Acronis vs Ottomatik

Acronis is a Swiss-headquartered cyber protection company founded in 2003, known for its True Image disk imaging software and, today, mainly for a multitenant platform that managed service providers use to back up, secure and manage their clients' systems. EQT agreed in 2024 to take a majority stake, and Acronis says more than 20,000 service providers and 750,000 businesses use its platform.

The business offering, marketed as the Acronis Cyber Platform and sold to service providers as Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, combines backup of servers, PCs, VMs and Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace with disaster recovery, EDR and MDR, email security, data loss prevention, patching, RMM and PSA-style billing and service desk tools. MSPs pay per workload for actual usage; IT departments buy one to three year terms. The consumer line, Acronis True Image, is sold per year: Essentials for local backup and cloning, Advanced with cloud storage and anti-malware, and Premium with 1 TB or more of cloud storage.

Acronis fits MSPs that want one console for backup, security and RMM, and home or small-office users who need full-disk images and cloning. Backblaze is simpler and cheaper for plain cloud backup, Afi.ai focuses on SaaS backup for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, and Veeam is the usual choice for large virtualized data centers.

Buying tip: True Image prices rise with each extra computer and terabyte, so a 3 or 5 computer pack is better value for households. MSPs should check which security modules they already license elsewhere.

Ottomatik is a small backup service that copies databases and files from your servers to cloud storage you control, on a schedule, and alerts you when something fails. It is aimed at PHP and Laravel developers, freelancers and small agencies who host applications on their own VPS servers and do not want to write and babysit backup scripts.

You connect a server, choose databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL and the directories to include, then set a schedule and a retention policy. Backups are stored in your own destination, such as an Amazon S3 bucket, so the data does not stay with the vendor. Notifications report failed or missed jobs, and restores can be started with one click. Pricing is a simple monthly subscription: Lite covers a few daily backup jobs, while Professional and Agency add many more jobs, more frequent backups and API access. There is no permanent free tier.

Ottomatik fits teams who want reliable off-site database backups without building the tooling themselves. The scope is narrow: there is no full server imaging, the vendor is small, integrations are limited and the interface is basic. The open-source spatie/laravel-backup package is free if you are comfortable maintaining it, SimpleBackups covers a broader range of databases and storage providers, and managed database services from your cloud provider include automated backups by default. Because you choose the storage region, it is also easier to keep backups where your data protection rules require.