We performed a comparison between Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup and NAKIVO Backup & Replication based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Valuable features for us include quick recovery, compression, and deduplication."
"We use the latest feature in Altaro called CDP (Continuous Data Protection) to back up our VMs as often as every five minutes. It allows us to make sure no data is accidentally deleted or overwritten."
"This solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature of Altaro VM Backup is its ability to backup and restore various types of data, including Active Directory, application servers, and SQL Server databases."
"VM backup and the item level recovery are the most valuable features."
"The intuitive interface allows you to set up and perform backups and restores easily."
"The ease of use of the solution is its most valuable feature. The interface is also excellent."
"It is an excellent product. It is easy to deploy, stable, and fast. Their support is excellent."
"With Nakivo, I have the peace of mind that all of my production environment is safely backed up and can be restored safely, easily, and quickly with a few clicks."
"The price is much lower than competitors that do the same function."
"The user interface is good, and it's user-friendly. I also like its usability with hyper-convergence products like Nutanix and others in the data infrastructure."
"The product license and support delivery have been great!"
"The user interface in general is very good. I"
"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 ability to restore in a catastrophic event is priceless, since every company must use a backup solution of some sort."
"Stability."
"The initial set up was complex, and I was not able to do the set up myself."
"Replication is not fast, the GUI could be more user-friendly, and technical support is lacking in Iran."
"Improvement areas for Altaro VM Backup include enhancing backup and deduplication solutions for continuous operation and offering an all-in-one solution for hardware backup."
"Basically, how it works is that you have a single local drive, and then you have a cloud backup. It'd be nice if you could rotate the single local backup drive. As of now, you can't."
"Backup speed and comparisons between versions used to be slow on big VMs but that was improved greatly later on."
"To improve Altaro, I would like to see the ability to choose more than one backup location at a time."
"Availability of physical server backup would be an added advantage."
"While the solution provides mostly what we need, it would be ideal if there were some additional feature capabilities for the API."
"In the future, it would be nice to have support for Zimbra email, Collabora Office, and the NextCloud content collaboration platform."
"Updating VM tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"They need a better knowledge base with more information about support issues."
"Sometimes, for some VMs and some Windows Server versions, specifically old versions (aka server 12 or older) fail due to the VSS writer error or locking file system."
"In terms of what could be improved for the next release, I would probably answer better documentation and licensing models."
"It could be a little bit faster in terms of backup and offer more reliable SQL server backups."
"The first implementation is a bit difficult but once is up and running is rock solid and extremely easy to manage."
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Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is ranked 55th in Backup and Recovery with 29 reviews while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is rated 8.6, while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup writes "Offers a comprehensive feature set offered at a competitive price". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Datto Cloud Continuity, N-able Cove Data Protection and Azure Backup, whereas NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik, Zerto and Commvault Cloud. See our Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup vs. NAKIVO Backup & Replication report.
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