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.
"We really appreciate the simplicity of the solution."
"The ability to use a variety of cloud providers rather than being tied into one is a huge bonus."
"Backups are very easy to implement and schedule, the product is very useful, and the recovery procedure is very extensive and feature-rich."
"The VM Backup Verification is one of the features I appreciate the most."
"The back-up and restore functions work great and it's easy to use."
"We have found all the features of Nakivo to be useful and the solution is easier to use compared to Proxmox. It is user-friendly, we are very satisfied."
"It is affordable."
"The features that we like the most are the Backup Copy and Active Directory Integration. They have helped us to save a lot of time since we do not have to make the backup copies “by hand”."
"It's simply very good software for backup purposes."
"This solution is very flexible and user-friendly — it's very good. It's very good with our virtual and physical infrastructure."
"Veeam Backup Replication is easy to use and has high performance. The backups are very fast. It's a complete solution that fulfills our current needs."
"Its portability and being able to back up between different platforms are the most valuable features."
"The solution can work for companies no matter the size or scope."
"It is cost-effective. A lot of times, people pick Veeam because of its price."
"Its ease of use for restore is really good. For Exchange, the Exchange Active Directory is great."
"They provide good technical support and we are satisfied with the support we have received."
"It would be good to have some Oracle database backup capability from the Linux OS in the next release."
"There are many features we have not had the opportunity to try, such as Tape Backups, Office 365 backups, and many other things."
"We'd like to see a legacy environment backup, like AIX, etc."
"Automatic updates do not work, and every update has to be done manually."
"It would be good if I could have a remote upgrade of our Synology Transporters, but the manual upgrade is easy and no problem at all."
"I would like to see support for backing up from other platforms, such as physical machines."
"Sometimes, for some VMs and some Windows Server versions, specifically old versions (aka server 12 or older) fail due to the VSS writer error or locking file system."
"Using an independent bootable media to restore full physical machines would enable physical machines that may be serving as Nakivo Director or Transport machines to be reliably restored to service without undue delay, ensuring that an enterprise's local environment remains intact."
"I would like to have the capability of backing up a physical machine, as opposed to just a VM."
"They need to improve their technical side."
"The Cloud version is not ready, they need maturity and ease of deployment in terms of management."
"Its import and export processes for information and policies could be better."
"Could offer a better conclusion of the backups."
"Some of the best practice documentation could be improved."
"It's a great product, but only if you have everything virtualized."
"The price can be better."
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.