We performed a comparison between Acronis Backup and Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Because Acronis Backup offers significantly less functionality, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud ultimately wins out in this comparison.
"Acronis has many features, which are really very interesting, when it comes to data backup and recovery, especially disaster recovery (DR)."
"Since the last version, everything has been improved."
"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."
"The Acronis panel is user friendly and tracking backups across a number of different devices is great. Acronis provides prompts and reminders to users if certain files are not backed up."
"It makes a full image of the hard drive. If a hard drive fails, all we do is recover to another hard drive."
"Centralized management is valuable to us."
"This is a perfect option for an SMB."
"The most valuable feature of Acronis Backup is the data recovery and restoration details."
"I have experience with the technical team of the product, and I feel that they offer good support."
"Once you deploy, it's very easy to manage. It took us about an hour to deploy."
"The disaster recovery feature."
"Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud has very easy backup and recovery capabilities."
"What I like best about Acronis Backup Cloud is the active protection feature that helps you protect your workload from ransomware attacks."
"The main strengths of Acronis lie in its cost-effectiveness, user-friendly interface, and comprehensive services."
"It provides quick backup recovery."
"The most valuable feature I have found the be the management console it is very easy to use and automation is important. Additionally, overall the solution is easy to use."
"The solution needs to have better stability. I would like to improve the tool’s support through calls."
"They can include something called a backup appliance. Although Acronis is a software-driven company, it would be good for customers to have some kind of backup appliance on top of a lightweight operating system. This will also reduce the cost. Currently, the customers have to buy the hardware in addition to the operating system, which increases the overhead in terms of procurement."
"The biggest problem that we have is when the antivirus is installed, the whole machine runs very slowly and some of the machines hang."
"Their support process can be quite lengthy...This is an area that needs improvement."
"This might be a lack of understanding on my part, but it's difficult to purge old backups."
"I believe that the next release should be easier to configure as this one is difficult to configure even the easiest of tasks."
"The new version has anti-malware and software management features, but these features should be enhanced. It is working as an exclusive solution along with the backup and recovery."
"It would be nice to have a partition that I can boot and reinstall when taking a backup image from the operating system."
"I would like to see enhancements made to the security."
"We've had some troubles with the data center."
"What's lacking in Acronis Backup Cloud is a unified dashboard or console that lets you see the backup status of all clients."
"There is more room for improvement in the training."
"The solution should increase its security features."
"It could be a little more user-friendly. The technical support also should be improved."
"I would like to have support for agentless backup, where you don't have to install an agent on the host."
"Its mailbox migration feature needs improvement."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 5th in Cloud Backup with 117 reviews while Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is ranked 11th in Cloud Backup with 44 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect writes " Good backup solution but challenges with the stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud writes "A solution that unites backup and next-generation, AI-based anti-malware, antivirus, and endpoint protection management in one solution". Acronis Cyber Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Azure Backup, Commvault Cloud and N-able Cove Data Protection, whereas Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is most compared with AWS Backup, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Synology C2 Backup, Veeam Backup & Replication and Druva inSync. See our Acronis Cyber Protect vs. Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud report.
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