We performed a comparison between Bareos and Zerto based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Backup solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of installation it provides its users."
"The main benefit of the product is its backup feature."
"The whole package is valuable. The most useful feature for the company is the rapid RTO, which offers a faster return to operations and brings us back online quicker. The last time we had an issue, we recovered within about 36 minutes, which was probably the most valuable thing for us because, previously, it took four to seven days."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of upgrades."
"Its automation and the ability to replicate and keep an RTO of just seconds is valuable. It is all automatic. Everything is pretty transparent on the backend. It is just point-and-go."
"Its user interface is excellent, and when it comes to data duplication, Zerto is very fast."
"During a failover to a DR site, Zerto can automatically change the IP address of servers."
"Zerto is fast to restore our mission-critical servers when needed."
"The stability is good, and I have never had any customers say anything bad about it. Some have used it for years and have not had any problems."
"Zerto is easy to use and the interface is very intuitive."
"The tool is not user-friendly."
"The virtual machine backup is an area with shortcomings that need improvement."
"The overall management plan could improve. If something happens with the VM on the vSphere side, the error codes are pretty weak. If there was a way to click on something within the UI that takes us to a support page or article, that would be very beneficial."
"They are not cheap. They are more expensive than others."
"I would like to be able to replicate one to multiple without having to recreate every VPG. That would save us a lot of time. When we add a site or move our DR to a different site, I have to recreate everything from scratch. So, it'd be cool to be able to just repoint an existing VPG to a new site without having to recreate everything."
"There are a couple of areas in the interface that are not very intuitive. Most of them are pretty easy, but there are a few areas in the journal and replication that, unless you've done it before, you really have no idea what to do."
"It took me a little bit of time to get used to Zerto's terminology and to relate it back to how you do a backup traditionally. It was a little different. It took a little while to understand what a VPG is and what it does. That's an area that they could probably improve on a little, making the documentation easier to understand."
"Zerto's solution could benefit from additional security features, such as malware scanning tools at the recovery site."
"Right now, our production environment runs on-premises, and we have a DR copy of everything that we run in production. However, our development runs on that hardware. In the case of a DR event, we would need to shut down development and bring up our secondary copy of production. We're hoping that Zerto is going to be the tool to help us do that."
"The interface is the only thing that we've ever really had an issue with. It's gone through some revisions. The UI, it's not clunky, but it's not as streamlined as it could be. Some of the workflow things are not as nice as they could be."
Bareos is ranked 31st in Cloud Backup with 2 reviews while Zerto is ranked 3rd in Cloud Backup with 236 reviews. Bareos is rated 7.6, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Bareos writes "The product is stable and enables users to create backups, but it is not user-friendly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". Bareos is most compared with Bacula Enterprise, Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines. See our Bareos vs. Zerto report.
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