NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs VM Backup

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.

VM Backup is Hornetsecurity’s backup and replication software for virtual machines running on Hyper-V, VMware, and Proxmox. It runs on Windows hosts and can schedule live backups as often as every five minutes without downtime. Recovery options include restoring a whole VM or selected files and Exchange items, moving a restore to another host, and starting a VM from backup. It supports management of the three hypervisors from one console, with a separate console for remote installations. Listed destinations include Microsoft Azure, Impossible Cloud Storage, Backblaze B2, Amazon S3, and Wasabi; the product also lists AES-256 encryption and a monitor that checks backup storage integrity and may attempt repairs in a later job. VMware backups can be restored to Hyper-V and vice versa. Proxmox LXC container backups are unsupported, and the listed requirements say Proxmox replication and CDP were not yet available in that version information. Free Edition covers two VMs per host; a fully featured trial lasts 30 days.