ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus vs NAKIVO Backup & Replication

ManageEngine RecoveryManager Plus is a web-based enterprise backup product for Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, on-premises Exchange, and Zoho WorkDrive. For Microsoft 365, it backs up and restores Exchange Online mailboxes, SharePoint Online sites and libraries, and OneDrive for Business files and folders. Scheduled incremental backups can capture changes since the previous cycle. Configurable retention and selective restoration let users recover chosen mailbox items or documents. Backups can go to local repositories, NAS, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Files, AWS S3, Wasabi, and other S3-compatible repositories. The product supports immutable cloud backups in several of those services and can forward audit logs to a syslog server. It also supports two-factor authentication and single sign-on, and records timestamped application logs. The software installs on Windows Server or Windows 7 and above, then opens in a web browser. A free edition and fully functional 30-day trial are available. Annual paid plans are listed for specific components and capacities, including Exchange, Active Directory, SharePoint/Teams, OneDrive, Google Workspace, and WorkDrive.

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.