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# NAKIVO Backup &amp; Replication Reviews
**Vendor:** NAKIVO, Inc.  
**Category:** [Server Backup Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/server-backup)  
**Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 362
## About NAKIVO Backup &amp; Replication
NAKIVO Backup &amp; Replication is a fast, affordable and top-rated backup and disaster recovery solution for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, physical machines, NAS, Microsoft 365 and Oracle Database. The solution also supports other virtual, physical, cloud and SaaS environments. NAKIVO is trusted by over 30,000 organizations worldwide to protect their data and ensure business continuity, including companies like Coca-Cola, Honda, Siemens and Cisco.



## NAKIVO Backup &amp; Replication Pros & Cons
**What users like:**

- Users appreciate the **ease of use** of NAKIVO Backup &amp; Replication, making deployment and management quick and efficient. (86 reviews)
- Users highlight the **reliability and user-friendliness** of NAKIVO Backup &amp; Replication for seamless backup and recovery. (73 reviews)
- Users commend the **prompt and excellent customer support** of NAKIVO Backup &amp; Replication, enhancing their overall experience. (64 reviews)
- Users applaud the **robust performance and comprehensive features** of NAKIVO Backup &amp; Replication, surpassing expectations and needs. (55 reviews)
- Users find NAKIVO Backup &amp; Replication to be an **affordable solution** with excellent features for their backup needs. (52 reviews)
- Users appreciate the **easy setup** of NAKIVO Backup &amp; Replication, making backup management efficient and intuitive. (49 reviews)
- Reliability (46 reviews)
- User Interface (41 reviews)
- Setup Ease (33 reviews)
- Backup Frequency (32 reviews)

**What users dislike:**

- Users report **backup issues** such as missing features and complex setup requirements that hinder effective backup management. (19 reviews)
- Users experience **backup problems** with NAKIVO, such as missing specific features and sensitivity of transporters. (13 reviews)
- Users note **storage limitations** with NAKIVO, including lack of Mac OS support and difficulty managing repositories. (13 reviews)
- Users miss a **lack of integrated backup features** like SQL Server transaction log, affecting convenience and efficiency. (11 reviews)
- Users find the **learning curve steep** , with complex menus and unfamiliar terms hindering initial usability. (10 reviews)
- Users find the **limited feature set** of NAKIVO Backup &amp; Replication restricts functionality and usability compared to competitors. (10 reviews)
- Backup Failures (8 reviews)
- Complex Setup (8 reviews)
- Difficult Setup (8 reviews)
- Slow Backups (7 reviews)

## NAKIVO Backup &amp; Replication Reviews
  ### 1. NAKIVO magic

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** SimpleIT4u  l. | IT Consultant , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

The simplicity of the setup compared to other solutions. The interface is web-based and very engineer friendly. Screen-shot verification of the backup image is probably one of the best features, this gives me and my clients great piece of mind.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Not much at all. Auto failover would be great to have, but still we are just one click from having a client server back online and running services again. Cross platform restore would also be good. E.g backup from HyperV and restore to Vmware.

**Recommendations to others considering NAKIVO Backup & Replication:**

Instant recovery on heartbeat. 

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Client RTO time has gone from hours to minutes. 

  ### 2. A great solution for a small charity!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Richard B. | Recorder, Civic & Social Organization, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Nakivo Backup really fits the bill for our requirements. The fact that it can run as an application on our QNAP NAS box without requiring a dedicated workstation or server fits our needs to a tee. It was very simple and straightforward to set up and schedule the required backups.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Occasionally when attempting to back up our (vSphere hosted) Small Business Server we get a warning that the vSphere .block files can not be created and that Nakivo is using its proprietary method. It would be nice if the warning provided a little more information of what was causing the error. 

**Recommendations to others considering NAKIVO Backup & Replication:**

Nakivo Backup is an easy to implement solution that fits especially well with the requirements of a small shop running tranquilized systems.

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We are a small non-prophet with not a lot of resources to spend on our data processing needs. Nakivo provides an easy to use solution at a very competitive cost.

  ### 3. It's fast, flexible and it's easy to set up!

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Tobacco | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2019

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

I really like, how easy and fast it is to set up and run a backup from multiple vm's on esxi or hyperv hosts.
Also it is really great, that you can use a nas as backup machine.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

The only thing, that i do not like, is, that you cant backup physical machines. But in future, this function will be implemented, so, i just need to wait ;)

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The biggest improvement is, that little companies dont need an extra backup server, they can use their nas as backup server.

  ### 4. Excellent ESX Backup System 

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Roy N. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

It is as simple as it is powerful.  Time from download to full implementation is exceedingly short.   The system requires minimum knowledge and the web interface is intuitive and complete. Recovery of SQL Server objects, Single Files or entire machine is quick and simple.  Reporting and automated email notifications of system and backup status saves time, and ensures proper operation in an emergency.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Automation and GUI for the resizing of local repository disks would be nice- although performing this task from command-line is not overly complex.

**Recommendations to others considering NAKIVO Backup & Replication:**

A free trial of two weeks is provided to all.  Implementation takes just a few minutes. Worth a try for sure.

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It is a complete solution and plan B for the protection of mission critical VMs, where data loss is not an option.  It solves the challenge of data protection, and the even greater challenge of data recovery.

  ### 5. Great DR solution!

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Simon  S. | IT Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2019

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Easy and quick to setup for VmWare, can run on existing hardware and storage solutions.
And if you get in trouble, the support from Nakivo is really great.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Not be able to backup physical servers or Office 365.
Missing the abilty to restore single files right back to the fileshare. 

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Fast and reliable DR

  ### 6. Good job for virtual environment

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Julien F. | Co-Fondateur, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2019

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Easy to use on hyperV
Cost effective
Install on NAS, agentless


**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Not able to backup physical host. But it should be coming soon!

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Installed in little enterprise with small budget, it's ok. Backup are good, support is ok, restore entire vm, files - folders, active directory object. For me it's easy to install, activate and do the job.

  ### 7. Full backup solution with easy to use web interface

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Martin G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Fast deployment process on linux with easy to use web configuration. You can set everything up in 1 hour and be ready to backup your mission critical systems. Whole solution is very lightweight, right now we are using backup proxies with 2c and 2GB ram, and they are capable to process multiple jobs even with compression option enabled, without an issue. Web interface is big plus with compare to Veeam. API can be used for automation tasks like quick restore/backup, and modification of existing jobs. Multiple options for notifications, data compression/deduplication and network acceleration are  very useful. Also big plus si the possibility to backup VMs on free ESXi - tested on version 6.0, 6.5 and even 6.7. Great solution for B&R infrastructure.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Missing option to backup on tapes, and backing up Openstack VMs. Some graphical statistics would be very useful for individual VMs backup size, maybe even forecasting the backup size using collected data.

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Quick reaction time thanks to web interface, great price and notification options. Automation through API can save a lot of time, even controlling Nakivo using third party automation tools is very important in big size infra with multiple customers. Saving a lot of HW resources that are allocated to Backup components. Quick response from Nakivo support with built in chat, even in on promise deployments.

  ### 8. Nakivo Backup

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Steven O. | Systems Administrator, Non-Profit Organization Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Software is very easy to setup and use. Very intuitive setup of backups jobs, transporters and storage devices. Monitoring of backup jobs shows backup speed and running backup time.  Restores can be of a whole VM machine or just one folder or file. Overall an excellent product.


**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Would like to see a stand alone console for monitoring backup jobs instead of monitoring jobs via a web browser.

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Nakivo backup and Replication is a very affordable product with pricing based on a per cpu socket. Other products are much more expensive per esxi host backed up.

  ### 9. Good Support, working product, decent pricing.

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Luc I. | COO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2019

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Support is very reactive and helpful (and know what they are talking about). Centralised backup Solution, with all the aspects covered.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Recurring support/licencing costs . Bought products should work whitout having to intervene.

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Centralised and comprehensive Backup, Image and file, Exchange/emails, etc..

  ### 10. Fantastic product! Easy, Fast, Simple and effective

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Ulrich J. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 18, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Awsome product, Easy, Fast, Affordable
Easy - We got the software up and running within minutes.
Simple management - It took me about an hour to set up 50 backup jobs.
Fast - 24 hours later, everything was backed up.
Good compression: 11TB data takes up only about 7.5TB of space. We have enabled de-duplication and fast compression.
Unofficially supports backup of ESXi 6.7

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

No storage stats for backup jobs and groups (source storage size, backed-up storage size, retention size)
No backup of physical machines
No Office365 backup

**Recommendations to others considering NAKIVO Backup & Replication:**

Just try it, it is highly recommended to run a trial.
Since it only take 10-15 minutes to download, install, configure and setup a backup job, there is no reason not to try it out.

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It started with the need for backup of ESXi 6.7, which most other vendors could not at the time.
Then when we tried the software, it was so much easier, simpler and faster than the other software we have tried before.

  ### 11. Excellent product, handled our environment without a hitch.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Justin M. | Engineering Manager, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

We use a QNAP NAS to host our virtual environment data.  We found that NAKIVO was a featured app in the QNAP App Store.  After installing the app, the NAKIVO software was a breeze to navigate through and begin taking backups.  The restoration of our virtual guests was just as easy as taking the backups as well.  Very satisfied with the product, 5 stars!

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Only limited to one user account in our test environment, would like more granularity in user access for audit/logging purposes.

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We are solving resiliency and redundancy of our environment.  Realized immense benefits when one host server was swapped for a replacement and our environment came back online.

  ### 12. Very good solution in reasonable price! 

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Robert G. | Mr, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

As for me, the simplicity of implementation, clear interface, speed of operation and good data compression. It can be installed on many platforms, including using NAS servers (QNAP). It's great solution!

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

In the whole solution  the weakest point is the lack of support for backup  of  physical servers.
I'm waiting impatiently for this! :)

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Nakivo is a very good solution that allows you to raise the level of security even in the smallest companies due to the reasonable price!

  ### 13. Fast and Lightweight - Easy to setup

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Alexander H. | Senior Systems Administrator, Staffing and Recruiting, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

The ease of setup. Nakivo Backup and Recovery is pretty much ready to go right out of the box. I've installed this on both a Windows platform and a Synology platform. It works very well on both. Install it, add inventory, create jobs and you're up and running in no time. 

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Nothing at this time. Nakivo is an easy to use, off the shelf backup application that is cost effective. I have not run into anything at this time that would be off putting.  

**Recommendations to others considering NAKIVO Backup & Replication:**

Definitely take a serious look at Nakivo. They are certainly an up and comer in the backup field. They will save you a bundle over others. 

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Nakivo Backup and Recovery is a cost effective backup solution that literally just works. VM backups are easy to setup. Being able to backup all my VMs and not have it cost me an arm and a leg is fantastic.

  ### 14. Best "Bang for the buck" VM backup I have worked with

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Martin J. | IT Operations Manager, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 12, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

I have been using Nakivo for about 3 years on several different environments of my clients, 
 for VMware image backups. Straightforward very well organized GUI that is so intuitive, that from the first moment you feel like you know what to do. The internal deduplication and network compressions work like a charm. The replication feature is simple yet functional, covering for otherwise expensive software from other vendors. Using the remote backup and replication features between 2 DC's and getting very consistent and satisfactory performance results. Overall I love the product and would recommend it to anyone.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

1) Repository management is very simple, partially only available from the cli.
2) Not possible to skip on any virtual disks of a VM that is running backup/replication (Can't bypass temp/dev/backup partitions,....).



**Recommendations to others considering NAKIVO Backup & Replication:**

After spending years working with complicated and expensive products, including EMC and Symantec solutions, we have an ease of use financially sain product.

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The sustainable backup solution with fast and reliable recovery.

  ### 15. Great Value VMWare Backup

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Dave M. | ICT Network Manager, Education Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Ease of Use and Cost. The Gui is entirely web based making administration easy from any PC in the school.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Not a lot. Sometimes we have issues when we update to a new version of VMWare but this is fixed by upgrading Nakivo to the latest version

**Recommendations to others considering NAKIVO Backup & Replication:**

A great alternative to other VMware backup solutions

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It enables us to easily backup our virtual infrastructure at a fraction of the cost of Veeam which we were using previously.

  ### 16. easy to install, easy to use, efficient support

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2019

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

The only one I found running 100% under Linux, my need
Web UI to manage, monitor (I have no graphical env on my servers)

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

No ovf or ova export function
this function was promised (in roadmap) some times ago but nothing yet

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Daily backup and replication of running VM 
Secured businness (application running 24/7)

  ### 17. Backup of AWS Istances

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2019

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

We were searching for a backup solution for my AWS Istances. 
It's easy to install, to  use and to configure.
Financial dept  reply quickly to any answer.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

At the moment I do not see any problem.   

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Protecting VM environment and it permits a easy disaster procedure recovery between AWS region

  ### 18. Great product that just works

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Frank J. | Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

It's flexibility to make your backup infrastructure fit your current infra. Windows, linux, NFS, iSCSI, internal storage, it will take anything you have that make sense to you.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

It still has some difficulties doing file level restoration across all the filesystem it supports. 

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

DR is taken care of and we cut our time to recovery by at least 50% with scheduled duplication of VMs.
File level recovery for certain filesystem has been enabling us to remove OS level backup software. We cut back on software cost and storage cost for backup. Combining our disaster recovery and backup budget has been an important aspect in choosing Nakivo.

  ### 19. Easy to use Powerful Solution

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Juergen S. | IT-Support, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2019

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Setup with NAS like Synology
Fast Support
Easy to administarte

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

nothing to write at this time ;-) NAKIVO is working fine!

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Full Backup & Replication with HyperV and ESXI Server. 
We are saving Money and Time!

  ### 20. NAKIVO - very fast and reliable backup software

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2019

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

That it is controlled via an web-interface and not a windows application or so.
Fast full VM recovery.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Nothing really. I think NAKIVO is a very good and cheap backup software. With nakivo and a virtuel environment it is the best solution you can get.

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We was using custom scripts before NAKIVO, and the price it costed us in employee time and recover, has been reduced by 90%. NAKIVO is easy to install and very easy to use.

  ### 21. Stable and easy to use Backup Solution!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Matthias M. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Very well designed product! We use it in conjunction with a Synology-NAS as an Backup-Appliance.
It just works great for us and our customers, even exotic configurations like replicas on the same ESXi Host (2 different Datastores) are easy to setup up and just work!! 
We are happy with NAKIVO Backup & Replication. Its a stable, time saving and reliable solution.


**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Nothing, since we only use the appliance mode, we cannot speak about the Version which needs an installation. 

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We achieve fast and reliable image based backups for VMs

  ### 22. Reliable Backups

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

1.  Simple deployment model that can grow with your workloads.
2. Configurable.  Create one time backup jobs or create schedules.
3. APIs.  There is an API that can be used to automate almost every action required.
4. Failure Handling.  Recovers from outside issues that would normally cause an error.  If 1 VM has an issue the remaining items in the job continue.
5. Multi-Cloud.  One tool can be leveraged to manage workloads in an on-premise environment or cloud hosted.

The main reason Nakivo was of interest was the ability to consume the API to provide a dynamic environment that can be changed as the workloads change.  When VM's are created or destroyed the API can be leveraged to update or modify jobs as needed.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Having an API is great but I wish it was more friendly.  For example every action is called against :<port>/c/router with a payload defining the request.  Ideally when I want to get a list of jobs it should be an HTTP GET on a resource instead of always being a POST with the resource and method defined. 

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Ability to dynamically configure backup jobs so that no workloads get missed.  Nakivo provides a simple yet powerful means to provide the backup and recovery of your environment.

  ### 23. Good product

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Cristian S. | Mr., Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2019

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Simply to configure and use. Good support and documentation. Good value for money.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

I do not have a dislike since I am using it.

**Recommendations to others considering NAKIVO Backup & Replication:**

Can run as a virtual appliance -> Not required an additional license. 

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Backup for entire virtual machines.

  ### 24. Synology Backup Tool

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Jason A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

I've been playing with a number of different tools in my lab to compare different backup solutions for VMware for the Power User / HomeLab / Small Office environment.  My environment consists of a single VMware server with 4 running virtual machines and a Synology DS918+ to support the testing of different virtual machines that I do.  I decided to test the Nakivo Synology app and I found it to be probably one of the quickest and easiest backup solutions to use   Total time from setup to first test backup was less than 10 minutes.   The application uses the Synology onboard storage so getting the repository setup is trivial.   Configuring the remaining settings such as email alerting was easy.   

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

The only thing I didn' like was the install process on the Synology device.   I manually installed the application but for some reason, it didn't start correctly after the first install.   I had to restart my Nas device to get the application to run.   After the restart, the application has been running perfectly. 

**Recommendations to others considering NAKIVO Backup & Replication:**

For a small office running a single VMware server, this would be ideal. 

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Looking for a way to protect a limited number of VM's in a HomeLab/Small Office Setting. 

  ### 25. Easy and powerful

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Christophe R. | System Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

clear and comprehensive interface, with help at all levels

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Currently, it is not possible to encrypt backup storage directly on a Synology

**Recommendations to others considering NAKIVO Backup & Replication:**

Easy to use, can be installed on a NAS (Synology) and therefore does not require a dedicated VM. In addition, very efficient and fast.

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

In the past, I used Nakivo in a VMware infrastructure to backup dozens of VMs.

Today, my working environment is Hyper-V and I was looking for a backup tool for VM. I also wanted the software to run on a Synology and not add a VM to the hypervisor (in case it crashes)

In fact, I downloaded Nakivo to test under Hyper-V and returned the same ease and power as for VMware.

So it was my inevitable choice for the backups, without hesitating!

Easy to set up and use, what more could you ask for:-)

  ### 26. Nakivo the best fit for backuping Hyper-V with Synology ! 

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Executive Office | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2019

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Nakivo is a briliant all in one backup product and native suport of synology. We have been using Veeam before but because that software needs a Windows Server to work, we have been looking for an appliance. 
Setup and configuration super fast, work perfeclty with Hyper-V !

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

The interface could be better maybe; but it work fine.

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Backup Hyper-V server directly to my synology NAS

  ### 27. Powerful Backup & Replication solution which is easy to install and configure

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Erich N. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

A few weeks ago I did read the first time about NAKIVO Backup & Replication Solution. In the article it was written, that the Software can be installed and configured in a few minutes. I can only confirm that this is really true and I really like that the software is directly running on a NAS appliance like QNAP as well. 

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Up until now I did not have any problems I could write about.

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We use NAKIVO Backup & Replication to replace Vsphere VDP as this product has been discontinued. The main advantage I see with NAKIVO Backup & Replication is that there are no longer any plugins and appliances which need to run on the VMware infrastructure.

  ### 28. Simple and fast deployment, affordable but powerful and reliable.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2019

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

NAS integration and vm appliance deployment is distinctive , also Altaro support and communication is  very good.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

At the moment in my experience i haven't found any issue or limits 

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Affordable somution for SMBs

  ### 29. Awesome Product very easy to use

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Shaun M. | Owner and Managing Director, Telecommunications, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

The ease of use, just snapping the appliance into a NAS or VMware great! Easy navigation and guided selections and functionality made it so easy to learn the product. The ease of creating and running backups or replications so simple. I highly recommend this product.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Didn't find anything to dislike, It was very easy to implement and quick to learn and use. 

**Recommendations to others considering NAKIVO Backup & Replication:**

Great product easy to use

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Data Center Backup up strategy

  ### 30. Very useful product

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Tim v. | System and Network Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Simple to use and setup
Clean interface
Just works

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

I haven't found anything that I really dislike so far.

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We needed a backup solution to backup our Hyper-V cluster with offsite backup.
Nakivo does all this while running on our Synology NAS.

  ### 31. Nakivo, works great for backups.  Recovery is a different story.

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Brent W. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Nakivo is a lightweight VM backup solution.  We started out using the Windows based installer a few years back but have since switched over to the Nakivo VA.  For a smaller sized business it's handy that it takes up a small footprint and resources on the ESXi host.  Using default settings the entire VA takes up 2 vCPU, 4GB of RAM and 30GB drive space. 

Pros:
1) Easy setup either through installer or VA
2) Lightweight
3) Easy setup for notifications.  Emails on success or failures.
4) Newest version has chat support built in

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Here's the part that becomes frustrating.  While the recovery process does work, there are times you need to jump through hoops to get it functioning.  We recently had a VM datastore corrupt after a RAID drive failed (completely not Nakivo related, just providing back story), and we had to recover from USB backups from Nakivo.  We luckily were able to setup a test ESXi and run a Flash Boot from Nakivo to verify integrity of backup before recovery.  We then started a recovery to the ESXi.  The process was quite slow, but understandable on an older server and USB 2.0 (NAS recovery is faster) but at this location that wasn't an option. Took about 47 hours to recover a 2TB VM. Recovery was successful but working with restoring some newer data files, some files were deleted on the recovered VM.  This is where the issue starts.  We went to run a Flash Boot again to the same ESXi we had previously tested on, but this time it would not allow us to select a datastore as the remaining space on the datastore was 1.8TB, but the VM backup was 2TB.  

At this point we contacted support and spent 4 hours troubleshooting. Support was not helpful at all.  First we were told NFS wasn't supported for Flash Boot, then we were told VMFS/ATA wasn't supported (but remember we did successfully Flash Boot to the same ESXi before the recovery when there was over 3TB of space.)  Long story short I was told they don't know, you should only need a small amount of space, and the last option was to reboot the ESXi servers.  Flash Boot does not work across 3 different ESXi servers.  Basically Nakivo is good for backups and recovery, but don't expect anything from support.

Cons:
1) Slow recovery vis USB (not really Nakivo's fault)
2) Flash Boot only seems to work with more space than the full size of the VM
3) Support
4) Getting sales calls when trying to re-download VA/installers

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Nakivo allows us to keep backups of our VM's for recovery purposes.  It may be slow to recovery depending on your backup media, but is still a lot faster than trying to rebuild from scratch. 

  ### 32. Nakivo on Synology

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

easy to install and configure and to maintain.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

update outside syno shop. But quite easy to do.

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

VM backup without a loud solution. Good support.

  ### 33. The Only One That I Can Count On!!!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Brian S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Fast backups, restores. Nice boot snapshot feature for peace of mind. Easy install and setup. 

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Only con is the product and licensing is a little difficult to understand. Not a problem though; just email of the nice support agents. Pretty fast response time.

**Recommendations to others considering NAKIVO Backup & Replication:**

Great product, great price.

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I have tried many other VM backup solutions. I also make sure to have 3 different backups using differemt products for fail proof restores. Many times Nakivo was the only restore that worked. All others have failed me in my time of need. Price is very fair, fair enough that it is an easy sell to my clients with limited budgets.

  ### 34. Best Backup software On my Synology NAS 

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Alexander S. | Linux Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Have been using Nakivo for the last few months and i find it reliable, saves backup storage and works very well with my Hyper-v and Synology environment. 

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Well there are few thing that would be nice if they include it in Nakivo:

-two factor authentication
-Fix the update option on the Synology NAS. At the moment I have to download the file and update it manually

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Price isn't that high, so it's perfect for a small IT-environment


  ### 35. A great product: effective and affordable

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Genaro T. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Easy to install and use. Increase the security of the system immediately. It can be installed as a Synology package. Everything works as expected to work

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

It would be great if it allowed the backup of physical machines. Get a comprehensive backup solution

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We were looking for a backup solution for ESXi with a very tight budget. Other solutions, perhaps better known, were too expensive and we decided to try NAKIVO. It was a great success.

  ### 36. Great product

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Mircea C. | Mr., Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Setup was very simple, backup is reliable and consistent, with all the expected options you'd want from a virtual backup and restore solution. Great support. Free edition for two vm's which is great. Fair price too.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

There is nothins to dislike about Nakivo in my experience so far.

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Fast, reliable backup to the virtual infrastructure.

  ### 37. Very easy to use and install

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Claude M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

We use NAKIVO to backup our vmware servers and for our customers infrastructures. NAKIVO is very easy to setup, because it can run as a virtual appliance and no windows server are needed.The prices are correct and what else to say Nakivo is the best :-)

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

The look of the design of the plattform could be better :-)

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

our servers and customers infrastructures

  ### 38. Enterprise product with SMB Pricing

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civic & Social Organization | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Nakivo excels in Simplicity, and very Intuitive. Excellent product with enterprise functionality and SMB pricing. 

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Support could be improved as they struggle a bit in their language in a remote session. 

**Recommendations to others considering NAKIVO Backup & Replication:**

Please improve your support team' s english

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Nakivo is used for backup and replication and its also helping us maintain a DR site

  ### 39. Powerful and cheap

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Printing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

It is as simple as it is powerful. Time from download to full implementation is exceedingly short. The system requires minimum knowledge and the web interface is intuitive and complete.  Reporting and automated email notifications of system and backup status saves time, and ensures proper operation in an emergency.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

The only negative is not really a negative but Nakivo does not backup physical servers.

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The entire infraestructure of servers. Better prices than the other backup software tools, free training and better perfomance.

  ### 40. Easy to use, good support

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Andreas B. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

straightforward gui (by far not as confusin as veeam) 
creation of new objects as easy as pie
real bargain compared to veeam

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

it appears to be not as robust as veeam - after one year of usage I already had 3 instances of corrupt repository (owing to less than optimal hardware but still...)

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It's a backup system, it does vm backup and restore and its cheap

  ### 41. Easy to use backup solution for virtual infrastructure

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Systemhaus Sauerland . | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

The software is really easy to install and configure. If there is a question or a problem NAKIVO has a quick and well organized support team.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

So far just the way how backup jobs on removable disks in rotation are implemented. Ideally the software would recognize what repository is attached. But as a workaround you can create multiple jobs (for each repository one job).

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Cost efficient backup solution for small and mid sized companies using VMware or HyperV servers.

  ### 42. Works great for Hyper-V - Fast & Efficient

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Ryan M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Nakivo works cleanly and efficiently when backing up Hyper-V VMs. The software does well with a mixed environment of Linux and Windows VMs, and deduplication and compression make off-site backups viable. Restoring VMs from off-site or on-site storage was painless and easy.

Initially I was concerned that the several TB of VM data we had would be too much for off-site backups, but deduplication coupled with heavy compression brought this down to only a few hundred GB when uploading to Azure File Storage.

The software is quite flexible in that you can either use an SMB file store, or configure a light-weight VM in Azure with Nakivo's transporter installed for better security / more efficient transport when doing off-site backups. Using Backup Copy jobs allows you to keep nice and consistent backups.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

There's not much to dislike. I have found the Linux transporter implementation to be a bit more robust than the Windows transporter in some scenarios, so I would recommend just setting up a Linux VM or using Nakivo's virtual appliance if you're running VMWare. It's very light on resources.

One thing I found is that if you trigger another job after successfully completing a job, the second job inherits the schedule of the first one (thus, if the first job executes every day of the week, so will the triggered job that follows it). You can't select that they only occur on certain days, so if you need to distribute off-site backups throughout a week, for example, this is a bit difficult. It may be possible to achieve this with Pre and Post job scripts, however I haven't looked into this. (You can execute scripts that run before and after a job).

Lastly, if I'm going to struggle to find other issues, I'd only suggest that they replace the background image in their web UI. Usually you'd just access it on a local browser, but if you view the window in Remote Desktop (for whatever reason - you really should just connect with your browser) the image doesn't compress well and it's not a great experience. Switching the image out to a solid color solves this.

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

On-site and off-site backups. The data compression, deduplication and low resource usage is very nice.

  ### 43. Reliable and easy to use product

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Leon L. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

I deployed the virtual machine version and found it easy to deploy and use out of the box.  When I wanted to add additional storage is was seamless and "Just worked".

Recovering VM's was just as easy since its an online system, Nakivo takes care of all the details during the restore process.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

I didn't really have any issues.  The only frustrating thing was if you had to restore your v-center VM, the recovery process was a bit convoluted.   However Support had a white paper covering it.

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I wanted a reliable backup system that I could set and forget.  Nakivo solves this for me and the notifications assure me everything is working.

  ### 44. Great backup solution

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** LHISP S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

This is a Great backup solution, it has great features, the setup is fast.
Communication with the sales and support teams are very fast
The solution if very powerful at an affordable price. NAKIVO offers cost-effective per-socket pricing.
It has minimal system requirements.
It can run on a Synology or on a Virtual Machin with minimal performance requirements. Easy to use Backup Solution. The versioning of backups is very well implemented. The ability to restore single files or folders from Windows and Linux is very powerful.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

The Web interface for managing the Software itself is not responsive and could have a redesign.

**Recommendations to others considering NAKIVO Backup & Replication:**

Multi Platform

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Multi platform backup solution. 

  ### 45. Excellent Tool for ESXi Backup and Restore

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Cory E. | President and Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

It just works and works well.  We've used the restore on a few occasions now and it has been simple and fast to get back running.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Not a lot to dislike.  It performs as expected.

**Recommendations to others considering NAKIVO Backup & Replication:**

We use Nakivo on a Synology Rackstation.  We love how easy it is to use and integrate with our VM hosts.

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We want reliable backups of our VMs.  We are a software development company and frequently "mess up" VMs during development and testing.  Nakivo allows us the freedom to not worry about that knowing we can instantly recover or revert to base copies.

  ### 46. easy to use backup software for vmware and hyper-v

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Martin S. | Informatiker IT-Security, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

The web interface is really nice. It makes it easy to access the software from every device.
Also the installation on various operating systems is very usefull. You can use a QNAP or Synology NAS 

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

It would be nice, if you can exclude folders from backup.

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Fast and easy backup solution for small businesses.
Deploy on existing systems without extra license costs (install on a Linux vm)

  ### 47. Nakivo Backup and Replication - Works Great!

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Tony M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Simplicity, Speed, Dedupe and compression without addon cost. Untethered capacity

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

The only negative is not really a negative but Nakivo does not backup physical servers. 

**Recommendations to others considering NAKIVO Backup & Replication:**

Do your homework and compare feature and function - cost per socket and the simplicity it offers over top choices like VEEAM - it literally cant be beat for how simple it is. It has worked without issue since inception and when we have run into an issue - support fixed it or provided a solution within 24 hours

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Nakivo B&R has simplified our backup process, to include the actual backups and retention period of that data by way of dedupe and compression. Previous backup vendors charged a premium addon for those functions. The Nakivo product also untethers capacity that we were once capped at on a competing product - no more purchasing 100% of an application but are limited to only consuming 80% of the licensed capacity.

  ### 48. Amazing backup solution

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Sylvain  F. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 19, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

I like the simplicity of managing all the aspects of backup, restore and replications.  Many amazing features such as Flash boot (booting a backup in 12 seconds) and individual file access.  Backup to the cloud works like a charm and was setup without effort, as everything is handled within Nakivo. Incremental backup and use of VmWare CBT reduces backup time a LOT!  Deduplication reduces storage space a LOT!  Support is fantastic, prompt replies and relevant answers.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

So far, not much.  Maybe the fact that Transporters running on Synology cannot be used directly to Recover files individually.  But work around exists.

**Recommendations to others considering NAKIVO Backup & Replication:**

I found no pitfalls, so not recommandations at the moment....

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Getting rid of tape backups infrastructure that is getting old.  Having a backup solution that supports 3-2-1 backup startegy, where I have my backups locally, and a copy out in the cloud.

  ### 49. Great backup solution

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Peter K. | Owner, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Great solution for backups for both SMBs and larger companies. Awesome performance and great feature set as well as very competitive pricing. Very easy to get up and running.

**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

Lack of physical machine backups. I am being told it's in the works though so looking forward to it.

**Recommendations to others considering NAKIVO Backup & Replication:**

You should strongly consider it.

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Great backup and disaster recovery.

  ### 50. Fast backups & reliable restores

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Tamara J. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2018

**What do you like best about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

1) Runs as a Linux VM, so does not consume a Windows license.  Nakivo can run on Windows if you are in a Windows-only shop, but if you have a mixed Windows / Linux environment, Linux can understand both NTFS and EXT4, so you can do individual file restores for both platforms.

2) Relatively low resource requirements.  My Nakivo VM is backing up around 40 VMware guests, but only needs 2 vCPU and 4GB RAM.

3) Simple and intuitive web interface.  I've even run it on my phone.

4) The dedupe functionality does not consume much CPU / RAM.  
I can't say that Nakivo has the best dedupe I've ever seen (EMC Avamar holds that crown), but the low CPU/RAM resource consumption makes up for that.

5) The Backup Copy Job makes it easy to have an offsite backup for DR purposes.
I use this feature to provide cross-site offsite backups between two data centers.

6) The VMware replication feature is great for test labs.  I've used it to rapidly deploy multiple VM's for testing, so it saves me a bunch of time.

7) Flash VM Boot makes it really quick to recover from hardware failures.  I had an old VMware server die on me last year, and the dozen or so VM's on that machine were up and running on an alternate host 5 minutes later.


**What do you dislike about NAKIVO Backup & Replication?**

The individual file restore process is a bit clunky.

I'm not a big fan of the whole strategy of downloading individual files from the web interface, and then using a separate procedure to copy the files to the machine that needs the files.

In a perfect world, I would like to be able to kick off individual file restores directly on the client machine, but I realize that is not really feasible in an agentless environment.  

I've been working around this by exporting the mounted backup image from the Transporter directly to the client machine, and then using the client machine to copy from the NFS or SMB export, as described at https://helpcenter.nakivo.com/display/KB/Direct+Recovery+of+Files+to+a+VM

NOTE: Apparently, in-guest file restore is on the roadmap for Q2 2018, so this might not be an issue for much longer.

**Recommendations to others considering NAKIVO Backup & Replication:**

If you are still using legacy in-guest backup solutions (Netbackup, Commvault, TSM, etc), look at Nakivo for backing up your VMware/Hyper-V environments.   

**What problems is NAKIVO Backup & Replication solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Easy to make both onsite and offsite backups, with simple and reliable restores.


## NAKIVO Backup &amp; Replication Discussions
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## NAKIVO Backup &amp; Replication Integrations
  - [DiskStation](https://www.g2.com/products/diskstation/reviews)
  - [myQNAPcloud Storage](https://www.g2.com/products/myqnapcloud-storage/reviews)
  - [Proxmox VE](https://www.g2.com/products/proxmox-ve/reviews)
  - [VMware vSphere](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-vsphere/reviews)
  - [Wasabi Object Storage](https://www.g2.com/products/wasabi-object-storage/reviews)

## NAKIVO Backup &amp; Replication Features
**Compatibility **
- File Server Backup
- Database Server Backup
- Virtual Machines
- Repository Models
- VM Backup

**Functionality**
- Real-time Sync
- Storage Capacity
- Remote Backup
- Versioning
- Mobile Backup Application

**Functionality**
- Real-time Sync
- Storage Capacity
- Remote Backup
- Versioning

**Functionality**
- Data Backup
- Backup Automation
- Integration
- Diverse Database Handling
- Cloud Backup
- Continuous Backup

**Management**
- Real-Time Analytics
- Solution Integration
- Infrastructure Compatibility
- Monitoring

**Management**
- Disaster Recovery
- Remote Backup
- Storage Formats
- Scheduled Backups
- On-Demand Restoration

**Management**
- Continuous Backup
- Disaster Recovery
- Storage Capacity
- Remote Backup
- Activity Monitoring
- Data Recovery
- Automatic Backup
- Differential Backup
- Incremental Backup
- Data Storage Management
- Secure Data Storage

**Compatibility **
- Disk Backup
- Local Backup
- Storage Formats
- Automatic Backup
- Cloud Backup
- Document Storage

**Compatibility **
- Endpoint Variety
- SaaS Application Variety
- Storage Formats

**Admin**
- Backup Management
- Resource Management
- File Management
- Policy Management
- Compliance Management
- Incremental Backup
- Remote Monitoring & Management
- Data Storage Management
- Audit Management

**Solution Provision**
- System Failover
- Pay by Usage
- Service Provision

**Reporting**
- Activity Monitoring
- Documentation
- Alerts/Notifications

**Compliance**
- Security Standards
- Cloud Data Protection
- Data Deduplication
- Ransomware Protection
- SSL Security

**Management**
- File Sharing
- Security Standards
- Encrypted Storage

**Management**
- File Sharing
- Security Standards
- Encrypted Storage

**Agentic AI - Database Backup**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making

**Additional Functionality**
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Disaster Recovery
- HIPAA Compliant
- Data Recovery
- AI Copilot
- Two-Factor Authentication
- Data Visualization
- Remote Access/Control
- Scheduled/Automated Reports
- Alerts/Notifications
- Backup Scheduling
- Archiving & Retention
- SSL Security
- Version Control
- Duplicate Detection
- Data Migration
- Data Replication
- Local Server Options
- Document Storage
- Compression
- Status Tracking
- Secure Data Storage
- Backup Log
- Role-Based Permissions
- Generative AI
- Reporting & Statistics
- API
- Alerts/Escalation
- Backup and Recovery
- Remote Server Options
- Activity Dashboard
- Email Alerts
- Web Access/Restoration
- Activity Tracking
- Encryption
- Monitoring
- Automated Scheduling
- Self Service Portal
- Data Synchronization
- Task Scheduling

**Security**
- Data Encryption
- Security and Compliance
- Deduplication 

**Agentic AI - SaaS Backup**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Natural Language Interaction
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making

**Agentic AI - Server Backup**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making
- File Transfer
- Third-Party Integrations

**Agentic AI - Online Backup**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making
- Microsoft Outlook Integration
- Active Directory Integration
- Third-Party Integrations

**Additional Functionality**
- Data Loss Prevention
- Bare-Metal Restore
- Compliance Tracking
- Data Replication
- Two-Factor Authentication
- Drag & Drop
- Compression
- Single Sign On
- Activity Dashboard
- Duplicate Detection
- Remote Monitoring & Management
- Multi-OS
- Backup Scheduling
- Backup Log
- Alerts/Escalation
- File Management
- Encryption
- Sensitive Data Identification
- Data Retention Management
- Search/Filter
- Data Synchronization
- Reporting & Statistics
- Version Control
- Data Capture and Transfer
- Data Migration
- Archiving & Retention
- Workflow Management
- Generative AI
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Policy Management
- Multiple Format Support
- Real-Time Reporting
- API
- Data Visualization
- AI Copilot

**Additional Functionality**
- Remote Synchronization
- Data Synchronization
- Audit Trail
- Monitoring
- Role-Based Permissions
- Approval Process Control
- Real Time Synchronization
- Alerts/Notifications
- API
- Single Sign On
- Reporting & Statistics
- Version Control
- Customizable Branding
- Synchronization Scheduling
- Two-Factor Authentication
- Real-Time Monitoring
- Secure Login
- Backup and Recovery
- Data Recovery
- HIPAA Compliant
- Conflict Tracking
- Authentication
- Mobile Access
- Chat/Messaging
- Generative AI
- AI Copilot
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Commenting/Notes
- Activity Tracking
- Two-Way Synchronization
- Archiving & Retention
- Encryption
- Activity Dashboard
- File Transfer

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