Cove Data Protection

Score9.1 out of 10

65 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Cove Data Protection are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Easy to use and navigate: Many users have praised the backup solution for its intuitive and user-friendly interface, making it easy to set up, monitor backups, and perform various tasks such as creating daily backups or performing SQL backups with just a few clicks.

Effective system recovery: The system state backups provided by the solution have been highly regarded by reviewers for their effectiveness in recovering systems and data from dead machines. This feature has proven valuable in ensuring business continuity and minimizing downtime.

Flexible restore options: Users have commended the backup solution for its flexibility in restoring files, full virtual machines, and virtual machines to different hardware. This functionality allows for seamless restoration of data while providing the necessary flexibility to adapt to changing infrastructure requirements.

Reviews

19 Reviews

Cove Data Protection - Our go-to Cloud Backup solution

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 30, 2024

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

For scenarios where upload bandwidth is limited Cove Data Protection is our go-to. It also provides us with a very easy method to deploy, manage and monitor all of the endpoints in a easy to use UI. It also requires no additional hardware requirements, a NAS or other storage is optional to provide a local cache (Speedvault) but in scenario's where no other hardware is available it's a great option. (compared to more traditional backup solutions who need a specific VM to run on and onprem storage)

Verified User

Employee in Research & Development (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

Cove Data Protection - Great Backup Solution

Rating: 10 out of 10

October 25, 2024

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Cove Data Protection is well suited to a lot of scenarios, including use by MSP's for backing up client workstations, servers, Microsoft 365 tenants, and network shares. File-based backups make the storage less, and the restoration time of individual files very fast.
Cove is not applicable to Google tenants, requiring another solution for Google Workspace clients.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Backups that Give Peace of Mind

Rating: 10 out of 10

October 8, 2024

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

Likelihood to Recommend

While you can integrate a NAS to backup locally and then to the cloud to preserve some network bandwidth, we only use direct to cloud. We've not noticed a drop in bandwidth, but I would suggest doing the NAS to cloud option if you were backing up dozens of devices from the same office. That said, it has been ideal for our clients who have a lot of people working remotely. We have it working well for servers, workstations, and laptops. Failed backup attempts only show when the user has turned off the computer. In almost 10 months, we've not had one server with a backup failure.

Scott Brewster

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

Vetted Review

Reseller

1 year of experience

One of the best Cloud Backups tools on the market

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 15, 2024

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

Likelihood to Recommend

If you require backups for your Office 365 clients, including OneDrive, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Teams. Cove is the best product on the market in teams of features and price

Lucas Burnett

Sales Director in Sales at Impact ICT (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

9 years of experience

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Great backup product for disaster recovery

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 23, 2023

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for all server backups, on premise and cloud hosted.

Scott Beukelman

Network Engineer in Information Technology at Santel Communications Cooperative (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

15 years of experience

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A Great Solution Even If it Has Room For Improvement

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 25, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We offer Cove as a backup solution to our contract customers for both servers and workstations. We are currently utilizing it to protect and backup over 200 devices across multiple organizations. In our line of work, this has been one of the best defenses against ransomware attacks but has also helped us to recover documents that have been accidentally deleted or lost as well as recover from unexpected hardware crashes.

Pros

Individual file recovery
Full system backup/recovery
Backup archiving

Cons

Reporting
Troubleshooting information/tools
Notifications

Likelihood to Recommend

Recovering specific files back to their original or to a new location. Full recovery of a system after a ransomware attack or hardware failure. Has decent integration with N-Able RMM. Checking and troubleshooting backup health can be problematic as the error codes do not clearly indicate the cause of the issue. Providing customers with data and reporting is sometimes lacking.

Aaron Highsmith

Help Desk Technician in Information Technology at Paradigm Technologies (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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N-Able Backup.. and you don't need to move from your office anymore :)

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 6, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

N-able Backup (formerly Solarwinds Backup) is being used in my organization and a lot of our customers.

it backups all the data in a secure server farm, and we can have all the certifications of it.

It backups the data quickly, doing intelligent increments and using the right amount of internet connection.

the number of copies maintained is high. Is a very good option

Pros

Backup database sql
Backup windows state
Backup all sort of data
compression of the data
immediate restore from remote dashboard

Cons

cheaper small business solution
translations
renewing the dashboard for more appeal, maybe some customers like a graphical renew. Is simptom of a even growing solution. Attention that it managers don't like but end users like!

Likelihood to Recommend

I use this backup solution in a very large and different customer park,

I backup sql databases , Batch the backup session and control it with scripts.

I backup archives of adobe reader's pdf files. I backup dozens of xls excel or word doc files and also pst's of Microsoft outlook.

Is very easy to sell this cloud service as a plus of the selling of a pc or a server. Even the software can be sold with this service bundled!

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

7 years of experience

Feature packed at a reasonable price!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 23, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This is used as our primary backup solution. It is a great, safe, and fast cloud backup at a reasonable cost.

Pros

Office 365 Backups. Easy to setup and backs up everything.
Server backup. Easy setup and reliable performance.
Workstation/file backup. Again reliable performance and reasonable cost.

Cons

Nothing comes to mind.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's suited well for any business backup needs. It wouldn't be great for a home user that has a bunch of pictures/videos they want to backup.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

5 years of experience

N-Able Backup is a great option

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

May 23, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using N-able Backup across our entire organization. It is a safe and secure option for backup.

Pros

Frequent backup
High level of customer service
Protecting user's data

Cons

Cost
Monitoring aspects
recovery failure

Likelihood to Recommend

The integration with N-Central works pretty well. Their system for immutable backups works well. Allowing you to choose your own storage helps meet each client's budget and recovery time objectives. Jobs are managed and scheduled only by the server, not in groups. Each one must be set up, scheduled, etc. one server at a time. This can get cumbersome in a larger environment.

Jack Bowling

Computer and Information Systems Manager in Information Technology at BCESC (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Stable, reliable backup solution

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 29, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

N-able Backup (formerly Solarwinds Backup) is our main product to provide our customers a backup solution. It's being used as a server, workstation, and Microsoft 365 backup solution.

Pros

Ease of use
Always working as expected
Quick
Stable

Cons

The ability to launch a backup set directly form the cloud as a VM
Office 365 backup should have the ability to select an independent folder from OneDrive and Sharepoint/Teams
VMware vSphere/vCenter integration
Virtual environment replication feature

Likelihood to Recommend

Any simple backup operation, workstation, and server. Good recovery option for file and folder. Need improvement on backup of virtualized VMware vSphere, vCenter.

Dominic Larouche

IT Manager in Information Technology at AD.Infogestion (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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