Acronis Cyber Backup vs Asigra | TrustRadius

What users are saying about

Score 8.3 out of 10

Based on 92 reviews and ratings

Score 7.7 out of 10

Based on 36 reviews and ratings

Pros

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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Sr. Computer Scientist / IT Engineer

Simulations Plus, Inc.Computer Software, 51-200 employees

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Provides capability of local backups while maintaining remote copies on cloud to ensure faster recoveries of recent data and remote protection of all data.
Helps reduce cost of long term retention by leveraging the BLM functionality.
It does not need specialized hardware for it to work. Customers and Service Providers can choose their own infrastructure and do not need to rely on any OS or storage based replication even for deploying replication of backups.
Supports wide range of environments including virtual environments with remarkable features like remote VDR with incremental restores.

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C-Level Executive in Customer Service

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Cons

The web interface is slow and can kick you off from time to time
I do find that the error messages are hard to decipher if/when a backup is unsuccessful. However, support is very good in helping out the solution
The user interface is not intuitive enough to find failures in backups or track logs with alerts or errors

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Professional in Information Technology

Entertainment Company, 201-500 employees

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We would like to see Asigra come out with a Replication Model for quick Recovery of systems upon Disaster. We can have quicker recovery, DR, with Virtual Machines but we would like to have Physical Machine recovery in less than 2 hours. Replication can accomplish this...
We would like to see Geolocation and remote wipe for endpoint devices
We would like to see the solution provide easy "roll back" after a disaster.

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Matthew P. Grosso

Executive Vice President, CTO

Data Storage CorporationInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Acronis Cyber Backup 9.1

Based on 2 answers

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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I.T. Team Leader

JST Corporation / Sales AmericaDesign, 1001-5000 employees

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Asigra 8.5

Based on 14 answers

Asigra is a great entry way into the cloud.

Compliance is a tricky thing. Jumping backup software means having to deal with previous copies somehow. Asigra is built for the long haul.
Asigra is continuing to increase their feature stack. They have made huge steps in the VM backup in the last 3 years and continue to implement features there.
As far as cloud backup software goes, there are many that can do it, but none that do it as well as Asigra.

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DPS Enterprise Manager

Daymark Solutions Inc.Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Usability

Acronis Cyber Backup 8.2

Based on 1 answer

I give it a rating of 9 do to its ease of usability. It's ease of understanding how to setup - form - fit - and function. I have no sorrows when having to login to the console in order to setup a new backup schedule or retrieve and recover lost data.

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I.T. Team Leader

JST Corporation / Sales AmericaDesign, 1001-5000 employees

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Asigra 8.0

Based on 6 answers

It is a bit rough around the edges and the GUI feels like a wrap around of a CLI but it is simple to use. The problem comes in when there is an error code you are usually chasing down the error code in the specific vendor's forums rather than Asigra's

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Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Reliability and Availability

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Asigra 8.8

Based on 5 answers

Over 6 consecutive years our Asigra Backend had 99.99% uptime and provided 7x24 data restore availability.
Software is robust in operations, provides N+1 node architecture to protect against failure of half of the nodes (majority of the nodes still up) and software based replication to protect against data loss across two geographically independent datacenter locations. Why not 10 points? Some major upgrades still require short downtime within a planned maintenance windows.

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Storage and Data Management Services

matrix technology AGInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Support

Acronis Cyber Backup 8.2

Based on 1 answer

We have only had to contact support a hand full of times. The reason for this 9 out of 10 is do to how quickly and cooperative they have been on the rare occasion we needed to chat with them about our small questions or queries with potential issues do to the nature of our business.

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I.T. Team Leader

JST Corporation / Sales AmericaDesign, 1001-5000 employees

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Asigra 7.5

Based on 6 answers

They respond quickly on your request.They ask for details at the time of logging the support request itself ensuring the first response is not for collecting the basic details only.They refund you the support request if they find it as a functionality issue.They follow up on you to ensure you are satisfied and happy with the response and resolution that they have provided.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Customer Service

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Online Training

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Asigra 1.0

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Anything training past level 1 and level 2 is a waste of time. They do not offer training, just an exam and require you to read 2500 pages of their documentation as their training. They are selling you something which you already have. Training exams are far fetched and cover topics hidden within the documentation. A lot of their documentation does not match across itself. They don't even follow the standard versions Major.Minor.ServicePack.Hotfix. They use the MAJOR.MAJOR.MAJOR.Hotfix method, which doesn't match their documentation.They require you to take training in order to keep your engaged hybrid partnership. If you ask me personally, their training is a scam to make more money.

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NOC Manager

SagissInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Implementation

Acronis Cyber Backup 9.1

Based on 1 answer

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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I.T. Team Leader

JST Corporation / Sales AmericaDesign, 1001-5000 employees

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Asigra 1.2

Based on 3 answers

Quick to install, easy to create jobs, schedules and retention policies. No large cycles of setting up backup volumes or trash volumes. Retention job itself configures the BLM functionality so you don't need an expertise to handle the BLM module separately.

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C-Level Executive in Customer Service

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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 something else for servers. We decided no software was doing everything perfectly, better use more than one.

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Director in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees

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I would say that it has the same functionality as the three mentioned above in their respective fields (might have a bit less than some of them) but Asigra offers all of this and more so if you are looking for a single backup solution across the entire firm then Asigra is the much better choice

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Njaal Michelsen

Servicedesk Consultant

Upheads ASInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Scalability

Acronis Cyber Backup 7.9

Based on 26 answers

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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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Customer Service

Computer Hardware Company, 1-10 employees

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Asigra 4.5

Based on 1 answer

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Return on Investment

Positive ROI in that at least three (3) times during the past year, users have been able to recover valuable data that may not have been replaceable by any other means.
The ROI was positive in that returns were seen the very first year we implemented it.
ROI is a difficult sell to middle and upper management... until they have a data loss or breach.

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Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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One of the positive impacts is that the solution allows us to free up IT resources to focus on other tasks.
Asigra has one of the best channel partner programs I have come across.
This product is one of the few backup solutions that I've worked with that doesn't require an agent installed on the target device, making it easier to deploy to new devices.

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Chief Information Technology Officer

Drummond Community BankFinancial Services, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

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Free Trial

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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