Barracuda: Great for Internal Email Systems
May 02, 2021

Barracuda: Great for Internal Email Systems

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Barracuda Backup

We use Barracuda Backup across our whole organization. It does a great job filtering spam and backing up email. It is extremely easy to look up backed up emails and restore them. We receive a lot of spam, to the point were Barracuda reports that it blocks 97% of the spam messages we would normally receive.
  • Blocks Spam emails
  • Backup crucial emails
  • Restores lost or deleted emails
  • Older interface could use an update
  • Better documentation for how to perform certain functions
  • Backing up the actual configuration of the system itself
  • Spam filtering
  • Email archiving
  • Increase security thanks to filtering phishing attempts
  • Barracuda allowed us to pull critical emails that had been lost to use in an on going legal situation
  • Being able to filter out 97% of spam emails and email based malware attacks has saved our organization countless sums of money. Basic users and students aren't always aware of these kinds of attacks and can easily fall victim to phishing attempts. Barracuda prevents most of these from ever making it to the user.
  • Barracuda's yearly licensing is more affordable than most other competitors that provide similar utilities
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 systems provided a great solution.

Do you think Barracuda Backup delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Barracuda Backup's feature set?

Yes

Did Barracuda Backup live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Barracuda Backup go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Barracuda Backup again?

Yes

Barracuda works great if you have an internal secure email system. In our use case, it does not work for out sourced email such as Gmail. Barracuda is a powerful tool when it comes to filtering your private email systems and backing up those emails. Having an external email archive is extremely useful, especially when it comes to legal situations.

Barracuda Backup Feature Ratings

Universal recovery
Not Rated
Instant recovery
8
Recovery verification
7
Business application protection
Not Rated
Multiple backup destinations
9
Incremental backup identification
8
Backup to the cloud
Not Rated
Deduplication and file compression
8
Snapshots
8
Flexible deployment
Not Rated
Management dashboard
7
Platform support
10
Retention options
8
Encryption
9