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NAKIVO Backup & Replication
Your VMs run on two hypervisors and your files on a NAS. Their backups shouldn’t need three tools — NAKIVO Backup & Replication backs up VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox, EC2, physical machines and NAS shares from one console, to storage you own — with a published per-workload price and failover on Enterprise editions.
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The NAKIVO platform family
This page covers NAKIVO Backup & Replication — all five editions, the Free Edition, Site Recovery and the NAS, appliance and AMI installs. The rest:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- Self-hosted backup, replication, instant recovery and Site Recovery
- Maker
- NAKIVO, Inc., Sparks, Nevada; founded 2012 by Bruce Talley and Sergei Serdyuk
- Editions
- Pro Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, Pro, Enterprise, Enterprise Plus
- Price
- From $2.45 per workload a month (1-yr) or $229 per socket perpetual
- Platforms
- VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox, EC2, physical, NAS, Oracle
- Runs on
- Windows, Linux, a NAS, a VMware or Nutanix appliance, or an EC2 AMI
- Site Recovery
- Enterprise Essentials and up; VMware, Hyper-V and EC2 only
- Security
- CVE-2024-48248 is on CISA’s KEV list, fixed; run v11.0.2 or later
- India
- NAKIVO hosts no data; your own site, or AWS Mumbai or Hyderabad
- In India via
- TechBag — edition sizing, INR quote with GST, a first restore test
Understand self-hosted backup before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is self-hosted backup?
Self-hosted backup is software you run, writing copies to storage you own, so no vendor holds your data.
A backup tool per platform vs NAKIVO Backup & Replication — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | A backup tool per platform | NAKIVO Backup & Replication |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | A different tool or script for each platform | VMs, physical, NAS, Oracle and EC2 in one console |
| Where backups live | Wherever each tool decided | Repositories you choose, immutable on Linux and cloud |
| Bringing a VM back | A full restore before anyone can work | Flash VM Boot runs it from the backup first |
| Ransomware | Hope the backup is clean | Immutable copies and a malware scan before restore |
| Price | A quote for each product | Published per-workload list price for up to 50 workloads |
| What it is NOT | — | A hosted backup cloud, or hardware NAKIVO supplies |
The cheapest test is the 15-day full trial: back up one host to your NAS, boot a VM from the backup, and time the restore.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Director
Holds the inventory, jobs, schedules and Site Recovery workflows in one browser console; licences are not counted per Transporter, so extra data movers cost nothing.
Transporter
Reads each source workload, compresses and encrypts the stream, and writes it to a repository; you place more Transporters near sources or targets as the estate grows.
Repository
A local folder, NAS or SMB/NFS share, deduplication appliance, tape library, or an S3, Azure Blob, Wasabi or Backblaze B2 bucket, immutable on Linux and cloud targets.
Install
Windows or Linux, a Synology, QNAP, ASUSTOR or TrueNAS NAS, a VMware or Nutanix virtual appliance, or a hardened EC2 AMI; NAKIVO sells software only, no hardware.
A Director and its Transporters on a NAS, VM or AMI — writing to repositories you own, immutable on Linux and cloud.
Nine capabilities. Back up, recover, harden.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication puts a mixed estate under one console, on storage you own.
Agentless backup on five platforms
Image-based backup of VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV and Proxmox VMs, plus EC2, with Proxmox handled natively since v11.
Servers and workstations
Windows and Linux machines get image backup and bare-metal recovery, and since v11.1 granular folder or volume jobs.
NAS shares, Oracle and M365
SMB and NFS shares licensed per terabyte, Oracle via RMAN on Enterprise Plus, and Microsoft 365 on its own per-user licence.
Boot a VM from its backup
Flash VM Boot runs a VM straight from the repository, and granular restore brings back single files or application objects.
Standby replicas on four platforms
Scheduled replication keeps copies of VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox and EC2 workloads ready; AHV and physical get backup only.
Ordered failover you can test
Enterprise editions chain failover, failback, scripts and checks into one job, tested on a schedule in an isolated network.
Copies ransomware cannot alter
Immutable backups on Linux repositories, S3, Wasabi, Azure Blob, Backblaze B2, HYDRAstor and Data Domain resist deletion.
Scan before you restore
Backups are scanned with ClamAV, ESET NOD32, Microsoft Defender or Sophos Intercept X first, so an infection is not restored.
Encrypted at every hop
AES-256 at the source, in flight and at rest, with AWS KMS key management, two-factor sign-in and role-based access.
Watch NAKIVO Backup & Replication in action
Replication for VMs and EC2, a Site Recovery workflow, physical machine backup, and scanning a backup for malware before restore. All from NAKIVO’s official channel.
NAKIVO Replication for VM and EC2 | Recover Without Doubt
Standby replicas for VMs and Amazon EC2 instances, and how they are kept current.
NAKIVO Site Recovery Solution | One Click to Recovery
Building an ordered failover workflow and running it as a test or for real.
NAKIVO Physical Backup: Protect Your Windows and Linux Machines
Image backup of Windows and Linux servers and workstations alongside the VMs.
How to Scan Backup Data for Malware Before Recovery in NAKIVO Backup & Replication
Checking a recovery point with an anti-malware engine before it is restored.
Want a live, India-context walkthrough for your environment?
Book a guided demo →Every platform you add brings another backup tool. NAKIVO protects them all from one console.
Here’s what genuinely sets it apart — and exactly where it stops.
A public price, with DR in the middle tier
Most products in this guide are quote-only. NAKIVO lists Pro Essentials at $2.45 per workload a month and Enterprise Essentials, which adds Site Recovery, at $3.20, both on a 1-year term in packs of five up to 50 workloads. Enterprise Plus and larger estates are quoted.
One console for a mixed, moving estate
VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox, EC2, physical machines, NAS shares and Oracle sit in one Director, and subscription units can be re-assigned between workload types. A team leaving VMware for Proxmox or AHV keeps the same tool and the same licence count.
Small footprint, storage you choose
It installs on a NAS, a Windows or Linux server, a virtual appliance or an EC2 AMI, and writes to local disk, NAS, tape, dedupe appliances or S3-compatible clouds, immutable on Linux and cloud repositories. NAKIVO keeps no copy, so where your backups live is your decision.
Where it stops
Site Recovery needs an Enterprise edition and covers VMware, Hyper-V and EC2 only; AHV has no replication. CVE-2024-48248 is on CISA’s exploited list, fixed since v11.0. Gartner gave honorable mentions only, in 2022 and 2024, and NAKIVO has no India office.
The numbers behind the platform
What your NAKIVO Backup & Replication rollout looks like
Count workloads and platforms
List every VM, server, NAS share and database by platform, and flag what needs failover, not just backup.
Pick edition, term and storage
Choose Pro or Enterprise Essentials, a 1- or 3-year term, and where repositories sit: NAS, tape, site or AWS Mumbai.
Install and run first jobs
Deploy the Director on a NAS, VM or AMI, add Transporters, enable immutability and back up a pilot group of workloads.
Prove a restore end to end
Boot a VM with Flash VM Boot, restore a file, scan a recovery point for malware, and time each against your target.
Extend and schedule DR tests
Add the remaining workloads, build Site Recovery jobs on Enterprise editions, and schedule isolated test failovers.
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“We installed it on the Synology we already had. Thirty VMs were backing up the same afternoon, with no Windows server to license.”
“Half our hosts moved from VMware to Proxmox last year. The jobs changed, the backup tool and the licence count did not.”
“The price on the website matched the partner quote. Budgeting 40 workloads on Enterprise Essentials took ten minutes.”
“Flash VM Boot had our billing server running from the NAS in minutes while the real restore copied in the background.”
“Our Nutanix cluster gets backups but no replicas, so Site Recovery does not reach it. Check your hypervisors before you buy.”
“We were on 10.x when the file-read CVE hit CISA’s list. Patching took an hour; now we track every release note.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and G2 retired its Grid. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the backup and recovery market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag Backup & Recovery Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
From $2.45 per workload a month (1-yr); $229 per socket perpetual.
Price Transparency × Recovery Depth
The grid nobody publishes — how much of the price a buyer can see before a sales call vs how much recovery the product does beyond a plain restore.
Public list price; five platforms, replication and Site Recovery.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs the backup and recovery field
Against Veeam Data Platform, Acronis Cyber Protect, N-able Cove, Datto SIRIS and Commvault Cloud — on deployment, coverage, price, scale, ransomware defence, support and India.
| Dimension | NAKIVO Backup & Replication | Veeam Data Platform | Acronis Cyber Protect | N-able Cove | Datto SIRIS | Commvault Cloud |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Self-hosted B&R suite | Self-run flagship suite | Backup + security agent | Cloud-first MSP backup | Hybrid BCDR appliance | Every-workload platform |
| Deployment | NAS, VA, AMI or server | Software, any site | Your own infrastructure | SaaS, no appliance | Box or virtual SIRIS | SaaS, software or box |
| Workloads covered | 5 platforms + physical | Six hypervisors + more | Servers, VMs, endpoints | Servers, PCs, M365 | Windows, Linux, VMs | Widest list here |
| Pricing model | Per workload or socket | Per workload (VUL) | Per device subscription | Flat rate per device | Flat fee per appliance | Per TB, by package |
| Published entry price | $2.45/workload a month | ~$250–450 reported | From $85 a device/yr | Not published | Not published | $58.50/TB a month SaaS |
| Included vs add-on | DR needs Enterprise tier | Orchestrator in Premium | Security in the agent | Storage, M365 in rate | Box, cloud, DR tests in | DR in Autonomous tier |
| Scale limits | Essentials cap: 50 | Shops to global banks | Mid-size, not petabyte | Bandwidth sets the pace | Sized per appliance | Multi-petabyte estates |
| Ransomware defence | Immutable, scanned | Hardened repos, checks | Stops and rolls back | Isolated, boot-checked | Deletion Defense | Anomaly, Threat Scan |
| Integrations and targets | Tape, dedupe, 6 clouds | ONE, tape, Kasten | One console, one agent | N-able RMM stack | Autotask PSA, Datto RMM | On-prem, edge, 3 clouds |
| Governance and SSO | 2FA, AD; RBAC top tier | MFA, four-eyes approval | Roles on your server | 2FA; SSO without SAML | Forced 2FA; MSP-held | Plans and policy SLAs |
| India storage | Yours; AWS Mumbai listed | Yours; Vault in India | Your own storage | Not in India | None; Singapore nearest | India SaaS region |
| Support | 24/7 on subscriptions | 24/7, 1 h for severity 1 | 10x5 unless Premier | 24/7, Critical Restore | 24/7 direct-to-tech | 24x7, 30-min Sev 1 |
| Lock-in and exit | Restores after expiry | Portable licence | Your disks, its format | History in N-able cloud | Box goes back | One platform for all |
| Best fit | Mid-size mixed estates | VMware, Hyper-V shops | Backup plus endpoint AV | Hardware-free MSPs | MSP-run SMB sites | Large, regulated estates |
Which approach fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose NAKIVO Backup & Replication if…
- ✓You want a published per-workload price, and Site Recovery included from $3.20 a month on Enterprise Essentials
- ✓Your estate mixes VMware with Hyper-V, Proxmox or Nutanix AHV and you want one console and one licence pool
- ✓Backups must stay on storage you own — a NAS, tape, your Indian site or an AWS Mumbai bucket
Compare alternatives if…
- ✓You need continuous replication on many hypervisors — Veeam’s CDP and Commvault go further
- ✓You want no backup server at all — Cove and Datto SIRIS put the storage and DR site in their clouds
- ✓You run Kubernetes, 100+ database types or petabytes — Commvault covers the long tail
Do not expect…
- ✓A NAKIVO-hosted backup cloud or an India office
- ✓Site Recovery for Proxmox, Nutanix AHV or physical machines, or in the Pro editions
- ✓A Gartner Magic Quadrant placement — only honorable mentions in 2022 and 2024
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is one of 27 backup & recovery products TechBag carries. The Backup & Recovery guide narrows them to a shortlist and shows the reasoning. →
What does running backup platform by platform cost you?
Drag the sliders (workloads you protect; IT staff-hour cost). Estimates model staff time spent running separate backup tools per platform, checking failed jobs and doing slow full restores, at an assumed 1.5 hours per workload a year, with 70% of it removed by one console, instant VM boot and scheduled restore tests. Both figures are assumptions. Illustrative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models your actual environment and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Published, in USD. Pro Essentials is $2.45 per workload a month and Enterprise Essentials, which adds Site Recovery, $3.20, both on a 1-year term ($1.95 and $2.55 on 3 years), billed yearly in packs of five from 5 to 50 workloads. Perpetual licences start at $229 per CPU socket (Pro Essentials) or $329 (Enterprise Essentials), with a year of business-hours support. Pro, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus are contact-sales. These are suggested retail prices excluding GST, and NAKIVO shows no rupee price; the real promotion is a 5% trade-in discount. Storage is your own cost. TechBag sizes the edition first, then quotes in INR with GST.
Pro Essentials
Best for backup-only estates up to 50 workloads
- $2.45 per workload a month, 1-year term
- $229 per socket perpetual
- Backup, replication, instant recovery
+ Platform add-ons
Best for a broader rollout
- Scoped to your estate
- Add-on modules as needed
- Phased, right-sized deployment
Enterprise Essentials
Best when you also need ordered failover
- $3.20 per workload a month, 1-year term
- $329 per socket perpetual
- Adds Site Recovery, tape and cloud targets
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
Get an India-ready quote
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The 8 questions to ask every vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
Which hypervisors do you run? Site Recovery covers VMware, Hyper-V and EC2; Nutanix AHV gets backup only.
Do you need failover workflows? Site Recovery starts at Enterprise Essentials; Pro Essentials and Pro lack it.
Will you stay under 50 workloads? Above that the Essentials editions stop and Pro or Enterprise is quoted.
Subscription or perpetual? The two cannot be mixed in one deployment, and only subscriptions get 24/7 support.
Where will repositories live — NAS, tape, your Indian site, or AWS Mumbai? NAKIVO hosts no copy for you.
Is at least one copy immutable, on a Linux repository or a cloud bucket, and out of reach of domain admins?
Are you on v11.0.2 or later? CVE-2024-48248 is on CISA’s exploited list; the current release is v11.2.3.
Who runs a timed restore every quarter, and who keeps the evidence your auditors or regulator will ask for?
Questions buyers ask
Ready to evaluate NAKIVO Backup & Replication?
Count your workloads by platform first, or let a TechBag advisor pick the edition, size immutable storage in India and quote in INR with GST.
Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.