We performed a comparison between Acronis Backup and Azure Backup based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Acronis Backup nudges slightly ahead of Azure Backup in this comparison. Reviewers say Acronis is user friendly and makes tracking and managing a great number of devices easy. The solution immediately alerts users if any backups are missed or have failed. Users have the flexibility to back up locally or to the cloud. Azure backup has set limits on both the size and frequency of backups allowed, which many users find problematic.
"It actually does its job very well and has interesting capabilities, but it has the most awful interface."
"Our customers can backup to local storage and they can back up or replicate to the cloud."
"The most valuable features of Acronis Backup are instant restore, antivirus, and ransomware protection. Additionally, the documentation is good."
"The most valuable feature is the extra protection, especially for the backup."
"Stability is always good. I have used Acronis for 10 years now, if not more. I have never had a problem with availability, etc."
"It is a very fast and reliable backup, which requires less management and restores quickly."
"It has simple buying options and deployments. You can buy on-cloud, on-premises, or hybrid solutions. Acronis Backup is very easy to deploy. It also does not consume much hardware. The administrator's tasks are very simple. It is very user friendly, and it also has good security features with low-level encryption and data encryption."
"Universal Restore is valuable to us."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Backup is the native backup capabilities."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that it is easy to create a backup by using Azure Backup. It also has a good user interface and nice features for sending notifications when any backup fails or there is a change in the status of virtual machines."
"It is easy to schedule backups."
"It's very simple to configure which is very useful. It's not complex to configure it."
"I have no issues with the stability at all. So I don't necessarily care about the stability of the product. I look more at whether or not can I recover. And I haven't had a failed recovery yet. I've got no failed recoveries of all my years."
"It's useful, it works, and it's fairly reliable."
"The MARS agent makes it easy to use."
"First of all, you can schedule a backup for the client. You can schedule it as you like. You can also control the bandwidth, so the backup will not utilize. The internet will depend on the bandwidth."
"We needed to have help from the vendor for implementation. The vendor used two personnel. We have system administrators and they do the server backups themself."
"The biggest problem that we have is when the antivirus is installed, the whole machine runs very slowly and some of the machines hang."
"In some cases, at the time of reinstallation, some disasters happen. For the licensing on the computer the name of the computer and domain, everything is removed from the registry level. Then we have to install the Acronis from the start for it to work properly. Otherwise, the Acronis software will cause a lot of trouble at the time of reinstallation. That's where they need to improve the product. In the case people want to install the same software with the same hardware, it should not stop me."
"I needed tech support to straighten out an issue with cloud backup. I have troubleshooting to do with failed backups."
"No technical support and minimal documentation."
"There are times when the backups are slow. A faster backup would be better."
"The solution needs to have better stability. I would like to improve the tool’s support through calls."
"Acronis Backup isn't scalable at all."
"It doesn't have the option to have a backup from the database. It has backup for the files, folders, and backup only the whole virtual machine. But if I need to do a backup from the Oracle database, from an Exchange server or from SharePoint, this ability isn't there. There is no application backup."
"On-prem can be complex to set up but the cloud is simple."
"The product could improve its performance."
"In the next release, I would like to see the ability to back up to different cloud providers."
"The monitoring and tagging features could be improved."
"The support for Office365 backup is atrocious and is something that has to be improved."
"Azure lacks sufficient solutions for a particular scenario, we may need to resort to using third-party applications. In such cases, these applications can be employed to facilitate backup, replication, and the efficient utilization of internet connectivity and bandwidth. They enable us to effectively manage and transfer data while ensuring optimal utilization of network resources. However, it would be a benefit if we did not have to use third-party applications for these operations."
"While Azure Backup allows ingress data, the egress data is chargeable, which should be excluded."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 117 reviews while Azure Backup is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery with 51 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while Azure Backup is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect writes " Good backup solution but challenges with the stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Backup writes "Straightforward to set up and manage and allows us to monitor all backups in one place". Acronis Cyber Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Commvault Cloud and N-able Cove Data Protection, whereas Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup and Cohesity DataProtect. See our Acronis Cyber Protect vs. Azure Backup 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