We compared Acronis Cyber Protect and Nakivo based on user reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data and you can find the conclusion below.
Features: Acronis Cyber Protect is lauded for its versatility, comprehensive malware protection, and effortless data retrieval. Nakivo is praised for its offsite backup to Synology NAS and seamless cloud integration. Cyber Protect could improve its ability to back up SQL databases, reduce resource usage, resolve conflicts, and improve management features. Nakivo could benefit from improvements in its remote upgrade capabilities, SNMP features, and application backup.
Service and Support: Some users had positive things to say about Acronis customer service, while others were dissatisfied with delayed responses and limited real-time support options. Nakivo's support is praised for being quick, considerate, and attentive.
Ease of Deployment: Some users thought Cyber Protect was simple to deploy, but others considered it challenging. Nakivo's setup was described as straightforward. A few users said the deployment was somewhat complex but not excessively difficult.
Pricing: Reviewers say Acronis Cyber Protect is affordable, but some noted that the pricing could be more transparent. 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.
ROI: Users say that Acronis Cyber Protect is a worthwhile investment, saving money while safeguarding critical data. Nakivo ensures a favorable return on investment with a reasonable total cost of ownership and reduced testing expenditures.
Comparison Results: Acronis Cyber Protect is a versatile solution that saves customers money and enables easy data recovery. While reviews of Cyber Protect were generally positive, there were mixed reviews about support, pricing, and setup. Users also said it could improve its SQL support and management capabilities. 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.
"One of the most valuable features of Acronis is its AnyData Engine which allows any device to connect to any other device for the purpose of data restoration."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to back up and recover our production environment from ransomware."
"Universal Restore is valuable to us."
"The interface is easy to use. They keep on adding new features. Acronis recently added multi-platform support."
"I can encrypt the data, I can make it send me an email if it fails. It lets me choose which files I want to ignore during backup."
"Since the last version, everything has been improved."
"Stability is always good. I have used Acronis for 10 years now, if not more. I have never had a problem with availability, etc."
"All the necessary features required to set up a proper backup are already present in Acronis Backup."
"NAKIVO Backup & Replication is very easy to use."
"It is fast, simple, powerful, and has a price without competition."
"The product is easy to manage for any IT person who is new to backup, recovery, and replication."
"The backup and replication are great."
"Nakivo Backup and Replication's web-based management interface enables intuitive, rapid, and seamless configuration and management of all backup and recovery functionality across the enterprise."
"The most valuable feature is the support, as it is directly from Nakivo and it is possible to send a support request that contains all of the technical data on the environment, as well as the software, required for the answer."
"Backups are very easy to implement and schedule, the product is very useful, and the recovery procedure is very extensive and feature-rich."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of creating a backup copy job to get the backups to a second device."
"We would always support better pricing."
"If there was a wizard that would lead you down a road, when creating a backup, that would probably be better than having to go online or call somebody to actually do a backup. It's not intuitive..."
"The licensing approach becomes intricate when dealing with SharePoint."
"We have sometimes issues with the child copies and other similar functions, but it's normal with any backup solution. We need to fix those issues first in order for us to be able to do the backup properly."
"It could have a better ability to manage backups over a longer period."
"Acronis Backup can improve on the virtualization backups because they are not as good as Veeam Backup."
"Some of the default settings out-of-the-box should already be set up for the novice user. For instance, the warnings that say a hard drive has bad sectors and stops the backup from performing."
"The tool's dashboard for daily operations is useful, but I find that it could benefit from enhancements, particularly in terms of reporting. While exporting reports, the format is not fancy as it appears on the dashboard. The exported files are typically in Excel CSV or PDF format."
"We'd like to see more cooperation with Synology. It can be enhanced to get updates published faster to Synology's store."
"While the solution provides mostly what we need, it would be ideal if there were some additional feature capabilities for the API."
"In the loading of a backup, choosing what to restore seems to be a lengthy process, but it has always worked in my restore tests."
"While Nakivo delivers comprehensive solutions, there's room for enhancement, particularly regarding Proxmox support."
"It would be good to have some Oracle database backup capability from the Linux OS in the next release."
"It'll help if they offered some automation and more usability for partners."
"Implementing more comprehensive data deduplication and compression techniques could optimize storage utilization and reduce backup times, improving overall efficiency."
"Their product is good and it meets our requirements, however, new features are also most welcome and we never hesitated to try new features."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 117 reviews while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect writes " Good backup solution but challenges with the stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". Acronis Cyber Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud and Azure Backup, whereas NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Commvault Cloud. See our Acronis Cyber Protect vs. NAKIVO Backup & Replication report.
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