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.
"Nakivo's backup and replication product has allowed us to implement a disaster recovery solution with a target repository in the cloud."
"You can have it setup and running within a few minutes."
"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."
"It has saved us numerous times from power outages and server failure."
"It is affordable."
"The product is good for protecting very low-budget offices, whereas other solutions fail in terms of cost and footprint of the VMs involved."
"The updates are problem-free, so we can keep Nakivo up to date on the server and NAS too."
"The speed of the backups and replications is fantastic and, for the most part, the simplicity of use has been wonderful."
"The backup and replication capabilities are quite good."
"It is a powerful software for communicating with the storage and for redundancy."
"No problems with stability."
"I think that the scalability is very good. We can't compare it."
"Pricing is fairly reasonable and not overly expensive."
"The product allows us to use data more efficiently, reducing the cost of storage and backup time. It is vital to have data available in the shortest possible time."
"The ability to offload backup snapshots to the SAN helps with reducing the backup durations."
"The whole replication aspect of the solution is excellent because it compresses the data so well."
"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."
"It would be a good thing to have some use case and architecture examples online to understand integration in complex infrastructure."
"The product needs to improve backup speed and replication speed."
"The interface can be a little clunky at times."
"The only thing we have encountered that we would like to see improved in the future are error messages. They could be more detailed and helpful, without the need to send logs to support. Failing that, the part of the log related to the error could be displayed alongside the error message, so I can investigate the error without looking through all of those logs that I'm able to download."
"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."
"We would like to back up File Shares to Amazon S3/Wasabi."
"Pricing can be improved."
"I don't see much room for improvement except that the price could be better."
"Its native capability for talking to the public cloud needs improvement. Connecting to a public cloud is a little bit more of a challenge when it comes to Veeam than it is with Rubrik or Commvault. There are still some hoops that you got to jump through in order to send Veeam backups out to public cloud repositories. It is not as simple as it is with other products."
"The patching can be quite difficult at times."
"The Veeam backup application interface is application-based and not web-based."
"The orchestration feature can be improved. They can improve the virtual machine orchestration to make it similar to VMware. They can also provide an option to automate the backup and recovery and schedule a backup."
"The pricing could be improved."
"I like the Acronis backup solutions on the block-based part of backups. That is a functionality that Veeam does not provide."
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 Zerto. 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.