NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs Vembu BDR Suite | TrustRadius

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Score 8.8 out of 10

Based on 86 reviews and ratings

Score 8.1 out of 10

Based on 81 reviews and ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

[An] excellent solution to backup VMs, even across multiple data centers. Easy to use, quick to navigate, and able to bandwidth throttle, ensuring that our business traffic is not affected. [Cost-effective] solution and support go above and beyond. We are very happy with this solution. Thank you NAKIVO!! Well done.

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Director in Research & Development

Telecommunications Company, 11-50 employees

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I've been working with nearly every backup
program for more than 25 years from small shops to corporations with thousands of users. Vembu BDR [Suite] is a great product for any
business, large or small. It is missing a couple of options that maybe
the most popular one has but it doesn't prevent protecting your business. When
budget is an issue it's by far the best option. Being able to provide it
to our clients is an added bonus since that makes it so much easier to manage
when everyone is using the same product. When it comes to technical
support, I haven't experienced support like Vembu Support in years. They
are quick to respond, happy to remotely connect if desired and seem to really
understand their product well. Many others I've worked with refuse to
help, and send responses that have nothing to do with my question or they simply provide a link to a
document and basically tell me to read and figure it out myself. Often that document does not relate to my issue. I've
always done my research before contacting support and that kind of response is one
of the biggest reasons we decided to look elsewhere and after many trials and deep testing, ultimately switched to
Vembu. Vembu has been rock solid, fast, and tech support has been top-notch.

The biggest place I would say that VembuBDR is
less appropriate is when you have the desire to backup your physical systems to
multiple internal storage devices and want a secondary backup as a safety net and don’t want to risk that the
backup itself is corrupt or infected and your only other option is a mirrored copy of that data. I know they are working hard on adding features
and I’m excited to know version 5 is releasing soon.

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Datacenter Manager

CSSNWInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Vembu BDR Suite

Universal recovery

Live recovery

Recovery verification

Business application protection

Multiple backup destinations

Incremental backup identification

Backup to the cloud

Deduplication and file compression

Snapshots

Flexible deployment

Management dashboard

Platform support

Retention options

Encryption

Pros

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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Owner

Camargue SolutionsInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees

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Bare metal system images. These are incredibly flexible, enabling you to do dissimilar hardware restores, local or online backups and restore to VHD
Full, differential and transaction log backups for SQL server, ensuring rapid backup and restore, with maximum storage efficiency.
Incremental backups for files, meaning only the changes which have been made to a file are backed up, dramatically reducing time to backup and increasing storage efficiency.

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Director

CognizantComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Cons

Reporting could use some work. I think there is a calendar feature but it's not available given our current license level. I think this should come standard.
We've had corrupted backup issues in the past and had to reach out to support. They are the only ones who can fix the built-in backup DB problem. It would be nice if there was a way for the end-user to do it without having to get support involved.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Mining & Metals Company, 501-1000 employees

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Although its interface is simple, a web-only interface for a backup solution isn't recommended as the main interface.
Using PostgreSQL as the configuration DB Source is OK. But, the lack of options for the Database isn't OK. Especially on a Windows Environment, admins prefer using a centralized MS SQL Instance, and this is not possible with Vembu.
More work needed on SharePoint, Active Directory, and Exchange Restores. All three are critical workloads in almost any infrastructure.
Reporting can be greatly improved.

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Manager in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

NAKIVO Backup & Replication 9.1

Based on 3 answers

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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Vembu BDR Suite 6.8

Based on 3 answers

I think the product will remain useful for us and as the company keeps improving features it will continue to be relevant and useful.We don't like switching technology much and BDR solutions shouldn't be something that a company replaces every few years., that's why most likely we will keep using it.

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Manager in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Usability

NAKIVO Backup & Replication 9.2

Based on 32 answers

Wherever NAKIVO runs (as a dedicated VM, an application on NAS, as an installed service) you get a concise Web interface through encrypted communication. One is able to check and monitor the backups quickly and in detail, if needed. Notifications, Warnings, and Alarms are grouped and bundled so that you can work with them promptly.

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C-Level Executive in Corporate

Accounting Company, 11-50 employees

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Vembu BDR Suite 7.9

Based on 46 answers

Vembu is a great solution, but it still requires some fine-tuning. The user interface for Managed Service Providers could be more streamlined. Support logs need to provide clearer information about an issue whenever there's a failure. Backup agents should have the ability to automatically update when there's a new version and support should be on-shore during US business hours.

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Principal Technologist

Genius Information SystemsComputer Networking, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

NAKIVO Backup & Replication 9.5

Based on 38 answers

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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Juergen Fritsch

ITK Hoch 2 GmbhComputer & Network Security, 1-10 employees

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Vembu BDR Suite 6.5

Based on 8 answers

It often takes a very long time to get an issue fixed. the support folks seem committed to getting it fixed but they often seem to be trying different things and hoping something works. I did not get the sense that they had a clear idea what was wrong.

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Higher Education, 51-200 employees

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Implementation Rating

NAKIVO Backup & Replication 8.3

Based on 3 answers

Configuring a dedicated Nakivo backup server with local storage and additional Linux NAS storage units for immutability is key. Backed-up data is only useful if it can be restored.

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Owner

Camargue SolutionsInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees

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Vembu BDR Suite 8.0

Based on 3 answers

It wasn't difficult at all, it fact, it was mostly simple, implementation doesn't require much skills and knowledge, but the configuration part does require some skills to create the jobs and configure certain settings, overall, its an easy implementation, especially for experienced IT People

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Manager in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Nakivo seemed more "solid" than Iperius Backup (even if we use it for tiny customers), was more affordable than Acronis and our partner had been using it for a while and was very satisfied.

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Francesco Bavastro

Pezzanera OfficeInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees

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I tested Vembu against Veeam and for the price, Vembu was the better option. I also had a great support experience as I had to contact Vembu twice after mistakes I made. While using Veeam the software was not as intuitive and support responses were not as swift and accurate.

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System Administrator

Mitchell Humphrey & Co.Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Contract Terms and Pricing Model

NAKIVO Backup & Replication 9.2

Based on 27 answers

The licensing is complex and not easy to understand at first. As you can use very small installations with one socket up to hundreds that can not be easily explained of course. This is the only thing I would like changed on NAKIVO's end.

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CEO

kamaste.it GmbHInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees

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Professional Services

NAKIVO Backup & Replication 9.0

Based on 10 answers

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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Francesco Bavastro

Pezzanera OfficeInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

NAKIVO only costs a fraction of many other backup solutions.
After the initial setup, I've had to spend very little time on the maintenance of NAKIVO. That's freed me up to work on other projects.
We were able to leverage pre-existing storage to save the cost of using a cloud service.

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Manager in Information Technology

Architecture & Planning Company, 51-200 employees

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For organizations that use different tools for Backup and recovery, this could be the single tool for Storage and Backup Administrators to automate and work effectively.
Software cost is lesser thus the money can be invested for other tools/software procurement
I don't think there is any negative impact as of now

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Anonymous

Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Screenshots

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$0

NAKIVO Backup & Replication Editions & Modules

Edition

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

per workload
none

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.

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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Vembu BDR Suite Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Vembu BDR Suite

NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Vembu BDR Suite

NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Vembu BDR Suite

NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Vembu BDR Suite

NAKIVO Backup & Replication

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NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Vembu BDR Suite

NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Vembu BDR Suite

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