We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Protect and BackupAssist based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The main reason we went with Acronis Cyber Protect is because it provides a virtual machine backup feature."
"I like Acronis Cyber Protect's backup process and its management console is intuitive."
"i use the backup solution and I use something called Disk Director, which is a related product. Together, they allow me to manage all of my storage space."
"Acronis Backup is easy to use, intuitive, and has high performance."
"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."
"The main reasons that our customers like Acronis are that it is very strong and easy to use."
"The administration is pretty flexible in terms of defining a multi-tenant type of setup."
"The ability to clone backups."
"The most valuable features of BackupAssist are ease of use, configure is simple, and more importantly, ease of recovery. If you needed to do a complete system recovery or another recovery it is straightforward."
"We can configure the notifications themselves so that the right people get the notifications. This is very helpful. It allows key stakeholders to know if backups have happened and to remind each other to check the backups if something is not right."
"I have found that the backups are usually very successful."
"I get my reports. It is generally very reliable. Unless there is a major change, it doesn't stop backing up. I've got my server room set up with everything connected to the same power, and I never have power issues or failures of backups because a sub-site has gone off."
"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."
"If we could have a mass deployment option using Acronis, that would be helpful."
"The backing up of virtual machines in VMware and Nutanix needs better integration and the performance of the solution needs improvement."
"On the cloud side, security could always be better."
"I needed tech support to straighten out an issue with cloud backup. I have troubleshooting to do with failed backups."
"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."
"The support and documentation must be improved."
"It stopped doing my backups after I did the last update on it."
"Many solutions become stagnant over time. However, BackupAssist has been consistent in updates but they must continue to innovate and improve to avoid stagnation."
"The solution needs a dashboard or some form of central control from which you can manage all backups."
"Many solutions become stagnant over time. However, BackupAssist has been consistent in updates but they must continue to innovate and improve to avoid stagnation."
"In the future I would like to see more support for Linux."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 117 reviews while BackupAssist is ranked 26th in Backup and Recovery with 5 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while BackupAssist is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect writes " Good backup solution but challenges with the stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of BackupAssist writes "Provides ransomware protection, does good reporting, and is close to perfect for our use case". Acronis Cyber Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Azure Backup and N-able Cove Data Protection, whereas BackupAssist is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication.
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