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NAKIVO Backup & Replication pros and cons

Vendor: Nakivo

4.7 out of 5

90 reviews
99% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

NAKIVO Backup & Replication enables quick setup for virtual machine replicas and failover sites, supporting VMware, Hyper-V, and Nutanix AHV with robust, image-based backups and incremental capabilities. Cloud integration allows off-site storage, enhancing disaster recovery. Known for cost-effectiveness, it simplifies licensing. Automation reduces manual efforts, but enhancements are needed for email alerts, cloud integration, data deduplication, and compatibility with KVM and Synology. Expanding support for more platforms would increase its value.

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PROS

Nakivo Backup & Replication provides an efficient failover site setup, enabling replication of critical VMs, and ensuring rapid disaster recovery capabilities.

The system is easy to configure and set up, supporting quick deployment, minimal setup time, and integration with existing infrastructure.

With robust data protection features, Nakivo ensures reliable backup, replication, and recovery, reducing downtime and safeguarding enterprise data.

Nakivo is noted for its affordability and competitive pricing, offering a cost-effective backup and recovery solution for small to large enterprises.

The automated backup and replication features facilitate seamless data protection while reducing manual effort and improving overall efficiency.

CONS

NAKIVO Backup & Replication could benefit from supporting additional virtual technologies and cloud systems beyond Amazon AWS.

Users have noted a desire for more control over email alerts and better automation capabilities in NAKIVO Backup & Replication.

The upgrade process for NAKIVO Backup & Replication is outdated and often requires manual intervention.

There are requests for improved backup speed, better utilization of resources, and enhanced data deduplication techniques in NAKIVO Backup & Replication.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication lacks certain backup features like support for file and folder backups, Oracle databases, and comprehensive legacy system compatibility, including platforms like KVM and AIX.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication Pros review quotes

reviewer1425087

Senior Software Manager/Chief at Leidos Holdings Inc.

Sep 23, 2020

It is flexible.

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Founder at CAE LLC

Jan 31, 2022

Nakivo's reporting features have helped a lot. They give my boss high visibility into what's going on, which is crucial because we had a data breach in the past where we lost about 12 years of data. That's why we bought several appliances, and we replicate the same backup twice a day to three different depositories.

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reviewer2346636

Works

Feb 16, 2024

The automatic backup and replication features are invaluable, saving us time and resources by automating routine backup tasks and ensuring data protection without manual intervention.

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reviewer1874511

IT Support Specialist at Macgregors Meat & Seafood Ltd.

Jun 3, 2022

It uses all the bandwidth available if not limited and backs up entire servers with all data about four times faster than Windows Server Backup and EaseUS TODO Backup.

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DP

IT Systems / Security / Communications Administrator at Bennett International Group, LLC

Feb 18, 2021

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.

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Aleksejs Vasilevskis

Leading IT Engineer at a media company with 51-200 employees

Nov 17, 2021

The user interface in general is very good. I

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reviewer1712172

System Administrator at Tecnoteca s.r.l.

Nov 8, 2021

The backups, especially of the incremental type, are really quick (ranging from five to 10 to 45 to 50 minutes depending on the size of the VM).

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reviewer1602147

Works at a retailer with 1-10 employees

Jun 14, 2021

NAKIVO is easy to use and pretty easy to set up.

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Works at a tech services company

Jul 19, 2021

I could install and configure the trial version in maybe half an hour and had a successful backup of our file server on the same night.

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Luis Cedrick Pérez Espinoza

Postsale Engineer at SPC Internacional

Aug 5, 2024

Its capability to back up virtual machines is noteworthy, but its ability to verify the bootability of these backups is especially practical.

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NAKIVO Backup & Replication Cons review quotes

reviewer1425087

Senior Software Manager/Chief at Leidos Holdings Inc.

Sep 23, 2020

The interface might be improved, but the interface of every product might be improved.

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Founder at CAE LLC

Jan 31, 2022

When you schedule some jobs, you should be able to see a list of the jobs contained within each. You have to open up the editor to see what is inside. You must click through and edit stuff. Each time, it asks you to save or discard changes. It's very annoying. You only see the name of the scheduled job, and you need to edit it to see what's it's inside.

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reviewer2346636

Works

Feb 16, 2024

Implementing more comprehensive data deduplication and compression techniques could optimize storage utilization and reduce backup times, improving overall efficiency.

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reviewer1874511

IT Support Specialist at Macgregors Meat & Seafood Ltd.

Jun 3, 2022

One of the things I liked least about this software is when an update was pushed to one of the servers we had, somehow we didn't receive the update and needed some quick troubleshooting.

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DP

IT Systems / Security / Communications Administrator at Bennett International Group, LLC

Feb 18, 2021

I would love to see BackBlaze B2 implementation in the future, as that would be our preferred cloud destination, but Amazon and Wasabi are both very great choices in the meantime.

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Aleksejs Vasilevskis

Leading IT Engineer at a media company with 51-200 employees

Nov 17, 2021

Due to the fact that we are HP and Fugit partners as well, it would be nice if Nakivo would allow support for HP and Fugit storage.

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reviewer1712172

System Administrator at Tecnoteca s.r.l.

Nov 8, 2021

Personally, I would like to have the ability to backup older legacy systems on the new versions as well.

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Works at a tech services company

Jul 19, 2021

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.

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reviewer1602147

Works at a retailer with 1-10 employees

Jun 14, 2021

Updating VM Tools on a replicated VM could be better.

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Luis Cedrick Pérez Espinoza

Postsale Engineer at SPC Internacional

Aug 5, 2024

NAKIVO should broaden its horizons in terms of compatibility and integration with other tools.

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