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

8.2

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

309

Ranking in other categories

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

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of Acronis Disaster Recovery is 0.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zerto is 10.3%, down from 12.3% 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

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

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

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

"The most valuable feature is the hot restore capability."

"Acronis Disaster Recovery has good scalability."

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

"The most valuable feature of the solution is data restoration or data recovery."

"The most valuable features of the product for me are its backup and recovery functionalities."

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"Failover using Zerto is simply a one-button click, and it does everything else in restoring the VMs at a different datacenter (recovery site)."

"The disaster recovery features are the best I've found."

"The replication and recovery features are the most valuable... On two occasions, other departments in our organization reported issues with specific virtual machines. We used the checkpoint feature of the Zerto to enable the recovery of those machines to a point that was a few minutes prior to the problem."

"Zerto's scalability has been good."

"When we need to failover or move workloads, Zerto significantly decreases both the time it takes and the number of people involved. It only takes a single person to activate a failover and we can pretty much automate everything else."

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

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

"I like the fact that Zerto is target agnostic. It doesn't care what type of storage it writes to. The journaling is also excellent. You can easily and quickly restore to seconds before an event. The immutable data copies feature is one reason we adopted Zerto. That's one of its selling points."

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Cons

"In the future, I would like to see cross-platform support."

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

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

"Acronis Disaster Recovery is an expensive solution compared to other products."

"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."

"There is room for improvement in incorporating intelligence around disaster recovery. For instance, if a server is completely offline and destroyed, the system should offer an intelligent response, providing options to start recovery without requiring manual intervention from engineers."

"For the backup to compete in the enterprise market, there must be improvements."

"Acronis could improve by incorporating an application or network load balancer. They could also enhance endpoint security by integrating EDR within the security framework."

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"Its price should be improved."

"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."

"The alerting could be fine tuned and improved. It does a lot of alerts, but it's a little bit cumbersome to modify them."

"The primary concern expressed by all server users is the lack of robust integration features."

"In newer versions, the success rate compared to older versions is quite low. I have tried to implement Zerto version ten in my environment, but for some reason, multiple errors occur, forcing me to revert to the previous version."

"It works only for a virtual platform, it does not support bare metal."

"Customer service and technical support need improvement."

"I would like to have an overall orchestration capability that would enable you to do multiple VPGs in some sort of order, with delays in between."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"This pricing is quite reasonable."

"The price of the solution is inexpensive."

"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."

"Acronis Disaster Recovery is a cheap solution."

"The solution’s pricing is average."

"The product has an affordable price."

"The tool's pricing is reasonable."

"Zerto does a per-workload licensing model, per-server. It is simple and straightforward, but it is not super flexible. It is kind of a one size fits all. They charge the same price for those workloads. I feel like they could have some flexible licensing option possibly based on criticality, just so we could protect less important work. I would love to protect every workload in my environment with Zerto, whether I really need it or not, but the cost is such that I really have to justify that protection. So, if we had some more flexibility, e.g., you could protect servers with a two-, three-, or four-hour RPO at a certain price point versus mission-critical every five minutes, then I would be interested in that."

"Zerto's price seems fair. It's competitive."

"The last time I looked at pricing, it was very good. It's much cheaper by far than VMware."

"I would suggest getting a dedicated, well-informed rep."

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

"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."

"Nothing is cheap, but Zerto represents decent value."

"The pricing seems reasonable. It's still within what we consider to be value-add."

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Questions from the Community

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

Acronis Disaster Recovery is fairly priced. I would rate the pricing a five out of ten, indicating it is not too expensive.

What needs improvement with Acronis Disaster Recovery?

There is room for improvement in incorporating intelligence around disaster recovery. For instance, if a server is completely offline and destroyed, the system should offer an intelligent response,...

What is your primary use case for Acronis Disaster Recovery?

Our primary use case is to ensure that if the critical services for our clients go down, it fails over to a secondary location.

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?

I ballpark Zerto's pricing at about $1,000 per VM, which I find fair for what it does, but the cost of entry was tough initially due to the minimum number needed to start. I really needed to prove ...

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Also Known As

Acronis DRaaS

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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