Acronis Cyber Protect Other Solutions Considered

Stuart Grigor - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager Governance and Quality Assurance at Motus Car Rental

We've been looking at Redstone, Acronis CyberProtect, and also the Veeam Azure component. But we want to stay on-premises at this point in time, mainly because the data storage costs in the cloud are exorbitant.

We're currently using Acronis, but we're considering moving to Veeam. We always considered going with Veeam, but in the beginning, Veeam was much more expensive than Acronis. 

However, now we're finding that their price points are much closer together, so the move to Veeam is not such a dramatic jump as it was a couple of years ago.

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GD
Sales Account Manager at a security firm with 11-50 employees

We briefly considered Veeam, Metallic IO and Redstor. As a backup solution, Acronis is great. 

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VK
GM at SAIL Bokaro Steel Plant

I evaluated Cohesity.

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Ahmed Yaser Ibrahim - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Index IT

I evaluated many solutions, Acronis is the best of them from my opinion.

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it_user683463 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees

I tried Clonezilla and Backup Exec.

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MC
Systems Manager

Barracuda Backup and EaseUS Todo Backup.

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it_user701472 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Associate-Information Consultant at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

We evaluated Symantec Ghost and this product.

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it_user689541 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

We did look around at the different options. I can’t recall the names of them now, but other commercial server-level products that would do the same thing, but they were probably a little higher in price. At the time they are higher in price and Acronis was more competitive that way.

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GA
Product Manager at Midtown

I've worked with various products, such as Networker, NetBackup, and others.

I use them all simultaneously.

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MS
SA at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have not compared other tools.

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Pieter Sadie - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Manager at PAV Telecoms

I looked at VeeAm, Backup Exec, Solarwinds and Redstor. Veeam requires the installation of SQL even on workstations. In my experience this impacted overall performance of workstations. Backup Exec I found frustrating to administer and Solarwinds, although fantastic for File Backups and Office365, is not ideal for image backups. The bare metal restore (BMR) for Solarwinds is extremely basic and only restores to the first available SATA drive it finds. I accidentally overwrote important data using Solarwinds BMR since it does not warn you or give you an option to choose a destination drive for the restore. And after the BMR the machine did not want to boot, meaning I could not rely on the solution in times of crisis. Redstor is a great product and works well, but it is complicated to get to know and even after a course on it, I still felt a bit lost. Plus it was really expensive compared to Acronis.

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LH
Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Before one of my recent clients choose Acronis Backup, I was looking to see if there any other products that were preferable. However, my client ultimately preferred Acronis. 

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MC
Systems Manager

A few solutions, even a freeware solution, I think

The most reliable solution that I found, it was Acronis because of the program, which is why I would choose Acronis.

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SR
Director of Global Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did an evaluation of many different solutions, primarily because we were moving from more on-premise to cloud-based solutions. So, as a result of going to the cloud, we looked at the Best of Breed in the cloud space.

Ultimately, we implemented two solutions. We use a Veeam cloud backup appliance solution and a leveraged TSM environment for our core operations provider. It was decided based on cost flexibility and technology richness.

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ID
General Manager at Dynamic Data

We have been evaluating Barracuda to learn more about the services it offers.

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it_user159090 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Security and Compliance Engineer at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
Lahiru Rathnayake - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer - Systems & Security at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

If I was to compare this product with Veritas, Druva, or Azure, the main difference I see is that those products only include the backup functionality. What Acronis provides is much more than that. It provides backup, management, and security, as well as vulnerability management and patch management, and a little bit of DLP. They include many packages. It adds an extra layer to the offering.

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it_user674337 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a tech services company

We did not evaluate other options.

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it_user158874 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Technical Lead with 51-200 employees

We did yes. We looked at Symantec and Microsoft. Symantec seemed very clunky and not too up-to-date backing up to digital medium.

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it_user697053 - PeerSpot reviewer
President

We did look at other solutions. I had used Acronis before this version, i.e., just a single standalone setup that had the whole user interface. So, I was familiar with Acronis and I leaned towards it versus trying a lot of the other ones. I was using the Windows one prior to it. I didn't really evaluate too many options. The price was right, so I just went with it.

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CL
Presales (Enterprise Solutions Architect) at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I evaluated Mozy at the time I was evaluating Acronis Backup. Acronis could do what Mozy could not. I realized that they had a local distributor for us, who offered us a lot of help.

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it_user783072 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director
it_user722217 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works

Yes, but it was so long ago that I don’t remember the names of the alternative products.

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it_user692292 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works

The reason I got Acronis was really for it's universal restore. The ability to restore on a brand new, bare bones, different mother board-type of computer. A total different build. That was my main reason for getting it, which so far has been great, because I've done it two, three times already.

The other backup type is file back, which is where I used Seagate. Seagate has backup software that backs up any files that are changed, that have new time stamps on them. So that's the only other type of backup I had, but that has nothing to do with bare-bones, which is what Acronis is mainly for.

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it_user692325 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO and Founder

I had several choices. I don't recall all the names. We narrowed it down to a choice between two or three products, and we had some specific features in mind that we wanted to make sure that we could do. Being able to run servers virtually off-site, and some other things like that.

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IT Operations Officer (SCOPE) at United Nations World Food Programme

Discovered Acronis first, and went with the solution. Found it to be more user friendly and flexible.

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it_user790503 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

Yes, we evaluated Norton, which I don't like. Acronis. And then, of course, the Microsoft solution.

I like Acronis as a company and the backup solution. Like I said, I've used it before, and it was very easy to use. It was a different backup solution than the one I'm currently using, but still made by Acronis. 

The same thing with Norton, I've had experiences with Norton, and it's a pain. There is always a problem, I have had configuration issues and restore issues using Norton. I don't know if it was that particular situation where it was a problem, but I've use Norton a couple of times and it's always been problematic. Every time I've used Acronis in the past - I've been doing this for 25 years - I haven't had any problems. So my experience in the past taught me to steer away from certain things. I don't use anything that has that word "Norton" on it. Seriously, whether it's antivirus, backup, it doesn't matter. Every time I've ever use any of their products it's always been a pain to get it configured and for it to work properly.

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it_user689547 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner

I did not. This product was recommended to me. I tried it and investigated it. I found that it suited our needs at a reasonable cost.

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it_user365805 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Sales Advisor/Deploy Agent at a tech services company
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it_user685392 - PeerSpot reviewer
Applications Engineer

We did not evaluate other options. We were using older solutions and we had problems with them. So we tried Acronis and it worked.

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it_user157779 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Admin at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees

No, because of OS compatibility it was the only one we knew about.

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it_user719391 - PeerSpot reviewer
Applications Analyst IV with 51-200 employees

We did evaluate other products and Acronis Backup Standard best met our needs, subject to our budget constraints.

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it_user157779 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Admin at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees

According to the compatibility matrix of the operating system, we had this product as it was the only available product included with it.

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it_user720507 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works

Veaam. I found its usefulness to be very limited, very dependent on the operating system.

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it_user164862 - PeerSpot reviewer
Desktop Support Manager at a government with 51-200 employees

We liked Acronis true image a lot, so we did not evaluate other vendors.

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it_user812175 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Consultant at a tech company with 51-200 employees

I have tried other solutions, then I saw Acronis, and it did everything. It was an all-in-one solution for OS, Apple iOS, or Windows. Again, it was easy to follow. 

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it_user694701 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a tech company with 51-200 employees

I got recommendations from people who do the same thing as I do. They all recommended Acronis as the best product, so I just went with it.

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it_user365805 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Sales Advisor/Deploy Agent at a tech services company

We did not evaluate other options.

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EA
IT Operation Infrastructure Virtualization Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We evaluated the VMware backup solution, Acronis, Symantec, and Veeam. However, we are now using both Acronis and Veeam.

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it_user723057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner
it_user664746 - PeerSpot reviewer
Coordinator of TV Development with 201-500 employees

I have not used other products since moving to Acronis Backup.

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it_user159081 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

No, it was already in use when I started this job.

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it_user735180 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chemical Process Control Specialist at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Veeam. They seemed okay, but they didn’t do physical computers and I needed both.

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it_user158889 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal ICT Specialist - Infra at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees

No, as this has been used always with the organisation.

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AW
Cyber Security Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We've worked with a lot of products, including Microsoft and Nutanix. Out of all of them, the one I like is Nutanix. Many of our solutions are Microsoft products, and Nutanix recently launched a cloud solution.

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Buyer's Guide
Acronis Cyber Protect
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Acronis Cyber Protect. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
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