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

Full image and bare-metal recovery backups for any physical or virtual server.
Physical to virtual and other tools built-in to make conversions / recoveries easier and more efficient.
Ability to spin up servers on the fly from recovery media.
Options to backup on premise as well as offsite to Acronis cloud.

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Derek Schroeder

Service Manager

Kloud9Information Technology and Services, 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

No option for on premises hardware BDR. This means recovery restorations rely on self-supplied hardware performance.
License per machine can get costly if large number of computers or servers.

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Derek Schroeder

Service Manager

Kloud9Information Technology and Services, 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 is a great solution and provides a flexible amount of ways to backup and restore data. For software, it competes directly with Carbonite, ShadowProtect, Veeam, and Veritas. Most of these solutions are agent based and require licenses for each. Acronis does a great job for small to medium businesses and matches the features of the other software solutions.

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Derek Schroeder

Service Manager

Kloud9Information Technology and Services, 11-50 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

Easy to configure and install as well as setup.
Restorations can be very quick if self provided hardware is powerful.
Can require switching products if company has large growth as more endpoints require large cost investment.

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Derek Schroeder

Service Manager

Kloud9Information Technology and Services, 11-50 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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