Simple Acronis Review
- Obtaining Data Recovery. The process of recovering any information from a backup is straight forward. There has yet to be any issues with any recovery we've attempted.
- Setting schedules for incremental and full backup dates/times. We need to run our backups at very specific times and the ability to assign different schedules for backing up various locations is very helpful.
- User-Friendly. All information is readily accessible in a way the flows nicely. Placement of different option makes sense as you go through the processes of install, setup and everyday usage/maintenance.
Cons
- There are times when accessing the backup files takes an extended amount of time, as they do not always become usable quickly. It is a small complaint, as they never fail to open after a few minutes.
- Being able to create backups on removable USB hard drives that are taken away for offsite storage when full could be better. You can make it happen but the process doesn't feel as smooth as the rest of the software.
- It would be nice to be able to compare the contents of multiple backups at one time in order to be able to more quickly see the difference between them when searching for information changes requested by users.
- Peace of mind. It is good to know that at any time we can have information restored for our users within minutes. Previous software needed an extended amount of time and failed often.
- Data backup and recovery have been a breeze. As previously stated, we have had no issues with the process of restoring data, unlike we had with previous software.
- Windows Server
- Full Backups
- Incremental backups
- Data recovery on a low end user scale
- Full server recovery
- can easily be used with cloud
- physical backups to an external drive have been used
- recovering to a different computer for data forensics
- Not sure other than continuing to use it to save our confidential data
- Using it with a Vault system on a PDM
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Implemented in-house
- Using Acronis to read our previous backups from Auto Exec
- Using Acronis to read very old backups from a much earlier version of Acronis
- Making sure license are used properly among servers.
We recently had an entire server crash. This was a non windows OS based server that housed a database. We have had Acronis backing up the mysql backup. Luckily we did this as we lost the mysql backups at the same time as the total server failure. It was an electrical failure so all was lost. In rebuilding we used the backup provided by Acronis to save the day.
- Recovery of backups from an external drive.
- Recovery of backups through a NAS system.
- Setting schedules for backups for both full and incremental.
- Getting notifications on a regular basis of backup start times, completion, any issues that may come up.
- Initial setup takes a little time, but no more than any other backup utility that I've used in the past
- I haven't had any issues with it being over bearing or cumbersome