Barracuda Backup vs. Iperius Backup

Barracuda Backup

Barracuda Backup

103 Reviews and Ratings

Iperius Backup

Iperius Backup

7 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Barracuda Backup	Score 7.5 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
Iperius Backup	Score 6.0 out of 10	N/A	Iperius Backup is a backup software designed for IT resellers and IT consultants. It is presented as versatile backup software that also provides enterprise-level functionality. Its professional features like VM Backup, database backup, tape backup, drive imaging and much more don't impact the price. Iperius provides a cloud-based management platform (Iperius Console) that gives a central view of all installations to IT resellers, and a centralized view across all their customers.…	$32 per installation

Pricing

Barracuda Backup

Iperius Backup

Editions & Modules

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Iperius Backup Desktop: 32$
per installation
Iperius Backup Essential: 72$
per installation
Iperius Backup Advanced Database: 166$
per installation
Iperius Backup Advanced tape: 166$
per installation
Iperius Backup Advanced VM: 244$
per installation
Iperius Backup Full: 299$
per installation

Offerings

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

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Barracuda Backup	Iperius Backup
Considered Both Products	Barracuda Backup Verified User Anonymous Chose Barracuda Backup Barracuda Backup is far more simple and easy to manage, we selected this over competitors because it gave a simple set and forget backup for cloud to cloud with unlimited retention. It also gave a very simple to use interface for monitoring backups of required. Pricing and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Barracuda Backup The comparable product has a more limited feature set, best used for desktop and limited flexibility Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Barracuda Backup Overall not impressed with Barracuda backup and we decided to move away from it. I wasn't involved in the selection but the organization has had it for years when the market was very different. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Barracuda Backup Barracuda Backup offers a full cloud to cloud offering and when we were implementing and building, Veeam did not have a full cloud to cloud offering, but rather a cloud to on prem, which we were concerned with the bandwidth usage and additional need to monitor as well as … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Barracuda Backup We actually ran both of these systems at once to provide end to end coverage. This worked extremely well for our internal email systems and provided great protection for our end users and great backups of all messages to and from the corporation. The combination of these two … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Barracuda Backup I [have] used a number of solutions in the past and in all cases I replaced what I used with the Barracuda solution. It was a simple and fast solution to deploy and easy to get staff up to speed on using the product. Support was top notch when deployment time came, they … Incentivized Helpful? NR Nicholas Rollins IT Manager Chose Barracuda Backup Felt like Veeam was pushy during the eval and could not verify it would work with our older VMware version. Incentivized Helpful? AW Amanda Wiens Analista de Suporte 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? NM Nick Marsh IT Director Chose Barracuda Backup Barracuda Backup compared very favorably to Veeam Backup & Replication because it has all of the most necessary features you would expect in a backup solution, but can be deployed much faster and is easier to manage. The Linux based appliance reduces the need for using a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Anonymous 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? TR Thayer Ramahi Director, IMIT Chose Barracuda Backup Dell/EMC CX4 series, Data Protector (formerly HP Data Protector), Quest Rapid Recovery (formerly AppAssure), Avamar and Veeam Backup & Replication Incentivized Helpful? TL Tim Lillis Sr. System Engineer Chose Barracuda Backup Barracuda was a much more cost effective solution than the others we evaluated. Its interface was light years ahead of Avamar, and its cost was much lower than Unitrends. Avamar had it beat in backup time, and Unitrends was a more mature product. In the end, Barracuda won out … Incentivized Helpful? RS Ryhlen Schoeberl System Administrator Chose Barracuda Backup We used to use a product that Symantec offered. The problem was that it was not able to connect to Mac machines to back up data. This was a big issue, since we have Executives and marketing employees that use Macs. We also tested Druva inSync. It offered a lot of features that … Incentivized Helpful? ED Erue Dfut IT Consultant Chose Barracuda Backup Barracuda has a lot of experience in the market, provides solutions that no other competitors have, and the support is very good Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Barracuda Backup Barracuda is easy to use with Cloud Control. I can manage ESS and their Archiver on one screen. Incentivized Helpful? EK Eric Krueger Infrastructure Manager Chose Barracuda Backup Barracuda has been one of those must have tools for our IT shop. Quick, easy to use as well as safe and secure are a few ways to describe this product. Email archiving is made to keep your end users happy knowing that they have all of their past emails at their fingertips. Incentivized Helpful? JM Josh McClelland IT Consultant 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 Anonymous 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? DS Derek Schroeder Service Manager 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? MO Michael O'Riley Director of Information Technology Chose Barracuda Backup Barracuda's price point, and it didn't require additional servers and/or storage. Incentivized Helpful? BS Brandon Shandelson IT Manager Chose Barracuda Backup Barracuda is MUCH easier to set up and use then Unitrends. Unitrends does not offer direct download of backed up files from their cloud, while Barracuda does. Unitrends uses a non-standard and difficult to use implementation of retention/archiving. Unitrends' backup to Amazon … Incentivized Helpful? DW Dustin Williams Network Administrator III Chose Barracuda Backup I'm much happier with how Barracuda lays out their console and user interface. Acronis is a great product and you do get what you expect. But to have a the learning curve personally cut by at least 50% is a great thing to have when it comes to training new members to the IT … Incentivized Helpful? TC Tina Cline IT Support Specialist Chose Barracuda Backup For cloud only solutions, this may be great for small businesses or individuals, but the ability to have onsite as well as offsite backups makes recovery faster and more diverse to ensure all areas of data can be recovered quickly. Incentivized Helpful? GR Gilbert Reyes Jr IT Compliance Manager Chose Barracuda Backup Barracuda has a rock solid reputation in the business, and sells quality products that any company should stand behind. I've not used any other product that has the level of quality that Barracuda does. Incentivized Helpful?	Iperius Backup Verified User Anonymous Chose Iperius Backup The company used several free solutions (e.g. Cobian Backup et al.) but they were outdated and there was no standardization, nor a simple way to monitor all the backup jobs. Iperius had all the key features needed for the task and the project is very much alive (regular new … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Barracuda Backup

Iperius Backup

Data Center Backup

Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
	Barracuda Backup 7.9 Ratings 7% below category average	Iperius Backup 6.1 Ratings 33% below category average
Universal recovery	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Instant recovery	1.50 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Recovery verification	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Business application protection	8.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations	6.00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification	10.00 Ratings	5.00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud	6.00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Snapshots	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Flexible deployment	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Management dashboard	8.00 Ratings	1.00 Ratings
Platform support	8.00 Ratings	3.00 Ratings
Retention options	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Encryption	9.00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings

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	Barracuda Backup	Iperius Backup
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Enterprises	Bacula Enterprise Score 9.2 out of 10	Bacula Enterprise Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Barracuda Backup	Iperius Backup
Likelihood to Recommend	6.0 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	6.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Availability	7.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.2 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	5.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	7.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Barracuda Backup	Iperius Backup
Likelihood to Recommend	If you are a small business with a few machines and your backups aren't of servers that are public facing. If you had to restore a server from backup, it would take a day at least. So, if the server being restored was public facing, that may impact customer relations. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Iperius Backup is a very simple and cheap but absolutely effective solution for small infrastructures. You can use it both on Windows clients and servers, it can integrate with ESXi, MySQL, MSSQL, etc. I think the best way to use it is with their cloud space (Iperius Cloud Storage) that allows you to take care effortlessly of your small customers' data. When it comes to more complex infrastructures, I prefer relying on something different (Nakivo Backup and Replication, Promox Backup Server). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	The cloud control is great!! I'm able to restore files and folders from basically any machine on the Internet. I can restore either the local machine I'm using at the time, or directly to the server from which it came. The user interface. Very easy to use and understand. Loads of options and configurations you can optimize for your particular needs. Instance replacement. We have had an issue with one unit due to some hardware failure. Barracuda was amazing on getting this replaced quickly and getting us back on track. Incentivized Dustin Williams Network Administrator III Read full review	Less than 15' to set up It has its own cloud storage solution It has a monitoring console It's very cost effective Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	You can't define backup systems to just go to the cloud, it has to be stored locally as well, which eats up the local storage. These appliances are high-priced for a small amount of storage and if you want to upgrade, you buy a new appliance. There's no replacing hard drives, you basically move up $5K for each 2Tb and replace the entire appliance each time. It's not a healthy model for growth. Incentivized Jason Thomas IT Director/CIO Read full review	Lack of clear documentation Rsync not supported Apparently NFS shares are supported but it's not clear how to use them Iperius Console should be improved (it's almost a read-only dashboard and you need too many clicks to get where you want to go) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Love the units Incentivized JF Jhonna Flores Senior Network Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	Dashboards and interfaces within Barracuda Backup are very easy to navigate, with clear success/warnings shown. Setting up backup jobs is probably one of the most simplest tasks - compared to competitors we trialed. Trouble shooting backup issues is also simple due to clear errors (VSS errors shown in a understandable format for example) Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	They are always quick to get you routed to a tech support person and always get follow up after contacting them. Last experience was amazing, she adjusted my boxes and they perform even better. I cannot say enough about the support. We had some trouble with one of the windows servers leaving the volume shadow copy out there and would fail. They worked with us to adjust and get working. After that it has been months since I have had to do anything with the server to keep the backups running. Incentivized Nicholas Rollins IT Manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	Work on a backup agent for Mac OS X or any Apple OS. Incentivized JF Jhonna Flores Senior Network Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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 restore. Barracuda does this exceptionally well. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The company used several free solutions (e.g. Cobian Backup et al.) but they were outdated and there was no standardization, nor a simple way to monitor all the backup jobs. Iperius had all the key features needed for the task and the project is very much alive (regular new releases). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	It is much lower priced than the alternate solution we where thinking about purchasing. It was initially a much more cost-effective solution until they changed their cost model making the ROI go down over the last 2 years. It saved our districts, that we on-boarded, the cost of new hardware. The deduplication factor kept the total size down for new adds. Incentivized Tim Lillis Sr. System Engineer Read full review	One standard solution for small customers One console to monitor backup jobs Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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