GoodSync vs. NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
GoodSync
Score 9.3 out of 10
N/A
GoodSync for Business provides complete enterprise data backup and synchronization across data sources, destinations, and systems. The GoodSync for Business Control Center is specifically designed to minimize user interaction and increase management control by deploying pre-created GoodSync backup and synchronization jobs to GoodSync for Business Workstations and GoodSync for Business Servers, and enabling an administrator to monitor performance from a centralized location.N/A
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
Score 9.1 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a VM data backup solution for protecting VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, and AWS EC2 environments. It also features replication, failover, backup to cloud, backup copy, backup size reduction, screenshot verification, and site recovery through a single web interface.
$25
per workload
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Pro Essentials
$25
per workload
Enterprise Essentials
$35
per workload
Pro
$40
per workload
Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GoodSyncNAKIVO Backup & Replication
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsA 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.
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Features
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Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
GoodSync
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Ratings
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
9.2
108 Ratings
12% above category average
Universal recovery00 Ratings9.188 Ratings
Instant recovery00 Ratings8.898 Ratings
Recovery verification00 Ratings9.093 Ratings
Business application protection00 Ratings9.182 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings9.295 Ratings
Incremental backup identification00 Ratings9.3100 Ratings
Backup to the cloud00 Ratings9.672 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings9.097 Ratings
Snapshots00 Ratings9.494 Ratings
Flexible deployment00 Ratings9.262 Ratings
Management dashboard00 Ratings9.372 Ratings
Platform support00 Ratings9.469 Ratings
Retention options00 Ratings9.270 Ratings
Encryption00 Ratings9.261 Ratings
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User Ratings
GoodSyncNAKIVO Backup & Replication
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(3 ratings)
9.1
(108 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(5 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.3
(43 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.7
(51 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(4 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
9.2
(32 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(13 ratings)
User Testimonials
GoodSyncNAKIVO Backup & Replication
Likelihood to Recommend
Siber Systems, Inc.
It is mainly because of its features and reliability. Even when dealing with large drives, after the analysis step, it can identify the changes that occurred between the backup or synchronization drive and the master drive and presents to the use the choices of what should be done about the changes. The user can accept the changes or tweak which the backup or synchronization will do. The SW will remember those decisions for future activities on the same drives.
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Nakivo Inc.
File share backup is less rich in terms of restore features, but the basic functions are supported. It have all you need to plan backup jobs. Backup and restore of virtual machines is the strongest function of Nakivo. When backing up to Amazon S3, keep in mind that you will be taxed also based on the I/O you make and this will be more prominent cost with Nakivo.
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Pros
Siber Systems, Inc.
  • Quickly analyzes the drives and compares files and dates to give a complete picture
  • Gives you complete control over what to do with files that are similar but my not be matching. (same name, different size or date)
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Nakivo Inc.
  • Frequent backups do not affect the server load especially when the store is based on a high-performance NAS. We use OMV and average a GB per Minute per backup.
  • Offsite backups to a hosted store on AWS or Wsabi is simple.
  • VM replication is simple to set up.
  • Backup compression and encryption is excellent.
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Cons
Siber Systems, Inc.
  • Can't sync to Sharepoint 2016 at this time. Which is a problem since we are on 2016 already.
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Nakivo Inc.
  • Backups have the option of "screenshot verification". Screenshot verification doesn't always work for us when our vmtools is out of date. If we are on an older version of VMware and that version of vmtools is up to date, NAKIVO still thinks it is out of date.
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Likelihood to Renew
Siber Systems, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Nakivo Inc.
Because it is a product that I have been using for many years, it is becoming easier to use, and it also includes more and more things that you might need.
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Usability
Siber Systems, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Nakivo Inc.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is very easy to set up. I did it by myself, and it went perfectly. Online documents are very well written, and also the tech support asked to help me set it up. I want to do it by myself and the setup process is very easy to do. The connection to your VM and servers is very easy to do.
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Support Rating
Siber Systems, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Nakivo Inc.
The support is fast and perfect. If u have any questions, you can contact the support team via mail or chat and you always get a fast answer. You can also find a lot of help in the FAQ in the help center to resolve your problems. Anytime I had to contact the support, they helped me and solved my problem.
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Implementation Rating
Siber Systems, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Nakivo Inc.
It is very easy to do in all the formats in which it is implemented, whether as an appliance, in a windows machine, or an implementation in NAS. I only use the appliance one, but I have tried all of them in trial mode to know which one interested me more.
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Alternatives Considered
Siber Systems, Inc.
For reliability, GoodSync is beyond comparison. Some of the other tools I tried either fail through the backup/synchronization process, leaving one with unknown status of what has been backed up and what has not, wasting an inordinate amount of time because one has to repeat the whole process. Goodsync, even if it stops because of power glitches can easily pick up where it left after performing the analysis
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Nakivo Inc.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers most of the features of the great products and the ones most used by all backup administrators at a very competitive price. For this reason, it is not necessary to make large outlays to be able to maintain a backup with a high level of security. It is quick to implement and very simple to use.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Siber Systems, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Nakivo Inc.
Of course, you always think that something could be a bit cheaper. But NAKIVO Backup & Replication delivers real value for its price and value that lasts. We greatly appreciate that you are still able to actually BUY the software instead of being forced into subscription services. After all, it is OUR data and it should remain that.
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Professional Services
Siber Systems, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Nakivo Inc.
I contacted a few times Nakivo representatives, once for technical doubt and the other ones for commercial ones. Both support services are fast and reliable.
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Return on Investment
Siber Systems, Inc.
  • This has saved many hours of work because occasionally the flash drives die, break, fail or get left behind somewhere. The time to get all the files and software back in working order would take a day or two. By keeping several of them identical with GoodSync, work goes on without missing a beat.
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Nakivo Inc.
  • One of our contributors has permanently deleted worksheets from our file server. From Nakivo, we were able to recover all the data in less than 10 minutes.
  • An authentication server was encrypted by ransomware, through NAKIVO Backup & Replication, we recover the entire server within 1 hour.
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