Acronis Cyber Backup Cloud vs Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery

• 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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• The CBT(Changed Block Tracking) within VMWare seems to be exceedingly fast.
• The recovery process whole VM works well.
• The quick and dirty mount a filesystem from some point in the past is handy to grab a small change.
• The Cold Copy uses a VPN so that sensitive data is protected in transit.

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• 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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• I am going to come back to the polish issue here as I think there is definitely some room for improvement in QA and overall finish -- don't get me wrong, it is not full of bugs by any means, rather it's "almost there."
• Some of the data points that I think should be very easy to get ahold of are a bit difficult/buried. Stuff like what is the most recent backup available for a given host This should be a column available in many of the views where you are looking at your assets. Also how much storage a given asset is consuming across all of it's backups. I realize the deduplication makes this a bit tricky, but I am sure they could figure something out.
• Automated and regular test restores of backups, although I do believe that this is coming soon.
• I am a bit disappointed that when you have the appliance make an additional backup copy to a "Non Unitrends" storage device, it removes the deduplication and compression benefits so you aren't able to store much history externally unless you invest in a ton of space. I don't know if this is a push for you to get a second appliance so you can have it store the backups there, or what -- but I know it is possible as other vendors can backup to external storage with full inline dedup and compression.

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• Acronis met our business objectives by simplifying our backup infrastructure
• Reduced costs of our off site backup infrastructure
• Reduced staff dedicated to monitoring off site backups

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• With using Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery, it has reduced the need for spending on physical storage solutions. While we are in Year 3 of our solution, we expect that over the next few years (and eliminating physical storage), we will see cost savings.

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