Barracuda Backup 3004 review: Barracuda makes hybrid backup even more affordable

"Businesses worried about managing a hybrid data protection strategy will find a lot to like about Barracuda's Backup appliances, as they do everything for you. Offered as physical or virtual appliances, they provide on-site backup, cloud replication, and full data restoration services. Plus, optional site-to-site replication with everything managed from a single cloud portal. They're about to get more appealing, too, as Barracuda has introduced a completely new family of appliance models and moved from complex capacity-based licensing to a pure subscription model."

"Choices have been simplified as the old range, which comprised around ten different models, has been reduced to four. The new appliances overcome the capacity limitations of their predecessors, which required you to migrate to the next model up if you ran out of backup space. They come with much higher capacities, allowing you to pay for what you want now and apply a licence upgrade when you need more."

"In this review, we test the entry-level Backup 3004, which targets small businesses and edge scenarios and replaces the Backup 190, 290, 295, and 390 models. Delivered as a compact fan-less desktop box, it comes with a pair of 2TB SATA SSDs and supports environments that require around 1TB-2TB of backup capacity. The two SSDs are configured as one non-redundant 4TB logical volume at the OS level, and it's worth going over the new subscriptions as Barracuda has radically updated them."

Barracuda Backup appliances provide on-site backup, cloud replication, full data restoration, and optional site-to-site replication managed from a single cloud portal. Available as physical or virtual appliances, the family has been simplified from around ten models to four and licensing moved from capacity-based to pure subscriptions. New models offer much higher capacities and allow license upgrades without forced hardware migration. The Backup 3004 targets small businesses and edge deployments, ships as a fan-less desktop with two 2TB SATA SSDs configured as a single 4TB logical volume, and supports roughly 1–2TB of usable backup capacity. Subscription pricing starts at £110/month for local backup and £210/month for cloud replication including appliance and local storage.

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