Best Server Backup Software (2026): Top 10 Compared

Veeam sells Veeam Data Platform, built on Veeam Backup & Replication, for virtual, physical and cloud workloads. The free Community Edition protects up to 10 workloads, including Proxmox VE, VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines, Windows and Linux servers, laptops and NAS devices, and offers granular application item recovery. Veeam Data Platform Essentials extends this to 50 workloads for smaller organisations.

Larger buyers choose between three editions. Foundation is described as backup and recovery for every workload, Advanced adds proactive monitoring, analytics and threat insights, and Premium adds orchestrated recovery and full cyber resilience. The edition matrix lists instant verified recovery, continuous data protection, a hardened software appliance, AI-powered malware detection, YARA scans, validation testing and compliance reporting across the tiers. Veeam Vault cloud storage is an add-on.

Licences are metered per workload under the Veeam Universal License, which the FAQ says can move between platforms and clouds including AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Microsoft 365, Salesforce and Kasten for Kubernetes are sold and licensed separately.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication protects virtual machines on VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV and Proxmox VE, Windows and Linux physical servers, workstations, Amazon EC2 instances, NAS shares and Microsoft 365. The pricing page offers subscription and perpetual licences in Pro Essentials, Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Plus editions.

Under subscription, a workload is one virtual machine, one physical server, three workstations, one EC2 instance or one Oracle database on Enterprise Plus, and workloads can be substituted during the term. Pro Essentials covers backup, instant virtual machine boot, cross-platform recovery and immutable storage. Enterprise Essentials adds backup to cloud and tape, deduplication appliance integration, policy-based protection and multi-tenant mode. Enterprise Plus adds storage snapshot backup, Oracle backup, an HTTP API and role-based access control.

Perpetual licences come with one year of business-hours support. Prices load by region on the page, and the figures here are the USD list.

MSP360 sells MSP360 Backup Pro for standalone use and a separate Managed Backup platform for managed service providers. The Windows Server edition covers file backup, image-based backup, system state backup, bare-metal restore to similar or dissimilar hardware, restore to a cloud virtual machine, restore verification and consistency checks. Client-side AES encryption, compression, object lock and grandfather-father-son retention are listed.

The edition comparison shows the Server and SQL editions limited to 1 TB of data in cloud storage and five network shares, while Ultimate removes both limits and adds SQL Server and Exchange backup. Local backup size is unlimited on paid editions.

The software connects directly to the buyer's own storage account, so MSP360 does not host the backup data. Annual product maintenance is sold only for licences bought before the move to subscription in December 2021.

Acronis Cyber Protect combines backup with security and endpoint management. The backup component covers full-image and file-level backup for physical, virtual, cloud and mobile systems, immutable backup, rapid recovery, fail-safe patching and continuous data protection. Security features include anti-malware, exploit prevention and vulnerability assessment, and disaster recovery fails over to cloud replicas.

The purchasing page recommends Standard for fewer than five devices, Advanced for larger estates and Backup Advanced for backup-only needs on Red Hat Virtualization, KVM, Citrix Hypervisor, Nutanix AHV or Oracle LVM. Windows Server and Linux devices take a Server licence and Windows Server Essentials has its own licence.

Acronis also sells Cyber Protect Local for on-premises and air-gapped environments, and Cyber Protect Cloud through service providers.

CrashPlan sells cloud backup for endpoints, servers, Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Its server plan covers Windows and Linux servers with deduplication, compression and incremental backups, and deleted-file retention is fully customisable. Storage is pooled, so a quiet server's allowance can absorb a busier server's data.

If an account exceeds its pooled allowance, CrashPlan adds 250 GB automatically and prorates the charge at $7.50 per month to the end of the term. Backups are stored in CrashPlan's own US data centres, with AES-256 encryption at rest, TLS in transit and immutable copies. Enterprise customers with 100 or more licences can choose Azure or their own storage.

A 14-day trial requires a card. For larger server estates, CrashPlan's server page describes pricing on total protected source data rather than server count, with unlimited retention.

IDrive sells cloud backup for individuals, teams and businesses. Its server backup covers file and folder backup of Windows Server 2012 through 2025, with scheduled backups and continuous data protection that copies changes in near real time. Application coverage includes Microsoft SQL Server, on-premises Exchange and SharePoint, Oracle, system state, Hyper-V and VMware.

Data is encrypted with 256-bit AES in transit and at rest, with an optional private key that IDrive does not store. IDrive Express, a physical drive shuttle for large initial uploads or restores, is free three times a year. IDrive states SOC 2 Type 2 compliance and support by chat, phone and email around the clock.

Business plans allow unlimited users, computers and servers and are priced by storage tier.

Comet sells backup software mostly to managed service providers, resellers and IT consultants. The management console can be self-hosted or hosted by Comet, and the pricing page lists backup for Windows and Linux servers and endpoints, macOS, Hyper-V, VMware and Proxmox hosts, Microsoft 365, Exchange, SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB and Synology NAS.

Storage options are Comet Storage powered by Wasabi, any S3-compatible cloud, or a Comet Storage Gateway on the buyer's own hardware. Advanced adds security and access controls and audit logging, and Enterprise adds an air-gapped console licensing option.

Device charges accrue daily rather than as a full monthly bill, and removed devices stop accruing until reactivated. A 30-day free trial is offered.

BackupChain, from FastNeuron, is Windows backup software for servers, Hyper-V hosts and PCs. Every edition is a perpetual licence per installation, and the pricing page states unlimited backup of virtual machines, files and databases with no volume limit. Features listed across editions include file versioning, live virtual machine backup, ACL backup, speed throttling, verification, bit-rot protection and encryption.

Server Edition runs on Windows Server 2008 through 2025 and Hyper-V Server but uses at most two CPU cores and excludes granular backup and restore. Server Enterprise removes the core limit and adds granular features. Platinum adds round-the-clock support and a full service plan in which BackupChain installs and maintains the backups.

Upgrades are priced at 50 percent and volume discounts apply to multi-licence packs.

Hornetsecurity VM Backup, formerly Altaro VM Backup, protects virtual machines on Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware and Proxmox. The product page lists immutable cloud storage, native support for several cloud storage options, WAN-optimised replication, continuous data protection, concurrent backup of several VMs, grandfather-father-son archiving and Augmented Inline Deduplication across all jobs.

All hosts are managed from one console, and the page states a first backup can run within 15 minutes of installation.

The free tier for two VMs per host has no time limit, which the vendor presents as support for micro businesses. The perpetual editions differ in features, and the vendor directs buyers to its edition comparison before choosing between Standard, Unlimited and Unlimited Plus.

NetBackup is sold by Cohesity as its enterprise backup product. The page states that NetBackup manages 100 exabytes of data and describes data management, automation and an elastic architecture for hybrid cloud.

Security features include storage-agnostic immutability, adaptive multi-factor and multi-person authorisation, encryption in transit and at rest, hash-based malware and indicator searches, and AI-powered anomaly detection with automated scanning. Recovery features include orchestration with Alta View blueprints and visibility of the last known good backup.

NetBackup suits enterprises with dedicated backup teams. Smaller organisations will find the products earlier on this page closer to their scale.