Why I switched from Veeam to Nakivo: Deduplication!

Just purchased a two socket Essentials Pro license. Been very very happy with Nakivo and I'd also recommend it over Veeam or Unitrends. It's stupid easy to setup and use compared to those other two.
 
I've been dealing with Nakivo since 2 years in different companies. Never had any issues, if had questions the support willingly helped me. I like the flat design which is very easy to use. I would buy it again.
 
I evaluated Veeam a few years ago, and had similar findings to Thuleman when comparing it to my existing backup solution.

For me, deduplication across my entire backup repository was more important than any of the fancy bells and whistles that I'd rarely (or never) use.

I was really put off by the shadiness of Veeam's marketing... particularly as it relates to its dedupe capabilities and "agentless" backups.

What really tore it was the pricing. 31K to get into Veeam vs 6K to maintain our existing solution.
 
be careful with that

if you'd get some silent data corruption over your chunk database

you'll lose all of your backups including seeds and increments

veeam doesn't dedupe between seeds so you lose some space but you can recover something 100%

fyi

SDMatt said:
I evaluated Veeam a few years ago, and had similar findings to Thuleman when comparing it to my existing backup solution.

For me, deduplication across my entire backup repository was more important than any of the fancy bells and whistles that I'd rarely (or never) use.

I was really put off by the shadiness of Veeam's marketing... particularly as it relates to its dedupe capabilities and "agentless" backups.

What really tore it was the pricing. 31K to get into Veeam vs 6K to maintain our existing solution.
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I really don't worry about that... deduplication technologies have been around for quite some time now. They're mature and pretty resilient.

Furthermore, my backup solution maintains two separate deduplication "buckets" and I seriously doubt that both will fail.



Olga-SAN said:
be careful with that

if you'd get some silent data corruption over your chunk database

you'll lose all of your backups including seeds and increments

veeam doesn't dedupe between seeds so you lose some space but you can recover something 100%

fyi
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deduplication has nothing to do with data loss here

there's a silent data corruption and if it happens over dedupe chunk database

whole collection of backups will go south

microsoft maintains multiple copies only if block reaches 100 references threshold value


if you have two separate copies of your backup data you're safe though <thumbs up>

3-2-1 backup plan forever ;)
 
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