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--- title: "Competitive Analysis - Retrospect Virtual" created_at: 2017.03.07 updated_at: 2021.05.25 category: White Papers ---

Retrospect Virtual enables small and medium businesses to protect their entire virtual infrastructure. Let's compare Retrospect to the competition.

	Retrospect Virtual 2021	Veeam Backup and Recovery	Acronis Backup	StorageCraft ShadowProtect
Environment
Backup of VMare VMs	✔	✔	✔	✔
Backup of Hyper-V VMs	✔	✔	✔	✔
Backup of Exchange Mailboxes	✔	✔	✔	✔
Management
Run VM Directly from Backup	✔	✔	✔	✔
Local and Cloud Storage	✔	✔	✔	✔
Third-Party Cloud Storage Support	✔	✔
AES-256 Data Encryption	✔	✔	✔	✔
Backup Scheduling	✔	✔	✔	✔
Block-Level Incremental Backup	✔	✔	✔	✔
Data Retention Policies	✔	✔	✔	✔
Disk-to-disk-to-cloud Staging Support	✔	✔	✔	✔
Point-in-time Restores	✔	✔	✔	✔
Pricing
Per-Socket Pricing	✔	✔	✔	✔
Per-VM Pricing	✔

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