, Plevin, Sullivan & Connaughton, LLP, National History Museum, California Almond Board, American Radio Relay League, Kirkpatrick Bank, IAC, Healey Brothers Automotive Group, Mechanicsburg Area School District, Taylor Shellfish Farms, Drew Marine, inMusic, Mills Law Library, Healy Brothers Automotive Group, Thomas Kinkade Company, Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Health Unit

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