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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Acronis Cyber Protect

    Score5.9 out of 10
    N/AAcronis Cyber Protect helps you safeguard your data from various threats while natively integrating your data protection and cybersecurity.

    $85

    per year

    Barracuda Backup

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/ADesigned to be simple to configure and manage, the scalable Barracuda Backup solution is offered via a capacity-based, all-inclusive subscription model allows you to pay for only what you need to protect today, avoiding large upfront hardware costs.N/A
    Pricing
    Acronis Cyber ProtectBarracuda Backup
    Editions & Modules
    Acronis Cyber Protect
    $85
    per year
    Acronis Cyber Protect
    $85
    per year
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Acronis Cyber ProtectBarracuda Backup
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Acronis Cyber ProtectBarracuda Backup
    Considered Both Products
    Acronis
    Chose Acronis Cyber Protect
    Much better interface and data recovery. Tech support is also much better.
    Incentivized
    Chose Acronis Cyber Protect
    Barracuda Cloud Essentials has email security, archiving, and allows users to manage their own spam email. Barracuda also comes with a backup feature and it all works together under one roof. Barracuda has been our alternative to other major services on the market. Acronis does …
    Incentivized
    Chose Acronis Cyber Protect
    Acronis integrates well into our environment.
    Incentivized
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Chose Barracuda Backup
    Barracuda has a lot of experience in the market, provides solutions that no other competitors have, and the support is very good
    Incentivized
    Chose Barracuda Backup
    Barracuda is easy to use with Cloud Control. I can manage ESS and their Archiver on one screen.
    Incentivized
    Chose Barracuda Backup
    While many solutions, such as Acronis and Symantec Backup Exec rely on number of agents or database services, Barracuda and Datto rely on total data storage. Barracuda's key feature is the hardware refresh. After 4 years of maintaining subscriptions, customers are entitled to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Barracuda Backup
    Easy setup and simple to managed.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Acronis Cyber ProtectBarracuda Backup
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Acronis Cyber Protect and Barracuda Backup
    Feature
    Acronis Cyber Protect
    4.7
    25 Ratings
    56% below category average
    Barracuda Backup
    7.9
    35 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Universal recovery1.023 Ratings8.028 Ratings
    Instant recovery1.022 Ratings1.530 Ratings
    Recovery verification1.022 Ratings10.030 Ratings
    Business application protection1.021 Ratings8.724 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations7.022 Ratings6.032 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification10.023 Ratings10.033 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud7.015 Ratings6.034 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression6.015 Ratings10.035 Ratings
    Snapshots8.619 Ratings8.026 Ratings
    Flexible deployment3.011 Ratings8.019 Ratings
    Management dashboard2.016 Ratings8.021 Ratings
    Platform support6.016 Ratings8.021 Ratings
    Retention options2.015 Ratings10.021 Ratings
    Encryption9.412 Ratings9.017 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Acronis Cyber Protect and Barracuda Backup
    Feature
    Acronis Cyber Protect
    1.0
    1 Ratings
    156% below category average
    Barracuda Backup
    -
    Ratings
    Continuous data protection1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Replication1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Acronis Cyber ProtectBarracuda Backup
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.7
    (48 ratings)
    6.0
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    3.0
    (4 ratings)
    6.0
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.2
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.5
    (26 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Acronis Cyber ProtectBarracuda Backup
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Acronis
    If you don't have to manage your client's email and their email archiver Acronis works very well. If you're looking for just a backup service for what's on a particular computer then Acronis is perfect. It is easy to use, so newcomers are not overwhelmed with features.It does not include as robust features as Barracuda and Cloudberry, but it does work well as just a backup.
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    If you are a small business with a few machines and your backups aren't of servers that are public facing. If you had to restore a server from backup, it would take a day at least. So, if the server being restored was public facing, that may impact customer relations.
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    Pros
    Acronis
    • Image based backups. After the initial backup, the backups happen quite quickly. This allows for multiple backups per day.
    • We have different classes of data which requires different retention policies. Acronis makes that easy to manage.
    • Restoration can be done directly to hardware or to a VM. This makes it easy to migrate a physical server to a VM.
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • Set and Forget. I rarely have to touch the Backup Servers. Once you specify your criteria, you really don't need to change it unless you have a physical change.
    • Alerts. When there are issues such as files failing to backup or a directory no longer present, you get an email giving you all the information you need. In addition you will typically get contacted by support about it.
    • Recovery is very simple. The restore browser is very good and it's just easy to find and restore data when you need it.
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    Cons
    Acronis
    • Search function for restore points on boot media.
    • After upgrading to a newer build, some fixed issues may reappear.
    • Hard to cancel jobs, but it looks like version 16 is better on that. We have run version 16 for only a month.
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • The pricing solution has gone from allowing on-premise ownership to forced cloud extortion. Basically, if you buy now you will be ok, but those of us who "owned" our solution previously are now forced to subscribe to the cloud model or be stuck with a brick.
    • Speed of recovery could be improved.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Acronis
    We have renewed our subscription over the course of a few years now. We used to use Backup Exec and it was tedious and difficult to obtain our backups when needed. Acronis just fits our environment style and the way we prefer to do business and use our third party software.
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Love the units
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    Usability
    Acronis
    Although the capacity range for the price is impressive, the access to the user console is not trivial and it is necessary to be guided for the first visits. And also since there a broad support of data storage technologies for back-ups, the connection process can be sometimes tricky, not surprisingly. It is why the Professionnal Services teams is so important at Acronis to help facilitate the installation processes.
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Dashboards and interfaces within Barracuda Backup are very easy to navigate, with clear success/warnings shown. Setting up backup jobs is probably one of the most simplest tasks - compared to competitors we trialed. Trouble shooting backup issues is also simple due to clear errors (VSS errors shown in a understandable format for example)
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    Support Rating
    Acronis
    I only got one issue resolved for more than 20 cases open. The escalation is ineffective. Most of the time, I have the feeling that I know the solution better than the support technician. Overall, case management is time-consuming, as our resolution rate is really low
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    They are always quick to get you routed to a tech support person and always get follow up after contacting them. Last experience was amazing, she adjusted my boxes and they perform even better. I cannot say enough about the support. We had some trouble with one of the windows servers leaving the volume shadow copy out there and would fail. They worked with us to adjust and get working. After that it has been months since I have had to do anything with the server to keep the backups running.
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    Implementation Rating
    Acronis
    I don't have any real key 'insights' per say except that it wasn't difficult at all, and do not be afraid to dabble in its tools and settings. It is quite intuitive with built in common sense. I cannot say enough good things about our companies experience when using this backup software.
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Work on a backup agent for Mac OS X or any Apple OS.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Acronis
    We've looked at SolarWinds, Veritas, etc. but none of them had the right combination of features, price and ease of use when compared against Acronis and its ease of implementation, setup and recovery options. We didn't like the wait time for recovery with some of the others and being able to quickly get a machine back entirely was important to us.
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Each backup solution has its pros and cons, and each customer has their needs, and budget constraints. Barracuda Backup has helped us dramatically in the area of being able to provide customers a cost-effective solution, that's easy to manage and is one of those things you're not having to check on daily, or switch out backup tapes, or hard drives.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Acronis
    I would love it if they offered better cloud space pricing or even "unlimited"
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
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    Scalability
    Acronis
    The ability to back up multiple servers from one source is a great tool to have for businesses that have equipment in different locations on the same network with a variety of software data to back up such as SQL, Exchange or a Files Server. You can decide to purchase individual server licenses as well if you would like to keep the process separate or have multiple sites where your data is housed.
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
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    Return on Investment
    Acronis
    • Every times you restore a file, you see the value and the ROI of backup.
    • Backup is a great protection against ransomware, you can always restore files that has been infected.
    • When you want to go back in previous version of files, it can be life saver.
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • Countless positive impacts from being able to restore lost or deleted files - or even restoring an entire server.
    • Being able to restore files for users and allowing them to recover lost work or preventing them from having to redo files at any level is priceless. You can't accurately measure lost time of employees having to recreate files. Especially things like 3D drawings and multi-sheet spreadsheet.
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