Why I Have Continued Utilizing Acronis Advanced Backup For Over 11 Years
June 11, 2024

Why I Have Continued Utilizing Acronis Advanced Backup For Over 11 Years

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Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Acronis Advanced Backup

I primarily use Acronis Advanced Backup as a way to create bootable media to create and deploy images of various Windows-based laptops/desktops. Acronis Advanced Backup makes it incredibly easy to add entire folders of device drivers to these boot drives so that there's never an issue with display or input devices working while in their linux-based boot menus. Their product suite also offers live-device backups, as well as anti-virus services.

Pros

  • Creating Bootable Media for image creation
  • Allows you to create differential backups to an existing archive
  • Includes on-premises antivirus protection and quarantine services as bundled in their product suite
  • Includes additional tools like DriveCleanser for fully wiping drives/data destruction.

Cons

  • They do not sell their product directly, so a reseller is needed - or third party website to process payments for them in order to download the product suite.
  • They have done away with stand-alone software purchases, and have moved to a yearly subscription-based model. It's affordable, but you never truly "own" the software now.
  • It's less than $100/year for three installs of the software - the price to utilize this fantastic software is absolutely marginal.
  • I believe they have a higher-end business product available, but it consumes a license each time it is used on a device - so I did not pursue any further information after discovering that.
I used Symantec Ghost probably 12 or 13 years ago - outside of that, I haven't looked elsewhere for an imaging software suite. Acronis Advanced Backup is fantastic at what is does, and supports previously made backups when you upgrade. So I have no fear utilizing them for the years to come.

Do you think Acronis Advanced Backup delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Acronis Advanced Backup's feature set?

Yes

Did Acronis Advanced Backup live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Acronis Advanced Backup go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Acronis Advanced Backup again?

Yes

I've been using Acronis Advanced Backup since 2014 to create bootable media for image creation. The GUI has changed over the years, but the ease of use and functionality has remained the same. I have been able to utilize the newest version of Acronis Advanced Backup with backups that were created a decade ago. The backwards compatibility has been crucial to keep our operations moving quickly!

Acronis Advanced Backup Feature Ratings

Enterprise Backup
7.4
Continuous data protection
7
Replication
10
Operational reporting and analytics
5
Malware protection
8
Multi-location capabilities
7
Data Center Backup
8.5
Universal recovery
10
Instant recovery
5
Recovery verification
5
Multiple backup destinations
10
Incremental backup identification
10
Backup to the cloud
10
Deduplication and file compression
6
Flexible deployment
7
Platform support
10
Retention options
10
Encryption
10

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