Nakivo: Exceptional Backup & Recovery Experience
April 17, 2023

Nakivo: Exceptional Backup & Recovery Experience

Jan Ježek | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with NAKIVO Backup & Replication

We operate Nakivo since 2015 at our customers as standalone instances, in MSP mode (Backup-as-a-service) and also for our internal purposes. We backup mostly VMware infrastructures and, as of last year, the Microsoft 365 tenants. As a service provider, we benefit from the central console where all the instances are shown in a single pane of glass which helps to track backup runs and storage consumptions. Immutability and WAN-optimized backup replication keeps our customer's data safe and always available. The most common recovery case is granular file recovery, however in some rare cases also full VM recovery is asked. Retention policies are flexible enough to fit our customers needs and the change block tracking along with easy-to-maintain incremental backups increased the recovery points from daily to hourly, in specific file-share scenarios up to 15 min snapshots.
  • Retention policy flexibility
  • WAN optimization
  • MSP single pane of glass
  • Better deduplication optimization
  • Best value for price but without compromises
  • Easy to be maintained
  • Automated test recovery and integrity checks prevent negative impacts
Very straightforward user interface. Convenient licensing options that can fit everyone's needs - perpetual or subscription, CPU or workload based. It offers fair priced Essentials editions for smaller environments. Multi-platform support for server instances allow us to run primary backups on affordable NAS storages on budget sensitive locations, or to use NAS storages as replication targets - based on individual customer environment needs. Transporter engine has a very small footprint and, as being Linux based, does not consume Microsoft Windows Server licenses.

Do you think NAKIVO Backup & Replication delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with NAKIVO Backup & Replication's feature set?

Yes

Did NAKIVO Backup & Replication live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of NAKIVO Backup & Replication go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy NAKIVO Backup & Replication again?

Yes

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NAKIVO covers all features that we expect and demand from a backup software while keeping the management interface intuitive and straightforward. We can bet on its reliability and, in case we need to prove, there is an easy-to-use mock recovery option that allows VMs to be run directly from the backup (saves space on the virtualization datastore) and connected to dedicated recovery-test network.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication Feature Ratings

Universal recovery
8
Instant recovery
10
Recovery verification
9
Business application protection
10
Multiple backup destinations
10
Incremental backup identification
10
Deduplication and file compression
9
Snapshots
10
Flexible deployment
10
Management dashboard
10
Platform support
10
Retention options
10
Encryption
10