Acronis - imaging your data without concern
July 16, 2018
Acronis - imaging your data without concern
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Backup 12.5 Standard,
Overall Satisfaction with Acronis Backup
Acronis Backup is used as the primary solution for data backup and recovery. It is a software-only solution so media to write to is up to the customer to bring to the table. Acronis works by creating images of servers that can be mounted or restored and works as a bare-metal recovery option for most servers if the need arises.
- An image-based backup solution for small to medium businesses
- Easy to mount and restore small or large amounts of data
- Scalable as backup needs change over time
- Partial backup solution, still requires bring-your-own-media
- Full image backups take longer than incremental-based solutions
- Great, easy to use backup solution for small to medium businesses
- Can be cumbersome for management with complex deployments
- Requires physical interaction to swap media and obtain offsite backups (unless sending data offsite is an option)
Acronis is the best software only solution. Veeam has many flavors and does a superb (and more scalable) job of backing up data and replicating it offsite. Backup Exec is the oldest big player and has not done a lot to keep up with the competitors. Carbonite is a cloud-backup solution that does a good job but primarily pipes data offsite versus retain in-house.