Trilio

Backup and recovery for OpenStack, Kubernetes and Red Hat Virtualization

As of 1 September 2026, Trilio is free to use. A data protection vendor focused on the platforms the mainstream backup products treat as afterthoughts: OpenStack, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Kubernetes. Softwr lists it under Backup. Trilio is made by Trilio Data, available on Linux, Web.

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Overview

What Trilio does

Trilio provides application-consistent backup and recovery for cloud-native and open source infrastructure platforms. TrilioVault for OpenStack protects tenant workloads with self-service restore, Trilio for Kubernetes captures application resources and persistent volume data, and the product line extends to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Red Hat Virtualization. Backups are written to NFS or S3-compatible object storage in an open format. The distinguishing position is platform coverage. Organisations running OpenStack or migrating virtual machines onto OpenShift Virtualization after the VMware licensing changes find that the large backup vendors support those platforms late and shallowly. Trilio treats them as primary targets, which is why it appears on shortlists for telco and public sector clouds that the incumbents cannot serve properly. The 2024 disruption to VMware pricing under Broadcom made that a much larger market than it was. Buyers are telcos, service providers, government and research organisations. The trade-off is vendor scale. Trilio is a small company relative to the backup incumbents, the partner ecosystem is thinner, and a buyer with a mixed estate will still run a second backup product for VMware and physical servers. Enterprise Edition pricing is by node or virtual machine on an annual basis and is quoted rather than published, though a free basic edition up to ten nodes exists.

What people use it for

A telco running an OpenStack cloud whose incumbent backup vendor supports it only through generic agents
An organisation migrating virtual machines from VMware to OpenShift Virtualization and needing protection on the new platform from day one
A research institution protecting tenant workloads where each tenant should restore its own data without a ticket
A platform team wanting to evaluate Kubernetes backup properly on ten nodes before committing budget

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Trilio.

Coverage is deliberately narrow, so a mixed estate with VMware and physical servers needs a second backup product and two sets of restore procedures.
Trilio is a small vendor next to the backup incumbents, and buyers with ten year retention obligations should assess the risk of the company being acquired or wound down.
Enterprise pricing is per node or per virtual machine and is not published, which makes it hard to compare against per-terabyte competitors without going through sales.
The free basic edition stops at ten nodes with community support only, so the step from evaluation to production is a full commercial negotiation rather than a tier upgrade.
Restore performance depends on the object storage or NFS target you supply, and egress charges from a cloud object store during a large recovery sit outside the vendor quote entirely.

Cross-shopped

What people choose instead of Trilio

Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

Triliovs
Veeam Backup & Replication
Veeam Backup & Replication: Veeam Backup & Replication for a mixed estate where VMware and physical servers dominate
Triliovs
Velero
Velero: Velero if the requirement is Kubernetes only and community support is acceptable
Triliovs
Commvault Complete Data Protection
Commvault Complete Data Protection: Commvault where one vendor across every platform matters more than depth on OpenStack

Pricing

What Trilio costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Basic Edition

Free

Up to ten nodes
No time limit
Community support only
Full backup and restore functionality

Enterprise Edition

On request

Priced per node or per virtual machine annually
No scale limits
OpenStack, Kubernetes, OpenShift and Red Hat Virtualization
Vendor support included
Price quoted, not published

Capabilities

Features

OpenStack backup
Tenant-level protection with self-service restore for OpenStack clouds
Kubernetes backup
Application resources and persistent volume data captured together
OpenShift Virtualization
Protection for virtual machines running on OpenShift
Open format backups
Backups written in an open format to NFS or S3-compatible storage
Incremental forever
Incremental backups after the initial full copy
Self-service restore
Tenants recover their own workloads without administrator involvement
Free basic edition
Up to ten nodes at no cost

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

Is the free edition production usable?

It is functionally complete up to ten nodes with community support only. Use it to evaluate, but understand that production incidents have no vendor behind them at that tier.

Does it support OpenShift Virtualization?

Yes, which is the main reason it appears on shortlists for organisations moving virtual machines off VMware.

Where are backups stored?

On NFS or S3-compatible object storage you provide, in an open format rather than a proprietary vendor container.

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Softwr does not host reviews and shows no star rating for Trilio, because a rating we did not collect is not ours to publish. What is here is the pricing and platform detail from the vendor’s own pages, limitations we could state concretely, and alternatives a reviewer confirmed people weigh against it. Tell us if any of it is wrong.

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