Barracuda appliances, similar to Unitrends’ offering, delivers on-premise and off-premise appliances to offer a comprehensive data protection solution. The all-in-one appliance eliminates the need to stitch together a solution comprising of different storage, software, and backup vendors.
Primary Disadvantages of Barracuda:
Integrated fixed/rotational archiving to disk, tapes, NAS, or SAN is not supported by Barracuda Backup Servers. Customers cannot leverage their investment in tape/autoloader/NAS/SAN infrastructure for long-term retention and disaster recovery.
Barracuda Networks data protection product suite is a small portion of their primary product offering of network security and firewall solutions.
Barracuda Backup Servers do not offer bare metal restore options to dissimilar hardware, thereby reducing the efficacy of the solutions.
Barracuda offers native agents only for a limited set of operating systems and relies on protocols like CIFS/SSHFS for backup and restore of unstructured data, which may not capture the file system specific metadata like access control and ownership rights.
Barracuda Backup Servers do not encrypt data at rest on the on-premise appliance, so it may not meet regulatory requirements for many customers.
Barracuda Backup Servers are powered by integrating acquired technologies from BitLeap and Yosemite Technologies. This increases the complexity of the product, which hampers user experience.
Barracuda Backup Servers do not offer Windows Instant Recovery
Barracuda Backup Servers do not have a single user interface to access data and requires access to multiple connections and technologies
Barracuda Backup Servers do not have the option to “seed” the data to off-premise appliance. Initial data sync will take weeks depending on the amount of data being synchronized.
Barracuda Backup Servers do not have cloud service data centers SAE 16 certified
Barracuda Backup Servers do not have features like Failover Virtualization for Windows is not offered by Barracuda Backup Service.
Support costs are almost double to Unitrends Premium level
