Barracuda Backup vs. Carbonite Server

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Barracuda Backup
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
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
Carbonite Server
Score 1.0 out of 10
N/A
Carbonite Server (also replacing the former EVault products acquired from Seagate in 2016) is a full backup and discovery solution. Designed to recover anything from a single file to an entire system with the click of a button, Carbonite Server users can protect virtually any type of file on both physical and virtual servers, NAS, SAN and external hard drives. The vendor’s value proposition is that their solution assures that users without an IT department and those that are the IT department…
$800.04
per year
Pricing
Barracuda BackupCarbonite Server
Editions & Modules
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Power
$800.04
per year
Ultimate
1,300.08
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Barracuda BackupCarbonite Server
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsTrial and paying customers have access to our valet install free of charge. Call and speak to a specialist who can remotely connect to your machine to ensure it's installed and configured correctly to protect your critical data.
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Community Pulse
Barracuda BackupCarbonite Server
Considered Both Products
Barracuda Backup
Carbonite Server
Chose Carbonite Server
Carbonite Server Backup performs exceptionally well versus Barracuda Backup. One of the best features is the cost savings of not having to buy expensive equipment to keep in our office building. Plus, the ease of mind knowing our backup is being handled off site. Though …
Features
Barracuda BackupCarbonite Server
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Barracuda Backup
7.9
35 Ratings
6% below category average
Carbonite Server
8.6
21 Ratings
2% above category average
Universal recovery8.028 Ratings8.37 Ratings
Instant recovery1.530 Ratings8.28 Ratings
Recovery verification10.030 Ratings7.97 Ratings
Business application protection8.724 Ratings10.014 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations6.032 Ratings10.015 Ratings
Incremental backup identification10.033 Ratings10.019 Ratings
Backup to the cloud6.034 Ratings10.020 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression10.035 Ratings7.612 Ratings
Snapshots8.026 Ratings10.010 Ratings
Flexible deployment8.019 Ratings7.99 Ratings
Management dashboard8.021 Ratings7.59 Ratings
Platform support8.021 Ratings7.510 Ratings
Retention options10.021 Ratings7.711 Ratings
Encryption9.017 Ratings8.511 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.7 out of 10
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Enterprises
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Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
Barracuda BackupCarbonite Server
Likelihood to Recommend
6.0
(35 ratings)
9.0
(35 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(2 ratings)
4.8
(6 ratings)
Usability
6.0
(4 ratings)
5.5
(1 ratings)
Availability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.2
(7 ratings)
5.5
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Barracuda BackupCarbonite Server
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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Carbonite, an OpenText company
More than enough for small companies with several on-prem servers. In 2021, it wouldn't be wise to pit all important data to a single backup service. Carbonite Server is solid, but it's not 100% reliable so I'd definitely recommend having multiple backup services either on the cloud in conjunction with other backup services so the user has multiple safety nets in case of disaster and failed granular restorations.
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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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Carbonite, an OpenText company
  • The end-user experience is as simple and robust as I have ever seen from a backup solution. The end-user dashboard, should you choose to allow them access, is intuitive and granular.
  • eVault has the best bandwidth management I have experienced. The endpoint target is available for all operating systems and is intelligent and efficient using very low overhead. It includes data de-dupe and encryption while using very little system resources. Combine these features with bandwidth throttling and you can backup a large amount of data over any size wire.
  • eVault's deployment options will fit any budget and size environment. You can deploy using your own hardware, even. They really focus on providing the right solution for each customer instead of making each customer fit into their pre-determined box.
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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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Carbonite, an OpenText company
  • The backup report really needs improvement. It is really pathetic, as it gives wrong information. It is not suitable for auditing.
  • The Exchange DAG backup should support instead of configuring each exchange server.
  • Cloud infrastructure supports a lot of AWS and Azure instances that are coming up.
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Likelihood to Renew
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
Love the units
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Carbonite, an OpenText company
We packaged carbonite server with the end user product that they provide but we have had issues where the end user site has been down for days at time and backups for both server and user are backing up but we do not the get notification that it was completed for several days. There appears to be latency issues with the mail delivery for completed backups. Additionally, I have used other backup products and find the Carbonite website interface very clunkly and difficult to navigate.
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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.
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Carbonite, an OpenText company
Product needs a lot of improvements in some features like Cloud and Reporting.
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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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Carbonite, an OpenText company
Some of the requests we could not get resolved on time. They took a long time to provide the reason for the issue we had raised.
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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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Carbonite, an OpenText company
We had appliance and we just needed to setup the Director Console which was straight forward and easy.
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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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Carbonite, an OpenText company
Netbak is a great product but we also had a secondary issue of having to backup several PC's on site and at remote locations. Carbonite helped with both and gave us one central admin console to be able to check the progress of all our backups, where netbak would have required us to setup a tunnel or use the internet to move data back to our main office.
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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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Carbonite, an OpenText company
  • While EVault can become expensive if you have a lot of data to store, but you have to keep in mind that it does not cost you anything more to restore your data in the event of an emergency. Some systems give you a great upfront cost, until you actually need to retrieve your data.
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