Arctera Backup Exec vs. Barracuda Backup

Arctera Backup Exec

163 Reviews and Ratings

Barracuda Backup

103 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Arctera Backup Exec	Score6.8 out of 10	N/A	Arctera Backup Exec is a backup and disaster recovery solution. It works in virtual, physical, and multi-cloud environments and integrates with several third-party software releases and applications.	N/A
Barracuda Backup	Score7.6 out of 10	N/A	Designed to be simple to configure and manage, the scalable Barracuda Backup solution is offered via a capacity-based, all-inclusive subscription model allows you to pay for only what you need to protect today, avoiding large upfront hardware costs.	N/A

Pricing

Arctera Backup Exec

Barracuda Backup

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Pricing Offerings
Arctera Backup Exec	Barracuda Backup
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	Arctera Backup Exec	Barracuda Backup
Considered Both Products	Arctera US LLC Jeff Daniels Network Engineer in Information Technology at EPMG-Emergency Physicians Medical Group (Hospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees) Chose Arctera Backup Exec Backup Exec (when it was still under the Symantec umbrella) used to offer a backup appliance for local-cloud backup. It was expensive. I don't think they offer it anymore. In any case we wanted to engage such a solution and have been using Barracuda Backup for several years. It … Incentivized Helpful? Derek Schroeder Service Manager in Information Technology at Accellis Technology Group (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Arctera Backup Exec Symantec and Acronis are well matched, but Symantec is more flexible in designing jobs. Acronis creates images that are mountable whereas Symantec creates backup files that can be restored quickly and easily. Barracuda and Datto are "total data storage" backup options and … Incentivized Helpful?	Barracuda Networks Inc. Amanda Wiens Analista de Suporte in Information Technology at Oi (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Barracuda Backup All solutions have their positive, neutral, and negative points. Veritas Backup Exec is excellent too. But it is more expensive and does not offer a management interface as friendly as Barracuda Backup is. We also have brand reliability because other company employees have also … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Barracuda Backup All mentioned venders above did not give me the one-stop-shop approach to backup that I was looking for. Also, global deduplication and compression was a huge saving on local space. Most venders also charge per VM or per application being backed up, and this is cost-prohibitive … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Barracuda Backup The time necessary to manage Barracuda Backups is leaps and bounds superior to Backup Exec. Backup Exec has tons of great features but required constant maintenance. In the end we just wanted the ability to easily schedule, set retention periods and the ability to backup and … Incentivized Helpful? Josh McClelland IT Consultant in Information Technology at Americom Imaging Systems, Inc. (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Barracuda Backup Each backup solution has its pros and cons, and each customer has their needs, and budget constraints. Barracuda Backup has helped us dramatically in the area of being able to provide customers a cost-effective solution, that's easy to manage and is one of those things you're … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Barracuda Backup 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Derek Schroeder Service Manager in Information Technology at Accellis Technology Group (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Barracuda Backup While many solutions, such as Acronis and Symantec Backup Exec rely on number of agents or database services, Barracuda and Datto rely on total data storage. Barracuda's key feature is the hardware refresh. After 4 years of maintaining subscriptions, customers are entitled to … Incentivized Helpful? Darrell (DJ) Clubb, Network Administrator in Information Technology at Saint Louis Science Center (Museums and Institutions, 201-500 employees) Chose Barracuda Backup Not wanting to place all our data in on basket, we also utilize a B2T library, having both systems in place allows me more agility should one of the two systems go offline. Incentivized Helpful? Jhonna Flores Senior Network Engineer in Information Technology at The Spence School (Education Management, 51-200 employees) Chose Barracuda Backup Easy setup and simple to managed. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Barracuda Backup I found Backup Exec to be clunky and difficult to navigate. I definitely didn't want to have to go change out tapes every day for all of my servers. Other solutions had tape carousels etc but you still had to swap them out. I like that BBS is cloud based and easy to connect to … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

Arctera Backup Exec

Barracuda Backup

Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Arctera Backup Exec and Barracuda Backup
Feature	Arctera Backup Exec 8.6 22 Ratings	Barracuda Backup 7.9 35 Ratings
Universal recovery	10.018 Ratings	8.028 Ratings
Instant recovery	7.517 Ratings	1.530 Ratings
Recovery verification	7.920 Ratings	10.030 Ratings
Business application protection	10.017 Ratings	8.724 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations	6.421 Ratings	6.032 Ratings
Incremental backup identification	7.922 Ratings	10.033 Ratings
Backup to the cloud	10.013 Ratings	6.034 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression	7.416 Ratings	10.035 Ratings
Snapshots	8.416 Ratings	8.026 Ratings
Flexible deployment	9.017 Ratings	8.019 Ratings
Management dashboard	9.020 Ratings	8.021 Ratings
Platform support	8.519 Ratings	8.021 Ratings
Retention options	8.418 Ratings	10.021 Ratings
Encryption	10.012 Ratings	9.017 Ratings

User Ratings
	Arctera Backup Exec	Barracuda Backup
Likelihood to Recommend	8.3 (25 ratings)	6.0 (35 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	1.0 (3 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	1.0 (1 ratings)	6.0 (4 ratings)
Availability	4.0 (1 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	8.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	5.0 (4 ratings)	9.2 (7 ratings)
Implementation Rating	3.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	5.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	7.0 (1 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)