We performed a comparison between Nakivo and Veeam Backup Replication based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Nakivo finishes ahead of Veeam. Users felt that Nakivo helped reduce costs, has excellent automation and is very scalable. Nakivo helped users save time due to its simplistic, reliable processes. However, Veeam users did feel that Veeam’s cloud version needs more maturity to be competitive in today's market.
"Nakivo has been instrumental in strengthening our data security infrastructure."
"With Nakivo, I have the peace of mind that all of my production environment is safely backed up and can be restored safely, easily, and quickly with a few clicks."
"The ability to use a variety of cloud providers rather than being tied into one is a huge bonus."
"Creating a backup task in NAKIVO is fast and easy."
"Technical support responds very quickly."
"It was also very easy to configure backups to be sent offsite to a separate repository for disaster recovery needs."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is a cheaper price and user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the support, as it is directly from Nakivo and it is possible to send a support request that contains all of the technical data on the environment, as well as the software, required for the answer."
"The most valuable features of Veeam Backup Replication are ease of use, dashboards, and reporting."
"It lets you verify a backup with the least amount of effort."
"Its backup capabilities in general are great."
"The backup and replication features of this solution are most valuable."
"No problems with stability."
"I know it's not exactly a feature, but I accept it works and it's easy to use. With the Veeam Backup & Replication, we have no problems in managing restore. Obviously, the most important thing about backup software. I used to say that every backup software can make backups, but only good ones can make a restore."
"The encryption password is used to protect the backup files. Even if someone gains access to the backup job or files, they won't be able to utilize them without the password."
"The WAN accelerator feature has been the most valuable for me. That feature reduced the time needed to complete the task from 25 days to less than a week! This is compared with the original tools used: ntbackup, robocopy and Windows Server Backup."
"My first thought was maybe the GUI could be improved, although it works."
"While the solution provides mostly what we need, it would be ideal if there were some additional feature capabilities for the API."
"The only thing we have encountered that we would like to see improved in the future are error messages. They could be more detailed and helpful, without the need to send logs to support. Failing that, the part of the log related to the error could be displayed alongside the error message, so I can investigate the error without looking through all of those logs that I'm able to download."
"What must be improved is the response time to technical support requests."
"I would love to see compatibility with KVM Backup."
"It would be great if the product could be expanded to support other virtual technologies."
"In the future, the solution should provide a more granular backup."
"We want the backup job to consume fewer resources, as the utilization is very high if we choose the best compression."
"It would be useful if we could integrate our on-premise VM solution with the Azure workload backup from the existing console. This would assist our customers in reducing the cost of hardware."
"The pricing could be better."
"The initial setup can get complex."
"The initial setup is not always easy, and customers often need a lot of help to get Veeam up and running successfully."
"The ease of use could be improved, but I don't have a very deep amount of experience in Veeam, so it's difficult to say what could be improved."
"Near-synchronous, better RPO and RTO snapshot-based takes a lot of space and resources."
"I would like to see better features for exporting to cloud-based repositories."
"The one downside to Veeam is that they don't have a cloud product of their own."
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 329 reviews. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik, Zerto and Commvault Cloud, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Veritas Backup Exec. See our NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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The functionalities are almost the same. Nakivo is available at a lower price.
If you don't need advanced storage integration there is no difference.
Nakivo offer almost the same functionality of Veeam at a lower price.
They have the same functionality except that Nakivo allows the backups to be immutable, thus, providing protection against malware (backups cannot be moved, deleted or changed) It has 1/3 of the price but sometimes there is a direct deal.
For me, Nakivo has all Veeam features and also supports Oracle RMAN backup.
Nakivo has a very flexible deployment compared with Veeam (it supports the deployment using Windows and SQL only). It can be installed on NAS, VA, and many more. Most of the things have a reasonable price.