NovaStor NovaBACKUP vs Veeam Data Platform comparison

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NovaStor and Veeam Software are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. NovaStor is ranked #64, while Veeam Software is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.9. NovaStor holds a 0.7% mindshare in BRS, compared to Veeam Software’s 5.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of NovaStor users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Veeam Software users who would recommend it.

NovaStor NovaBACKUP

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100% willing to recommend

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 1, 2026

NovaStor NovaBACKUP and Veeam Data Platform are competing in the data backup and recovery space. Veeam Data Platform often has the upper hand with its comprehensive functionalities that justify its higher price point.

Features: NovaStor NovaBACKUP focuses on affordability, supporting small to medium businesses with its easy use and quick backup. It offers both local and cloud storage options. Veeam Data Platform provides advanced cloud data management, automation, and is designed for enterprise-level needs, making it suitable for complex systems.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NovaStor NovaBACKUP is known for straightforward deployment and responsive customer support. Veeam Data Platform requires complex deployment, but offers extensive resources and robust service for large IT environments, fitting more technically skilled teams.

Pricing and ROI: NovaStor NovaBACKUP is budget-friendly, ideal for businesses with low setup costs and simple needs. Veeam Data Platform has higher initial costs but provides significant ROI through its extensive features for businesses with large data management demands.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

NovaStor NovaBACKUP

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

64th

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

32nd

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Veeam Data Platform

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

1st

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

2nd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

434

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of NovaStor NovaBACKUP is 0.7%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veeam Data Platform is 5.6%, down from 9.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Veeam Data Platform	5.6%
NovaStor NovaBACKUP	0.7%
Other	93.7%

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Rainer Kummerfeldt

IT-Teamleader at Bechtle

Easy to work and offers features for tape backups, disk backups, and whatever you want

NovaStor NovaBACKUP is still working on new features because they listen to the customers and integrate their needs into new versions. You can see they make progress with each new version. They are much faster than IBM, where you sometimes have to wait years for new features. It is very quick and fast. NovaStor have big competitors like Veeam, which is very fast and aggressive. It's good, but it depends on the price. I think NovaStor might be cheaper. They have a direct connection to their developers and sales teams, which makes getting answers very fast. Veeam has a lot of features, like a special reporting tool. However, I've heard from some customers that Veeam wasn't always the right decision because it couldn't work with their environment. But Veeam has aggressive marketing, which is why they are probably in first place at the moment, besides Commvault. IBM has lost its competitive edge and is trying to catch up, but it might be too late.

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Munichandra G

Backup Engineer at Cloud4C Services

Backup policies have strengthened security and replication but still need flexible long-term retention

The support and compatibility are areas of concern. When it comes to Azure workloads, Veeam Data Platform has limitations with only MS SQL database and Cosmos, and no other databases are supported by Veeam Backup for Azure. The main challenge I noticed is that enterprise customers may have a requirement to retain backups for 10 years or 15 years with monthly and weekly backups. In Veeam Data Platform, we do not have customization or compatibility to retain specific data backups as monthly and yearly. The retention schedule is fixed. For instance, it is the first Friday of the backup or the last Friday of the month. If it is weekly, it should be one of the weeks. If it is monthly, it should be the last Friday. For yearly, it is the last Friday of that respective month in that year. However, this should not be the case. When a customer confirms, 'Please go and take an EOD backup and retain it for 10 years,' Veeam Data Platform does not support this sort of customization. I even raised a case with Veeam Data Platform and they clearly stated that Veeam Data Platform only accepts the GFS policy according to the retention defined, and there is no customization available. This is a significant limitation. I should have the customization to go and take a backup of a specific date, month, or year, but Veeam Data Platform does not allow this and restricts me to only the policy supported. For example, if I take any backup, I do not have an option to extend the retention. If a customer asks, 'Please take a backup,' and later requests, 'No, it is very critical. Can you please extend the retention for 15 years?' Veeam Data Platform does not support this. Veeam Data Platform does not allow me to extend the retention in the way other tools do. These are limitations I came across in my experience, and I feel these are minimal requirements. The same features are offered by other third-party backup tools available in the market. From the analytics point of view, I personally feel some challenges. Veeam Data Platform has two different products: VBR and Veeam Backup for Azure. As we are running on cloud platforms, if we are in Azure, we must go for Veeam Backup for Azure. If we need to create copy jobs, I must again come to VBR. However, Veeam ONE is not capable enough to integrate both platforms. For instance, if I am taking backup of workloads through Veeam Backup for Azure, I could not find an option to integrate it into Veeam ONE for reports and analytics. It is only limited to VBR. Whatever jobs we created in VBR are displayed there, but Veeam Backup for Azure does not integrate, at least from what I have explored, and it should not be this way. Veeam ONE should support all Veeam Data Platform products.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It is a very good and easy-to-use tool for non-technical people."

"NovaBACKUP protects your entire system with a single solution."

"It's the easiest way to configure it."

"I would recommend the solution to others for its ease-of-use."

"The solution is very user-friendly."

"Features with the most value are Instant VM Recovery, SQL Explorer and Exchange Explorer."

"We managed to restore all of the VMs from Veeam and disaster recovery was executed as expected within our SLA."

"The flexibility is the most valuable feature; it is an all-in-one solution for all kinds of infrastructure (physical, cloud, VM)."

"The flexibility provided by Veeam Data Platform's hybrid deployment options is very simple, efficient, and user-friendly."

"We were looking for a solution for a long time to replicate a very old database running on a VM, and finally, using this product, we are able to do it."

"Veeam Data Platform copies data very efficiently."

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Cons

"The room for improvement lies in the compatibility of NovaBACKUP with older operating systems."

"The price of NovaStor NovaBACKUP is an area that can be considered as a weakness or drawback, where improvements are required."

"It would be nice if the solution scanned for malware in the backups."

"Veeam Backup and Replication is a very good product, but there's room for improvement."

"We struggled to stabilize the application. We had an incident which resulted in a loss of data and have terminated this solution due to lack of support from the Veeam team."

"Unfortunately, the software only runs on Windows and can't take backups of Linux or other operating systems."

"If a single file is corrupt then the restoration of the entire backup will fail."

"If you have a simple environment, Veeam is useful, but when it comes to scalability and you have a more complex environment, it isn't a good solution for advanced customers that want business continuity or have more complex data centers."

"The integration with other solutions should be improved."

"Needs better integration with cloud service providers."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"My company has to make yearly payments towards the solution's maintenance and support."

"Its software solution has a fee."

"Its licensing is very simple. We can make changes very easily."

"Pricing is not the cheapest, but you get a lot of value for your money."

"The cost is based on the number of core servers."

"Veeam has been raising its prices in the last two years, so it's now lacking some competitiveness in pricing."

"The pricing depends on the number of clients. We pay 10,00 USD per year. On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the pricing an eight out of ten."

"Veeam Backup Replication has a lot of free features. We have a mixture of the paid versions as well as the community version. They are really helpful to us."

"I acknowledge there are concerns about pricing, specifically in gaining more customers for VM. We've encountered difficulties in convincing them due to pricing issues. So, I rate it a six."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Construction Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Outsourcing Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	218
Midsize Enterprise	98
Large Enterprise	144

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Also Known As

NovaBACKUP

Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE, Veeam Backup & Replication

Overview

NovaStor NovaBACKUP offers a reliable and secure data backup strategy designed for small and medium businesses, ensuring data protection with minimal effort. The software simplifies disaster recovery and regular backups, providing peace of mind.

NovaStor NovaBACKUP is an industry-recognized software that provides comprehensive backup functionality. It supports seamless integration with multiple platforms and is engineered to back up both physical and virtual environments. The software provides automatic backups, streamlined data recovery processes, and robust encryption for data security, making it a trusted choice for IT professionals seeking to secure crucial data.

What are the key features of NovaStor NovaBACKUP?

Automatic Scheduling: Set it once and let backups run with zero intervention.
Cross-Platform Compatibility: Operates smoothly across Windows servers and workstations.
Remote Management: Administer multiple installations from a centralized location.
Data Compression: Reduces storage space by compressing files effectively.

What benefits should users expect?

Cost Efficiency: Minimize hardware and software expenses with efficient resource management.
Improved Productivity: Automates routine backups, freeing up IT staff for other tasks.
Data Security: Employs advanced encryption techniques for safeguarding sensitive data.

NovaStor NovaBACKUP is a versatile tool that finds application across industries like finance, healthcare, and education, addressing specific data protection and compliance requirements. By offering support for complex environments, it reduces risk while maintaining operational continuity, proving particularly beneficial in regulatory environments.

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Veeam Data Platform is a unified data resilience solution that helps organizations recover from cyberattacks and outages, and protect workloads across hybrid and multicloud environments – all without vendor lock-in.

The platform includes built-in security capabilities designed to mitigate ransomware and other data-loss threats, including AI-backed threat detection across a broad range of workload types. This is intended to help teams identify and respond to threats before they disrupt operations.

Veeam Data Platform supports workload portability across hypervisors, cloud providers, and on-premises environments, allowing organizations to move or recover data across infrastructure without being tied to a specific vendor or platform.

For organizations looking to simplify deployment, Veeam Software Appliance provides a pre-built, hardened, and highly available option, reducing the manual setup and maintenance work required from IT teams.

Veeam Data Platform is used by over 550,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500.

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Ex'pression College, Osborne Wood Products Inc., REIT Technologies

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