# NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs restic

| Attribute | NAKIVO Backup & Replication | restic |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 12 (15% (low)) | 40 (28% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 20 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 2 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 35,740 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"air_gapped":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Agentless backup solution designed to protect virtual machines, physical servers, cloud instances, and enterprise applications. Offers automated protection policies, point-in-time recovery, multiple backup destinations, and built-in safeguards against ransomware. | Free and open source backup program supporting Linux, macOS, Windows and other systems, with ability to store backups to multiple backends including self-hosted and cloud services. |
| integrations.count | 18 | 3 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"VMware vSphere"},{"name":"Proxmox VE"},{"name":"Hyper-V"},{"name":"AWS EC2"},{"name":"Nutanix AHV"},{"name":"Microsoft Office 365"},{"name":"Oracle"},{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"Microsoft Azure"},{"name":"Wasabi"},{"name":"Backblaze B2"},{"name":"S3-compatible cloud platforms"},{"name":"NEC HYDRAstor"},{"name":"HPE StoreOnce Catalyst"},{"name":"QNAP NAS"},{"name":"NAS"},{"name":"SMB/NFS file shares"},{"name":"Tape"}]` | `[{"name":"Google Cloud Storage"},{"name":"Microsoft Azure Blob Storage"},{"name":"SFTP"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Go |
| license.spdx | - | BSD-2-Clause |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","summary":"Subscription and perpetual licensing available. Free trial offered. Trade-in pricing from $180 per socket.","currency":"USD","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.nakivo.com/fr/how-to-buy/pricing_calculator/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-18T22:10:03.741Z","billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://restic.net","retrievedAt":"2026-08-20T16:34:25.252Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | no | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | free |
| pricing.transparent | no | - |
| release.cadence_days | - | 77 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.19.1","date":"2026-07-05T08:13:33Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.19.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.19.0","date":"2026-06-09T17:06:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.19.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.18.1","date":"2025-09-21T18:24:38Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.18.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.18.0","date":"2025-03-27T19:34:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.18.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.17.3","date":"2024-11-08T19:52:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.17.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.17.2","date":"2024-10-27T15:55:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.17.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.17.1","date":"2024-09-05T19:41:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.17.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.17.0","date":"2024-07-26T09:45:09Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.17.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.16.5","date":"2024-07-01T19:42:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.16.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.16.4","date":"2024-02-04T19:18:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.16.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.16.3","date":"2024-01-14T19:36:47Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.16.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.16.2","date":"2023-10-29T19:05:02Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.16.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.16.1","date":"2023-10-24T18:20:39Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.16.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.16.0","date":"2023-07-31T18:39:51Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.16.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.15.2","date":"2023-04-24T18:40:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.15.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.15.1","date":"2023-01-30T20:10:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.15.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.15.0","date":"2023-01-12T20:08:36Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.15.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.14.0","date":"2022-08-25T18:14:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.13.1","date":"2022-04-10T09:34:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.13.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.13.0","date":"2022-03-26T19:37:57Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.13.0"}]` |
| security.scorecard | - | 7.3 |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Frestic%2Frestic&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Backup Recovery)

| Capability | NAKIVO Backup & Replication | restic |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Backup method | - | - |
| Immutable storage | - | - |
| Air gapped copy | - | - |
| Dr orchestration failover | - | - |
| Instant recovery | - | - |
| Ransomware anomaly detection | - | - |
| Granular item recovery | - | - |
| Kubernetes backup | - | - |
| Multi cloud support | - | - |
| Deployment model | - | - |
| Multi tenant msp | - | - |
| Deduplication compression | - | - |
| Licensing model | - | - |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T14:46:01.714Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*