Acronis Cyber Protect vs. Arcserve Backup

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Acronis Cyber Protect
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Acronis Cyber Protect integrates backup with cybersecurity with the goal of delivering comprehensive cyber resilience. It offers rapid, one-click recovery, and simplified management for all IT environments.
$85
per year
Arcserve Backup
Score 7.4 out of 10
N/A
Arcserve Backup is a storage management solution from Arcserve, formerly of CA Technologies before Arcserve's divestiture (July 2014). It utilizes magnetic tape storage backup as part of its storage management offering.N/A
Pricing
Acronis Cyber ProtectArcserve Backup
Editions & Modules
Acronis Cyber Protect
$85
per year
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Acronis Cyber ProtectArcserve Backup
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Acronis Cyber ProtectArcserve Backup
Considered Both Products
Acronis Cyber Protect
Chose Acronis Cyber Protect
Those products are all very similar. They all have pros and cons, but at the end of the day, they are all very much the same. You pick the one that you like the most, you definitely have to try many. For us, we use it for end user computers, and use something else for VMs, and …
Arcserve Backup
Chose Arcserve Backup
It is easy to deploy and manage. Solid data recovery and good notification option. We need to backup to tape to retain 7 years thus D2D2T is a good option to have.
Features
Acronis Cyber ProtectArcserve Backup
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Acronis Cyber Protect
9.2
40 Ratings
7% above category average
Arcserve Backup
-
Ratings
Universal recovery9.535 Ratings00 Ratings
Instant recovery9.533 Ratings00 Ratings
Recovery verification9.535 Ratings00 Ratings
Business application protection8.729 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations9.732 Ratings00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification9.837 Ratings00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud9.825 Ratings00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression9.624 Ratings00 Ratings
Snapshots8.619 Ratings00 Ratings
Flexible deployment7.723 Ratings00 Ratings
Management dashboard8.730 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform support9.629 Ratings00 Ratings
Retention options9.628 Ratings00 Ratings
Encryption7.823 Ratings00 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
Acronis Cyber Protect
7.4
18 Ratings
14% below category average
Arcserve Backup
-
Ratings
Continuous data protection8.115 Ratings00 Ratings
Replication6.914 Ratings00 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics7.514 Ratings00 Ratings
Malware protection7.08 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities7.29 Ratings00 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery7.811 Ratings00 Ratings
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Acronis Cyber ProtectArcserve Backup
Small Businesses
Cove Data Protection
Cove Data Protection
Score 9.2 out of 10
Cyberduck
Cyberduck
Score 9.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Druva Security Cloud
Druva Security Cloud
Score 9.4 out of 10
Cisco UCS Manager
Cisco UCS Manager
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Druva Security Cloud
Druva Security Cloud
Score 9.4 out of 10
Cisco UCS Manager
Cisco UCS Manager
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Acronis Cyber ProtectArcserve Backup
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(60 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(2 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.4
(16 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
1.0
(5 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.5
(26 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Acronis Cyber ProtectArcserve Backup
Likelihood to Recommend
Acronis
It works great as a cloud backup solution, and restoring data from a past backup is easy. If you need an easy-to-use cloud backup solution for some servers, I would recommend Acronis. If we had a need, I would use this to back up all of our computers as well. I am not too sure how it would handle backing up over 50 devices, though.
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Arcserve
Arcserve UDP is fully suited for small to large size environments that need complete data protection solutions with the ability to run the fastest backups, replications, instant VM and DR.
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Pros
Acronis
  • Image based backups. After the initial backup, the backups happen quite quickly. This allows for multiple backups per day.
  • We have different classes of data which requires different retention policies. Acronis makes that easy to manage.
  • Restoration can be done directly to hardware or to a VM. This makes it easy to migrate a physical server to a VM.
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Arcserve
  • It offers excellent features like dedupe, high availability, DR, and BMR.
  • Arcserve Backup has many offerings to fit many business sizes and needs.
  • Arcserve Backup sales and technical support is good to work with.
  • Very nice reseller program and benefits.
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Cons
Acronis
  • Backing up Sharepoint automatically backs up all users with access to Sharepoint even if the user is not needed to be backed up
  • Complex licensing structure
  • Needing to manually download workloads to move backups
  • Dormant users still backed up and incurring charges
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Arcserve
  • Arcserve Backup can be costly.
  • To utilize Arcserve Backup and all its features may require a layout of dedicated equipment or additional infrastructure.
  • They don't always explain that for Arcserve Backup to work well, and it requires specific system requirements and extensive internet bandwidth.
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Likelihood to Renew
Acronis
We have renewed our subscription over the course of a few years now. We used to use Backup Exec and it was tedious and difficult to obtain our backups when needed. Acronis just fits our environment style and the way we prefer to do business and use our third party software.
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Arcserve
Arcserve UDP provides our organization lots of benefits and it is much more than a simple backup and restore solution. We use it for cross platform DR, storage agnostic replications, DR solution instead of VMware SRM and more.
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Usability
Acronis
The overall platform is great. The backup solution stands out with integrated cybersecurity. The ability to turn on the security features like endpoint protection, email security, RMM, and PSA is great. It makes things so much easier to manage a few different services from the same portal instead of logging into multiple accounts.
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Arcserve
It basically covers all our required scenarios, including VMs, partitions, files or any other objects through NAS, SAN or DAS connections. It's easy to set up and utilize the features and functions. There are a few times that we needed to switch over for the RHA replications and UDP backups. For the RHN replication, there was a roughly 10 minutes downtime during the switchover. For the UDP, it works pretty well.
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Support Rating
Acronis
I only got one issue resolved for more than 20 cases open. The escalation is ineffective. Most of the time, I have the feeling that I know the solution better than the support technician. Overall, case management is time-consuming, as our resolution rate is really low
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Arcserve
Arcserve Backup support is usually very good. Their chat is usually able to fix most general issues, but will escalate more in depth issues to technical engineers that call you back. Their product knowledge is really good and usually resolve issues promptly.
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Implementation Rating
Acronis
I don't have any real key 'insights' per say except that it wasn't difficult at all, and do not be afraid to dabble in its tools and settings. It is quite intuitive with built in common sense. I cannot say enough good things about our companies experience when using this backup software.
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Arcserve
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Alternatives Considered
Acronis
Barracuda Cloud Essentials has email security, archiving, and allows users to manage their own spam email. Barracuda also comes with a backup feature and it all works together under one roof. Barracuda has been our alternative to other major services on the market. Acronis does well as a backup service, but Barracuda provides us a much more broader experience as an IT client.
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Arcserve
We use Veeam Backup and Replication at our larger sites where Vmware Virtualization is being used and is our product of choice in this venue. When it comes to our smaller sites, nothing is more affordable and reliable than Arcserve Backup.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Acronis
I would love it if they offered better cloud space pricing or even "unlimited"
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Arcserve
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Scalability
Acronis
The ability to back up multiple servers from one source is a great tool to have for businesses that have equipment in different locations on the same network with a variety of software data to back up such as SQL, Exchange or a Files Server. You can decide to purchase individual server licenses as well if you would like to keep the process separate or have multiple sites where your data is housed.
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Arcserve
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Acronis
  • Every times you restore a file, you see the value and the ROI of backup.
  • Backup is a great protection against ransomware, you can always restore files that has been infected.
  • When you want to go back in previous version of files, it can be life saver.
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Arcserve
  • We were able to roll back up and replication into one product, which reduced the costs without having to go with multiple vendors.
  • As a result of Arcserve UDP, we were able to implement a full DR scenario test, which until that point hadn't been successful.
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