We performed a comparison between Barracuda Intronis Backup and Zerto based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Deduplication Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Easy, immediate protection for data that is virtually infinitely scalable."
"It's a one-stop shop, meaning we just program and schedule the backups, decide what is being backed up, and then it automatically replicates and deduplicates."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication that analyzes data to identify duplicate patterns and granular restore."
"We perform backup drills to test the functionality, and we don't have any problems."
"The performance is good and the interface is user-friendly."
"It is very stable, and I'm very happy with this solution."
"Whenever you have a crash or your service is not working, you can just live-boot the machine and have your service up and running."
"The most important feature in Barracuda Backup is the ability to archive the backup of emails."
"The replication for DR is really good, and the test failover within the application is really solid, along with the ability to manipulate RDMs or remove them."
"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 live failover tests and point-in-time recovery options have been exceptionally valuable features of Zerto for our organization."
"Stable disaster recovery solution with a very simple setup and fast failover."
"In our DR testing, Zerto allows us to go work on other things while it takes care of everything. That's valuable because we know that we can still hit all of our SLAs in a real disaster."
"The most valuable features are the continuous streaming, that it takes very little CPU usage — it doesn't affect production — and the recovery time is very short."
"I like that Zerto is easy to move and that there is no effect on the user. That is, the user doesn't even know it. We're in the healthcare industry and work for a hospital. We can set up a server in no time whatsoever. It's easy for us to schedule the time because it takes only about one minute."
"I've used backup solutions like Veeam in the past, but Zerto seemed like a better, faster solution. We adopted Zerto because of the speed, and because we wanted to do everything in-house."
"The tool is not user-friendly. The solution should also improve its compatibility. It is also not license-based."
"The web interface needs to contain a more up-to-date view of the hardware."
"Its speed can be a bit improved, and of course, its pricing can go a lot cheaper."
"It is not always stable."
"The solution is pretty expensive. This is the usual customer complaint."
"The backup feature could be a bit simpler to utilize. They should make the process of backing up individual files simpler."
"I would like to see better integration with third-party applications."
"Compared to Avamar and Data Domain (our other systems), the backup speed is slow."
"The technical support response needs improvement."
"Another thing that would help would be a recommender, or some type of tool that says, 'Hey, you're not conforming to best practices.' It would do a conformance or compliance check to tell you if your VPGs are set up according to best practices and whether your Zerto clusters are set up optimally. It would see if you have HA enabled and whether your alerting is turned on."
"The email alerts can be excessive, so better control over frequency or resolution may be a worthwhile improvement."
"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 post-configuration part could be improved. For example, it would be super helpful to have the ability to modify DNS. Once the migration is done, we want to do some more modifications to the endpoint."
"We would like some of the real fine or granular things. We've submitted a few minor things for enhancements such as being able to control bandwidth utilization for each facility you replicate to versus overall. We just need a little bit more granularity on some of the things, but there is not a whole bunch that is in need of tweaking."
"We did look at the long-term retention backup feature of Zerto a few years ago, and at that time, it was limited. I can't say what it is right now, but at the time, its functionality was limited in terms of basically where we could save it and how we could save it. Offsite air gapping our backups is important to us to help protect against ransomware, and at the time, it couldn't do that. That would be one area that would be important before we consider using the long-term retention again. I haven't looked at it recently, and they may have addressed this in the meantime, but if not, this would be an area of improvement."
"Zerto needs to improve its documentation."
Barracuda Intronis Backup is ranked 10th in Deduplication Software with 24 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 235 reviews. Barracuda Intronis Backup is rated 8.4, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Barracuda Intronis Backup writes "Finding data to restore is much easier than rummaging through tapes to find backups". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". Barracuda Intronis Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Azure Backup, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines and Commvault Cloud. See our Barracuda Intronis Backup vs. Zerto report.
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