Barracuda Backup

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Barracuda Backup
Score 7.8 out of 10
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Designed to be simple to configure and manage, the scalable Barracuda Backup solution is offered via a capacity-based, all-inclusive subscription model allows you to pay for only what you need to protect today, avoiding large upfront hardware costs.N/A
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Barracuda Backup
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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Barracuda Backup
Considered Both Products
Barracuda Backup
Chose Barracuda Backup
Barracuda Backup is far more simple and easy to manage, we selected this over competitors because it gave a simple set and forget backup for cloud to cloud with unlimited retention. It also gave a very simple to use interface for monitoring backups of required. Pricing and …
Chose Barracuda Backup
The comparable product has a more limited feature set, best used for desktop and limited flexibility
Chose Barracuda Backup
Overall not impressed with Barracuda backup and we decided to move away from it. I wasn't involved in the selection but the organization has had it for years when the market was very different.
Chose Barracuda Backup
Barracuda Backup offers a full cloud to cloud offering and when we were implementing and building, Veeam did not have a full cloud to cloud offering, but rather a cloud to on prem, which we were concerned with the bandwidth usage and additional need to monitor as well as …
Chose Barracuda Backup
We actually ran both of these systems at once to provide end to end coverage. This worked extremely well for our internal email systems and provided great protection for our end users and great backups of all messages to and from the corporation. The combination of these two …
Chose Barracuda Backup
I [have] used a number of solutions in the past and in all cases I replaced what I used with the Barracuda solution. It was a simple and fast solution to deploy and easy to get staff up to speed on using the product. Support was top notch when deployment time came, they …
Chose Barracuda Backup
Felt like Veeam was pushy during the eval and could not verify it would work with our older VMware version.
Chose Barracuda Backup
All solutions have their positive, neutral, and negative points. Veritas Backup Exec is excellent too. But it is more expensive and does not offer a management interface as friendly as Barracuda Backup is. We also have brand reliability because other company employees have also …
Chose Barracuda Backup
Barracuda Backup compared very favorably to Veeam Backup & Replication because it has all of the most necessary features you would expect in a backup solution, but can be deployed much faster and is easier to manage. The Linux based appliance reduces the need for using a …
Chose Barracuda Backup
All mentioned venders above did not give me the one-stop-shop approach to backup that I was looking for. Also, global deduplication and compression was a huge saving on local space. Most venders also charge per VM or per application being backed up, and this is cost-prohibitive …
Chose Barracuda Backup
The time necessary to manage Barracuda Backups is leaps and bounds superior to Backup Exec. Backup Exec has tons of great features but required constant maintenance. In the end we just wanted the ability to easily schedule, set retention periods and the ability to backup and …
Chose Barracuda Backup
Each backup solution has its pros and cons, and each customer has their needs, and budget constraints. Barracuda Backup has helped us dramatically in the area of being able to provide customers a cost-effective solution, that's easy to manage and is one of those things you're …
Chose Barracuda Backup
Barracuda was a much more cost effective solution than the others we evaluated. Its interface was light years ahead of Avamar, and its cost was much lower than Unitrends. Avamar had it beat in backup time, and Unitrends was a more mature product. In the end, Barracuda won out …
Chose Barracuda Backup
We used to use a product that Symantec offered. The problem was that it was not able to connect to Mac machines to back up data. This was a big issue, since we have Executives and marketing employees that use Macs. We also tested Druva inSync. It offered a lot of features that …
Chose Barracuda Backup
Barracuda is easy to use with Cloud Control. I can manage ESS and their Archiver on one screen.
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
Chose Barracuda Backup
Barracuda has been one of those must have tools for our IT shop. Quick, easy to use as well as safe and secure are a few ways to describe this product. Email archiving is made to keep your end users happy knowing that they have all of their past emails at their fingertips.
Chose Barracuda Backup
While many solutions, such as Acronis and Symantec Backup Exec rely on number of agents or database services, Barracuda and Datto rely on total data storage. Barracuda's key feature is the hardware refresh. After 4 years of maintaining subscriptions, customers are entitled to …
Chose Barracuda Backup
We have used Datto as well as Symantec Backup Exec. Datto is 2X the cost of Barracuda for apples to apples specs. Also, we have not had good experiences with the Datto (pushy) sales people. Backup Exec is a local on-premise product, when if you get a crypto infection it can …
Chose Barracuda Backup
Barracuda's price point, and it didn't require additional servers and/or storage.
Chose Barracuda Backup
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 …
Chose Barracuda Backup
For cloud only solutions, this may be great for small businesses or individuals, but the ability to have onsite as well as offsite backups makes recovery faster and more diverse to ensure all areas of data can be recovered quickly.
Chose Barracuda Backup
Barracuda has a rock solid reputation in the business, and sells quality products that any company should stand behind. I've not used any other product that has the level of quality that Barracuda does.
Features
Barracuda Backup
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Barracuda Backup
8.8
37 Ratings
4% above category average
Universal recovery8.030 Ratings
Instant recovery8.532 Ratings
Recovery verification9.732 Ratings
Business application protection8.025 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations8.134 Ratings
Incremental backup identification9.035 Ratings
Backup to the cloud8.836 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression10.037 Ratings
Snapshots9.028 Ratings
Flexible deployment9.421 Ratings
Management dashboard8.323 Ratings
Platform support8.723 Ratings
Retention options9.323 Ratings
Encryption9.019 Ratings
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User Ratings
Barracuda Backup
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(37 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.4
(6 ratings)
Availability
7.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.2
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
5.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Barracuda Backup
Likelihood to Recommend
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
If you are a small business with a few machines and your backups aren't of servers that are public facing. If you had to restore a server from backup, it would take a day at least. So, if the server being restored was public facing, that may impact customer relations.
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Pros
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • Set and Forget. I rarely have to touch the Backup Servers. Once you specify your criteria, you really don't need to change it unless you have a physical change.
  • Alerts. When there are issues such as files failing to backup or a directory no longer present, you get an email giving you all the information you need. In addition you will typically get contacted by support about it.
  • Recovery is very simple. The restore browser is very good and it's just easy to find and restore data when you need it.
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Cons
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • The pricing solution has gone from allowing on-premise ownership to forced cloud extortion. Basically, if you buy now you will be ok, but those of us who "owned" our solution previously are now forced to subscribe to the cloud model or be stuck with a brick.
  • Speed of recovery could be improved.
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Likelihood to Renew
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Love the units
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Usability
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Dashboards and interfaces within Barracuda Backup are very easy to navigate, with clear success/warnings shown. Setting up backup jobs is probably one of the most simplest tasks - compared to competitors we trialed. Trouble shooting backup issues is also simple due to clear errors (VSS errors shown in a understandable format for example)
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Support Rating
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
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Work on a backup agent for Mac OS X or any Apple OS.
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Alternatives Considered
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Each backup solution has its pros and cons, and each customer has their needs, and budget constraints. Barracuda Backup has helped us dramatically in the area of being able to provide customers a cost-effective solution, that's easy to manage and is one of those things you're not having to check on daily, or switch out backup tapes, or hard drives.
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Return on Investment
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
  • Countless positive impacts from being able to restore lost or deleted files - or even restoring an entire server.
  • Being able to restore files for users and allowing them to recover lost work or preventing them from having to redo files at any level is priceless. You can't accurately measure lost time of employees having to recreate files. Especially things like 3D drawings and multi-sheet spreadsheet.
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