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Exceeded all our expectations in Enterprise Data Protection
What do you like best about the product?
My experience with NAKIVO Backup & Replication over the past year has been nothing short of transformative. Having managed backup systems for 18 years, I can confidently say that NAKIVO provides the best management experience of any enterprise tool I have used. The product delivers on its core promise: reliable, fast, and simple data protection. The ability to easily configure complex backup schedules for daily backup to local NAS storage and seamless weekly backup copies to S3 cloud storage from one centralized, intuitive interface is invaluable. Overall - Unmatched Simplicity, Speed and Reliability, Exceptional Customer Support, Ease of Deployment & Management.
What do you dislike about the product?
UI Modernization, admin console experience is great, easy to navigate but the design itself is outdated.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All business critical systems are enabled with Automatic backup with schedule. It just works, not so many backup failures except when the node is shutdown. Overall, it just works as expected which is important.
Best Backup solution
What do you like best about the product?
We ve been using nakivo for ages, and it has an easy interface that even a none technical professional can understand.
Implementation literally took minutes and we had assistance from customer support and our account manager who is with us all the way. The solution is used on a weekly basis and it has numerous features that allows you to protect your data. Integration in our system was done successfully
Implementation literally took minutes and we had assistance from customer support and our account manager who is with us all the way. The solution is used on a weekly basis and it has numerous features that allows you to protect your data. Integration in our system was done successfully
What do you dislike about the product?
As for the downside, I haven't seen any yet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Backing up our VM and serbers - it is very cost effective
Simple, Reliable and Cost-Effective Data Protection
What do you like best about the product?
I really like how easy it is to deploy and use. Nakivo supports a wide range of environments (VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, Proxmox, physical servers, Microsoft 365, NAS, and multiple clouds), and the 24/7 support is excellent without the high costs you usually see with other vendors. It delivers great value for money.
What do you dislike about the product?
The platform is very solid, but some advanced features like disaster recovery and monitoring could benefit from more detailed reporting and customizable dashboards. That said, Nakivo updates frequently and keeps improving with each release.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Nakivo helps us protect critical workloads across virtual, physical, cloud, and SaaS environments with a single platform. It has improved our business continuity by providing reliable backups, fast recovery, and ransomware protection, all while reducing costs compared to other vendors. The result is greater confidence in data availability and simplified backup management.
Great backup solution for SMBs
What do you like best about the product?
The range of features for the price, it’s an excellent replacement for more well known brand that seems to take its customer’s for granted with regards pricing, especially in the SMB space.
The fact it can install as an app on a range of NAS hardware means we can save on Windows server licensing, and have a dedicated back up device.
Offer of free consultation to setup the product in production environment and adhere to best practices.
The fact it can install as an app on a range of NAS hardware means we can save on Windows server licensing, and have a dedicated back up device.
Offer of free consultation to setup the product in production environment and adhere to best practices.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far as I know, removable media has to be set up as multiple repositories instead of the software dealing with a bundle of devices that may be rotated as a single entity. It requires a bit more configuration than anticipated but with job cloning options was fairly easy in the end.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Seems very comparable to more popular and well known backup vendors features.
Saving money on other vendors who see fit to price gouge on subscriptions.
Saving on Windows server licenses.
Saving money on other vendors who see fit to price gouge on subscriptions.
Saving on Windows server licenses.
Fast, Secure, and User-Friendly Backup Software
What do you like best about the product?
its speed and reliability. It makes backing up and restoring data very easy
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't really have anything I dislike about NAKIVO
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves data Loss by providing fast and reliable backup and easy recovery
Straight forward configuration and deployment. Great support.
What do you like best about the product?
The most helpfull thing is the configuration. Countless options for backup settings, schedules. Works great in synology enviroment. Also works great with any type of media, External disks, onboard disk, cloud, tape. Excellent support for the setup. Also great backup speed.
What do you dislike about the product?
I cant find any downside for the moment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am using Nakivo as the main part of my DRP.
Simple but powerful
What do you like best about the product?
Simple interface yet you can do all your tasks
What do you dislike about the product?
Access to logs for debug and troubleshooting
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Backup VMs
Simple, Smart, and Fast, The best Backup Solution we worked with
What do you like best about the product?
Nakivo Backup & Replication is extremely intuitive with a great workflow that makes backups simple to manage. It’s also very smart—if a Transporter isn’t available during a job, the system recovers automatically without manual input. I really like the distributed architecture, where multiple transporters act as a pool to handle backup, compression, encryption, and recovery tasks efficiently.
Scheduling is flexible and easy to set up, with support for multiple schedules on the same job. Licensing is straightforward, affordable, and “set and forget” with no hidden complexities. The Flash Boot for VMware feature is a true lifesaver—being able to spin up a temporary VM directly from the backup files within seconds has saved us in critical moments. Backup lifecycle and retention are also very intuitive and reliable.
Lastly, Nakivo’s support team has been excellent—knowledgeable, responsive, and proactive in helping us design strategies that fit our environment perfectly.
Scheduling is flexible and easy to set up, with support for multiple schedules on the same job. Licensing is straightforward, affordable, and “set and forget” with no hidden complexities. The Flash Boot for VMware feature is a true lifesaver—being able to spin up a temporary VM directly from the backup files within seconds has saved us in critical moments. Backup lifecycle and retention are also very intuitive and reliable.
Lastly, Nakivo’s support team has been excellent—knowledgeable, responsive, and proactive in helping us design strategies that fit our environment perfectly.
What do you dislike about the product?
I’d like to see a dynamic search function on the Jobs page to make it easier to quickly filter through multiple backup jobs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a reliable solution for backing up multiple VMware and Windows servers, as well as cloud backups. Nakivo integrates seamlessly with Backblaze, giving us secure offsite storage. Overall, it has simplified our backup operations, improved recovery times, and provided peace of mind that all critical data is safe.
Intuitive, Fast, and Reliable Backup
What do you like best about the product?
I've been using Nakivo for about a month now.
With over 20 years of experience in backup solutions like TSM, Commvault, and Veeam, I decided to give Nakivo a try after using Veeam for a small number of on-premise workloads.
Its interface is highly intuitive, allowing anyone with experience in backup solutions to set it up quickly.
Since it supports deployment via a Virtual Appliance, the installation process is very fast and convenient.
I was able to configure the tool on my own in under 2 hours for and integration to a workload that included ESXi, Proxmox, and repositories on AWS S3.
We also tested the disaster recovery process. Using the configuration backup, we successfully restored the service in less than 15 minutes, easily accessing the external repositories.
Since the solution is so intuitive, I didn't need to use technical support, but the sales team was quick to respond to my needs and questions.
For environments of low to medium complexity, it will meet virtually 100% of your requirements.
With over 20 years of experience in backup solutions like TSM, Commvault, and Veeam, I decided to give Nakivo a try after using Veeam for a small number of on-premise workloads.
Its interface is highly intuitive, allowing anyone with experience in backup solutions to set it up quickly.
Since it supports deployment via a Virtual Appliance, the installation process is very fast and convenient.
I was able to configure the tool on my own in under 2 hours for and integration to a workload that included ESXi, Proxmox, and repositories on AWS S3.
We also tested the disaster recovery process. Using the configuration backup, we successfully restored the service in less than 15 minutes, easily accessing the external repositories.
Since the solution is so intuitive, I didn't need to use technical support, but the sales team was quick to respond to my needs and questions.
For environments of low to medium complexity, it will meet virtually 100% of your requirements.
What do you dislike about the product?
It lacks some of the features found in more expensive solutions.
The main feature I missed was an integrated backup of just the SQL Server transaction log. However, this can be worked around using other methods, like scripts or more frequent backup cycles.
The main feature I missed was an integrated backup of just the SQL Server transaction log. However, this can be worked around using other methods, like scripts or more frequent backup cycles.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To meet our on-premise backup demands with cost reduction and the same functionalities
Nakivo Backup and Replication for multiple VM Platforms
What do you like best about the product?
I installed the Synology DSM application for Nakivo. Using their agents we are backing up Nutanix VMs, vSphere VMs and a standalone Windows server. In addition our backups are being replicated to Wasabi for additional immutable offsite storage.
The configuration was pretty straightforward and so far the system just works. We previously used a Unitrends Recovery appliance but switched to Nakivo when our renewal pricing skyrocketed. I haven't a lot of support, but when I have reached out the responses have been fairly quick and effective.
The configuration was pretty straightforward and so far the system just works. We previously used a Unitrends Recovery appliance but switched to Nakivo when our renewal pricing skyrocketed. I haven't a lot of support, but when I have reached out the responses have been fairly quick and effective.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only issue I've had was using the Synology native app requires waiting for the latest version to hit that platform's release. I had downloaded the latest Nutanix Transporter only to find it didn't work with the prior version manager on Synology. There is no option to download the latest Synology app direct from Nakivo. A minor inconvenience to a solid product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Nakivo provides native immutable backup support. In addition by leveraging the tie-in to Wasabi we have offsite replication, also immutable.
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