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.
"Universal Restore is valuable to us."
"For me, the tool proved most valuable in scenarios where it offered easy setup, fast backups, and recognition of SQL logs on virtual machines."
"I have everything I need in the backup or in the partition. "
"The most valuable features of Acronis Backup are cloning and many other capabilities. For example, you are able to clone the whole operating system and drive. Additionally, the solution is a complete package."
"I can encrypt the data, I can make it send me an email if it fails. It lets me choose which files I want to ignore during backup."
"There is advanced management where we can do passing, software inventory, and hardware inventory."
"It makes a full image of the hard drive. If a hard drive fails, all we do is recover to another hard drive."
"In my opinion, it's the best product for end-users and PCs."
"Replication and restore object in Exchange boxes with possibility to select part of Microsoft directory."
"The initial setup was not overly complex."
"This is very user-friendly."
"Pricing is fairly reasonable and not overly expensive."
"The solution does a good job with VM backups."
"They introduced a new feature called the Immutable Repository feature, which helps protect environments from malware attacks that target backup file extensions."
"Its performance is fine. It supports us very well. It is able to support our policy for RTO, RPO, and other things that we need."
"The solution is very easy to deploy."
"I've had some issues with the understandability of the interface. I think if they had someone with expertise in user interfaces to look at this, they could clean up the user interface."
"The solution could use a single sign-on integration that can default to the admin dashboard. Right now, it's only username and password. If you had had an additional two-factor authentication, this would be beneficial for me."
"Acronis has some limitations on the cloud side."
"There are a lot of products out there that are a little bit stronger than Acronis where AV is concerned."
"We would always support better pricing."
"This might be a lack of understanding on my part, but it's difficult to purge old backups."
"The solution's error handling can be improved specifically for Linux errors."
"I would like to have more hardware space. It would make it better. I would like to have two more terabytes."
"Its price is higher than other solutions and can be improved. They can also change the version of the software more often."
"The product is missing some commonsense features and tools for an enterprise backup recovery product,"
"Device backup could be improved."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"I like the Acronis backup solutions on the block-based part of backups or snapshots. That's a nice functionality that Veeam doesn't have."
"Sometimes Veeam is not that effective when it comes to legacy environments."
"The implementation was straightforward. However, we used an integrator, the process could be easier for us to do it ourselves."
"We try to compare Veeam with other solutions because we are the operations. Then we can give the answers for improvement which is the specific additional system features that other solutions provide."
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