Acronis Disaster Recovery vs Zerto comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 15, 2024

Zerto and Acronis Disaster Recovery compete in the disaster recovery and backup solutions category. Based on the feature set and its robust disaster recovery capabilities, Zerto seems to have the upper hand.

Features: Zerto offers valuable features like hardware-independent replication, simple configuration, and integration with vCenter Server. It ensures continuous disaster recovery with near-zero RPOs, ease of replication, and test failover. Acronis Disaster Recovery is known for efficient backup and recovery functionalities, good performance, and patch management.

Room for Improvement: Zerto users suggest improvements in documentation, and reporting, and supporting multi-platform integration. There's a need for better reporting post-recovery and broader hypervisor support. Acronis would benefit by incorporating real-time backup features, cross-platform support, and stronger documentation, as well as integrating a load balancer.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Zerto provides flexible deployment across on-premises, private, public, and hybrid clouds with excellent technical support and responsive customer service. Acronis supports deployment in public and hybrid clouds and is noted for strong customer service and effective technical support.

Pricing and ROI: Zerto is considered high-cost but offers valuable long-term investment due to its robust feature set, though it could improve its pricing model for flexibility. Acronis is perceived to be more affordable, offering cost-effective solutions, though the perceived value varies based on the user's needs and features desired.

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Acronis Disaster Recovery vs. Zerto

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Categories and Ranking

Acronis Disaster Recovery

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

13th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Zerto

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

2nd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

296

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (2nd), Cloud Migration (4th), Cloud Backup (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of Acronis Disaster Recovery is 0.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zerto is 10.3%, down from 11.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

Featured Reviews

RandeepPawar

Technical Director at Tecstaq

Have improved recovery preparedness and see potential growth with better technical support

Acronis provides ease of use with all tools and solutions operating through a single console and agent. This reduces the workload on endpoints during backups and other cybersecurity operations. Backup is crucial as it allows data recovery. Email security helps protect against malicious emails. The failover process is preconfigured, offering a simplistic switch over for servers.

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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

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

Pros

"One key feature is it encrypts your data at rest which is really good."

"Acronis provides ease of use with all tools and solutions operating through a single console and agent."

"The ability to automate the backup solution and recover entire mailboxes or even granular-level emails is very good for restoration and backup."

"Using the backup as an image helps our organization to have a clean machine in disaster recovery."

"Our customers use Acronis Disaster Recovery for data backup."

"Performance-wise, it works efficiently for backup and recovery compared to other tools."

"DR and failover are good features of the tool."

"The recovery feature is user-friendly and offers effective protection for our backups."

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"Zerto is truly inspiring."

"Zerto's most valuable features include its user-friendly interface, multi-tenancy capabilities, and near-zero downtime recovery."

"I like the automation of transferring data in the case of any disaster to our VMs. It is also easy to use and fast."

"The portal is a valuable feature. I am here in Baton Rouge, and I can get into the Vegas data center and see real-time replication on the portal."

"With Zerto, all you have to do is deploy the executable and start setting things up. So, it was very easy."

"The best feature of Zerto is the fast, automated backup and recovery. The data lift for applications is short, with minimal data loss."

"The most important feature is that the recovery point (RPO) is less than one minute. The is really good for our customers, as they can keep their data loss to a minimum."

"It protect and provide DR."

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Cons

"The documentation can be improved, this would have helped."

"The cost is acceptable."

"Acronis could improve by incorporating an application or network load balancer."

"From an improvement perspective, the tool should allow users to add more data centers in the cloud."

"The solution covers specific versions of Windows and Linux, and it would be good if other Linux versions or some special appliances could work in the Acronis Disaster Recovery environment."

"Overall, Acronis is a good solution, but it needs improvements in some areas like IDR, XDR, and other aspects."

"I wish the Disaster Recovery system could do more, like integrating irregularity features and combining VLP functionalities."

"We need the server configuration capacity to be enlarged with the solution's help, as it does not currently include capabilities for storage expansion during recovery."

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"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."

"I want Zerto to add support for Proxmox."

"Customer service is five out of ten. There is room for improvement. We need more local support."

"Sometimes we require extra storage for Zerto."

"The reporting could be improved in terms of the reports that you can show to auditors to prove that you have done the testing. I provide the reports that it generates now but, it would be great if, at the end of a DR test, it would generate a report of everything that Zerto did."

"Some of the integrations with our internal tools, in particular, company-specific ones, do not work. In cases like this, we have to ask for additional support."

"I wouldn't mind seeing Zerto sold at a cheaper price point, although the cost is comparable to VMware SRM."

"The main issue with Zerto is its user interface, which lacks flexibility and presents a steep learning curve."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution is inexpensive."

"The tool is a little bit expensive. When it comes to pricing, there is a range for the VMs and endpoints. It depends. A set of backups on a DR probably costs around 10 to 20 USD per endpoint."

"The tool's pricing is reasonable."

"The solution’s pricing is average."

"Acronis Disaster Recovery is a cheap solution."

"The product has an affordable price."

"This pricing is quite reasonable."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap, I rate the solution's pricing two or three out of ten."

"Zerto is not cheap but is an invaluable asset."

"Obviously, it would be nice to have it for free. Nevertheless, a lot of effort has gone into making it a top-notch product. An excellent product with expert support is never going to be cheap. I think it's fairly priced for what it does and the benefit it brings to our business."

"Zerto is expensive but offers many features that make it competitive."

"We found that in an event that was massive enough to cause an entire cluster to go offline we would be happy with our core services up and running."

"Licensing Zerto was very simple. They had a product that fit our size and scale. It made it really easy to choose."

"Compared to other options like SRM, Zerto is a more expensive solution, making it primarily suitable for larger organizations."

"From a pricing standpoint, there is value in it without question. However, it can become quite expensive when you start looking at the number of workloads you have in the environment and what you would like to do."

"We find the Zerto pricing fits our budget."

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Acronis Disaster Recovery?

The tool is a little bit expensive. When it comes to pricing, there is a range for the VMs and endpoints. It depends. A set of backups on a DR probably costs around 10 to 20 USD per endpoint.

What needs improvement with Acronis Disaster Recovery?

We need the server configuration capacity to be enlarged with the solution's help, as it does not currently include capabilities for storage expansion during recovery.

What is your primary use case for Acronis Disaster Recovery?

We use Acronis Disaster Recovery because it is a good solution for data recovery. It includes features like patch management and integrated malware and ransomware scanning. We felt the backups are ...

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?

It is not the cheapest product; it is not the most expensive product, but it works. It is a mid-range product, and it is justified in terms of being pretty quick and easy.

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Also Known As

Acronis DRaaS

Zerto Virtual Replication

Overview

Acronis Disaster Recovery Service is a hybrid cloud, all-in-one, IT continuity solution that protects and restores your data and servers in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. Leveraging the power of the Acronis AnyData Engine, Acronis Disaster Recovery Service can reliably recover your servers or entire data centers without the need for you to invest in duplicate systems or additional staff.

Acronis Disaster Recovery Service can reliably recover your servers or entire data centers without the need for your organization to invest in duplicate systems or additional staff. Providing flexible recovery time objective (RTO) options, Acronis Disaster Recovery Service combines the high performance and shortest recovery time of a local appliance with the low cost, predictability, and accessibility of a virtual private cloud.

Acronis

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.

Sample Customers

Bristows LLP, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

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