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    Barracuda Backup

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ADesigned 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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    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 Networks Inc.
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Barracuda Backup
    The comparable product has a more limited feature set, best used for desktop and limited flexibility
    Incentivized
    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.
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Barracuda Backup
    Felt like Veeam was pushy during the eval and could not verify it would work with our older VMware version.
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    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
    Incentivized
    Chose Barracuda Backup
    Barracuda is easy to use with Cloud Control. I can manage ESS and their Archiver on one screen.
    Incentivized
    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.
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Barracuda Backup
    Barracuda's price point, and it didn't require additional servers and/or storage.
    Incentivized
    Chose Barracuda Backup
    Barracuda is MUCH easier to set up and use then Unitrends. Unitrends does not offer direct download of backed up files from their cloud, while Barracuda does. Unitrends uses a non-standard and difficult to use implementation of retention/archiving. Unitrends' backup to Amazon …
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    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.
    Incentivized
    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.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    Features
    Barracuda Backup
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Barracuda Backup
    Feature
    Barracuda Backup
    9.0
    37 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Universal recovery8.030 Ratings
    Instant recovery8.532 Ratings
    Recovery verification9.632 Ratings
    Business application protection8.025 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations8.634 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification8.735 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud9.536 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression10.037 Ratings
    Snapshots9.328 Ratings
    Flexible deployment9.721 Ratings
    Management dashboard8.423 Ratings
    Platform support8.923 Ratings
    Retention options9.123 Ratings
    Encryption9.019 Ratings
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    BDRShield
    Score6.5 out of 10
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    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Barracuda Backup
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (37 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (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.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Love the units
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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