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.
"Before using Nakivo Backup & Replication, all our data backup processes took a long time and did not optimize the disk space reserved for backup. With the introduction of Nakivo Backup & Replication, saving times have been reduced by almost half (thanks to the use of several simultaneous transporters) and the space occupied has also had a very important reduction."
"Nakivo is an easy-to-use, robust and cost-effective backup solution. I highly recommend it."
"It is fast, simple, powerful, and has a price without competition."
"NAKIVO Backup & Replication is very easy to use."
"The backup and replication are great."
"Nakivo makes our backs-ups more reliable and easy to recover in case of full damage or partial retrieval of files - all at a convenient cost."
"Creating a backup task in NAKIVO is fast and easy."
"Backup jobs are running smoothly every day with job reports sent to email after they finish each job. That gives us peace of mind."
"It is a powerful software for communicating with the storage and for redundancy."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its ease of management, it is not complicated, it is very reliable, has good support and a lot of knowledge on the market for integrators."
"The granular restoration that it provides for a business application is most valuable. For example, for Exchange, we can restore a single mailbox or email. We can also do SQL Server restoration and bare-metal recovery for operating systems."
"I like that the solution is very simple to install."
"The replication is the most valuable feature for us."
"This solution is very flexible and user-friendly — it's very good. It's very good with our virtual and physical infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is the instant recovery."
"Veeam Backup Replication's most valuable features are it is easy to use and manage."
"Right now we know that Nakivo has the ability to back up as an incremental process and restore backups across several criteria. However, it would be good if we had the ability to backup a system like PostgreSQL."
"Updating VM Tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"The way encryption is currently working could be improved. Currently, it's not possible to encrypt the backup to an NFS share directly. It needs to have the encryption within the Transporter/VM to enable encryption, which isn't optimal. So I'm hoping that in the near future this function will be implemented."
"Due to the fact that we are HP and Fugit partners as well, it would be nice if Nakivo would allow support for HP and Fugit storage."
"The product needs to improve backup speed and replication speed."
"We'd like to see more cooperation with Synology. It can be enhanced to get updates published faster to Synology's store."
"I would like to have a built-in SNMP client, which is important if we want to monitor it using Zabbix, Nagios, or another monitoring solution."
"It would be a good thing to have some use case and architecture examples online to understand integration in complex infrastructure."
"During the initial setup especially, there's a bit of a learning curve."
"The more features the solution has the more complex it can be to set up. Veeam Backup & Replication can be complex."
"I have used NetBackup. For heavy workloads or if I need consistent backup and restore, I prefer NetBackup over Veeam Backup Replication."
"Immutability could be improved."
"The initial setup was not straightforward at all."
"I prefer a software backup solution that allows me to easily define my origin data, including data files, folders, and virtual machines."
"There are certain solutions, such as Rubrik and Cohesity, that are little by little, taking market share. Veeam needs to be more aggressive to keep their dominance in the space."
"The only improvement I could think of is it could be cheaper—cheaper is always good. Sometimes the product is just finished. Cheaper is always nice for the customer, but the company needs to benefit so that they can keep maintaining the product. New Windows versions, etc., always take some work. At the moment, I wouldn't switch to another solution because of the money."
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 328 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, Veritas NetBackup 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.