Awanio Disaster Recovery Manager vs NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Awanio Disaster Recovery Manager (DRM) coordinates virtual-machine recovery across paired Awanio Cockpit sites. Administrators enroll VMs for scheduled disk replication and set the recovery site, datastore, RPO, recovery-point retention, and traffic compression. The initial sync copies the full disk; later syncs transfer changed blocks. Recovery plans arrange workloads into ordered runbooks with priority groups and boot delays, then replicate as read-only copies to the recovery site. DRM supports isolated test failover, planned migration, emergency failover, reprotection, and failback. During a test, a workload copy boots in an isolated network while production remains untouched. Emergency failover uses the latest completed recovery point, so newer data may be lost. A deployment needs two sites, each with Cockpit and at least one Vapor host, administrator access to both, and connectivity on ports 7770, 7771, and 7772. Orchestrated recovery also requires the Disaster Recovery entitlement at both sites and a DRM license or active trial. Pricing is on request; the time-limited trial permits a small number of protected workloads.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides backup, replication, failover, backup copies, granular restore, and disaster recovery orchestration for virtual, physical, cloud, and SaaS environments. It supports image-based, application-aware, incremental backups and replication, with retention of up to 1,000 recovery points using GFS rotation. Supported workloads include VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Amazon EC2, Microsoft 365, Oracle Database, Windows and Linux machines, and NFS/SMB file shares. Site Recovery workflows can automate disaster recovery actions across VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, and Amazon EC2. Deployment is available as a virtual appliance or by installing it on a supported machine or NAS device. NAKIVO says physical machine backups use AES 256-bit encryption. Linux repositories can be password-encrypted, and repository self-healing can check data integrity and repair errors where possible. Active Directory integration and an HTTP API support monitoring, automation, and orchestration integrations. It runs on web, Windows, Linux, self-hosted environments, and via API. Subscription starts at $2.50 a month per workload; Perpetual starts at $229, paid once per CPU socket. A 15-day trial enables all features, but there is no free plan.