Barracuda Intronis Backup vs Dell Avamar comparison

Barracuda Networks and Dell Technologies are both solutions in the Deduplication Software category. Barracuda Networks is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.5, while Dell Technologies is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.2. Barracuda Networks holds a 0.3% mindshare in DS, compared to Dell Technologies’s 9.6% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Barracuda Networks users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of Dell Technologies users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 5, 2024

Dell Avamar and Barracuda Intronis Backup compete in data backup and recovery solutions. Dell Avamar holds the upper hand in features such as deduplication and integration with VMware, while Barracuda is favored for its cost-effectiveness and ease of deployment.

Features: Dell Avamar provides advanced client-side and source-based deduplication, efficiently reducing the backup window. It supports file-level, SQL Server, and NDMP backups, with robust integration with VMware and Data Domain. Barracuda Intronis Backup offers reliable live boot capabilities for rapid recoveries in VMware environments and emphasizes intuitive management alongside its developing cloud integration strategy.

Room for Improvement: Dell Avamar could enhance its troubleshooting capabilities, provide native SQL backup solutions, and improve cloud integration, alongside seeking better web-based UI and metadata management. Barracuda Intronis Backup could benefit from faster recovery speeds, broader support for personal data and device backups, and improved scalability and integration with third-party applications.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell Avamar is primarily an on-premises deployment, requiring substantial on-site resources. Users have mixed experiences with its technical support regarding response times and service quality. Barracuda Intronis Backup offers flexible deployment options, including hybrid and public cloud solutions, with customer service receiving praise, although it occasionally faces challenges with global support consistency.

Pricing and ROI: Dell Avamar is generally more expensive, often necessitating both hardware and software purchases, but its cost is justified by its robust features. Barracuda uses simplified pricing models without per-user or per-device licensing, making it more cost-effective for smaller, budget-conscious businesses. Both solutions provide positive ROI, with Dell Avamar focusing on efficient data handling and Barracuda highlighting cost-effective cloud storage integration.

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Categories and Ranking

Barracuda Intronis Backup

Ranking in Deduplication Software

11th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

MSP Backup (6th)

Dell Avamar

Ranking in Deduplication Software

3rd

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

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Backup and Recovery (10th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Deduplication Software category, the mindshare of Barracuda Intronis Backup is 0.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dell Avamar is 9.6%, up from 9.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Rahul Sarangdhar

Senior Specialist at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech

Works excellently for on-prem backup but not the best for Azure backups

Avamar is not the best tool when it comes to taking Azure backups. Like Commvault, if Avamar can support VM-level backups for the cloud, that would make it a bit better. There is another Dell EMC tool called NetWorker, which is a bit centralized tool. If you deploy a storage node locally, you can use the same UI tool for central management, but in the case of Avamar, it needs to be deployed individually on a site, irrespective of whether it's small or big. So, if I have 10 sites, I have to manage 10 Avamar. That's a bit of a headache. The Dell EMC solution professionals who connect with the clients should suggest NetWorker to clients with multiple sites rather than Avamar. That's because NetWorker gives more centralized control, but they keep recommending Avamar, which isn't the best practice. There are no free or cheaper training plans. Unless your company is a partner with Dell, you don't get the student guide training, etc. Their administrator guide does not have all the information required for a new person. It doesn't cover the basics. The student guide is good, but it's not free. If you are a partner, only then it's free. Otherwise, there is a cost of $2,000 to $3,000. For people who are new to Avamar, there should be some resources to enable them to study on their own at least 50% of the basics. If I want to study Commvault, I get so many documents and resources to study, but in the case of Dell EMC products, there aren't any free resources. Only if you're a partner, the resources are available for you to learn. The user manuals and administrator guides are just for deployment. They aren't good for learning the basics for a fresher.

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Pros

"The main feature we like about Barracuda is that we can map devices directly to the cloud. It operates as a security device to run a backup of the cloud in case one of our physical machines goes down."

"The product is easy to use."

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

"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."

"We perform backup drills to test the functionality, and we don't have any problems."

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

"The most important feature in Barracuda Backup is the ability to archive the backup of emails."

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

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"Scheduling is valuable. It does a good job of backing up, and it does a good job of restoring. Nobody has got a problem with that. The agents are well supported."

"The solution integrates well with Unix, Windows, Hyper-V and VM."

"We've been using this solution to backup our servers. It is a simple backup and restore data application."

"The deduplication feature is the best aspect of the solution."

"The tool's most valuable features are backup management and speed."

"All the features in the system are highly valuable."

"The data reduction feature and the ease of enabling a server in a DR location are the most valuable."

"The backup is the solution's most valuable feature. It's very reliable."

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Cons

"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."

"Setting up Barracuda Backup is straightforward."

"Their technical support is not very good. You never know what they are doing and what is the issue. Customers need to know what is happening. This is our main concern and the only thing that can be improved in this solution. I would like to have more visibility about what is going on when something happens. I need to know what was done to solve the issue."

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

"The solution depends on your connectivity, so it is essential to have a proper connection to the cloud."

"Barracuda Backup could use some more integration."

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

"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see cloud support and deduplication functionality."

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"Avamar is still competitive because of the way we have deployed it, but we need to diversify and shift away from specific technologies. In addition to hypervisors, virtual machines, and bare metal servers, our customers need protection for Microsoft 365, SaaS, and the public cloud, so we need other technologies in the business to cater to those customers' needs. Those are the enhancements we would want from the Avamar platform, but that's not likely to happen. Dell has PowerProtect and Apex backup services. There are other Dell solutions that we'll use to fulfill our customers' requirements."

"In my opinion, the user interface and the user friendliness could be improved. The specific thing I have in mind are the graphics, which are not quite user-friendly."

"The solution used to freeze sometimes while taking a snapshot backup."

"Compared with Cohesity or Rubrik, which have some continuous data protection for backup and replication, this solution tends to lack in this area."

"I want to see a more user-friendly and administrator-friendly Dell Avamar. The solution also needs a better UI and dashboard."

"This solution could improve by introducing daily verifications and another repository."

"The solution is not very strong on the Cloud. They should work out how they can use this as a backup as a service."

"There also needs to be single sign-on support."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

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

"Low, fixed cost with great savings."

"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."

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

"The tool's pricing is reasonable."

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

"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."

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"Its licensing is weird. It is not just the licenses; we also purchase hardware. With most software products, such as Veeam, Commvault, and Data Protector, there is no hardware purchase at the same time. Because Avamar and Data Domain are tied together, they have an integrated pipe. You can separate them, but basically, they're designed to work as a couple. Because the Data Domain backend is designed to do dedupe and compression, we get 60:1. When you count it, you count it as a straight compression, but of course, that's with dedupe and some other stuff. You have to buy the hardware, the licensing, and the software at the same time. So, it's not just software."

"There is a license required for this solution."

"When it comes to competition the price is not what is important, it's not the problem."

"Dell Avamar is a moderately priced solution."

"Licensing was generally on a per VM or terabyte basis. They changed their licensing model a couple of times and turned it into socket-based licensing, which is an improvement in their licensing model."

"I rate the pricing a seven out of ten because it is expensive."

"The solution is not expensive for the value one gets."

"It's a very high-end solution and comparable to Rubrik and Cohesity."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

28%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Barracuda Backup?

The most valuable feature is unlimited data storage on the cloud. Even if the employee has left the company for a few years, the backup will still be maintained.

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

The tool's pricing is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with Barracuda Backup?

The search features must be improved. Future releases must make it easier to search through the backup.

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What's the difference between Dell EMC Avamar and Dell EMC NetWorker?

From the very beginning, Dell EMC NetWorker considers users and those who might potentially become users. In terms of both pricing and setup, this product offers an experience that is significantly...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC Avamar?

The cost is very significant, and it could be lower.

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What do you like most about Dell Avamar?

Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup.

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Avamar

Overview

Barracuda Intronis Backup is a comprehensive data protection solution designed to safeguard critical business information. It offers secure and efficient backup and recovery capabilities for physical and virtual environments. With its user-friendly interface, businesses can easily manage and monitor their backups, ensuring data integrity and availability.

The solution supports a wide range of platforms, including Windows, Mac, and Linux, making it suitable for diverse IT environments. Barracuda Intronis Backup utilizes advanced deduplication and compression techniques to optimize storage utilization and reduce backup windows.

It also offers flexible recovery options, allowing businesses to restore files, folders, or entire systems quickly and efficiently. The solution ensures data security through encryption and secure transmission protocols, protecting sensitive information from unauthorized access.

With its robust reporting and alerting features, businesses can proactively monitor backup status and address any issues promptly. Barracuda Intronis Backup provides businesses with peace of mind, knowing that their critical data is protected and easily recoverable in the event of a disaster.

Barracuda Networks

Dell Avamar data protection software delivers flexible and efficient backup and recovery operations that can scale from daily backup protection for endpoints to high-performance protection for large enterprises with diverse applications and workloads. With application consistent recovery, automation and fast backup and restores, Avamar can help you meet your SLAs and optimize your backup and recovery processes

If you are deploying all or part of your backup environment to the cloud, Avamar enables you to make the most of your cloud investment, enabling replication, disaster recovery and long-term retention for customers using AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.

Avamar is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite, which offers comprehensive data protection software applications and tools. Avamar is delivered as software and as a virtual edition.

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