We compared Acronis Cyber Protect and Veeam Backup & Replication across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Acronis Cyber Protect is praised for its user-friendly interface, ease of use, and cost-effectiveness. However, there are some limitations such as issues with Check Point, difficulties with configuring reporting with Office 365, and the need for better integration with other cybersecurity solutions. Veeam Backup & Replication is valued for its simplicity, ease of use, and effectiveness in backup and recovery. Improvement areas for Veeam include cost, integration with storage and cloud solutions, scalability, and support. Acronis Cyber Protect may have an advantage in terms of its user-friendly interface and backup features, while Veeam Backup & Replication may have an advantage in terms of simplicity and ease of use.
"The tool’s licensing and pricing are economical for SMB customers."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The user interface (UI) is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that you can archive backups quite easily and minimize the amount of space you're using."
"Centralized management is valuable to us."
"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."
"This is a full software so deployment time is very quick."
"The backup timing and restoring process is great compared to other options."
"Initially setting up the product is easy."
"Features with the most value are Instant VM Recovery, SQL Explorer and Exchange Explorer."
"This is easy to use with a simple restore feature."
"The backup and replication features are most valuable."
"One of the most valuable features is the incremental backup. It is, of course, perfect because you have a lot of restore points, but you don't need all the space. The stability is also perfect."
"My customers find the backup and recovery ease of use is the most beneficial feature."
"I like how Veeam intuitively integrates with Zerto."
"Enables us to restore the VM when the needs arises and for disaster recovery."
"They can include something called a backup appliance. Although Acronis is a software-driven company, it would be good for customers to have some kind of backup appliance on top of a lightweight operating system. This will also reduce the cost. Currently, the customers have to buy the hardware in addition to the operating system, which increases the overhead in terms of procurement."
"If I could create a protected image backup on a computer partition that just would be just for the image backup; and only the program could access it to prevent viruses from getting into it. That would be very, very good."
"The technical support of Acronis Backup could improve. They have the depth of knowledge but the speed of the response could be quicker."
"It would be nice to have a partition that I can boot and reinstall when taking a backup image from the operating system."
"When I first started using Acronis, I found it a little bit confusing when it came to the configuration."
"Acronis Backup isn't scalable at all."
"The licensing approach becomes intricate when dealing with SharePoint."
"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."
"The integration with other solutions should be improved."
"We have had problems with some jobs. For example, when we have a VM with a large SQL Database, sometimes we cannot adjust the time for transaction logs to back up and overlap time."
"Multithreading of health check process: This can take too much time to process on large jobs and/or large VMs."
"The remote SQL server has had multiple sizing issues within the logs and SQL backup space and sharing with other database apps."
"Integration with other equipment could be improved."
"If a single file is corrupt then the restoration of the entire backup will fail."
"It is efficient but can improve security-wise."
"They need full cloud integration such that an on-premises backup can be offloaded to the cloud for storage."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 117 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 328 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect writes " Good backup solution but challenges with the stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". Acronis Cyber Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Azure Backup, N-able Cove Data Protection and Commvault Cloud, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Azure Backup, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup, Zerto and NAKIVO Backup & Replication. See our Acronis Cyber Protect vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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Acronis:
-Modern mobile-enabled web interface
-Touch-friendly, works on tablets
-21st century look and feel
Veeam:
-Basic outdated windows interface
-Windows only – no mobile devices
-Ancient look and feel
Veeam is a good easy to use backup solution. But it has some limitations when you have an HCI Infrastructure like Nutanix.
Veeam BEM though can manage the jobs in Nutanix but if I need to fetch any reports for compliance requirements, it's not available. BEM will provide reports only if you are using VMWARE or HyperV. hence we are moving towards Rubrik.
First off Azure is not a backup strategy or solution, its an S3 repository. Acronis, Veeam, Rubrik, Cohesity are Enterprise Backup Solutions/EBS that can facilitate an S3 (Cloud-out). Read the Gartner Report on EBS publisehd last Nov 2019 for better insight. - Best, Aaron
I have used Acronis and Veeam and choosing between the two depends on result you expect to get from the Backup Solution. I will advise you try the trial version of both and decide which gives you better result.
That all comes down what exactly you are looking to backup. Virtual, physical, cloud. Nevertheless if you are looking for a simple, reliable, scalable, and flexible solution which has a portable license model that fits all go with Veeam
There is no “proper” answer to your question.
First, before the tool, define your goal as:
- how many systems?
- how many virtual vs physical?
- sizing (even roughly)
- is there some DBs or specific app?
Then time will come to choose the correct tool.
Veeam is a leader. Acronis is a niche player. Veeam is integrated with most storage systems on the market. Functionality - I'd recommend Veeam.
Hi Mark, hope you are well and keeping safe. Would this be for an on-prem, off-prem or hybrid solution you are looking for? For the record, Azure is a Cloud based solution and other vendors like Arcserve, Acronis, Veeam etc...have an on-prem/hybrid solution offerings. Happy to discuss