We compared Nakivo and Veritas NetBackup based on user reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data and you can find the conclusion below.
Features: Nakivo is praised for its offsite backup to Synology NAS and seamless cloud integration. Veritas NetBackup is praised for its versatility and integration with third-party applications. Users appreciate its virtual server backup capabilities, cloud integration, and malware protection. Nakivo could benefit from improvements in its remote upgrade capabilities, SNMP features, and application backup. Veritas NetBackup would benefit from streamlining implementation and incorporating additional cloud solutions.
Service and Support: Nakivo's support is praised for being quick, considerate, and attentive. Some users reported positive experiences with Veritas customer service, but others said that it sometimes took a long time to resolve issues in specific regions.
Ease of Deployment: Nakivo's setup was described as straightforward. A few users said the deployment was somewhat complex but not excessively difficult. Opinions on Veritas NetBackup's setup complexity are mixed, with some finding it straightforward and others perceiving it as more complex.
Pricing: Nakivo offers lower licensing costs and a flexible pricing structure. Nakivo provides cost-efficient backups at a competitive price and even offers a free license for one year for up to five VMs. Opinions on Veritas NetBackup's pricing vary. Some consider it expensive but say it’s worth the price due to its extensive features. There are no additional fees aside from the basic license.
ROI: Nakivo ensures a favorable return on investment with a reasonable total cost of ownership and reduced testing expenditures. Veritas NetBackup prioritizes constant availability and quick access, resulting in a positive ROI.
Comparison Results: Nakivo is a powerful, cost-effective solution that seamlessly integrates with the cloud, but it could use some enhancements in its SNMP features and remote upgrading functionality. Users say Veritas NetBackup is a versatile solution that offers robust compatibility, seamless cloud integration, and strong protection against malware and ransomware. NetBackup received mixed reviews for pricing and ease of setup, and some users said it could improve its cloud support.
"The chat functionality with Nakivo Support in the web interface is very unique and we love it."
"Nakivo has been instrumental in strengthening our data security infrastructure."
"It is easy-to-use."
"The back-up and restore functions work great and it's easy to use."
"It is easy to manage all of the individual backup jobs, check the status every day, and it can even send an email to keep us informed."
"The product is good for protecting very low-budget offices, whereas other solutions fail in terms of cost and footprint of the VMs involved."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of creating a backup copy job to get the backups to a second device."
"The VM Backup Verification is one of the features I appreciate the most."
"Deduplication is quite efficient. It is not a complex product. It is quite simple."
"Disaster recovery primarily involves backup usage. We employ it for both backup and recovery purposes. The backup and recovery processes have been executed multiple times, even restoring data from backups created three to four years ago."
"This product is flexible enough to allow for backing up data from physical machines, as well as from your cloud environment."
"Could be used for both of Physical and Virtual Environments."
"The solution is stable."
"It covers all kinds of different architectures. Plus, it's very user-friendly and it is very reliable"
"The solution offers the hardware and the software at the same time."
"We have an issue with the last version on the latest backup of the solution as it is not compatible with Sybase 16.5."
"From our experience, the main factor that could be improved is adding more cloud services that are supported as a backup repository."
"The way encryption is currently working could be improved. Currently, it's not possible to encrypt the backup to an NFS share directly. It needs to have the encryption within the Transporter/VM to enable encryption, which isn't optimal. So I'm hoping that in the near future this function will be implemented."
"We are satisfied with Nakivo, but if anything could be improved, I think it would be more real-time as opposed to email support availability."
"Automatic updates do not work, and every update has to be done manually."
"It would be helpful to be able to have a custom footprint so that only the required features are installed."
"There are some errors requiring support to correct and bugs and glitches should be addressed."
"The first implementation is a bit difficult but once is up and running is rock solid and extremely easy to manage."
"The only thing we have encountered that we would like to see improved in the future are error messages. They could be more detailed and helpful, without the need to send logs to support. Failing that, the part of the log related to the error could be displayed alongside the error message, so I can investigate the error without looking through all of those logs that I'm able to download."
"The cost is expensive."
"It would be better if it had a cloud integration feature. I would like to use a single product for the cloud instances and the on-premise instances. The price could also be better."
"GUI needs to be more user-friendly."
"The product could improve the user-friendliness and comfort of its environment, especially for those unfamiliar with it."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"The only pain point we have with this solution is the cost. It's very expensive. In fact, it's so expensive we are looking for other platforms. We want to move away from it in order to save our organization costs."
"It would be helpful, in future releases, if the solution could add WORM (Write Once Read Many) support right within the product."
"The solution's technical support process should be improved."
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 111 reviews. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik and Zerto, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Azure Backup and Veritas Backup Exec. See our NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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