We compared Nakivo and Veritas NetBackup based on user reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data and you can find the conclusion below.
Features: Nakivo is praised for its offsite backup to Synology NAS and seamless cloud integration. Veritas NetBackup is praised for its versatility and integration with third-party applications. Users appreciate its virtual server backup capabilities, cloud integration, and malware protection. Nakivo could benefit from improvements in its remote upgrade capabilities, SNMP features, and application backup. Veritas NetBackup would benefit from streamlining implementation and incorporating additional cloud solutions.
Service and Support: Nakivo's support is praised for being quick, considerate, and attentive. Some users reported positive experiences with Veritas customer service, but others said that it sometimes took a long time to resolve issues in specific regions.
Ease of Deployment: Nakivo's setup was described as straightforward. A few users said the deployment was somewhat complex but not excessively difficult. Opinions on Veritas NetBackup's setup complexity are mixed, with some finding it straightforward and others perceiving it as more complex.
Pricing: Nakivo offers lower licensing costs and a flexible pricing structure. Nakivo provides cost-efficient backups at a competitive price and even offers a free license for one year for up to five VMs. Opinions on Veritas NetBackup's pricing vary. Some consider it expensive but say it’s worth the price due to its extensive features. There are no additional fees aside from the basic license.
ROI: Nakivo ensures a favorable return on investment with a reasonable total cost of ownership and reduced testing expenditures. Veritas NetBackup prioritizes constant availability and quick access, resulting in a positive ROI.
Comparison Results: Nakivo is a powerful, cost-effective solution that seamlessly integrates with the cloud, but it could use some enhancements in its SNMP features and remote upgrading functionality. Users say Veritas NetBackup is a versatile solution that offers robust compatibility, seamless cloud integration, and strong protection against malware and ransomware. NetBackup received mixed reviews for pricing and ease of setup, and some users said it could improve its cloud support.
"Nakivo is an easy-to-use, robust and cost-effective backup solution. I highly recommend it."
"This is a user-friendly solution that has a lot of certifications and documentation for the Microsoft Hyper-V infrastructure."
"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."
"This enables us to do quick granular file recovery as and when required but also to do whole-site relocation in the case of a total loss scenario."
"Nakivo offers direct support through the graphical interface and this is great to have if you need quick help."
"It is flexible."
"Nakivo Backup and Replication's web-based management interface enables intuitive, rapid, and seamless configuration and management of all backup and recovery functionality across the enterprise."
"Backups are working smoothly with Nakivo Backup."
"The most valuable feature is flexibility."
"It is important, when we chose a solution, that the customer service/technical support team could help us when we needed it, but the support was good."
"The VM portal and the CloudCatalyst are two of the solution's most valuable features."
"NetBackup is highly stable. We have more than 1,800 policies that run every day."
"The solution offers a lot of really great features that organizations can utilize and take advantage of."
"This is the best solution that I know of."
"Veritas NetBackup provides good backup performance, and I can mount the snapshot without an installer."
"It has been around for so long, and it is very in-depth. It has a solution for everything that you can cover."
"The product needs to improve backup speed and replication speed."
"There could be better integration with other solutions, such as Amazon S3."
"There are some errors requiring support to correct and bugs and glitches should be addressed."
"I would like to see support for backing up from other platforms, such as physical machines."
"The only thing I could say is maybe some more options for job scheduling are needed."
"An additional feature that would be appreciated is disaster recovery automation."
"In the future, I would like to see support for backing up data to more cloud platforms, besides Amazon."
"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."
"Veritas NetBackup is an expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved."
"The product is not able to keep up with other competitors in the market."
"System administrators would be more efficient in NetBackup if the number of tools and command lines was reduced."
"The virtual environment, cloud integration, copy data management features need improvement."
"The flip side about NetBackup is that it is not policy-based."
"It should be able to integrate with the cloud. If we leverage a cloud in the future for backup, there should be very fast help and more options for customers to choose from."
"The product must enable data migration from on-premise to the cloud."
"It is a very expensive solution. They should have a different scheme for selling it. They should also make it easy for us to switch from Solaris to Linux. We are having some trouble in migrating our actual catalog from Solaris to Linux."
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 110 reviews. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. 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 Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik and Zerto, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Azure Backup, Veritas NetBackup Appliance and Veritas Backup Exec. See our NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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