Barracuda Backup Review
Overall Satisfaction with Barracuda Backup
We are a reseller of Barracuda Backups in addition to using it within our own environment. We have over 50 customers using them, which are centrally managed in the Barracuda Cloud console (saving our engineers a lot of time). This product is ideal for backups and disaster recovery. Backup and restorations are very straightforward and fast. Additionally, the appliances have helped our clients to meet all of their compliance and regulatory requirements.
- Backups
- Disaster recovery
- Cloud replication
- Easy to manage
- 4 year refresh cycle (with a larger more powerful appliance)
- The first couple setups that we did were confusing (regarding retention settings), but once you get the hang of it its a snap
- If you are using large SQL databases or have a big Info Store, you may undersize the appliance needed
- Meets compliance and regulatory requirements
- Helps us sleep better at night knowing our clients data (as well as ours) is safe
- Very cost effective, especially with 4 year refresh cycle (no longer need to purchase new hardware)
We have used Datto as well as Symantec Backup Exec. Datto is 2X the cost of Barracuda for apples to apples specs. Also, we have not had good experiences with the Datto (pushy) sales people. Backup Exec is a local on-premise product, when if you get a crypto infection it can encrypt your backups, resulting in losing everything. We will not even consider any on-premise only solutions.