Arcserve Backup vs. Cove Data Protection

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Arcserve Backup
Score 6.1 out of 10
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Arcserve Backup is a storage management solution from Arcserve, formerly of CA Technologies before Arcserve's divestiture (July 2014). It utilizes magnetic tape storage backup as part of its storage management offering.N/A
Cove Data Protection
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Cove Data Protection (formerly N-Able Backup) is designed to cover servers, datacenters, applications, and workstations, and is provided to ensure business continuity and at-a-glance assessment and fast issue resolution via customizable dashboard.N/A
Pricing
Arcserve BackupCove Data Protection
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Arcserve BackupCove Data Protection
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
Arcserve BackupCove Data Protection
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Arcserve Backup
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Ratings
Cove Data Protection
8.3
16 Ratings
2% above category average
Universal recovery00 Ratings8.413 Ratings
Instant recovery00 Ratings9.213 Ratings
Recovery verification00 Ratings8.314 Ratings
Business application protection00 Ratings8.413 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings6.715 Ratings
Incremental backup identification00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
Backup to the cloud00 Ratings9.915 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings9.215 Ratings
Snapshots00 Ratings7.211 Ratings
Flexible deployment00 Ratings8.514 Ratings
Management dashboard00 Ratings7.816 Ratings
Platform support00 Ratings8.215 Ratings
Retention options00 Ratings9.116 Ratings
Encryption00 Ratings7.915 Ratings
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User Ratings
Arcserve BackupCove Data Protection
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(7 ratings)
9.3
(16 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.6
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.8
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Arcserve BackupCove Data Protection
Likelihood to Recommend
Arcserve
Arcserve UDP is fully suited for small to large size environments that need complete data protection solutions with the ability to run the fastest backups, replications, instant VM and DR.
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N-able
Solarwinds Backup is ideal for individuals looking to keep a consistent backup of devices in their environment. We used it primarily for networking equipment. It is easy to set up, as it is one of the steps available when adding a new device to solarwinds. It is probably not an ideal product to use for long-term (1 month+) backups.
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Pros
Arcserve
  • Arcserve Backup has many offerings to fit many business sizes and needs.
  • It offers excellent features like dedupe, high availability, DR, and BMR.
  • Arcserve Backup sales and technical support is good to work with.
  • Very nice reseller program and benefits.
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N-able
  • Backup Reporting: Email alerts, and a great, easy to read Dashboard with detailed error logs and an easy to search Solarwinds FAQ for a lot of them.
  • Restores: So far I have restored files, full VMs, and VMs to other hardware, and so far it has not only been flawless, but so flexible that I can't imagine going back to any other software.
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Cons
Arcserve
  • Has a steep learning curve to the product, if not experienced in backup solutions.
  • Windows backup and restore functionality is excellent, however, we have found Linux somewhat lacking.
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N-able
  • Restore complete settings: IP settings, the setting of CPU/Memory for VMs, etc. would decrease management during a restore.
  • Individual file backup: more granular settings for backup.
  • Change of device name after setup: at times, computer names change after restore so it would be great to rename the device name.
  • Option to recovery security key.
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Likelihood to Renew
Arcserve
Arcserve UDP provides our organization lots of benefits and it is much more than a simple backup and restore solution. We use it for cross platform DR, storage agnostic replications, DR solution instead of VMware SRM and more.
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N-able
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Usability
Arcserve
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N-able
Because is a flexible, easy-to-use, complete solution.
it has a complete support site, you can find everything you need.
it can script everything on your network,
it can remote control the pc's and server of your customers.
it can restore from everywhere files and databases.
it can backup quickly and compress finely every kind of data
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Support Rating
Arcserve
Arcserve Backup support is usually very good. Their chat is usually able to fix most general issues, but will escalate more in depth issues to technical engineers that call you back. Their product knowledge is really good and usually resolve issues promptly.
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N-able
We have an Italian support partner, they are been very good b7y the first moment.
All the partners are followed with a lot of attention, even the little ones.
there is a site where you can learn everything, the single parts of the product are described perfectly.
Every it specialist should evaluate it.
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Alternatives Considered
Arcserve
We use Veeam Backup and Replication at our larger sites where Vmware Virtualization is being used and is our product of choice in this venue. When it comes to our smaller sites, nothing is more affordable and reliable than Arcserve Backup.
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N-able
Cove is able to cover all aspects of backup in a single package. From the same dashboard I can check servers, workstations, and even Office 365. Cove is a much better solution in terms of overall management for a company such as ours. It also provides integration options with N-Able's RMM and Take Control solutions. This allows us to offer our customers with a full service suite in a single package.
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Return on Investment
Arcserve
  • Deploying Arcserve UDP with the "copy-to-tape" option allowed us to reuse well over 50 LTO5 tapes used by our previous backup solution. Further, we extended data retention on site (maintaining monthly backups on disk) as well as extending off site data retention on tape.
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N-able
  • There has been NO negative impact to out ROI, but it definitely helps our bottom line. Affordable pricing and solid support make Solarwinds Backup almost a no brainer. That interprets to a growing ROI.
  • The best thing to happen to our ROI is the growth brought in by very happy clients.
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