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Acronis Cyber Protect vs Databasus

Acronis Cyber Protect and Databasus are both backup software. Acronis Cyber Protect is a commercial product from Acronis. Databasus is open source under Apache-2.0, with 9.2k GitHub stars.

Which to pick

Pick Acronis Cyber Protect when
An MSP or small IT team wants backup and endpoint security from one console.
Pick Databasus when
You run your own PostgreSQL databases and want scheduled backups and PITR managed from a UI rather than hand-built scripts.

Side by side

What it does

Backup and recovery combined with anti-malware, patch management and endpoint management, sold heavily through managed service providers.

A self-hosted web tool that schedules PostgreSQL backups, physical, incremental, WAL streaming and logical, to S3, Google Drive or FTP, with point-in-time recovery and restore checks.

Watch out

Bundles many modules, so licensing is confusing and the agent is heavy.

Created in 2025 with a very fast release pace, so it has less of a track record than pgBackRest or Barman.

Ready for

Production-ready

Usable

Runs as

Cloud service, self-hosted server and desktop app

Self-hosted server

Built with

Not published

Go, TypeScript, PostgreSQL and Docker

Source code

Closed source, sold by Acronis

Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)

What the license allows

Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

How widely known

No Wikipedia article of its own

9.2k GitHub stars

How established

Not known

Young: started 17 months ago, latest release v3.64.0.

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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.