Compare Acronis Backup vs. Nakivo
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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
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"The most valuable feature is its consistency." "It actually does its job very well and has interesting capabilities, but it has the most awful interface." "This is a full software so deployment time is very quick." "The web-based interface makes it easy to use." "One of the features I have found most valuable is the restore point - it gives us what we need at the time we need it. The important thing is that the backup for Acronis doesn't depend as much on the device." "The most valuable feature is that you can do a bare-metal restore even with dissimilar hardware." "It's always stable. It's very good, useful, and user-friendly." "The most valuable feature is the fact that it backs up my systems transparently in the background, and I'm not even conscious of it." | "This solution was surprisingly easy to configure." "Creating a backup task in NAKIVO is fast and easy." "We spend less time to get data recovered." "Perfect for someone who doesn't want to waste time." "Nakivo gives users confidence in knowing that if something happens with their application server, exchange server, or other applications, they can recover it easily and quickly." "It is fast, simple, powerful, and has a price without competition." "It is flexible." "It is affordable." |
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"This is not a feature-rich solution." "The whole product structure is confusing. You can actually get to do what you want to do. But Acronis seems to have a singular ability to make things difficult." "No technical support and minimal documentation." "When an error occurs, the information is not always easy to understand and these messages should be made more clear." "For smaller companies it's a little more challenging to maintain." "In the span of six months, maintenance is done at least twice and you are told that it is coming up, with apologies for the inconvenience. It's a distraction, and it interferes with the backup schedule." "I would like to have more hardware space. It would make it better. I would like to have two more terabytes." "When I first started using Acronis, I found it a little bit confusing when it came to the configuration." | "An improvement would be to give us more control over the email alerts, with different emails going to different addresses based on a set of rules." "I think it is important to work not only in replicating the virtual machines in Amazon AWS, but in other cloud systems." "An improvement would be to include a general data backup solution that is not only for virtual machines." "It is missing the file and folder backup; however, this product is meant for virtual machine backup and recovery, so that is really outside of the scope of the software." "We want the backup job to consume fewer resources, as the utilization is very high if we choose the best compression." "I would like to have the option of creating a subfolder per job in the backup repository because we had an issue where some files were corrupted and we lost the backup of the majority of the VMs." "The interface might be improved, but the interface of every product might be improved." "While the solution provides mostly what we need, it would be ideal if there were some additional feature capabilities for the API." |
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"Our licensing fees are on a yearly basis." "The pricing is comparable to the newest solution available on the market, Altaro." "The cost of updates is less than $100 USD yearly." "It is very cost-effective for the SMB segment, especially for start-ups and smaller environments. It is cost-effective for on-premises and on-cloud deployments in such environments." "This is an affordable product and fits within our customers' budgets." "Licensing fees are billed annually and there are no extra charges." | "It has a much higher bang for the buck than other products we evaluated." "The price is not a problem in NAKIVO, as it is the most competitive in the market." "It's really cheap, and our company saves a significant amount of money on IT backup solutions per year." "Pricing is easy to understand and very affordable." "I advise that this is the best product for medium or small environments according to my cost-benefit analysis." "You have a lot of different options when it comes to pricing and the pricing models are pretty flexible and affordable." "The product is quite cheap compared to other products on the market, but despite this, it is rich in features both at the level of backup and recovery as well as at the level of additional options." "Nakivo Backup & Replication also have another great value, which is that it is one of the lowest prices on the market." |
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Top Answer: Comparing the features of the four is not the right approach. You need to develop a list of requirements for backup and DR that are specific to your organization and then compare each of the four… more » Top Answer: It actually does its job very well and has interesting capabilities, but it has the most awful interface. Top Answer: I'll be completely honest, it's a very annoying product. The whole product structure is confusing. You can actually get to do what you want to do. But Acronis seems to have a singular ability to make… more » | Ask a question Earn 20 points |
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Also Known As | |
| Acronis Backup, Acronis Backup 12.5 Standard, Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced | |
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| Acronis | Nakivo |
Overview | |
Acronis Backup 12.5 is the world’s easiest and fastest backup solution for all your data, whether it is located on-premises, in remote systems, in private and public clouds, or on mobile devices. With enhanced backup validation and blockchain-based authentication of your backups with Acronis Notary, Acronis Backup 12.5 is the most reliable backup solution on the market today. Available in Standard and Advanced editions, Acronis Backup 12.5 protects data on 21 platforms. With active protection from ransomware, 15-second Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), and backups that are two times faster than the closest competitor, it is easiest to-use, fastest, most secure and complete backup solution available today. Acronis Backup simplifies the management of data protection and reduces IT manual efforts with innovative features that automate data protection. These features include a zero-installation, unified touch-friendly web-based console to manage backup and recovery of all workloads and data, agentless and agent-based backups; and flexible granular, bare-metal, and dissimilar hardware recovery options. | NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides image-based, application-aware, and forever-incremental backup for VMware, Hyper-V, and AWS EC2 VMs. This means that NAKIVO Backup & Replication can capture all VM data, ensure the consistency of applications and databases (such as Exchange, Active Directory, MS SQL, SharePoint) running in VMs, and transfer only changes to the backup repository. NAKIVO Backup & Replication uses native change tracking
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Sample Customers | |
| Kings Academy, Rush Memorial, Pentagon Credit Union, Oxford School District, New York City Probation, Dolmen Insurance, New Bedford Community Health, Gerard Darel, Ready Honda | Coca Cola, Honda, 3M, University of Arizona, University of Maryland, University of Arkansas, Johns Hopkins University, Marriott, United States Military Academy West Point, Greenpeace, China Airlines, Radisson Hotels and Resorts, Fujifilm |
Top Industries | |
Government10% Non Profit10% Manufacturing Company10% Media Company7% Comms Service Provider30% Computer Software Company24% Media Company5% Construction Company4% | Comms Service Provider44% Computer Software Company20% Government4% Media Company4% |
Company Size | |
Small Business46% Midsize Enterprise24% Large Enterprise30% | Small Business69% Midsize Enterprise15% Large Enterprise15% |
Find out what your peers are saying about Acronis Backup vs. Nakivo and other solutions. Updated: January 2021.
456,249 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Acronis Backup is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery Software with 14 reviews while Nakivo is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery Software with 15 reviews. Acronis Backup is rated 7.8, while Nakivo is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Acronis Backup writes "A stable and scalable backup solution with superior image restoring capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nakivo writes "Easy to setup and use, this is a flexible, viable, and inexpensive alternative to familiar solutions". Acronis Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas Backup Exec, Veeam Backup for Office 365, Commvault and Rubrik, whereas Nakivo is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Altaro VM Backup, Vembu BDR Suite, Rubrik and Zerto. See our Acronis Backup vs. Nakivo report.
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