Acronis Cyber Backup vs NAKIVO Backup & Replication | TrustRadius

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Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 100 reviews and ratings

Score 8.2 out of 10

Based on 50 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Acronis Cyber Backup

NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Universal recovery

Live recovery

Recovery verification

Business application protection

Multiple backup destinations

Incremental backup identification

Backup to the cloud

Deduplication and file compression

Snapshots

Pros

Image based backups. After the initial backup, the backups happen quite quickly. This allows for multiple backups per day.
We have different classes of data which requires different retention policies. Acronis makes that easy to manage.
Restoration can be done directly to hardware or to a VM. This makes it easy to migrate a physical server to a VM.

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Sr. Computer Scientist / IT Engineer

Simulations Plus, Inc.Computer Software, 51-200 employees

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Creating G-F-S backups of virtual servers in a completely automated fashion.
Restoring data easily when needed, either as specific individual files or entire servers (and the run-from-backup option is just neat, although we've rarely had use for that).
Storing Data in a de-duplicated, compressed format has allowed us to store many many backups in a space that is many many times smaller than it would take to keep multiple full copies of each server.

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Manager in Information Technology

Medical Devices Company, 11-50 employees

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Cons

The web interface is slow and can kick you off from time to time
I do find that the error messages are hard to decipher if/when a backup is unsuccessful. However, support is very good in helping out the solution
The user interface is not intuitive enough to find failures in backups or track logs with alerts or errors

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Professional in Information Technology

Entertainment Company, 201-500 employees

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You can only backup virtual machines.
Although you can easily set up NAKIVO, the more specific or complex your configuration, the more reliant you become on tech support. Knowing Linux would be a big plus with these types of configurations.
Updating the software could be a little more user-friendly.

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Manager in Information Technology

Architecture & Planning Company, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Acronis Cyber Backup 9.1

Based on 2 answers

We have renewed our subscription over the course of a few years now. We used to use Backup Exec and it was tedious and difficult to obtain our backups when needed. Acronis just fits our environment style and the way we prefer to do business and use our third party software.

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I.T. Team Leader

JST Corporation / Sales AmericaDesign, 1001-5000 employees

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NAKIVO Backup & Replication 10.0

Based on 1 answer

It's great. It works, it's cost effective and it's easy to maintain. I don't see us ever changing away from Nakivo Backup and Replication to any other product. We are very impressed and satisfied with the results.

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IT Director

Women's Pavilion of South MississippiMedical Practice, 51-200 employees

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Usability

Acronis Cyber Backup 8.2

Based on 1 answer

I give it a rating of 9 do to its ease of usability. It's ease of understanding how to setup - form - fit - and function. I have no sorrows when having to login to the console in order to setup a new backup schedule or retrieve and recover lost data.

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I.T. Team Leader

JST Corporation / Sales AmericaDesign, 1001-5000 employees

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NAKIVO Backup & Replication 10.0

Based on 2 answers

Because it is very easy to use.

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Aba-Mark Mihaly

IT Manager

AP Network SRLComputer Networking, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

Acronis Cyber Backup 7.0

Based on 2 answers

We have only had to contact support a hand full of times. The reason for this 9 out of 10 is do to how quickly and cooperative they have been on the rare occasion we needed to chat with them about our small questions or queries with potential issues do to the nature of our business.

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I.T. Team Leader

JST Corporation / Sales AmericaDesign, 1001-5000 employees

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NAKIVO Backup & Replication 8.7

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As with any support, it can always improve, but since the result has always been getting my issue resolved quickly I can't complain. Nakivo support has been great to work with when I have needed them, which hasn't been often.

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IT Director

Women's Pavilion of South MississippiMedical Practice, 51-200 employees

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Implementation Rating

Acronis Cyber Backup 9.1

Based on 1 answer

I don't have any real key 'insights' per say except that it wasn't difficult at all, and do not be afraid to dabble in its tools and settings. It is quite intuitive with built in common sense. I cannot say enough good things about our companies experience when using this backup software.

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I.T. Team Leader

JST Corporation / Sales AmericaDesign, 1001-5000 employees

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NAKIVO Backup & Replication 10.0

Based on 1 answer

It was simple and easy to implement and went very quickly

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IT Director

Women's Pavilion of South MississippiMedical Practice, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We've looked at SolarWinds, Veritas, etc. but none of them had the right combination of features, price and ease of use when compared against Acronis and its ease of implementation, setup and recovery options. We didn't like the wait time for recovery with some of the others and being able to quickly get a machine back entirely was important to us.

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Retail Company, 51-200 employees

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Altaro offers a competitive price but not VMware support which is our preferred virtualisation product.The Vembu Cloud DR is more expensive to implement, less flexibile (requires a Windows server) and it is a product with a lot of space for improvements, however excellent support when needed.StorageCraft Cloud Backup same as Vembu is pricier and less flexible in deployment options.

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Infrastructure Engineer

X-Net SolutionsInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Scalability

Acronis Cyber Backup 8.5

Based on 26 answers

The ability to back up multiple servers from one source is a great tool to have for businesses that have equipment in different locations on the same network with a variety of software data to back up such as SQL, Exchange or a Files Server. You can decide to purchase individual server licenses as well if you would like to keep the process separate or have multiple sites where your data is housed.

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C-Level Executive in Customer Service

Computer Hardware Company, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

Every times you restore a file, you see the value and the ROI of backup.
Backup is a great protection against ransomware, you can always restore files that has been infected.
When you want to go back in previous version of files, it can be life saver.

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Director in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Provides a robust service at an affordable cost.
Intuitive web interface along with the technology itself provides a path for quick, easy restores.
Not supporting S3 compatible storage for off-site storage of backups has required us to add an additional piece of software to the workflow.

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Manager in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 501-1000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Acronis Cyber Backup Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

Acronis Cyber Backup	$59

SaaS Edition

Acronis Cyber Backup	$59

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

NAKIVO Backup & Replication Editions & Modules

Edition

Pro Essentials	$25¹
Enterprise Essentials	$35¹
Pro	$40¹
Enterprise	Contact Vendor

per workload

Additional Pricing Details

A workload is a VMware vSphere VM, Microsoft Hyper-V VM, Nutanix AHV VM, a physical machine (01 server and 03 workstations), an Oracle database, or an Amazon EC2 instance.

Rating Summary

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