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.
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NAKIVO Backup & Replication
Score 9.2 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a VM data backup solution for protecting VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, and AWS EC2 environments. It also features replication, failover, backup to cloud, backup copy, backup size reduction, screenshot verification, and site recovery through a single web interface.
$2,392.50
Pricing
Cove Data Protection
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
Editions & Modules
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Pro Essentials
$239 per CPU socket (perpetual) / $2.5 per workload/month (subscription)
Enterprise Essentials
$329 per CPU socket (perpetual) / $3.5 per workload/month (subscription)
Pro
$459 per CPU socket (perpetual) / $4 per workload/month (subscription)
Enterprise
$659 per CPU socket (perpetual) / $5.5 per workload/month (subscription)
Enterprise Plus
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Free/Freemium Version
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Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
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Additional Details
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A workload is a VMware vSphere VM, Microsoft Hyper-V VM, Nutanix AHV VM, a physical machine (1 server or 3 workstations), an Amazon EC2 instance or an Oracle database.
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The target is the same as the other vendors, but SolarWinds wins with the dashboard. with the dashboard n-able you can monitor everything starting from the state of the backups of an important server.. …
Pricing and reliability put Nakivo ahead of the others. The simplicity of installation and ease of use was also very attractive in deciding on Nakivo. Products with massive installation and configuration requirements are not suited to the SME market.
Well, I'll be really honest. The products for a small company are really similar. The very big difference between the two software is the price of the solution. Veeam Backup And Replication is the most famous software now and the price is high. Nakivo price is cheaper. For …
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.
We find that it works perfectly with Virtualized Environments: NAKIVO Backup & Replication is well-suited for virtualized environments, such as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Nutanix AHV. It provides efficient VM backup and replication, with features like incremental backups and global deduplication, optimizing storage usage and minimizing backup windows.
Similar to us NAKIVO is better suited for Small to Medium-Sized Businesses: NAKIVO Backup & Replication is an excellent choice for small to medium-sized businesses that require a cost-effective yet comprehensive data protection solution. It offers a user-friendly interface, easy deployment, and affordable licensing options.
❌ - Not Great
However with our Experience we feel that NAKIVO is not suited for Highly Transactional Systems: In scenarios where you have highly transactional systems with strict recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs), you may require specialized backup solutions tailored for such demanding environments.
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.
Can be installed natively on nas appliances leveraging the use of underutilized appliances. No need to install the software on Windows or Linux Servers.
Backup natively Vmware Virtual Machines and File Shares (you need to buy the right license modules).
Destination storage for backups (or of the backup copies) can be Microsoft shares, Amazon S3, Wasabi, Backblaze and remotely to other sites using their transporter vm.
To not overload the system with overlapping jobs, they can be chained one after the other.
Rapid add/remove/reorder priority of vm to backup and their backup archive. Jobs can be easily changed or chained.
Backups have the option of "screenshot verification". Screenshot verification doesn't always work for us when our vmtools is out of date. If we are on an older version of VMware and that version of vmtools is up to date, NAKIVO still thinks it is out of date.
Because it is a product that I have been using for many years, it is becoming easier to use, and it also includes more and more things that you might need.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is very easy to set up. I did it by myself, and it went perfectly. Online documents are very well written, and also the tech support asked to help me set it up. I want to do it by myself and the setup process is very easy to do. The connection to your VM and servers is very easy to do.
The support is fast and perfect. If u have any questions, you can contact the support team via mail or chat and you always get a fast answer. You can also find a lot of help in the FAQ in the help center to resolve your problems. Anytime I had to contact the support, they helped me and solved my problem.
It is very easy to do in all the formats in which it is implemented, whether as an appliance, in a windows machine, or an implementation in NAS. I only use the appliance one, but I have tried all of them in trial mode to know which one interested me more.
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.
Very straightforward user interface. Convenient licensing options that can fit everyone's needs - perpetual or subscription, CPU or workload based. It offers fair priced Essentials editions for smaller environments. Multi-platform support for server instances allow us to run primary backups on affordable NAS storages on budget sensitive locations, or to use NAS storages as replication targets - based on individual customer environment needs. Transporter engine has a very small footprint and, as being Linux based, does not consume Microsoft Windows Server licenses.
The pricing for VM backups is good value for money as it does not limit how many VM's per socket. This works well for smaller sites with simple backup requirements. Physical machine backup pricing would more attractive with a sliding scale based on the number of physical machines.
I contacted a few times Nakivo representatives, once for technical doubt and the other ones for commercial ones. Both support services are fast and reliable.
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.
One of our contributors has permanently deleted worksheets from our file server. From Nakivo, we were able to recover all the data in less than 10 minutes.
An authentication server was encrypted by ransomware, through NAKIVO Backup & Replication, we recover the entire server within 1 hour.
