Backup & disaster recovery

NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Name: NAKIVO Backup & Replication
Price: Perpetual from ~$229/socket; subscription by workload

Affordable backup, replication and DR that installs straight onto a NAS.

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Reviewed by Giuseppe Tommaso Curella, Infrastructure & network engineer Updated 2026-11-05

Independent reference — this page is a review. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is downloaded from the vendor’s official site, not from here.

Platforms	Linux/Windows/NAS/virtual appliance; web UI
Licence	Freemium — proprietary; trial + Free Edition
Price	Perpetual from ~$229/socket; subscription by workload
Section	Backup & disaster recovery
Updated	2026-11-05

What it is

Easy on the budget, it covers virtual, physical and cloud environments. It protects VMs (VMware/Hyper-V/Nutanix/Proxmox), physical servers and Microsoft 365 — and it’ll install straight onto a NAS.

Problems it closes

You want enterprise-style VM backup without the enterprise price.
A NAS holds the primary storage and standing up a separate backup server beside it has little appeal.
VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, physical servers and M365 all need protecting together.

How administrators run it

Install the appliance on a supported NAS as an all-in-one backup server.
Back up and replicate VMs for DR while keeping an offsite copy.
Recover VMs, files or application objects from the web UI.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication overview tab — Screenshot: nakivo.com documentation (vendor, proprietary).

Strengths & trade-offs

Strengths

Affordable licensing, perpetual or subscription.
Runs on a NAS, so no dedicated backup server needed.
Broad hypervisor and Microsoft 365 coverage.

Trade-offs

Proprietary.
Fewer advanced features than the top-tier incumbents.

Common questions

Is there a free edition?

Yes, a limited Free Edition, with trials of the paid tiers alongside it.

Does it run on a Synology or QNAP NAS?

Yes. Installing straight onto a NAS is one of its signature deployments.

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