Compare Acronis Backup vs. Arcserve UDP
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"The most valuable feature is its consistency." "It actually does its job very well and has interesting capabilities, but it has the most awful interface." "This is a full software so deployment time is very quick." "The web-based interface makes it easy to use." "One of the features I have found most valuable is the restore point - it gives us what we need at the time we need it. The important thing is that the backup for Acronis doesn't depend as much on the device." "The most valuable feature is that you can do a bare-metal restore even with dissimilar hardware." "It's always stable. It's very good, useful, and user-friendly." "The most valuable feature is the fact that it backs up my systems transparently in the background, and I'm not even conscious of it." | "The data protection functionality is the most valuable feature of this solution." "The backup is the most valuable feature. It also makes storage very easy." "The most valuable features are the replication to the cloud and the deduplication." "The most valuable feature is the duplication." |
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"This is not a feature-rich solution." "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." "No technical support and minimal documentation." "When an error occurs, the information is not always easy to understand and these messages should be made more clear." "For smaller companies it's a little more challenging to maintain." "In the span of six months, maintenance is done at least twice and you are told that it is coming up, with apologies for the inconvenience. It's a distraction, and it interferes with the backup schedule." "I would like to have more hardware space. It would make it better. I would like to have two more terabytes." "When I first started using Acronis, I found it a little bit confusing when it came to the configuration." | "It should be easier to switch between backup locations. We have multiple data storage locations and sometimes one of those storages need to be replaced. It would be nice if they made it easier to reconfigure the backup configuration." "The only problem with the solution is that when I change the drive capacity, it has to do a full backup. It's a problem when I have five servers to backup. When I only want to change the size of the drive, I have to do a full backup that can take one week." "In the most recent version of premium plus the replication has been removed, and it should re-added to the solution." "Based on my experience, whenever we need support, there are difficulties with communication when trying to resolve the issue." |
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"Our licensing fees are on a yearly basis." "The pricing is comparable to the newest solution available on the market, Altaro." "The cost of updates is less than $100 USD yearly." "It is very cost-effective for the SMB segment, especially for start-ups and smaller environments. It is cost-effective for on-premises and on-cloud deployments in such environments." "This is an affordable product and fits within our customers' budgets." "Licensing fees are billed annually and there are no extra charges." | "We only have the maintenance of three standard UDP licenses. Each license is 50 Euro. There are some additional costs for the storage and software but it has nothing to do with the UDP." "Normally our customers purchase the premium plus license, rather than the standard one, which provides more options." "The price of this product is high and it should be lower." |
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Top Answer: Comparing the features of the four is not the right approach. You need to develop a list of requirements for backup and DR that are specific to your organization and then compare each of the four… more » Top Answer: It actually does its job very well and has interesting capabilities, but it has the most awful interface. Top Answer: I'll be completely honest, it's a very annoying product. 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… more » | Ask a question Earn 20 points | ||
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| Acronis Backup, Acronis Backup 12.5 Standard, Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced | |||
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Overview | |||
Acronis Backup 12.5 is the world’s easiest and fastest backup solution for all your data, whether it is located on-premises, in remote systems, in private and public clouds, or on mobile devices. With enhanced backup validation and blockchain-based authentication of your backups with Acronis Notary, Acronis Backup 12.5 is the most reliable backup solution on the market today. Available in Standard and Advanced editions, Acronis Backup 12.5 protects data on 21 platforms. With active protection from ransomware, 15-second Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), and backups that are two times faster than the closest competitor, it is easiest to-use, fastest, most secure and complete backup solution available today. Acronis Backup simplifies the management of data protection and reduces IT manual efforts with innovative features that automate data protection. These features include a zero-installation, unified touch-friendly web-based console to manage backup and recovery of all workloads and data, agentless and agent-based backups; and flexible granular, bare-metal, and dissimilar hardware recovery options. | Arcserve UDP is a comprehensive solution that empowers even a one-person IT department to protect virtual and physical environments with a high degree of simplicity. It allows you to design and manage your entire data protection strategy with a unified management console, and enables you to scale your data backup coverage as your organization grows with the push of a button. | ||
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Sample Customers | |||
| Kings Academy, Rush Memorial, Pentagon Credit Union, Oxford School District, New York City Probation, Dolmen Insurance, New Bedford Community Health, Gerard Darel, Ready Honda | ITPS, North Hertfordshire Homes, SEMIKRON, Kajaani University of Applied Sciences, Test Valley Borough Council, EK Services | ||
Top Industries | |||
Government10% Non Profit10% Manufacturing Company10% Logistics Company7% Comms Service Provider30% Computer Software Company24% Media Company5% Construction Company4% | Manufacturing Company29% Wholesaler/Distributor14% Non Tech Company14% Financial Services Firm14% Computer Software Company29% Comms Service Provider21% Government8% University6% | ||
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Small Business46% Midsize Enterprise24% Large Enterprise30% | Small Business38% Midsize Enterprise38% Large Enterprise23% | ||
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Acronis Backup is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery Software with 14 reviews while Arcserve UDP is ranked 40th in Backup and Recovery Software with 4 reviews. Acronis Backup is rated 7.8, while Arcserve UDP is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Acronis Backup writes "A stable and scalable backup solution with superior image restoring capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Arcserve UDP writes "Offers good data protection functionalities and enables us to backup the virtual server". Acronis Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas Backup Exec, Veeam Backup for Office 365, Commvault and Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, whereas Arcserve UDP is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas Backup Exec, Rubrik, Dell EMC PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Commvault. See our Acronis Backup vs. Arcserve UDP report.
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Comparing the features of the four is not the right approach. You need to develop a list of requirements for backup and DR that are specific to your organization and then compare each of the four products to those requirements. All the products you have listed do very well in specific niche markets, all of them also have cons as well, without a clear understanding of what your requirements are a product comparison doesn't mean a great deal.
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I can send you comparision documents if you would like but as Kevin mentioned, first it is good to know the exact needs and specification you or your company expects from Backup solution.
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Szabolcs
I can only vouch for Veeam which we use in a 100% virtualised environment. for us it's perfect, we run backup locally and replication to a remote datacentre. we can recover individual files or whole VM's. we can spin up recovered VM's in a sandbox environment. we've just started to play with restore to Azure as well. licencing in on a per host basis, we use it for both VMware and Hyper-V vm's. I hope this is of some help to you?
I second Kevin's remark. It is almost impossible to compare various backup solutions without knowing your environment. Are you backing up exclusively Windows, Windows and Linux, do you have Novell, minicomputer and the list goes on. Why type of backup hardware are you using, WORM, Tape Drive, Tape Autochanger..... And I have not even touched the functions you want the backup to do.
The field about Backup is very big , I am a partner from Acronis , and Acronis has many advantage ,over others tecnology , but in specifics skills , another Marks have theirs improvement skills too , you must specific about what ? Virtualization,storage,management,recovery virtual to physical ? is a lot information to say ..
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