Acronis Backup and Recovery

We got Acronis Backup and Recovery 10 for a small business of about 10 machines. When it worked, it was really great, simple to use. When it didn't work, pounding your head against a break wall was more fun.


Pros

• De-duplication
• Central management
• Any kind of backup type and schedule you can think of
• Built in Wake on Lan
• Restore to dissimilar hardware
• Backup conversion to VM image
• Can automatically handle if a non-managed backup location is swapped out
• Built in PXE server to boot to recovery mode.

Cons

• User interface is laggy, slow, buggy and often wrong. (This is a really big issue)
• Its database(SQLITE) needs constant cleaning out to keep performance up
• Incomprehensible error messages.
• Management Server constantly crashes, freezes and wont restart.
• Wake on Lan doesn't work