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NakivoBackup&

Replication 10. 4

Aversatileandaffordable

backupsolutionwith

unbeatableplatformsupport

andagreatsetoffeatures

PRICEEnterprise, 5 servers,perpetual

from£479excVATfromnakivo.com

N

akivo’s Backup& Replication

(NBR)softwarewillfitinto

almostanybackuprole.Itcan

berun on eitherWindows orLinux,

andNakivoalsooffersdownloadable

VMsforVMwarehostsorNutanix

AHVclusters,plusa cloudmachine

imageforAWSEC2.Alternatively,

youcanruntheserverona NAS:

packagesareoffered forAsustor,

Netgear,Qnap,Synology,Western

DigitalandFreeNASappliances,as

wellasgenericARM-based devices

andeventheRaspberryPi.

Ontheclientside,meanwhile,it

providesfullbackupservicesfor

WindowsandLinuxworkstationsand

servers,alongwithVMwarevSphere

andCloudDirector,Hyper-V,

AmazonEC2,Oracledatabasesand

Exchange,OneDriveandSharePoint

datastores.Makenomistake,it’sthe

mostversatilebackupsuitewe’ve

seen– theonlythingthat’smissingis

supportformacOS.

Therange of licensingoptionsmay

seemslightlyconfusing,butitmeans

you’renotpayingformoresystems

thanyouneedto,orforapplications

you’renotusing. Thepriceaboveis

fora perpetualfive-serverEnterprise

licence,whichincludesapplication

support,backuptoAmazon and

Wasabicloudrepositoriesand

policy-basedbackups.

ABOVENBRsupports

immutableAmazonS3

storesandprovides

rapidVMrecovery

“Youcaneasilyaddlocal,

networkorcloudstores

andenablefeaturessuchas

datareduction,encryption

andself-healing”

SCORE

stateandIPaddress.Onthevirtual

side,wewerepleasedtoseethe

optiontobackupnotjustindividual

machines butentirevSpherehosts,

ensuring thatanynewVMs

subsequentlycreatedwould be

includedinfuturebackups.

Forthepurposesofsecurearchival

andransomwareprotection,NBRalso

supportsimmutable destinations.

WhenweselectedanAmazonS3

bucketwithObject Lock enabled,an

additionaloptionappeared,allowing

ustospecifyforhowmanydays our

datashouldremainimmutable.Other

optionsincludeapplication-aware

backups, changetracking,network

encryptionand network

accelerationforbackups

runningoverslowlinks.

Restorationoptionsare

justascomprehensive,

rangingfromsimple file

andfolderrecoveryto

GRTservicesfor

recoveringSQLdatabasesand

Exchangeobjects.Ifyou’re backing

upvirtualmachinesfromVMwareor

Hyper-V,NBRcanprovideupto 30

recoverypointsforrapidrestoration

asneeded:youcanoptionally

reinstateanyoneoftheseasa new

VM,orlaunchitdirectlyfrom the

backuprepositorywithouthavingto

restore it to theoriginalserver.We

testedthelatteroptionona VMware

VMrunningWindowsServer 2 019,

andsawourtemporaryVMupand

runningin 45 seconds.

Nakivo’sBackup& Replication

10.4impressesonmanylevels.It

supportsa huge numberofplatforms

andbackupoptions,yetit’sa cinchto

use,highlyflexibleandexceedingly

goodvalue. As longasyoudon’t need

Macsupport,it’s a superbchoice.

REQUIREMENTS

Windows7/Server 2008 R2upwards,Linux

supportedNASappliance,RaspberryPi3B+

Fortesting,wewentdowntheNAS

route,installingtheNBRsoftwareon

aneight-bayQnapTS-873A appliance

runningQuTSHero.Onceinstalled,

thispresentsa localwebconsole,

whichpromptedustocreate an

adminaccountandaddclients to the

inventory.Therewasnoneedto

interactwithourtestsystemsatall:as

weselectedWindowsserversand

workstations,the backupservicewas

pushedtoeachone,whileproviding

admincredentialsforourVMware

hostsbroughttheirVMsupinthe

console,readyforagentless backup.

Allhostinstallationscreate a

defaultlocalbackuprepository,but

youcaneasilyaddlocal, networkor

cloudstoresandenablefeatures

suchasdatareduction,encryption

andself-healing.

Tocreate backupjobsyousimply

selectsystems fromtheinventory,

choosea repository, createa schedule

andselect thenumber of recovery

pointstoberetained.There’sa lotof

versatilityhere:policy-basedbackups

letyoufilterbackupsources

accordingtosearchrulessuchas

charactersina physicalmachine or

VMname,datastore location,power BELOWThesoftware

wassmoothandfully

featuredonourQnap

NASappliance