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 administration is pretty flexible in terms of defining a multi-tenant type of setup."
"The most valuable feature is the extra protection, especially for the backup."
"Our customers can backup to local storage and they can back up or replicate to the cloud."
"The most valuable feature is that you can do a bare-metal restore even with dissimilar hardware."
"All the necessary features required to set up a proper backup are already present in Acronis Backup."
"The main reason we went with Acronis Cyber Protect is because it provides a virtual machine backup feature."
"The solution has all the features I need and user friendly."
"Centralized management is valuable to us."
"This is easy to use with a simple restore feature."
"Storage Snapshot is a good feature and very safe."
"I think the interface is straightforward"
"If you have a lot of central sites and remote sites, you can easily set up the replication and make it easier."
"The solution is very easy to deploy."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"We have evaluated other solutions but Veeam is the best for virtualization."
"This solution is very flexible and user-friendly — it's very good. It's very good with our virtual and physical infrastructure."
"Acronis Backup can improve on the virtualization backups because they are not as good as Veeam Backup."
"I wish Acronis had a feature that would allow me to set an expiry date for customers when I send them Acronis, such as when I create a customer workload or gigabyte."
"The licensing approach becomes intricate when dealing with SharePoint."
"The new version has anti-malware and software management features, but these features should be enhanced. It is working as an exclusive solution along with the backup and recovery."
"Acronis Backup has a straightforward initial setup process and an easy-to-use interface. However, a potential issue for Acronis partners is that registered partners do not have access to marketing materials, which can make it difficult for them to reach mass markets and sell the product. This could be improved by allowing registered partners to access marketing materials and tools, such as email templates, that would help them to promote Acronis Backup effectively."
"Improved support for immutability and Utility AirGAP could be beneficial."
"The whole product structure is confusing. You can actually get to do what you want to do. But Acronis seems to have a singular ability to make things difficult."
"The dashboards for digital operations can be improved."
"The price could be lower."
"Multithreading of health check process: This can take too much time to process on large jobs and/or large VMs."
"Needs better integration with cloud service providers."
"Add an archive option to support legal obligations."
"I would like to see the licensing model improved. They have recently changed the model and have made it more complicated."
"Some support replies for a broken backup task have been "rebuild the job from scratch" and this is a bad thing to do if you have many VMs and repositories."
"The replication process is very slow. It takes too long to replicate a virtual machine."
"There's a lot of room for improvement surrounding the backup process."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 25 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 17 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect writes "A single solution protecting all platforms, that is highly secure, and easy to deploy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Simple deployment, exceptional restore capability, and seamlessly data recovery". 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, NAKIVO Backup & Replication and Zerto. 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