Arcserve UDP vs Vinchin Backup & Recovery comparison

Arcserve and Vinchin are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Arcserve is ranked #19 with an average rating of 7.0, while Vinchin is ranked #62. Arcserve holds a 1.2% mindshare in BRS, compared to Vinchin’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 84% of Arcserve users are willing to recommend the solution.

Arcserve UDP

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84% willing to recommend

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0% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Arcserve UDP and Vinchin Backup & Recovery based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Arcserve UDP

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

19th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (11th)

Vinchin Backup & Recovery

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

62nd

Average Rating

0.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (59th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Arcserve UDP is 1.2%, down from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Vinchin Backup & Recovery is 0.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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TeresitaSabile

Head of Operation and IT at Elgrade Inc

Cost savings and efficient decompression but needs better cloud integration

Our primary use case for Arcserve UDP is its decompression feature, which helped us save money by reducing storage needs. Despite moving to cloud applications, we have been using Arcserve UDP for backup and disaster recovery Arcserve UDP has helped our organization save considerable amounts of…

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Albert-Wang

Technical Consultant at SiS Technologies

Comprehensive data protection supports diverse IT environments

Vinchin Backup & Recovery supports most mainstream private cloud platforms, including VMware, Nutanix, and Microsoft Hyper-V, as well as many Chinese-based products. It supports cross-platform backup and recovery, allowing customers to back up from one platform and recover to another. The user interface is very user-friendly, making it easy for customers to understand and use. In addition to virtual machine backups, the platform supports physical server backups, file backups, and database backups. This comprehensive support allows customers to back up most IT resources, including the public cloud, within one platform.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Our customers are happy with the product’s functionality."

"There are many backup options available in this solution. For example, you are able to do backups of servers, email, OST files, and users. This is a complete backup solution which is very good."

"The backup is the most valuable feature. It also makes storage very easy."

"The standard backup and restore feature is most used."

"The ease of use is the best feature of the product."

"Easy restoration and the solution works quickly."

"Instant recovery is the most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP."

"The most valuable features are that it is able to restore quickly and that it is able to virtually restore on Hyper-V."

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"Vinchin Backup & Recovery supports most mainstream private cloud platforms, including VMware, Nutanix, and Microsoft Hyper-V, as well as many Chinese-based products."

"The user interface is very user-friendly, making it easy for customers to understand and use."

Cons

"The solution's reporting could be improved and should provide customized reports."

"The solution can improve by allowing older versions to support the latest version of the OS."

"The speed of restores should be improved. We have found the speed of large restores rather slow."

"Every time I change the disc, I have to do a full backup."

"It takes much time to verify and consolidate images for backups."

"In the most recent version of premium plus the replication has been removed, and it should re-added to the solution."

"Licensing can be quite difficult."

"The problem is just reliability. If the promises in the marketing material were realized in real life, it would be the perfect solution, but it's just the reliability issues."

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"The deduplication and compression ratio could be improved to save more space for customers."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a four or five out of ten."

"The solution is priced well compared to other solutions."

"Its price seems reasonable. Its price is average as compared to the other products I've looked at. We have a three-year license right now. There are no other costs beyond the standard licensing fee."

"The pricing of the product can be considered to be reasonable enough for the Asian region."

"It is a bit pricey, considering the reliability problems. If the tool worked flawlessly, the price would be fair, even cheap."

"The pricing is moderate."

"Pricing is most likely comparable."

"The solution is expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

16%

Non Profit

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

18%

Government

11%

Retailer

11%

Transportation Company

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By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

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Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about StorageCraft ShadowProtect?

The interface is very refined, works fine, and is very intuitive most of the time. Scalability is nice. The multi-tenancy feature is very welcome. The integration with Linux works fine too.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for StorageCraft ShadowProtect?

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Vinchin Backup & Recovery?

The pricing of Vinchin Backup & Recovery is cheaper compared to solutions like Veeam and Commvault.

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What needs improvement with Vinchin Backup & Recovery?

The deduplication and compression ratio could be improved to save more space for customers. For very large enterprises with over several thousand virtual machines, the backup speed may be an issue.

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What is your primary use case for Vinchin Backup & Recovery?

Companies, such as finance, hospitals, and energy firms, use Vinchin Backup & Recovery to keep their data safe. Data is a critical resource in these industries. The solution helps protect again...

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Overview

Arcserve UDP is a comprehensive solution that empowers even a one-person IT department to protect virtual and physical environments with a high degree of simplicity. It allows you to design and manage your entire data protection strategy with a unified management console, and enables you to scale your data backup coverage as your organization grows with the push of a button.

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Vinchin Backup & Recovery, the next generation VM backup solution self-developed by Vinchin, supports the world’s most mainstream virtual environments including VMware, XenServer/XCP-ng, Hyper-V, RHV/oVirt, OpenStack, Sangfor HCI, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager and Huawei FusionCompute. It prevents the loss of critical business data due to human misoperation, viruses, attacks, hardware failures, natural disasters, wars, etc.

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Sample Customers

ITPS, North Hertfordshire Homes, SEMIKRON, Kajaani University of Applied Sciences, Test Valley Borough Council, EK Services

Sichuan University, China Telecom Corporation Limited, China Mobile, PetroChina (CNPC), State Grid Corporation of China, La Caja de Ahorro y Seguro, University of Évora, E.Leclerc, LEAG, The University of Manchester

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