--- title: Barracuda Message Archiver Reviews meta\_title: 'Barracuda Message Archiver Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 19 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Barracuda Message Archiver works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 19 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Governance, Risk & Compliance url: https://www.g2.com/categories/governance-risk-compliance --- # Barracuda Message Archiver Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Barracuda Message Archiver but has limited features. Are you part of the Barracuda Message Archiver team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Capture all email data accurately, easily meet regulatory requirements, and take complex discovery requests in stride. The Barracuda Message Archiver ensures secure, long-term storage, while users get instant, anytime access to archived messages on any device. * * * Seller [Barracuda](https://www.g2.com/sellers/barracuda) Discussions [Barracuda Message Archiver Community](https://www.g2.com/products/barracuda-barracuda-message-archiver/discuss) Languages Supported English Overview by Kathy Kliskey Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement \<1 month ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/barracuda-barracuda-message-archiver/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![NinjaOne](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "NinjaOne") NinjaOne 4.7/5(5,025) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ninjaone/reviews) [ ![Yext](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Yext") Yext 4.4/5(1,124) ](https://www.g2.com/products/yext/reviews) [ ![Paubox](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Paubox") Paubox 4.9/5(619) ](https://www.g2.com/products/paubox/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/barracuda-barracuda-message-archiver/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 19 real user reviews. Implementation Time \<1 month Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) IQ Ignace Q. IT Manager Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/24/2020 "Barracuda Message Archiver : simple and affordable" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Barracuda Message Archiver? It is quite simple to setup and comes a a low cost, compared to other solutions. it is one of the most simple solutions and so effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Barracuda Message Archiver? there was a long standing issue with speed. But that seems to be fixed now. I can't say i dislike anything in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Barracuda Message Archiver solving and how is that benefiting you? We had quite big mailboxes and were running into limits of office 365 Business licenses. So we had to archive or extend our office 365 licenses. We are also quite sure that in case of emergency, we can find this lost mail somewhere. We had the issue that a sales person left and erased all his email. 2 years later, we needed an email for a disputed invoice. We found it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 3/28/2025 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Education Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Education Management") AE Verified User in Education Management Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/27/2025 "One stop shop for email record requests!" 5/5 What do you like best about Barracuda Message Archiver? Now that we have been on this for enough years, I no longer have to wade through on-prem Exchange backups when we get email record requests. What used to take from hours to weeks of restoring environments to pull back data from years past is now done within a few minutes. The implementation was seamless and done with support assistance which was great. Even though we don't use this every day, its great to know it's available and ready to get the job done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Barracuda Message Archiver? I cannot say that there is a downside to this product as it works great. The time it may take to pull the data can seem long, but in reality that is to be expected when you may be combing through 7 years of email! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Barracuda Message Archiver solving and how is that benefiting you? Easy integration for us with 365 and keeping me free to do other things rather than spend days to weeks retrieving data from years of mail server backups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Building Materials](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Building Materials") AB Verified User in Building Materials Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/12/2024 "Barracuda Message Archiver - A solution you can rely on" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Barracuda Message Archiver? The product is relieable and needs no big maintenance. If you have any problems the support - especially the support in vienna - helps fast and competent. The Outlook Addin is well done and users don´t need any schoolings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Barracuda Message Archiver? You need an expert to install these systems. There is no chance to buy and configure by yourself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Barracuda Message Archiver solving and how is that benefiting you? Years before it helped our small mailboxes not to get full. Now...in times that a mailbox has 100GB and more...it helps to find important mails...even if it is years old. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") AR Verified User in Retail Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/25/2022 "Barracuda Message Archiver" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Barracuda Message Archiver? Barracuda Message Archiver is a set-and-forget solution. In that, once you have it configured and running, it ingests all incoming/outgoing emails with whatever retention policies you configure. It's straightforward to search and recover emails without much effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Barracuda Message Archiver? Their solution is a hybrid, in that you have a hardware appliance, that mirrors to the cloud for backups. The only downside is that you will eventually outgrow the appliance and need to migrate to another physical box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Barracuda Message Archiver solving and how is that benefiting you? Retaining and recovering emails using the Archiver has saved us a lot of time and effort. In addition, this solution allows us to check all of our compliance boxes with confidence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ankit J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ankit J.") AJ Ankit J. Cyber Security Specialist Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/21/2022 "Email archieving is must" 5/5 What do you like best about Barracuda Message Archiver? Barracuda Message archiver helped to store all email from compliance prospective. Also it allows to import past email using pst files. Best part it is compqtible with office 365. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Barracuda Message Archiver? Appliace upgrade is but tricky, if done any mistake that will be worst situation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Barracuda Message Archiver solving and how is that benefiting you? I am storing all emails, even if emplotee left still email are easily searchable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ben S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ben S.") BS Ben S. Senior Systems Engineer / Infrastructure Architect Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/10/2021 "Email Archiver that is inexpensive, easy to use, and great support." 5/5 What do you like best about Barracuda Message Archiver? Barracuda Support is probably the best in the industry and is always top-notch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Barracuda Message Archiver? Some of the logic can get tricky when searching emails for public records requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Barracuda Message Archiver: Always consider the price you pay with the features you receive and the requirements involved. For PFISD, the Barracuda Message Archiver meets all of our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Barracuda Message Archiver solving and how is that benefiting you? The Barracuda Message Archiver provides a simple web interface and an Outlook plugin where end users can restore their emails. The system also completely solves our requirement to search all emails for open records requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Government Administration](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Government Administration") AG Verified User in Government Administration Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/14/2021 "Good Email archiving solution" 5/5 What do you like best about Barracuda Message Archiver? Set it and forget it. Can easily search email archive to pull out data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Barracuda Message Archiver? Exporting data is not very intuitive. It does offer a few different ways to export, but I always seem to stumble here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Barracuda Message Archiver: I had third-party vendor support with installing the Barracuda Message Archiver, but after getting it set up, it just runs! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Barracuda Message Archiver solving and how is that benefiting you? Provides a safety net for retrieving emails to meet public record retention laws. (Just in case users are delete happy and don't manage their mailbox well) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Utilities](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Utilities") AU Verified User in Utilities Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/5/2020 "Works great" 5/5 What do you like best about Barracuda Message Archiver? I have used several different archivers, both on premise and cloud based. Barracuda archiver has been easy to configure and manage compared to the others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Barracuda Message Archiver? Nothing really comes to mind as a dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Barracuda Message Archiver solving and how is that benefiting you? Barracuda Message Archiver has easily taken over our mail and other Outlook folder archiving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 2/5/2024 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Shanika P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shanika P.") SP Shanika P. Security Researcher Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/18/2019 "Perfect email archiving solution!" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Barracuda Message Archiver? The Barracuda Archiver is a one-piece solution that can be integrated into an email system in about an hour. It is easy to implement and the searches are a lot faster than compared to other tools. It works flawlessly once you implement it because you don't need any special training to use it. Even a beginner can set it up easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Barracuda Message Archiver? The process gets stuck sometimes when dealing with a large amount of data. The user interface is a bit outdated and might in need of an update. The exporting of data gets a bit harder sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Barracuda Message Archiver: I highly recommend anyone to use Barracuda message archiver if you are looking for an email archiver. It is reliable and flexible and easy to use. You no longer have to worry about providing backup and retrieving important emails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Barracuda Message Archiver solving and how is that benefiting you? It is so far the best email archiving solution with unlimited storage space. It was easy to implement and can quickly integrate with Outlook as a plugin. Its a good software for storing and archiving the bulk email messages received in an organization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite MS Mike S. Systems Administrator Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/6/2019 "Best Email Archiver I have used. " 5/5 What do you like best about Barracuda Message Archiver? 100% web based interface. Support is the best. Renewals can include the replacement of the hardware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Barracuda Message Archiver? There are some features in other more expensive products, but are not needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Barracuda Message Archiver: For the price, hardware and support, you cannot beat their product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Barracuda Message Archiver solving and how is that benefiting you? The ability to have a plugin in Outlook is critical for ens users being able to restore their own emails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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