Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup vs Zerto comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Zerto and Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup compete in the cloud data protection category. Zerto seems to have the upper hand in environments needing complex disaster recovery due to its advanced features.

Features: Zerto offers disaster recovery with near-zero RPOs, easy VM replication, and continuous data protection, making it ideal for complex IT infrastructures. Key features include seamless VM replication, real-time failover capabilities, and high-level interoperability with existing VMware and Hyper-V environments. Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup provides straightforward cloud data backup, offering strong integration with Microsoft 365 for efficient file restoration and comprehensive Microsoft 365 backup and recovery, including SharePoint, Exchange Online, and OneDrive.

Room for Improvement: Zerto could enhance its documentation, reporting capabilities, and hypervisor support. It aims to automate backup processes to reduce manual intervention. Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup could integrate more platforms and address file recovery complexities, with better support for G-Suite customers and more adaptive features as market needs evolve.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Zerto is mainly deployed in on-premises and hybrid cloud settings, praised for its responsive and knowledgeable support team. Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup focuses on public and private cloud deployments, appreciated for competitive customer service. Both products are commended for their ease of deployment, varying slightly based on deployment environments and support strategies.

Pricing and ROI: Zerto offers flexible licensing by VM count, suitable for larger enterprises seeking advanced features, despite higher costs for smaller companies. Its high ROI is justified by improved recovery times and operational efficiency. Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup provides competitive pricing tailored to customer needs, considered economical for cloud-based file restoration, meeting budget-conscious requirements.

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Categories and Ranking

Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Ba...

Ranking in Cloud Backup

22nd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SaaS Backup (10th)

Zerto

Ranking in Cloud Backup

2nd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

306

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (2nd), Cloud Migration (3rd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup is 0.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zerto is 4.1%, down from 5.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Johan Camp

ICT Manager at Jessa Ziekenhuis

Reliable, easy to set up, and offers good pricing

In the future, we are looking for solutions combining both local and cloud backup from a single management platform that was initially not yet available. There were two different platforms at Barracuda. What would be great should be either a guaranteed restore or a guaranteed restoring speed. It's difficult as they rely on Azure too. However, that would be convenient from a user perspective.

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Sachin Vinay

Assistant Manager-Networks at Amrita

Leverage disaster recovery with reliable support and cost-effective future-proof features

Zerto is straightforward to implement because it only requires the installation of an agent on the VMs designated for migration. A service, typically a VM, must also be deployed at the disaster recovery location. This entire process is simple and can be completed within three days. Zerto's near-synchronous replication occurs every minute, allowing for highly granular recovery points. This means that even if interruptions or malware disruptions occur within that minute, Zerto can restore to the last known good state, effectively recovering the entire setup to the latest backup. This capability ensures high data security and minimizes potential data loss. One of the main benefits of implementing Zerto is its data compression, which significantly reduces the load on our IPsec VPN. Zerto compresses data by 80 percent before transmitting it across the VPN, minimizing the data transferred between geographically dispersed locations. This compression and subsequent decompression at the destination alleviate the strain on the VPN, preventing overload and ensuring efficient data synchronization. Zerto simplifies malware protection by integrating it into its disaster recovery and synchronization features. This comprehensive approach eliminates the need for separate antivirus setups in virtual machines and applications. It streamlines our security measures and removes the need for additional software or solutions, resulting in an excellent return on investment. Zerto's single-click recovery solution offers exceptional recovery speed. Through the user interface, a single click allows for a complete restoration from the most recent backup within two to three minutes, enabling rapid recovery and minimal downtime. Zerto's Recovery Time Objective is excellent. In the past, if a virtual machine crashed, we would recover it from a snapshot, which could take one to two hours. With Zerto, the recovery process takes only five minutes, and users are typically unaware of any disruption. This allows us to restore everything quickly and efficiently. Zerto has significantly reduced our downtime. When malware affects our data, Zerto immediately notifies us and helps us protect other applications, even those not yet implemented with Zerto. By monitoring these applications, we can quickly identify and address any potential malware spread, minimizing downtime across our systems. Zerto significantly reduces downtime and associated costs during disruptions. Our services are unified, so in the event of a disruption without Zerto, even a half-day disruption would necessitate offline procedures. This would lead to increased manpower, service delays, and substantial financial losses due to interrupted admissions and other critical processes. By unifying service processes, Zerto minimizes the impact of outages. Zerto streamlines our disaster recovery testing across multiple locations by enabling efficient failover testing without disrupting live services. Traditionally, DR testing required downtime of critical systems, but Zerto's replication and failover capabilities allow us to test in parallel with live operations. This non-disruptive approach ensures continuous service availability while validating our DR plan, even in scenarios like malware attacks, by creating a separate testing environment that mirrors the live setup. This comprehensive testing provides confidence in our ability to handle real-world incidents effectively. This saves us over 60 percent of the time. Zerto streamlines system administration tasks by automating many processes, thereby reducing the workload for multiple administrators. This allows them to focus on other university services that require attention and effectively reallocate support resources from automated tasks to those requiring more dedicated management. Zerto is used exclusively for our critical services, providing up to a 70 percent improvement in our IT resilience.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The initial setup is pretty simple."

"The most valuable feature is the AI with threat detection that can detect ransomware and restore it."

"The product is deployable anywhere. It is also scalable and reliable."

"Overall, I would rate Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup a nine out of ten."

"The product enables us to restore lost files."

"The most valuable feature of Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup is it's synchronized well with Microsoft 365. Additionally, the solution is able to identify through Microsoft Defender if there are viruses and will provide a notification."

"The product's most valuable feature is the backup retention policy."

"The live test failover is the most valuable feature because it allows me to validate that my data is protected in the event of a failure."

"Files can also be extracted from the VMDK at the remote site even when the VM is off."

"We use the solution for one-to-one replication from data center one to data center two, from server one to server two, or from the cloud to on-premises."

"Zerto's ease of use is outstanding; it's easy to set up and has a clear interface and menus. The reporting, analytics, and online monitoring are also excellent."

"Journaling allows us to leverage Zerto's journal for sub-minute recoveries, instead of having to wait for the storage array to replicate."

"I would absolutely recommend Zerto."

"Zerto's ability to test failovers with a record of how long it takes to fail the motor is beneficial, as it allows us to know the timing in the event we have to do it live."

"This product is impressively easy to use. It's dummy-proof, once it's set up."

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Cons

"Navigating through folders and finding files can be a bit slow, taking up to three to five seconds between clicks, which feels slow compared to the speed in SharePoint or a browser."

"We needed assistance with the implementation of the solution from the vendor. The process could be easier."

"The tool does not support Google Support. I have only Microsoft 365 customers. I don't have a good solution for my G-suite customers."

"What would be great should be either a guaranteed restore or a guaranteed restoring speed."

"They should adapt to new parameters as the market grows."

"The solution may be improved by allowing integration with other platforms."

"Locating and recovering files can be confusing."

"It is frustrating when the protection of VMs doesn't get relocated to another host before the replication appliance powers down. In such a case, you are breaking replication for the duration of that maintenance, and that can cause some support issues when you bring it back online, where you have to go in and manually recover it."

"Zerto's setup process could be simpler."

"Better communication around pricing would be useful - particularly in light of the economic and tariff situation we have going on."

"A slight disadvantage of Zerto is that it requires the Windows Server operating system as the base OS. Over time, I would like to see more offerings in that regard. There should be more deployment options other than just the Windows operating system."

"Its pricing could be better. Also, Zerto needs to improve its reporting capabilities and provide better dashboards."

"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."

"Its initial setup can be better. It looks easy, but if you do not have things in the right place, it is not as easy as it looks. Some of the instructions were not clear. They were a little bit confusing. For example, while setting up SSH initially, it was a little bit unclear if I needed to use a regular credential or some other credential. This was one of the things that was a little fuzzy, and we had to get somebody else involved to help us out."

"Some of the ability to automate selections and automate VPG creations could be better."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution is reasonable."

"This is a cost-effective solution."

"The product's pricing is fair and competitive."

"The price is reasonable compared to other products."

"The product's pricing is based on the customer's needs because every customer is different."

"You are getting what you pay for, as this is a solution that requires minimal management after it is configured."

"We subscribe to their annual license package and we have tier one support with them."

"My impression is that Zerto is more expensive than other solutions, although I don't have exact numbers."

"It's very equitable, otherwise you wouldn't do it. It's something that we utilize for the licenses per core as far as what we're backing up. Therefore, it's very cost-efficient as far as the licensing goes. For the amount of stuff that we're backing up and what we're utilizing it for, the licensing is not very expensive at all."

"We have seen ROI. Several times, we needed to recover, and we were able to go to Zerto."

"In general, it's pretty fair because it is software. In our case, we built our own colo. So, the cost of the colo was very expensive, and that's where a lot of the equipment is. The same thing is there if we were going to spin up in the cloud, but as a solution, in general, it's pretty fair for what you get out of it and how it works. It's not cheap, but at the same time, you get what you pay for, and it's definitely worth the cost. You just have to understand that the cost of the software alone is not the total cost of the project of doing ransomware protection or disaster recovery. It's a piece of the pie, not the entire pie."

"While conducting our proof of concept, I compared prices with just one other vendor. At the time, the price for Zerto was more favorable."

"It initially seemed a little pricey, but in the big picture, you're paying for peace of mind. It could always be cheaper and more competitive, which would make it an easier choice for people, but I can see both ways. They can say this cost is for the value they are providing. If anything happens, they can recover your data very quickly. You won't be losing it, so there is a win. It is a win-win."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup?

The product enables us to restore lost files.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup?

The pricing for Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup can be considered moderate. It is around £5 per user, which could be pricey for big companies, but backing up is essential when using Microsoft 365.

What needs improvement with Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup?

Navigating through folders and finding files can be a bit slow, taking up to three to five seconds between clicks, which feels slow compared to the speed in SharePoint ( /products/sharepoint-review...

What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...

What do you like most about Zerto?

Its ability to roll back if the VM or the server that you are recovering does not come up right is also valuable. You have the ability to roll back a few seconds or a few minutes. The rollback feat...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?

The setup is somewhat expensive. I'd rate the pricing seven out of ten.

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Barracuda Cloud to Cloud Backup

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Overview

Cloud-to-Cloud Backup provides comprehensive, cost-effective, scalable protection for your Office 365 data. It automatically backs up all your email ,OneDrive for Business, SharePoint, Groups, and Teams data to Barracuda Cloud Storage. And when time is of the essence, restoring what you need takes just a few clicks.

Barracuda Networks

Zerto is used for disaster recovery, business continuity, data migration, and ransomware recovery, providing continuous data protection and near real-time replication. Valued for ease of use, efficient failover processes, and versatile integration, it enhances organizational efficiency, reduces errors, and boosts productivity.

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