Barracuda Backup

Barracuda Backup

Barracuda Backup

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Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Barracuda Backup	Score 7.8 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

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Community Pulse
	Barracuda Backup
Considered Both Products	Barracuda Backup Verified User Engineer 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 Helpful? Verified User C-Level Executive 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 Helpful? Verified User Engineer 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 Helpful? Verified User Director 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 Helpful? Nicholas Rollins IT Manager Chose Barracuda Backup Felt like Veeam was pushy during the eval and could not verify it would work with our older VMware version. Incentivized Helpful? AW Amanda Wiens Analista de Suporte 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 Helpful? Nick Marsh IT Director 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 Helpful? Verified User Manager 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 Helpful? Verified User Engineer 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 Helpful? Josh McClelland IT Consultant 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 Helpful? Tim Lillis Sr. System Engineer 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 Helpful? Ryhlen Schoeberl System Administrator 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 Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Barracuda Backup Barracuda is easy to use with Cloud Control. I can manage ESS and their Archiver on one screen. Incentivized Helpful? Erue Dfut IT Consultant 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 Helpful? Eric Krueger Infrastructure Manager 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 Helpful? Derek Schroeder Service Manager 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 Helpful? Verified User Director 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 Helpful? Michael O'Riley Director of Information Technology Chose Barracuda Backup Barracuda's price point, and it didn't require additional servers and/or storage. Incentivized Helpful? Brandon Shandelson IT Manager 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 Helpful? Dustin Williams Network Administrator III 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 Helpful? Tina Cline IT Support Specialist 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 Helpful? Gilbert Reyes Jr IT Compliance Manager 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 Helpful? Jason Thomas IT Director/CIO Chose Barracuda Backup Barracuda does very well for data that needs to be sent offsite. That's our main use for it. It's reliable and easy to configure, though it is storage-limited. What you buy in the appliance is what you get, period. We brought in CrashPlan to be able to utilize our own storage … Incentivized Helpful? Jeremy McClellan Systems Engineer Chose Barracuda Backup We originally chose Barracuda Backup because it provided a solution far better than tape backup and removed the human element from off-site data storage. To this day price per gigabyte makes the most sense when choosing Barracuda Backup over others. The only thing that ruins … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Easy to use Pro Cloud backup Pro Back up
Top Cons	Minus Tech support Minus Large files Minus Os x

Features

Barracuda Backup

Data Center Backup

Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
	Barracuda Backup 6.3 34 Ratings 25% below category average
Universal recovery	8.027 Ratings
Instant recovery	1.630 Ratings
Recovery verification	7.129 Ratings
Business application protection	8.724 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations	8.831 Ratings
Incremental backup identification	8.032 Ratings
Backup to the cloud	9.033 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression	8.034 Ratings
Snapshots	1.425 Ratings
Flexible deployment	1.518 Ratings
Management dashboard	1.620 Ratings
Platform support	6.220 Ratings
Retention options	9.020 Ratings
Encryption	9.016 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Barracuda Backup
Likelihood to Recommend	5.3 (34 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	8.2 (3 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. 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	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. Incentivized Tim Lillis Sr. System Engineer Read full review
Cons	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. Incentivized Josh McClelland IT Consultant Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Barracuda Networks, Inc. Love the units Incentivized JF Jhonna Flores Senior Network Engineer Read full review
Usability	Barracuda Networks, Inc. The front-end webpages are basic without to much clutter which makes finding what you are trying to do fairly easy. Incentivized dan berezowski Sr. Programmer/Analyst Read full review
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. Incentivized Nicholas Rollins IT Manager Read full review
Implementation Rating	Barracuda Networks, Inc. Work on a backup agent for Mac OS X or any Apple OS. Incentivized JF Jhonna Flores Senior Network Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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. Incentivized Dustin Williams Network Administrator III Read full review
Return on Investment	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. Incentivized Jason Thomas IT Director/CIO Read full review
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