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Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses Barracuda Message Archiver? Designed for businesses of all sizes, it is a cloud-based solution that helps streamline email communications with message archiving, data import/export, regulatory compliance, and more. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 17 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support Software | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Barracuda Networks - **Founded**: 2004 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: Per Feature (Free Trial) - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - Backup and Recovery - Compliance Management - Data Import/Export - Data Retention Management - Encryption Software - Storage Management - eDiscovery ## Support Options - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Email Archiving Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/31007/email-archiving/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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Also have cloud mirroring to get off appliance for BC/DR. ----- ### "The Barracuda Archiver provides a easy to email archiving solution that integrates easily." — 4.0/5 > **John** | *July 31, 2018* | Insurance Software | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: The Barracuda Archiver is a one piece solution that can be intergrated into an email system in about an hour. Pricing depends on storage and there is no charge for additional users. Email or attachments can be stubbed when using Exchange to greatly reduce the size of email on the system. An easy to use interface allows mail users to search for historical email quickly. It is also easy to setup polices for global removal of old email after retention period. Users can be set up based on LDAP directories or Active Directory. Barracuda support was excellent. > > **Cons**: The device can slow down as it gets full since it is SATA based. Also, depending on the amount of data, recovery can be slow if data needs to be reindexed by the system. There is no automated way to rehydrate (reimport) stubbed email into the system if needed for transition. > > Less stress on main mail server. Easy set up of discovery to comply with retention policy. Easy intergation with Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, or IMAP email. ----- ### "6 years of faithful service, great customer support, until..." — 4.0/5 > **Stephen** | *May 21, 2019* | Legal Services | Recommendation rating: 2.0/10 > > **Pros**: The web interface was straight​ forward and it was easy to do searches. We liked the ability of our end users to be able to search their own archives. > > **Cons**: Sometimes​ searches were slow, large exports were even slower. You could sometimes wait 30-60 seconds for results to come back. It seemed that the database could use indexing. > > Barracuda's support has been the best we have ever experienced. The wait times are short, and their staff is based in the US so it was easy to communicate the issues. Overall we were reasonably pleased with the device and the company until our business needs had changed and we had to move to a different platform that provided more advanced tools. (We really didn't​ want to leave) This is where we feel (and perhaps any company​ that provides cloud services) that Barracuda turned evil. We have an on-prem appliance and rotate older emails to the Barracuda Cloud Archive service​. A word of warning, Barracuda does not provide any way​ or tools to extract YOUR data from their cloud service. You can extract in bulk from the on-prem appliance from an​ SMB share. ALSO, if you don't maintain the minimum Energize Updates, they will shut off access​ to your own data stored on the Appliance. About 15 days after expiration, you will no longer be able to perform searches on the on-prem appliance​, although you can still search and export from the cloud. You will have 30 days after terminating the cloud service to extract all your data. Our experience has been the cloud exports take a long time to complete, and they are spotty on the file downloads, sometimes they will not complete and​ you will have to start again. There is more to say about our experience with this process but there is not enough room to explain further. Proceed​ with caution.. ----- ### "Great and easy to use archiving solution." — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *May 7, 2018* | Banking | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: We started off with the physical appliance and then migrated to the virtual, which was very painless. The search is fast and robust even with 3TB of email in a single appliance. It is rock solid as well. > > **Cons**: The interface is a little clunky and could use an update. There are a few screens that are not all that intuitive and could use some better explanations. I do wish there was a way to integrate it into Exchange directly for archiving and access. > > This has allowed us to keep out Exchange footprint down to unto 400GB with 8 years worth of email. ----- ### "Works as Advertised" — 5.0/5 > **Daniel** | *August 5, 2022* | Hospitality | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: It works well and almost never has issues. Emails cannot be deleted, which is great for making sure disgruntled admins can't delete all your backups. Search is robust, fast, and easy to use. > > **Cons**: GUI feels a bit dated, but otherwise I have no complaints. > > Works great. Most often I actually use it to determine if an issue I’m working on has happened before (somebody probably talked about it in an email, or logged it in a ticket which sent an email.) ----- Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ca/software/168603/message-archiver?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.ca/software/168603/message-archiver) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | ----- ## Structured Data