Acronis Cyber Protect Scalability

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

It can only be scaled to the extent of the licenses we procured.

But we had some issues compressing data as our on-site storage was utilized very quickly.

There are two administrators and 98 end users working on the production service.

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Vishal Mirchandani - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer at Znet Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

In my organization, every person uses Acronis Backup. Also, we are providing services to our customers too. So, approximately more than 1,000 customers are using products from Acronis.

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Vivek Jaiswal - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager at Shriram Pistons

The tool's scalability allows us to cover remote locations, desktops, and laptops. This includes more than a hundred endpoints. The application's scalability has proven to be effective, allowing us to manage backups for both servers and endpoints, even when they are not on the local network. Currently, we have approximately 60 servers and over 100 endpoints, specifically for remote locations.

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Acronis Cyber Protect
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Acronis Cyber Protect. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
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Dominique Locksley - PeerSpot reviewer
Linux System Administrator at Adapt IT

Our clients for Acronis Cyber Protect are mostly enterprise businesses.

I rate the solution a nine out of ten for scalability.

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TA
CEO at Ankh It Srl

We have five to ten users in our organization. I rate the tool’s scalability an eight or eight and a half out of ten.

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TeerapatWeerupakorn - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering Specialist at AIS - Advanced Info Services

I haven't attempted to scale the product. We haven't had a chance to look at it yet.

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Robin Van Dijk - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Manager at Van Dijk IT

The tool is scalable. 

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SA
Founder & CEO at Technomatters

I would rate its scalability capabilities eight out of ten. I believe that for medium-sized organizations, the solution should suffice unless there are specific reasons indicating otherwise. However, for larger cloud-based organizations, it's uncertain, especially if they are relatively new to the analytics box backup segment or lack experience in providing unlimited storage licenses. Additionally, larger organizations often have more stringent compliance requirements, which may not be fully met by the product.

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Hans Blaasvær - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at KT húsið

I'd rate scalability ten out of ten. It easily extends. 

We are resellers with a couple of customers. 

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

This solution is exceptionally scalable. If you're a customer and you're using 800 gigs at the moment, we will allocate a slot for one terabyte for you. We'll give you a 20% cushion and you'll pay only for what you use. 

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VK
GM at SAIL Bokaro Steel Plant

Acronis Backup is not scalable.

We have 10 people in my organization that use the solution.

We are a large company, we are the Steel Authority of India Limited. We span across all of India. We are the biggest steel manufacturers in the country, we have more than 60,000, people working in the company. Generally, I am using Veeam, but there may be other parts of the organization still using Acronis Backup.

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DB
IT Systems & Support Engineer at Telis Ltd

We have around 90 users in our organization whose Office 365 data is being backed up via Acronis. It is a very scalable solution but depends upon the business requirement. I rate its scalability as a nine.

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PP
Manager implementation at XENOTTABYTE

I would rate the tool an eight out of ten. Acronis is an agent-based solution and it is scalable. We have around 50 customers.

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Presalesman67 - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales & Projects Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We don't have issues with scalability. We're mostly selling to SMB customers, not enterprises. It can scale for their purposes. Typically companies in the category we work with have 50 to 100 users, or maybe a maximum of 200 users.

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Ahmed Yaser Ibrahim - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Index IT

Acronis is a scalable solution, there are no worries about scalability. They always listen to thousands of customers of all sizes. A combination of high-performance computing, universal software-defined storage, and flexible networking allows you to grow the business without complexity concerns. 

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RandeepPawar - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Director at Tecstaq

The solution is scalable and can be deployed on over 1,000 servers.

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CL
General Manager at Comtodo

The solution is scalable and as you grow, you just move to a different price tier. We have one person monitoring the solution. We hope to increase use in the future. 

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

Our facility is small such that scalability is not a problem.

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Mohamed Naeem - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at College of International Transport & Logistics - CITLC

The solution is reliable and stable.

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Ajay Dand - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder Director at Ninesec Integration Pvt. Ltd

It is scalable for medium to large environments but not for very large environments.

So far, we have provided this solution to about 15 to 25 customers. 

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it_user663546 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a tech services company

Stability's not an issue for me because I'm a software developer, kind of a one-man band here, and so I have a server and a number of work stations. So far, I've used this for three months with one server and one workstation, and I haven't run into problems. Its performance seems to be speedy relative to other tools that I've used; they seemed to be quite slow. My impression is that it's quick but I haven't really benchmarked that.

On my servers, for example, I have seven disk drives and I schedule a backup. I finally figured out I should do a backup of each disk drive separately and I scheduled them an hour apart. The backup of a 1 TB disk drive happens well within the hour. It's not an issue anyway because if you schedule seven backups to go in order, they only run one at a time. I had huge amounts of disk drives connected to one server; it would take quite a while, but I don't see a way around that.

Some people use an appliance to perform backups. If you use an appliance on your network, you can have a problem with network usage. By an appliance, I mean a set of disk drives that are in their own little box; it's called network-attached storage and that's what most people use for backup. I would imagine it would perform well, but I can't prove it.

One feature that makes backups easy, once I understood it, is you can set up a backup plan that says, in effect, “backup to the W drive”, where W is the drive letter. You can say, “every Sunday backup to the W drive” and that's a backup plan. Then, you can go to as many work stations as you want and you can tell them to backup to the W drive as defined on that work station. I can use the same backup up plan for five work stations with five different backup drives, as long as I give them all the same label. It makes it very easy to set this up. I can see how this could be rolled out to a much larger installation than mine.

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MA
Cloud and Application Business Unit Manager at Jawraa

The product is scalable. 

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MC
Systems Manager

No, the application has very good support. The only difficulty is in the security of each computer login. In general, the application is excellent.

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

We did not experience any scalability issues. The Universal Restore allows you to scale up and down, which is fine.

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

I would rate it high in that department.

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MA
Technical Supervisor at Index IT

We have approximately 50 customers who use this product.

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GA
Product Manager at Midtown

I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten.

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Njekwa Anamela - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO/Managing Director at Computers for Africa Solutions

I rate the scalability of Acronis Backup an eight out of ten.

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Marc Dorey - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure & Managed Services Lead at Riela

I rate the tool’s scalability a nine out of ten since it is cloud-based. The biggest difficulty is how different backups created by different user accounts cause segregation. It causes issues sometimes in restoration. The solution is suitable for SMEs. It gets quite difficult to manage over a certain size.

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

We have 10 licenses for Acronis Backup, which allows ten users.

We are on a three-year contract that will end next year. We might renew with an additional license.

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Pieter Sadie - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Manager at PAV Telecoms

It's very easy to add more machines. You can install as many as your license allows.

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

Our installation base is not very large, at 20 servers, and 15 to 20 workstations, although I have also worked with the virtual hosts and virtual machines. From what I have seen, the scalability has been very good. The majority of our clients are medium-sized businesses.

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RP
Owner

Scalability is great. All you need is a license and it will handle up to a 1,000 machines.

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EJ
ESG at unisoUnisonn

I would rate the tool's scalability an eight out of ten. We have 10 users for Acronis Cyber Protect. 

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VanessaNapa - PeerSpot reviewer
Continuity and Security Specialist at Grupo Business IT

I have eight customers using Acronis Backup and each has approximately 3,000 employees.

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NT
Director at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Most of our tech guys have access to it. We have about 23 engineers who have access to it.

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CL
General Manager at Comtodo

The solution is scalable. However, any cloud storage is more flexible than an on-premise solution.

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MC
Systems Manager

I think it's really scalable for a program.

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RandeepPawar - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Director at Tecstaq

This is definitely a scalable product. You could backup up to 200 terabytes. There is no limitation from an infrastructure perspective.

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

I have never had scalability problems with it.

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MS
Works at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

The solution does not need to be scaled. It suits my business needs. 

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ID
General Manager at Dynamic Data

Scalability can improve. Acronis doesn't support some of the databases.

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RL
IT Desktop Support

I keep five months of full images of the server. And my work station, I keep three copies, three months' worth. And I backup my data separately. All the data is on a server and nothing is on the computer.

I backup data daily, five copies of it. Every five days, I overwrite the first one. So I've got five days of data, and three days of images and of the workstation, and five copies of the server image. I do it automated every month and I've never had a problem.

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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

Scaling was something we wanted; it was a customer requirement. What was needed was for the end-user to recover what they wanted instantly without using the admin console and by only using their agent UI. We found it could scale well.

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JB
Senior Consultant at a marketing services firm with 11-50 employees

The product isn't very scalable. It's an aspect they could improve upon. Right now, it's limited. 

We have six to seven customers using the solution. There might even be a few more in some special environments. 

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it_user674337 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a tech services company

There were no scalability issues, although my biggest client has a relatively small-scale backup system.

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GC
Enterprise Support Specialist at teamone technologies pvt ltd

The scalability of Acronis Backup has been good. We suggest to our customers it can be done easily.

We recommend Acronis Backup to SMB and education customers.

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KL
Manager, Information Technology at Genawise Australia

I haven't used it in a large environment but certainly, it works well enough in the environment that we have here. We have approximately six users. It is not the type of product that would be well-suited for a large environment.

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AC
Project and Services Manager at Gensystems

It's a scalable solution. We have medium-sized companies as clients. For example, some have 60 users, and another has 100 users.

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JS
Technical Product Manager for IT Managed Services at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The solution isn't scalable. It's a set size as an on-premises device.

On an administrative level, three people are on the solution.

We do not plan to increase usage. Using this solution is a bit of a special case within the company.

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it_user723075 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner

I can't really say, as I'm just using it for myself.

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it_user692289 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works with 51-200 employees

In terms of scalability, there have been no issues so far. I do like that we have options going forward with "Advanced", where will be have everything on one dashboard.

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it_user454233 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a educational organization

It seems like I haven't had any issues since I added the RAM to the Management Server, but it does seem to start being sluggish because I have it running on a Windows 7 machine. So, I'm considering trying to move it over to a true server (either a 2008 or 2012 Server) and then, to update that. However, it hasn't been an issue since I added the RAM. We added three physical machines that we're backing up now. It was super easy. Once we had the lessons, added that in and got those backed up really quick. That was really nice. We know, at any point, if we have a VM or a physical server that we need to add to make sure it's getting backed up, we know exactly what we need to do and that it's very capable of handling it.

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it_user158874 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Technical Lead with 51-200 employees
SK
Senior System Engineer at avian Technologies (pvt) ltd

The solution is scalable. Of course, we need to buy the license. That said, it is not the same cost that you need to pay as you would if you were buying a new one. If you already are running an Acronis Backup version, getting an expansion is less than when you're buying a new license. 

There are some clients that have embedded licenses for 100 users or so.

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it_user697053 - PeerSpot reviewer
President

As long as you're paying, I guess there's no limit. It's pretty scalable based on the user.

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DG
Senior System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
CL
Presales (Enterprise Solutions Architect) at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

It's a scalable solution.

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JB
Owner at Bloom Technology Group

I use it for very small workstations to launch servers, so the scalability is good.

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it_user783072 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director

No issues. What I came to realize is if our storage space is coming to full, I have seen the option expanding it. I do not think I have any problems with scalability.

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Pramod Kurian - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Operating Officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Acronis is easy to scale. 

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it_user722217 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works
it_user689529 - PeerSpot reviewer
President/Owner

I think it's very scalable. I run it in enterprises and I run it in SMB clients.

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it_user692292 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works

Seems fine to me as far as scalability, I think it's got everything it already needs in it.

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it_user692325 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO and Founder

Yeah, it seems to be as scalable as I need. We've added virtual servers and real servers and storage, and we never had problems doing any of that. 

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

We haven't seen any issues with scalability.

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

Any time that you do a backup that's not at the local level, it's online, you're at the mercy of whatever your connection is. If your connection is not good or stable, then you're going to have issues.

The issue is, when I did an offline backup - I don't know if it was my connection or because of how the software works or how it handles its packets - to upload the initial backup up took something like four days. That's a long time to me.

After the initial backup is done, when it does its daily backup offsite, it only takes about 20 minutes, 30 minutes. It's normal for it to take longer for the initial backup because you have to put all new information up there. After that you're just changing, it's a just a differential, so that's normal. When I'm doing the backup to the local, after the initial one, it takes about six minutes to do the backup.

The problem is that to get that initial thing done is painful. After that, the backup works okay.

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AS
Designer Architect Hardware Solutions at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is scalable, but we have very few people who use this solution. We use it for very basic things. 

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VB
Technical Presales - Server & Storage at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

I am yet to explore it in terms of scalability in the enterprise environment. It is mostly being used in small companies.

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it_user689547 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner

Scalability is impressive, it should take care of us far into the future.

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Georgi Dukov - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Security Solutions department at TechnoLogica EAD

Our customers are impressed with the scalability and richness of the different functions. We have only used twenty to thirty percent of what could be used.

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AL
IT Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

I like Acronis Backup's scalability. It is very easy. Acronis gives you a lot of options.

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MC
Solution Consultant at HGC Global Communications Limited

The scalability of the product is fine. It's a cloud product so you just purchase online. For now, I'm the only one in the company using the solution. Once testing is complete that will change.

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it_user449823 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at PeerSpot

It's scalable. We have around ten to fifteen users. The users are a combination of end-users and admins. 

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

There were some scalability issues. When using the Oracle database, the transfer rate to SAN with optical fiber channels was very slow. It doesn't matter than we were only backing up files.  

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

No issues encountered.

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it_user685392 - PeerSpot reviewer
Applications Engineer

We only use one program per computer. We don't usually scale up and we're fine with that.

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it_user162165 - PeerSpot reviewer
User Support at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
it_user157779 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Admin at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees

No, with proper licensing no issues.

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it_user719391 - PeerSpot reviewer
Applications Analyst IV with 51-200 employees
it_user157779 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Admin at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees

There were no scalability issues.

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AK
Senior Infrastructure Consultant at FORUM INTERNATIONAL

The solution is scalable.

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it_user720507 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works
it_user164862 - PeerSpot reviewer
Desktop Support Manager at a government with 51-200 employees
it_user812175 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Consultant at a tech company with 51-200 employees

I am a personal user, so scalability is not really relevant.

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

It definitely can scale because our files grow daily.

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

There were no issues with scalability.

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EI
Network Administrator at Hanatech

We are planning to buy the disaster edition and to use more of Acronis. 

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EA
IT Operation Infrastructure Virtualization Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user723057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner
it_user664746 - PeerSpot reviewer
Coordinator of TV Development with 201-500 employees
TK
Service Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The scalability of Acronis Backup is good.

We have approximately five long-term customers using this solution.

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it_user159081 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
SS
Senior Operation Executive at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have not tried scaling but we have almost 800 users.

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

No, but it doesn’t do cleanup at all. I have set to keep data for four months on some backups, then they are marked to be deleted, but never delete. Consequently, I run out of disk space, then I manually have to purge the backups from the management console. This feature has never worked.

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it_user162261 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Architect at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user158889 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal ICT Specialist - Infra at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees

Due to having previous issues V10 installed, a straightforward upgrade could not be completed. Need to perform an uninstall of previous software first.

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KB
‎IT Software Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Scalability is good.

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

Acronis Backup isn't scalable at all.

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Buyer's Guide
Acronis Cyber Protect
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Acronis Cyber Protect. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,415 professionals have used our research since 2012.