Veritas NetBackup vs Zerto comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 19, 2023
 

Categories and Ranking

Veritas NetBackup
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
112
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Zerto
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
2nd
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
270
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Migration (3rd), Cloud Backup (3rd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Veritas NetBackup is 3.7%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zerto is 2.6%, down from 8.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Backup and Recovery
Unique Categories:
No other categories found
Cloud Migration
1.5%
Cloud Backup
4.6%
 

Featured Reviews

Storemgr67 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 19, 2024
Covers a large spectrum of products and operating systems and part of a multi-layer strategy for data protection
We use it like any other backup solution for resource restoration when needed and for populating systems in environments with data. We use NetBackup's data management strategies for multi-target backups and retentions. That's the short answer. The full explanation is quite involved. It would require describing our environment, our workflows, and how we use policies and vaulting policies to move data around. But to keep it brief, NetBackup simplifies managing data across multiple targets with various retention periods. NetBackup is part of a multi-layer strategy. It's one of the many tools we use, to ensure we don't rely on a single product. So, the product has positively impacted our protection strategy. Moreover, we're satisfied with its performance when it comes to the deduplication function.
AY
Aug 30, 2022
Made our migration from Hyper-V to VMware, across multiple departments, much less painful
We're using it for migration. Zerto plays a large role in helping us move away from Hyper-V into VMware. We're talking about multiple departments that had to transition their applications and Zerto gave us an opportunity to do it in a much less painful way. Another key benefit is that our response time has significantly decreased. We're no longer having to rely on the traditional process where you manually execute a backup and hope to God it works okay. And then, you have to run through whatever changes are necessary and cross your fingers that, if you have to restore, it will come back. We don't have that problem with Zerto. The solution has also helped to reduce downtime for us, absolutely. In most cases, we are able to use Zerto as a momentary backup, run an upgrade or installation, and see whether or not we're going to succeed. We can potentially back it out without anybody knowing about it because it's still within our maintenance window. We never exceed that rather limited time period. That's very helpful. With our existing backup, more likely than not we're rolling into days at a time if something fails. So if our maintenance window was on the weekend, it would roll into the production week and cut into the week by a few days. That would be very problematic. And the recovery speed is basically as fast as the speed of our pipe, and that's what makes it great. As long as our pipes are fast, we don't have to worry. We can roll in, roll out, or potentially roll back if we have to, within a really small window of time. In addition, it has definitely reduced the number of operational groups involved in backups. Zerto is not managed by our storage team. It is managed by the team I'm on, which is infrastructure. Because of that, it's all internal to us on the infrastructure team. We don't have to go outside of our team to coordinate with others.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Its ability to cover a large spectrum of products and operating systems is invaluable. We evaluated other products but always found certain limitations like some products had only intel-based virtualization, while others had power servers."
"Could be used for both of Physical and Virtual Environments."
"Veritas NetBackup provides good backup performance, and I can mount the snapshot without an installer."
"The product is stable and reliable."
"This is a product that has been on the market for a while and they have mastered the backup process, especially when backing up to tape, for most environments."
"The solution has been very good over the years at fine-tuning various aspects of the product so that it is continuously made better."
"NetBackup is highly stable. We have more than 1,800 policies that run every day."
"Our customers who have faced ransomware attacks were able to recover their data in less than one day without any stress. Veritas is ransomware resilient and because of its implementation, it is not dependent on the operating system to work."
"There are several valuable features because of the way we use it. The backup and restore features are definitely indispensable."
"The most valuable feature is the rollback feature that captures every couple of minutes. Whenever we have a server that goes down, we can use that to pull it back a couple of minutes before and it's good to go."
"The orchestration and automation of the DR and how it replicates the VMs and then picks them up in the DR site have been most valuable."
"Zerto is so easy to use that when I showed it to my manager, he said jokingly, 'Huh. I could use it myself, I don't need you.' Zerto is most elegant."
"Its ease of use and scalability are valuable."
"The Zerto university for training staff is very useful."
"The replication feature and DR functionality are most valuable. Zerto has many options when a new server is being provisioned."
"It's very stable. It doesn't require a lot of intervention."
 

Cons

"The implementation process could be simplified to make it quicker."
"NetBackup is expensive and should be cheaper. That is why we are moving on to another solution."
"It is a very expensive solution. They should have a different scheme for selling it. They should also make it easy for us to switch from Solaris to Linux. We are having some trouble in migrating our actual catalog from Solaris to Linux."
"Data restoration from Veritas NetBackup is quite slow. I would also like documentation that I can share with my technical team."
"Main area that could be improved is the pricing, to make it more competitive"
"The restoration method and the compression ratio need improvement."
"The user interface could improve, it seems a bit out of date."
"The biggest additional features needed are more cloud capabilities and security from ransomware."
"Compared to other products, I would praise the intuitiveness of the product. But I think that can always be improved. The intuitiveness of the graphical user interface, while it is very solid and I don't have issues navigating it. I would say that it can always be improved."
"The only issue that I observed was that depending on the number of virtual machines that are being replicated, you will have to provision the appropriate bandwidth for the link that the replicated systems will traverse."
"They are doing a lot of great things, but I have heard that Zerto is expensive."
"I would like to see them continuously improve Zerto's automated functions, such as putting hosts in maintenance mode within vSphere and not having to worry as much about how Zerto is going to react... Sometimes, Zerto almost holds the vSphere environment hostage when it comes to taking certain actions. You really need to be cognizant about what you're about to do. They should further automate that and increase Zerto's ability to handle things like that in a very slick, automated way, without intervention."
"I would like to have more granular notifications for jobs and workloads within the applying case application."
"This solution could be improved by being more cloud agnostic."
"The alerting doesn't quite give you the information about what exactly is going on when an issue comes up. We do get alerts inside of our vCenter, but it doesn't quite give you accurate information inside the plugin to be able to tell us what's going on without having to go into the actual Zerto application and figuring out what's causing the issue."
"Certain areas were designed and work fine for VMware but are under development for Hyper-V. Eventually, all features will work for both platforms."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is an expensive solution."
"There is a license required for this solution and it is priced based upon the data used."
"Pricing is good, under our budget, and flexible."
"It is reasonably priced."
"Our primary complaint about this product is that it is too expensive."
"It is very expensive. The licensing cost for this solution is on a yearly basis. It is approximately 50k. We will continue using it at least for the next year, but we are currently doing an analysis to switch to some other solution."
"Veritas NetBackup is very expensive, and I think price is the main reason which some customers don't want to use this solution."
"If you have a source size of one terabyte then they will charge for a one terabyte license, although what is actually being stored is much less."
"The pricing is pretty competitive to that of other options out there. When we shopped around, it was in line with the price of other solutions."
"The pricing is very reasonable."
"It's very reasonably priced. It's a little more than $3,000 annually. That works out to about $20 per server per month."
"Pricing is one area where there could be some improvement. We would like to see a consumption model that would charge in a DR scenario, where you're failing over and consuming those resources, instead of a per-protected-node model. Or it could be a model based on the amount of storage space you're protecting."
"It works very well as a backup and recovery solution, with frequent recovery points. It's very good. But it's too pricey for us to use it as a backup solution for all of our clients. Not every customer needs recovery points every five seconds."
"My understanding is that it's expensive but worth the price."
"This solution is far less expensive than SRM and NetBackup."
"I do not have anything to compare it to. It is expensive, but I am not going to squabble about the price when I bring the system up in a disaster. It is what it is."
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Comparison Review

it_user159711 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 9, 2014
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
9%
Computer Software Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is the best next generation backup tool?
Assuming you have an onprem ecosystem which runs the VMware, physical systems on Win, Linux and Unix and run both traditional DB's and nosql DB's like mongo, then Netbackup (NBU) will be the right ...
What do you like most about Veritas NetBackup?
The most valuable feature of cloud integration is the ability to send data outside of your location. This can be achieved by integrating cloud tier options or other object storage solutions.
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?
The most valuable feature of Zerto for us is its DR capability.
 

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Zerto Virtual Replication
 

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Sample Customers

Beta Offshore
United Airlines, HCA, XPO Logistics, TaxSlayer, McKesson, Insight Global, American Airlines, Tencate, Aaron’s, Grey’s County, Kingston Technologies
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