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."It is responding very well, and its performance is good. It has a lot of options. For backup, you can connect it to a cloud or a physical hard drive. They also provide an API for integration with different platforms and products. However, we have not integrated it with another product."
"The product's most valuable feature is scalability."
"The solution is good for small and medium-sized businesses."
"The one thing for the last 12 months which has been very good for Veritas was the instance-based license. This means that you're able to license per instance, not only per physical server."
"Synthetic backup is valuable. It gives you the possibility to do a synthesized backup, which means that it combines a full backup and incremental backup data and gives it to you in one stream. So, you don't have to restore the full backup and then later go and restore the incremental backup. You can do that in one go."
"Compression is the most valuable feature."
"It gives us the ability to locate and restore critical files which users may have intentionally or unknowing deleted a while ago."
"Veritas Backup Exec is easily managed."
"It reduced the backup recovery time of our main backup solution by several hours. It's reduced our time because before we have to build a system and restore the data, we install the application and restore the data that took us at least a good 24 hours to do that. And now it's really minutes for us to recover our backup solution."
"The granularity enables us to failover specific workloads instead of an all-or-nothing type of scenario, where you have to move your entire IP block and your data center, or you have to move large chunks of VMs. Those situations also make it prohibitive to test effectively."
"We now have the ability to replicate critical data to a secure, off-site location that can be brought back in seconds if needed."
"The live failover tests and point-in-time recovery options have been exceptionally valuable features of Zerto for our organization."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to recover critical systems, such as public safety, within a few minutes. In addition, the RPO is six seconds of data loss, tops."
"The replication and recovery features are the most valuable... On two occasions, other departments in our organization reported issues with specific virtual machines. We used the checkpoint feature of the Zerto to enable the recovery of those machines to a point that was a few minutes prior to the problem."
"I like the ease of recovery and backup the most."
"VMware VM replication over narrow WAN bandwidth."
"I would like to be able to create a restore task that can be scheduled so that the same restore action will be performed automatically."
"It is currently missing the dynamic backup feature for virtual machines, which is available in NetWorker. I can create politics in NetWorker to add virtual machines with specific tags, but I cannot do this in Backup Exec, which is a minus point for me. Currently, a user has to send a request to the Backup administrator to add a machine to the backup, but I should be able to create rules to automatically add a new machine to the backup. This kind of functionality is very important in current times, especially when we are using cloud solutions. I should be able to create more than one stream in a policy and specify how many streams I want to run in parallel in one policy. Currently, I have to manually create more policies to backup more than one virtual machine at the same time. Their support can also be improved in terms of response time."
"In the future, their console should not be complicated."
"Firstly, the GUI for 2014 is mostly confusing, i.e., if you need to add any additional technical features, then it doesn't require a change to the GUI."
"In terms of improvements, I think the pricing model could be improved. They charge you by port, for every port that you have even if you're not using all of them."
"The scalability could be improved even though the solution is targeted to small customers."
"The pricing is an area of improvement and the mode of marketing it."
"The deduplication feature can be improved."
"I would like them to add a VM host replication option. Being able to replicate host configuration between sites would be a huge benefit."
"The tech support on my latest issue wasn't so great. I had to figure a lot of stuff out myself. It could be that I had a Level 1 tech who was new or something, but it seemed like the tech was spitballing, which does not help me."
"The long-term recovery is a little bit weak in its granularity."
"Some of the ability to automate selections and automate VPG creations could be better."
"It is expensive."
"Zerto is solid. However, they are working on a cloud workload protection and protecting virtual workloads to more than one site."
"I wouldn't mind seeing Zerto sold at a cheaper price point, although the cost is comparable to VMware SRM."
"This solution could be improved by including some sort of compression or de-duplication for the same type of files."
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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