Acronis Cyber Protect vs Kopia
Acronis Cyber Protect and Kopia are both backup software. Acronis Cyber Protect is a commercial product from Acronis. Kopia is open source under Apache-2.0, with 15k 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 Kopia when
- You want restic-style backups with a GUI and built-in scheduling, for desktops or small servers.
Side by side
Backup and recovery combined with anti-malware, patch management and endpoint management, sold heavily through managed service providers.
A backup tool for Windows, macOS and Linux with encrypted, compressed, deduplicated snapshots to local or cloud storage, with both a CLI and a desktop GUI.
Bundles many modules, so licensing is confusing and the agent is heavy.
Still pre-1.0 in version numbering, and its repository format is specific to Kopia.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service, self-hosted server and desktop app
Desktop app, command line and self-hosted server
Not published
Go, React and Electron
Closed source, sold by Acronis
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
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.
No Wikipedia article of its own
15k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 11 years ago, latest release v0.23.1.
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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.