We performed a comparison between Carbonite Server and Zerto based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is a free engine to help work with the container."
"The efficiency and convenience are excellent."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is allowing a failover from our remote sites to our data center. Our remote sites have failed several times, and on each occasion, we were able to bring a plant back online within 30 minutes, even though the hardware repair took many days."
"This product is impressively easy to use. It's dummy-proof, once it's set up."
"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."
"The instant recovery at DR locations is the most valuable feature. We're required to do periodic DR tests of critical databases, including Oracle and Microsoft SQL. We have recovery point objectives set for specific databases and we need to be able to achieve them. Zerto helps solve that business problem."
"There are several valuable features because of the way we use it. The backup and restore features are definitely indispensable."
"It's also very much faster than any other migration or disaster recovery platform we have. I work with virtualization, mostly on VMware, and I must admit that Zerto is even better than VMware Site Recovery Manager. Zerto compresses the data and it works much faster."
"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."
"The test features have been really good for us. Our DR testing goes very quickly and easily now for all our stuff with Zerto. We have our priority recovery process, where we cover our databases for our app servers and web servers. All our teams pretty much get their VMs very quickly. The RPOs are very low."
"It could be a little bit easier or faster to be able to access data files without having to download anything."
"The stability has room for improvement."
"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."
"I don't have any input for improvement or a critical feature request at this moment. If anything, a lower price is always better."
"If the log was more detailed and more user-friendly, we wouldn't have to make the calls to the support to try and figure out where the problem lies."
"With secure boot enabled, which is the case for newer systems, it is not easy to rotate passwords and we would have to reinstall the DRAs."
"An area for improvement is the support because it gets really expensive. They need to make it a little cheaper. Support also takes time."
"I had a couple of questions after deployment, but nothing major, about a couple of ways I could tweak it."
"If there is a mass of changes to a server, Zerto will restart the replication. It would be nice to know why that happens."
"It would be nice if we were able to purchase single licenses for Zerto. As it is now, scaling requires that we purchase a multi-pack."
Carbonite Server is ranked 39th in Backup and Recovery Software with 2 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Backup and Recovery Software with 100 reviews. Carbonite Server is rated 8.6, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Carbonite Server writes "A simple, efficient, reliable product". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". Carbonite Server is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Office 365, Azure Backup, Acronis Backup and Oracle Data Guard, whereas Zerto is most compared with VMware SRM, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Rubrik and Oracle Data Guard. See our Carbonite Server vs. Zerto report.
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