We performed a comparison between Veritas Backup Exec and Zerto based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The beauty of the solution is that you can rely on it. It offers a quick recovery time when it's backing up items. The way it recovers data is excellent."
"The interface easy to use and it is compatible with most backup devices."
"Compression is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"The product is good in a small environment when looking to a backup on a tape."
"It is a good backup tool."
"I have not seen another backup solution as scalable as this one."
"Zerto is scalable."
"It is cost-effective and stable. It protects virtual machines, and there is a fast recovery time."
"Zerto enables us to do sandboxing failovers. You can run tests on a production environment in a sandbox and spin up a copy of your actual production environment in a few hours. When you're done with it, you can click a couple of buttons, and it's all blown away. You don't need to worry about reverting changes or interfering with your on-prem production environments."
"There are several valuable features because of the way we use it. The backup and restore features are definitely indispensable."
"I would give it an eight out of 10, if not a nine out of 10, when it comes to ease of use."
"We've never had any major headaches with the virtual-protection groups. They seem to work exactly as they should. If there's ever an issue with replication, we know right away, so it's all been very reliable."
"The most important features are the simplicity of recovery and the wider capabilities and feature sets than VMware SRM has."
"I like the ease of recovery and backup the most."
"There needs to be an integration process of the endpoint devices so that we don't have to redo everything for different products."
"There is no training provided, and their technicians are unaware of the features available."
"The backup is not robust enough when you have a lot of technology."
"The pricing is an area of improvement and the mode of marketing it."
"Doesn't include disaster recovery."
"Initial setup is a bit complex and needs some expertise for troubleshooting when something goes wrong."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"I have experienced some errors, such as failures, but there have not been very many."
"The performance was generally good, but occasional lag disrupted the flow, leaving room for improvement."
"Even though Zerto is for disaster recovery, it would be nice if it can also make backups."
"For what we got it for, it does it great. I use a different solution for my disk-to-disk local backups to where I can have a local backup of files. I don't think Zerto does that well to where it keeps a memory of the files that are there. Basically, when something is deleted on Zerto, it gets deleted on the replicated version. So, some sort of snapshotting or something where I could have backups at different points in time of files would be a really helpful tool."
"The licensing is confusing and complicated."
"The technical support is hit or miss."
"The problem with the backup product is that it's not very mature and you really need a specific use case to be able to use it effectively. It's hard to explain to our customers, especially our large customers, that the use case is so limited."
"Zerto's effect on our RPO can be improved."
"Migration of complex VMware and Hyper-V solution. Using Zerto to replicate to azure and S3."
Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Backup and Recovery with 236 reviews. Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines. See our Veritas Backup Exec vs. Zerto report.
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