Arcserve Backup vs. Barracuda Backup

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Arcserve Backup
Score 6.0 out of 10
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Arcserve Backup is a storage management solution from Arcserve, formerly of CA Technologies before Arcserve's divestiture (July 2014). It utilizes magnetic tape storage backup as part of its storage management offering.N/A
Barracuda Backup
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Barracuda Backup is a data recovery, restoration, and deduplication product from Barracuda Networks. It features data center backup support for email protection, network & application security, and general data protection.N/A
Pricing
Arcserve BackupBarracuda Backup
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Arcserve BackupBarracuda Backup
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Arcserve BackupBarracuda Backup
Considered Both Products
Arcserve Backup

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Barracuda Backup
Chose Barracuda Backup
Barracuda has a lot of experience in the market, provides solutions that no other competitors have, and the support is very good
Top Pros
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Features
Arcserve BackupBarracuda Backup
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Arcserve Backup
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Ratings
Barracuda Backup
6.3
34 Ratings
26% below category average
Universal recovery00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
Instant recovery00 Ratings1.630 Ratings
Recovery verification00 Ratings7.129 Ratings
Business application protection00 Ratings8.724 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings8.831 Ratings
Incremental backup identification00 Ratings8.032 Ratings
Backup to the cloud00 Ratings9.033 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings8.034 Ratings
Snapshots00 Ratings1.425 Ratings
Flexible deployment00 Ratings1.518 Ratings
Management dashboard00 Ratings1.620 Ratings
Platform support00 Ratings6.320 Ratings
Retention options00 Ratings9.020 Ratings
Encryption00 Ratings9.016 Ratings
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Arcserve BackupBarracuda Backup
Small Businesses
Cyberduck
Cyberduck
Score 8.5 out of 10
BDRSuite
BDRSuite
Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Cisco UCS Manager
Cisco UCS Manager
Score 9.3 out of 10
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises
Cisco UCS Manager
Cisco UCS Manager
Score 9.3 out of 10
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
Arcserve BackupBarracuda Backup
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(7 ratings)
5.3
(34 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(3 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.2
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Arcserve BackupBarracuda Backup
Likelihood to Recommend
Arcserve
Arcserve UDP is fully suited for small to large size environments that need complete data protection solutions with the ability to run the fastest backups, replications, instant VM and DR.
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
There are few scenarios that it's not well suited for as long as it's either VMware or Agent Based installations. I have not had success with directly backing up a non-Windows file share. I would definitely test the product first if you are not planning to directly backup through an agent.
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Pros
Arcserve
  • Arcserve Backup has many offerings to fit many business sizes and needs.
  • It offers excellent features like dedupe, high availability, DR, and BMR.
  • Arcserve Backup sales and technical support is good to work with.
  • Very nice reseller program and benefits.
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • Quickness to deploy. You will not need an expert to get this up and running.
  • Extremely intuitive interface: Brand new techs can pick this up without much training.
  • Global Accessibility: The cloud interface allows administrators to access their backups from everywhere for quick restores after hours.
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Cons
Arcserve
  • Has a steep learning curve to the product, if not experienced in backup solutions.
  • Windows backup and restore functionality is excellent, however, we have found Linux somewhat lacking.
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • In some of the older version of the software, drilling down to restore a single files was quite the process. It's still a little slow to this day, but improvements have been made.
  • It would be nice to have the ability to spin up a virtual machine directly on the backup appliance in the event of a failed server. At current time you need a Hyper-v or VMWare environment to restore a failed machine to.
  • Once you put the device in cloud control mode, some of your options are limited when you log directly into the local appliance. I personally would like to see all the options remain the same so I can administer the device the same remotely and I would sitting in front of it.
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Likelihood to Renew
Arcserve
Arcserve UDP provides our organization lots of benefits and it is much more than a simple backup and restore solution. We use it for cross platform DR, storage agnostic replications, DR solution instead of VMware SRM and more.
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Love the units
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Usability
Arcserve
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
The front-end webpages are basic without to much clutter which makes finding what you are trying to do fairly easy.
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Support Rating
Arcserve
Arcserve Backup support is usually very good. Their chat is usually able to fix most general issues, but will escalate more in depth issues to technical engineers that call you back. Their product knowledge is really good and usually resolve issues promptly.
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
They are always quick to get you routed to a tech support person and always get follow up after contacting them. Last experience was amazing, she adjusted my boxes and they perform even better. I cannot say enough about the support. We had some trouble with one of the windows servers leaving the volume shadow copy out there and would fail. They worked with us to adjust and get working. After that it has been months since I have had to do anything with the server to keep the backups running.
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Implementation Rating
Arcserve
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Work on a backup agent for Mac OS X or any Apple OS.
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Alternatives Considered
Arcserve
We use Veeam Backup and Replication at our larger sites where Vmware Virtualization is being used and is our product of choice in this venue. When it comes to our smaller sites, nothing is more affordable and reliable than Arcserve Backup.
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
I'm much happier with how Barracuda lays out their console and user interface. Acronis is a great product and you do get what you expect. But to have a the learning curve personally cut by at least 50% is a great thing to have when it comes to training new members to the IT team and getting them up to speed of our procedures.
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Return on Investment
Arcserve
  • Deploying Arcserve UDP with the "copy-to-tape" option allowed us to reuse well over 50 LTO5 tapes used by our previous backup solution. Further, we extended data retention on site (maintaining monthly backups on disk) as well as extending off site data retention on tape.
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Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • We've had a couple situations where we've had to pull data back down from the BBS cloud and while it can take a while sometimes, we haven't had an issue where we haven't been able to restore something that we needed. Overall it has been very reliable.
  • We've had to implement two other backup systems in addition to Barracuda Backup and dedicate our BBSs to just mission-critical data because we're size-locked in our appliances. Upgrading to larger models is not financially viable at the moment and we can't expand their internal storage or point them to an iSCSI share or likewise. We brought in other systems to handle non-critical and virtual data because of those storage limitations.
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