Veeam or Acronis?

Question

Backup

Comrades!
Tell me what to choose. It is planned to backup MSSQL databases and the state of servers so that you can deploy it if something breaks suddenly. Clouds don't matter. There are not so many virtual machines and they are not a priority. Ideally, a single centralized management. I choose from these two. Somehow I worked with acronis for a long time, but it has already changed beyond recognition.
Of course, each program at the office. The site has a comparison with a competitor, according to the result of which they are better. Interested in the opinion of people who worked with both systems, who can say: it was both, but stayed on ..... because ...." (fill in the blank)

Answer 1

With enterprise solutions akronis did not work. But Veeam - for me, the best backup solution that exists at the moment (I worked with Symantek, now with ComVault colleagues - it seems to be able to do everything, but it's complicated). With 9.5, backups and physics, everything is natively simple, but the possibilities are enormous. Restores everything on the fly at the application level. For sequels, granular recovery is implemented even for physical. servers. IMHO - VEEAM drives.)
PS The domain controller was restored only from a copy made by native win backup - there were no special problems, the read counter was transferred to a later value, but if you need FSMO took the role - it will work, there are no special difficulties with this.

Answer 2

I have been using Acronis for three years, now there is an offer for veeam, I tried the free VEEAM BACKUP AND REPLICATINO COMMUNITY - I will insist that the offer be rejected. A blind baby with autism will figure out the Akronis interface, while the VEEAM interface is developed by this baby. But I received only "Failed" type errors, which are not specified or specified anywhere. The INVENTORY and BACKUP INFRASTRUCTURE sections alone (guess the difference?) are worth something. A laptop with Win10 machines fell into "Managed Servers" with the Microsoft Windows Server type... So far, with Acronis, it's just heaven and earth.
UPD: they restored domain controllers, and Windows cluster nodes, granular files from a ball, letters from an Exchange mailbox - ol ebav from suksided.

Answer 3

I worked with both, but only files had to be restored. No system state.
It is better to listen to the one who could deploy the domain controller from the reserve.
As for me, the functionality is the same, the interfaces are different. The storage format is different.
The advantage of Akronis for me personally is that you can convert from a tib copy of the system to a virtual machine through their True Image utility. I've been in need a couple of times.

Answer 4

I recently took courses on Veeam and worked with him before. I liked the fact that you can deploy a copy of physics directly into a virtual machine (I speak for unix-like ones) without any problems.
I also liked the fact that Veeam has a simple interface that you can understand without documentation. Recovered files, databases and machines (there was a case when the developer did not take a snapshot and updated the program, the update of which got crooked)
Plus, such a thing as Instant VM Recovery can really help with SLA 99, (9)%. The bottom line is that the virtual machine rises from the repository, and in the background it starts restoring to the datastore. At the end, the virtual machine freezes and switches from the repository to the datastore.
PS A little off topic, but still. In addition, you can install VeeamONE and see the state of the virtual infrastructure, including lost snapshots (hello ESXi).