We performed a comparison between NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Rubrik, and Unitrends based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The ability to restore in a catastrophic event is priceless, since every company must use a backup solution of some sort."
"Backups are very easy to implement and schedule, the product is very useful, and the recovery procedure is very extensive and feature-rich."
"The upgrade process is manual but very simple to do."
"It is affordable."
"The fact that it works with Synology is a big valuable point. Also, that we can check the functionality of a backup so easily. Cloud integration is valuable because the ability to not only backup locally, but to the cloud, has been a great addition to the already fantastic product. We can save so much time with Nakivo and are very happy that we found it and loved to use it for our solutions."
"This is a user-friendly solution that has a lot of certifications and documentation for the Microsoft Hyper-V infrastructure."
"The most important feature besides the easy management of the different backup jobs is the automated e-mail notification functionality."
"The backup for physical machines and replication for the virtual environment are the most valuable aspects."
"The most valuable feature is the Instant Recovery, where we can restore a VM or SQL database or any server or application, and have it up and running on their appliance within a few seconds."
"The solution's technical support team is very responsive and proactive."
"What I like about Rubrik is that you can back up to the cloud. It is a different kind of backup where you're not archiving the tape. Rubrik is a physical appliance. It is a dedicated appliance to which you can back up, and you can also back up to another device. So, you can back up to Rubrik and then to another device. If you have more than one site, you can set up Rubrik on site A and also on site B. You can back up to the Rubrik on site A and then replicate that data to the Rubrik on site B."
"Management is so simple that anyone can check the backups and do restores when necessary."
"Disk mount that lets a restore happen immediately, no need to re-hydrate."
"Not having to specify a time to run a backup with a fixed schedule is something that's really beneficial. In the past we had to schedule and try to manually stagger things over the window, to back up everything. Because Rubrik is SLA-based, you say, "Well, I need it to fit in this window here," and it just backs it up when it's most convenient for the Brik and for the third-party system. It looks at the CPU usage and says, "Okay, it's not as busy now. I know I've got time to take the backup." That's a real advantage."
"What I like the most about Rubrik is its user-friendly interface."
"In terms of usage, Rubrik has allowed us to retrieve data 80 to 90 percent faster than our previous technology."
"Unitrends has helped us cut down the time that it takes to restore a server to its original configuration."
"It is an easy system to use. The support, if needed, is always willing to help."
"Being an appliance-based solution, we were able to migrate backup solutions without having to purchase a lot of hardware separately."
"I like the fact that you can recover the VMs inside the appliance. For example, they're basically running this appliance on a Linux-based distribution, and they're spinning off KVM virtual machines inside."
"When I have had to use tech support, they've been very good."
"The ability to diversify jobs within the same server helps break down a large chunk of data into more manageable and concentrated chunks."
"It is very easy to set up and get started. Almost too easy. We racked this device and had it up and running in less than 15 minutes."
"It is a quick and easy way to organize my backups and to keep track of them."
"In the loading of a backup, choosing what to restore seems to be a lengthy process, but it has always worked in my restore tests."
"The upgrade process is a bit dated and could use some changes."
"Nakivo's implementation documentation could use a little beefing up."
"It would be great if the product could be expanded to support other virtual technologies."
"In the future, I would like to see support for backing up data to more cloud platforms, besides Amazon."
"The backup speed needs improvement."
"Updating VM tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"I need no more valuable features for backs-up. I have not yet tried the latest release, however, I have all the features that I need."
"There are some corner cases where the Rubrik Connector (Agent) still doesn't work for our clients."
"With multiple Rubrik clusters setup in an environment, it becomes painfully obvious that this product needs a central management console."
"If there was something that we could get Rubrik to fix, it would be when our DBS takes snapshots of a server or the database, the replication doesn't kick off fast enough. They can't remote it to the peer site and manipulate it back up in order to move it over, take a copy of production, slap it over, and test it out. As I understand, they are working on it. Replication works. We also get spoiled by how good things are now. We get to a point where it is so easy but when something isn't instant gratification, it seems that everything else is so amazing, why isn't this right?"
"They have what's called an organization which means different groups of access to Rubrik, but the alerting only goes to the admins. My suggestion to Rubrik is to make sure that the separate organizations or groups of users get the appropriate alerting."
"Global management of multiple systems is lacking, as is reporting across multiple installed units."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I need to create reports to know whether something is available or not, how much frontend data is being protected, etc. Rubrik gives a lot of things in the report, which can be confusing. It isn't very easy to get reports. It shows all the backup, index, replication, and everything else in one report. So, I have to export, filter, and then do the calculations."
"They should give more access to the backend capabilities. From a customer point of view, you do not have access to all the features on the system. You have to engage their support to perform some of the tasks. It would be helpful for an experienced engineer to be able to go and do some of those tasks prior to contacting the support."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. After the licensing, the price tends to go up as time goes by."
"Unitrends can be challenging to scale."
"There are a few quirks where the GUI, agent, and back-end are not precisely meshed."
"If the interface could be less complex, it is would be great."
"It would be great to have the job throttle/limit the max number of backups on a single ESXi host."
"There are some questions as to how safely they are storing backup data."
"In terms of improvement, the UI, especially in the recovery section, is unclear about which repository it uses."
"Comparing the features and the working pattern, definitely they have to come down on pricing if they want to compete in the market."
"No appliance update notifications."
