Acronis Backup Cloud vs IDrive

Likelihood to Recommend

Great solution for small to medium size businesses. The cost per server instance can prohibit large growth or expansion as companies grow. This solution is great for a business that wants to back up a small number of devices including potential offsite storage via Acronis Cloud option. Would recommend but need to investigate all options in regards to number of endpoints.

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Derek Schroeder

Service Manager

Kloud9Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Until they get themselves together, I can't think of a scenario where their service is well suited. But, since that's too short of a response, I'll just have to say that their product isn't well designed. It starts a backup as soon as it is installed without any schedule set. I spent a day talking to my ISP and computer tech trying to figure out why my internet was messed up. Finally, I looked at their software and discovered it was backing up all by itself.

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Kathleen Allardyce

President

Getting It Write IncMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Acronis Backup Cloud

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IDrive

7.0

Versioning

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5.0

Video files

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7.0

Audio files

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8.0

Access control

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6.0

File search

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8.0

Device sync

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8.0

Acronis Backup Cloud

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IDrive

7.3

User and role management

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5.0

File organization

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8.0

Device management

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9.0

Acronis Backup Cloud

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IDrive

8.3

Performance

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8.0

Reliability

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8.0

Storage Reports

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9.0

Pros

The Acronis backup console is easy to use.
Acronis offers an online recovery console to access items quickly and easily.
The ability to backup and restore Office 365 mailboxes.
Creating backup plans and schedules is simple.
Email alerts notifying administrators on backup failures.
The backup deduplication and compression features is one of industries best.

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Michael O'Riley

Director of Information Technology

International Food Protection Training InstituteNon-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

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The offline initial backup is great - if it would work.

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Kathleen Allardyce

President

Getting It Write IncMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Cons

The fact Acronis is an OS client base backup, which leads to more backup failures. Although most issues can be corrected with restarting services.
Recovering backups from the cloud(internet) is a lot slower then acessing local backups.
The backup error reports are not detailed enough to help administrators fix issues.

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Michael O'Riley

Director of Information Technology

International Food Protection Training InstituteNon-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

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The operation of their software.
Their tech support.
Their customer support.

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Kathleen Allardyce

President

Getting It Write IncMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Acronis Backup Cloud 9.1

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The cost savings we realized from moving to this software has us hooked - it does everything we need it to do on a very high level (virtualization, for example) and is very low cost for us.

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Dan Gospe

Chief Operating Officer, and HIPAA Privacy Officer

dmi NetworkingInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Acronis Backup Cloud has more features than eFolder, and is less than 1/3rd of the cost. In terms of restores, it's faster than eFolder if you use the local component. The restoration component is much better than Carbonite's, which has a tendency to drop connection midway through a file download. Acronis lets you restore to original locations, to a new location on the same device, or just as a download through your browser. Acronis Backup Cloud beats everything else we've tried, and it's unbelievable how affordable it is.

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Dan Gospe

Chief Operating Officer, and HIPAA Privacy Officer

dmi NetworkingInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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IDrive is less expensive and offers a wider array of services.

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David Doss

Marketing Technology Operations Manager

CitiInternet, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

ROI has been huge. The cost is incredibly cheap, and we saved $1500/month by switching.
With a heavy impact on profits, we're able to bundle this backup plan into our basic server management plans with no additional cost, which raises the value of our offerings significantly.

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Dan Gospe

Chief Operating Officer, and HIPAA Privacy Officer

dmi NetworkingInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Using iDrive has taken too much of my time, having a negative impact on revenue.

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Kathleen Allardyce

President

Getting It Write IncMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Acronis Backup Cloud vs IDrive