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Acronis Cyber Protect pros and cons

Vendor: Acronis
4.1 out of 5

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PROS

Acronis Cyber Protect offers consistent and reliable backup capabilities, supporting a wide range of storage management needs.
It provides robust disaster recovery features, including the ability to perform bare-metal restores even on dissimilar hardware.
The image backup and restore features are highly beneficial, allowing quick restoration across various platforms and environments.
Acronis Cyber Protect includes comprehensive security features like ransomware protection, delivering significant value especially when emphasized in data protection sales.
Its cloud backup solution effectively addresses vulnerabilities associated with local storage, ensuring data protection during challenging situations like ransomware attacks or migrations.

CONS

Acronis Cyber Protect's technical support process is lengthy and requires improvement.
The integration with various databases like Oracle and Postgres is lacking, hindering deployment across multiple infrastructures.
There is a need for better cloud security and more comprehensive cybersecurity features.
The backup of virtual machines, particularly with VMware and Nutanix, requires improved integration and performance.
Acronis Cyber Protect could benefit from better deployment options and enhanced capabilities for managing backups over extended periods.
 

Acronis Cyber Protect Pros review quotes

it_user663546 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a tech services company
May 17, 2017
i use the backup solution and I use something called Disk Director, which is a related product. Together, they allow me to manage all of my storage space.
it_user674337 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a tech services company
May 29, 2017
Consistency and reliability. The interface is easy to understand and consistent across applications. While not 100%, it is a very reliable backup solution.
it_user683463 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees
Jun 13, 2017
It makes a full image of the hard drive. If a hard drive fails, all we do is recover to another hard drive.
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Aug 22, 2017
I can encrypt the data, I can make it send me an email if it fails. It lets me choose which files I want to ignore during backup.
RL
IT Desktop Support
Aug 24, 2017
I've reimaged servers and been back up and running in exactly no time with the completely new hardware.
Aug 27, 2017
If you need to recover, it's the best recovery software I've ever used and I've been in this business for over 30 years. Plug a disc in and tell it to recover this machine and it's done. You walk away from it and it's done. Reboot it and it's perfect.
it_user783072 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director
Dec 4, 2017
Acronis has many features, which are really very interesting, when it comes to data backup and recovery, especially disaster recovery (DR).
EA
IT Operation Infrastructure Virtualization Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 21, 2018
It is a very fast and reliable backup, which requires less management and restores quickly.​
it_user812175 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Consultant at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Feb 1, 2018
​I have everything I need in the backup or in the partition. ​
Jason Bloom - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Bloom Technology Group
May 23, 2018
The ability to clone backups.
 

Acronis Cyber Protect Cons review quotes

it_user663546 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a tech services company
May 17, 2017
I've had some issues with the understandability of the interface. I think if they had someone with expertise in user interfaces to look at this, they could clean up the user interface.
it_user674337 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a tech services company
May 29, 2017
I needed tech support to straighten out an issue with cloud backup. I have troubleshooting to do with failed backups.
it_user683463 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees
Jun 13, 2017
Some of the default settings out-of-the-box should already be set up for the novice user. For instance, the warnings that say a hard drive has bad sectors and stops the backup from performing.
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Aug 22, 2017
If I could create a protected image backup on a computer partition that just would be just for the image backup; and only the program could access it to prevent viruses from getting into it. That would be very, very good.
RL
IT Desktop Support
Aug 24, 2017
It does not delete locked files.
Aug 27, 2017
This might be a lack of understanding on my part, but it's difficult to purge old backups.
it_user783072 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director
Dec 4, 2017
It would be nice to have it on the cloud platform without using third-party equipment.
EA
IT Operation Infrastructure Virtualization Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 21, 2018
​It would be nice if it could support more types of storage: EMC, HPE, Veeam, etc.
it_user812175 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Consultant at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Feb 1, 2018
I would ​change the GUI a little to make it a bit more interactive. It should have a slightly more updated look, not something which looks like it was designed five years ago despite the fact it is easy to follow and very appealing.​
Jason Bloom - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Bloom Technology Group
May 23, 2018
I would like to see better centralized management, because I use it across multiple clients. To have a console that centrally manages them would be nice.