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Cove Data Protection

Score9.2 out of 10

65 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Cove Data Protection?

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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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Cove Data Protection has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 65 ratings of Cove Data Protection's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Backup to the cloud

    Ability to store and back up data to the cloud

    Category average: 8.3

  • Snapshots

    Ability to take regular snapshots to ensure that Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is met

    Category average: 8.4

  • Deduplication and file compression

    Integrated deduplication and compression capabilities

    Category average: 8.4

Areas for Improvement

  • Platform support

    Product supports multiple operating systems and applications

    Category average: 8.7

  • Multiple backup destinations

    Multiple backup destinations is the ability to backup data to more than one location

    Category average: 8.5

  • Universal recovery

    Universal recovery is the ability to restore backups to any machine regardless of the platform

    Category average: 8.5

Reviews

What users are saying about Cove Data Protection.
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Backups that Give Peace of Mind

Scott Brewster
Chief Technology Officer in Information Technology at DNA Solutions and Consulting (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a managed services provider (MSP), we strive to provide the best in breed solutions for our clients. Cove Data Protection addresses the need to take quality backups of many different devices, prove that a restoration is possible, and prove we can have it joined back to the network in case of an actual loss of the hardware for any number of reasons. Users range from non-profits to retail, healthcare, and others. It meets the compliance needs of these industries.

Pros

  • Successful backups
  • Successful restoration
  • Integrates back into the network from a restore

Cons

  • Prettier reports
  • Use a different login instead of SSO from the rest of the n-Able platform for security purposes
  • I don't know

Return on Investment

  • My tech spends very little time troubleshooting, so saving hours
  • The monthly cost for us is less than when we used other platforms
  • Customers are happier

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Datto ALTO, Datto SIRIS, Datto SaaS Protection and Infrascale

Other Software Used

N-able Passportal, Huntress, NinjaOne

Cove Data Protection - Great Backup Solution

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cove to backup a majority of our workstations that we support in our MSP business.

Cove not only backs up workstation files and system state, but is also leveraged to backup 365 tenants, including email, calendars, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams data.

We additionally use Cove to backup servers and network folders.

Pros

  • File-based backups
  • Backup of a majority of all Microsoft 365 data
  • Making restores of data easy

Cons

  • Some of the settings that need to be configured per install need to be done manually
  • Some reporting of failed backups doesn't fit our workflow
  • Linux support is there, but minimal compared to other operating systems

Return on Investment

  • Cove provides an affordable backup solution for our clients
  • Storage costs are done in a manageable and fair manner
  • Overages are well communicated and are easy to spot / resolve

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Veeam ONE

Cove Data Protection - Our go-to Cloud Backup solution

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Research & Development (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cove Data Protection is our go-to solution for quick deployment of Cloud Backups for Servers. Especially the minimal bandwidth it uses for incremental backups is very impressive compared to other (non cloud-native) backup solutions. It integrates well with our RMM platform (N-Central) for Deployment and Monitoring. The options to do scheduled Disaster Recovery testing on their end also provides a upsell to our customers.

Pros

  • Optimised Incremental Backups (Very small upload sizes)
  • Deployment is very fast and easy, no "complex" infrastructure required
  • Easy to use UI which and centralized management and monitoring
  • Always CloudBased backup which cannot be deleted on the endpoints which adds a great layer of security.

Cons

  • While being very impressive at upload sizes it comes with the downside that backups itself are a bit slower
  • Bare Metal Recovery is more involved than other Image Based Solutions
  • Bare Metal Recovery of Cloud VM's (Azure) are not possible.

Return on Investment

  • Very fast / scripted installations means it is very fast to deploy without much effort/time from Techs
  • Good Pricing structure

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Veeam Data Platform, Acronis Advanced Backup, Cloudberry, Arcserve ShadowProtect and BackupAssist

Other Software Used

Veeam Data Platform, Arcserve ShadowProtect, Acronis Advanced Backup

One of the best Cloud Backups tools on the market

Incentivized
Lucas BurnettView profile
Sales Director in Sales at Impact ICT (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cove to handle all of our Office 365 backups, along with some workstation and server related backups. This provides both ourselves and customers piece of mind that their critical data is being backed up and is safe.

Cove offers multiple backups per day with a long 7 year retention timeframe

Pros

  • Office 365 Backups
  • Restoration Options
  • Simple to setup

Cons

  • The UI could do with some work

Return on Investment

  • Cove has a positive effect on our business with an almost instant ROI. Great margins

Other Software Used

HaloPSA, NinjaOne

Great backup product for disaster recovery

Incentivized
Scott BeukelmanView profile
Network Engineer in Information Technology at Santel Communications Cooperative (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cove data protection as an MSP for over 200 servers and over 100 workstations for our managed clients. Cove helps us greatly to make sure customer machines are backed up a regular basis. Also disaster recovery is well taken care of with this product and we have no worries about doing a file restore or a full disaster image restore. We even use this product to migrate servers to other locations at times.

Pros

  • Disaster Recover
  • Test restores
  • quick backups

Cons

  • Errors with system state backups

Return on Investment

  • Positive impact helping customers know their backup is taken care of

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