We compared Veeam Backup & Replication and N-able Cove Data Protection across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: When comparing Veeam Backup & Replication and N-able Cove Data Protection, both products have easy and straightforward setups. However, Veeam Backup & Replication is known for its simplicity and user-friendliness, while N-able Cove Data Protection is valued for its reliability and ease of use. Veeam Backup & Replication offers extensive documentation and a helpful forum, while N-able Cove Data Protection prioritizes security against ransomware attacks with its cloud-first architecture. Veeam Backup & Replication has areas for improvement in cost, integration, scalability, and support, whereas N-able Cove Data Protection focuses on enhancing image restores, graphical interface, and disaster recovery capabilities.
"The solution has reduced backup times by an immeasurable amount. Its backups are incremental, so you are only backing up data changes based on the last 24 hours or so. If you are also maintaining the stored images, the restores are also only incremental, happening in minutes. Whereas, with a lot of the other solutions that we have looked at, each time it goes to refresh the restore, then it has to build a completely new image. That takes forever. This solution also improves recovery time."
"The monitoring makes it very easy to check whether a backup has gone bad."
"We use a neat feature called VDR status, Virtual Disaster Recovery status. It only works on servers... It's automated. Once or twice a month it will virtually mount the backup and provide a screenshot and advise whether or not there have been any errors."
"The product is simple to use and manage. The customers have access to verify the backups."
"The initial setup of N-able Cove Data Protection was very easy."
"Because the package includes cloud storage, we don't need to worry about hosting it inside. That was very important to us. And because the vendor has data centers worldwide, our reps in Europe and other places can get to what they need quickly and easily."
"The user interface is the most valuable. It gives us the ability to check everything. With more than 100 endpoints running that software, I like the ability to quickly check that everything is working correctly. That's one of the biggest selling points."
"The most valuable feature by far is the Virtual Disaster Recovery. On top of that is the bare-metal recovery. The recovery options that we have are great. We have tested the Virtual Disaster Recovery and the bare-metal recovery in just about any scenario you can think of. We have even restored bare metal, a full server, to a laptop, and had full functionality. It's just insane how well it works and how simple it is. It does most of the work for you."
"In Veeam backup, the most valuable feature for me is the recovery. It allows me to recover almost immediately while I continue fixing the problem of the affected machine."
"Sandbox feature is like a power tool for troubleshooting."
"I have found one of the most valuable features to be the integrity of the backups."
"Veeam Backup & Replication is a scalable solution."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"It's scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"Replication and restore object in Exchange boxes with possibility to select part of Microsoft directory."
"This solution is not very good for image restores, mainly just files. The solution also does not allow you to enable or disable backups. Sometimes, our users will connect via mobile device and it will use their data to perform the backup. If they were able to enable and disable the backup, they would not have this issue."
"There could be a possibility to create a local NAS backup for infrastructure."
"Integration with a hybrid cloud is something that I found complicated."
"A feature I'd like to see would be a more customizable admin console."
"The only area that needs improvement is that it is a little bit difficult when you get into virtual machines. The initial deployment of Cove is a little tedious, not for standard machines, but when you get into specialty stuff, like Hyper-V."
"One area I don't like has to do with the agent that goes on the system... if a system stays offline for some length of time, say for a week or so, I may have to go back in and reinstall the agent to get it back in business. I don't know what's causing that."
"We don't use the solution’s automated recovery testing because SolarWinds made me cross. When they released it, I went, "Oh, well, that's quite good." Because if you use the system, then it supposedly spins up, and on the portal, it gives you a screenshot of the booted device. So, I phoned up, and I said, "Oh, that's really quite cool. How much is that?" They said, "No, no, no. It's all included in your license." I went, "Okay then," and went and deployed it on about half the fleet. One of the options that our customers have is they can pay us a small amount every month for us to test the recovery just to prove that it's viable, and I thought, "Well, this will do that for us. Nice." Then, in the next invoice, we got a charge for it. While It was not a huge amount, I took offense at the fact that we were told that it would be a no extra cost option that was part of our license, but it turns out that it's chargeable. Therefore, we haven't used it since."
"An area for improvement that would really work out well would be if there were a little bit more of an elegant handshake relationship between SolarWinds RMM and the PCs that are being backed up, to advise regarding "up" status... Since RMM is an agent that feeds back that a machine is alive and on, I don't see any reason why they can't either tap into that one feature or build the same exact polling within the backup agent, to update right away and say the system is online or offline."
"They need a better solution for backend storage."
"The initial setup of Veeam Backup Replication is straightforward. The process took approximately two days. The setup could be streamlined to take less time."
"There needs to be more integration with VMware and the virtual machine."
"think backing up from physical servers and ransomware security needs some improvements."
"When in a domain, the virus can easily attack the Veeam server, something which happened to us."
"It's a great product, but only if you have everything virtualized."
"The remote SQL server has had multiple sizing issues within the logs and SQL backup space and sharing with other database apps."
"We try to compare Veeam with other solutions because we are the operations. Then we can give the answers for improvement which is the specific additional system features that other solutions provide."
N-able Cove Data Protection is ranked 7th in Backup and Recovery with 20 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 329 reviews. N-able Cove Data Protection is rated 9.2, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of N-able Cove Data Protection writes "Provides feature flexibility and modularity for our customers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". N-able Cove Data Protection is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Azure Backup, MSP360 Backup and Datto Cloud Continuity, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Veritas NetBackup. See our N-able Cove Data Protection vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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