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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Acronis Cyber Protect

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AAcronis 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

    CrashPlan

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/ACrashPlan® provides secure, scalable, and straightforward endpoint data backup, to help organizations recover from any worst-case scenario, whether it is a disaster, simple human error, a stolen laptop, ransomware, or an as-of-yet-undiscovered calamity.

    $8

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Acronis Cyber ProtectCrashPlan
    Editions & Modules
    Acronis Cyber Protect
    $85
    per year
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Acronis Cyber ProtectCrashPlan
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing.
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    Community Pulse
    Acronis Cyber ProtectCrashPlan
    Considered Both Products
    Acronis
    Chose Acronis Cyber Protect
    We found the pricing, pre-sales technical support, customer service, billing, and post-sales technical support to be above par as compared to almost all other enterprise backup solutions. Some were equal or better in one or more areas, but no one had as high of marks as Acronis …
    Incentivized
    Chose Acronis Cyber Protect
    Acronis was recommended by out external IT company and was the perfect combination of cost and features.
    Incentivized
    Chose Acronis Cyber Protect
    We tried with pixie boot and a couple others which will remain nameless. Every time Acronis shines in the speed and efficiency tests. Some of the other software take anywhere from 3 - 5 hours PER machines where as sometimes Acronis has taken as little as 15 minutes.
    Incentivized
    CrashPlan
    Chose CrashPlan
    I like Crashplan's centralized nature and flexibility with support for all platforms. Their support has been the best of all other competitors' solutions.
    Incentivized
    Chose CrashPlan
    We selected CrashPlan because of my personal experiences with the company. I had had CrashPlan in the home for the past 3 years before being implemented at D+H. We looked at a couple others and none came close to the user experience and the admin tools available to support the …
    Incentivized
    Chose CrashPlan
    Continuous backup, in house sever, centralized management
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    18 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    11 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    11 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    20 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    Features
    Acronis Cyber ProtectCrashPlan
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Acronis Cyber Protect and CrashPlan
    Feature
    Acronis Cyber Protect
    9.2
    40 Ratings
    7% above category average
    CrashPlan
    8.3
    1 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Universal recovery9.735 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Instant recovery9.633 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Recovery verification9.735 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Business application protection8.829 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations9.832 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification9.837 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud9.925 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression9.724 Ratings00 Ratings
    Snapshots8.619 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment7.723 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Management dashboard8.830 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Platform support9.729 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Retention options9.728 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Encryption7.823 Ratings00 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Acronis Cyber Protect and CrashPlan
    Feature
    Acronis Cyber Protect
    7.6
    19 Ratings
    11% below category average
    CrashPlan
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Continuous data protection8.316 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Replication7.215 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics7.615 Ratings00 Ratings
    Malware protection7.29 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities7.510 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery8.012 Ratings6.01 Ratings
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    Acronis Cyber ProtectCrashPlan
    Small Businesses
    NAKIVO Backup & Replication
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Acronis Cyber Protect
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Carbonite by OpenText
    Score7.1 out of 10
    Carbonite by OpenText
    Score7.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Acronis Cyber ProtectCrashPlan
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.6
    (66 ratings)
    6.7
    (84 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (22 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    5.0
    (8 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.5
    (26 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Acronis Cyber ProtectCrashPlan
    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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    CrashPlan
    Individuals (SOHO), families and SMBs, who have a tight budget for offsite critical company data backup are well suited to this product. Especially if you want your data to be hosted locally (Australia in our case). Larger companies, with higher requirements and budgets would be better served elsewhere. Especially when you consider the poor technical support. Although, to be fair, their poor support may just be issues with their Pro/SMB products, as opposed to their enterprise products. However, if that is the case it's a pretty poor show/indicator still.
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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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    CrashPlan
    • Code42 is the most affordable backup system offering unlimited storage that I could find. I came from SOS Online Backup, which I ultimately decided to drop after my monthly rate for their unlimited plan increased by 20x.
    • With Code42's unlimited storage option, I don't have to worry about the fact that my backups are significant in space. As a photographer with thousands of images at stake, I need to run large backups often.
    • Code42 runs continuously and silently in the background of my desktop computer. It is truly "set and go", so I don't have to think about it when I'm away. It runs until the designated drive has been fully backed up to my cloud storage. It will then automatically email me once the backup is complete (or, it will email me if it encounters any errors).
    • Customer service is above par. Anytime I need help, a chat agent is available (chat is my communication preference), they are always friendly, and go above and beyond to resolve my needs.
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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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    CrashPlan
    • The CrashPlan program installed on your computer is Java-based vs. a native application. While this makes development for CrashPlan easier, there are a lot of drawbacks to Java programs including more resources usage, less stability, and overall more clunky interface.
    • While this was also in the Pros category - CrashPlan is an extremely powerful and flexible program, which adds a great deal of complexity. Setting up CrashPlan isn't always a simple procedure, and depending on the complexity of your backup set, can take a while to tinker around with the settings to get everything to work properly.
    • The CrashPlan desktop program consists of a Java program front end, as well as a backend service - there are times when the backend service will crash, and the front end Java program will refuse to load. Typically, restarting the service or restarting the computer will resolve the issue, but sometimes more in-depth troubleshooting is required.
    • Perhaps one of the biggest downsides to CrashPlan is its price - at $10/month/computer CrashPlan is more than double the price of some existing backup services such as Backblaze (priced at $50/year/computer). To add salt to the wound, about a year and a half ago, CrashPlan discontinued their consumer options - which were very reasonably priced at $60/year for a single computer or a family plan priced at $150/year for up to 10 computers. When these options were discontinued, the cost of backing up with CrashPlan was effectively doubled for the same feature set.
    • Along with the previous example, CrashPlan had the option to back up to a remote machine on a different network with a free Crashplan account. This option was eliminated when the consumer line of services were discontinued.
    • While the backup service provided by CrashPlan are still first in class, the above two controversial changes have broken some trust between CrashPlan and its clients.
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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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    CrashPlan
    No other product works as well.
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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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    CrashPlan
    Overall, it is simple to use, lightweight, and effective.
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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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    CrashPlan
    Friendly and knowledgeable support team available to assist with this product. Code 42 (formerly CrashPlan) offers unlimited storage options for reasonable costs, so you really can't go wrong with this product. They have been a reliable resource for our company, and I would recommend to others looking for an easy setup with unlimited storage.
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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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    CrashPlan
    Very easy to follow the install guide.
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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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    CrashPlan
    Unitrends is our primary backup solution here at my place of employment, and I have no complaints. It does on-prem backups to a storage pool and with that, we chose not to also use Unitrends could storage as the cost was pretty high. Crashplan has a low cost and we were familiar with it. We found a great fit for Crashplan at a remote office with a web server, file share server, and a Domain Controller in addition to the Unitrends solution there. I also set up CrashPlan for a nonprofit org, as well as a Health foods store. I felt like I could stand behind the CrashPlan solution with my experience with it, in places like these where every dollar mattered.
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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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    CrashPlan
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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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    CrashPlan
    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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    CrashPlan
    • Tremendous cost savings as the amount of data you backup doesn't impact cost. One flat rate!
    • Implementation time was minimal and requires little to no maintenance. Since installation, I've not had to correct or fix any issues. It just works.
    • We opted to supplement Code42 with another solution that allowed us to backup data to a local repository due to the amount for data that changes in our firm.
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    ScreenShots

    CrashPlan Screenshots

    Screenshot of Dashboard – Endpoints Backup, Shows: Active users, assets, completed restores, total data backed up, and users without active assets.Screenshot of Dashboard – OneDrive for Business
This screen tracks backup performance for OneDrive for Business.
Metrics: Active users, active assets, users with completed backups, assets not protected (0%), and total backup size (321.45 MB).
Reports include Data Protection Scorecard, Asset Assignment, and Capacity Savings.Screenshot of Dashboard – Microsoft Exchange
This screen presents Microsoft Exchange backup overview.Screenshot of Dashboard – SharePoint Online
This view shows backup activity for SharePoint Online.