We compared N-able Cove Data Protection and Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: N-able Cove Data Protection is praised for its user-friendly interface, reliability, cloud-based data protection, and efficient backup and restore capabilities. However, there are areas that need improvement such as image restores, graphical interface, user permissions, and agent reliability. On the other hand, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is valued for its easy-to-use management console, incremental backups, and active protection against ransomware. However, there are areas for improvement including server performance, user-friendliness, compatibility, reporting capabilities, and pricing. Both products receive positive feedback regarding customer service and support.
"I am impressed with the product's file-sharing feature."
"I do not need to touch my firewall, especially when it is managed by the provider and takes ages to do a single NAT."
"The most valuable feature of Acronis Backup Cloud is the ease of management."
"One of my favorite features of the Acronis backup product is the ability to replicate the backups. Backup data can be replicated to a second, third, or even fourth data source."
"Once you deploy, it's very easy to manage. It took us about an hour to deploy."
"The most valuable feature I have found the be the management console it is very easy to use and automation is important. Additionally, overall the solution is easy to use."
"I have experience with the technical team of the product, and I feel that they offer good support."
"It is easy to use. I don't need any help to figure out how to do it. It is also very easy to install and upgrade. It is very simple and easy to use for restoring. It supports universal restoration. I can restore a full machine to another hardware with this, which is a very good feature."
"The most valuable aspect is the added protection of having a cloud-based backup service. It provides redundancy in case of data loss."
"One of the bigger features and advantages of the solution is that it is easy to integrate with my RMM which is also N-able."
"The most valuables feature is the alerts and monitoring that catches the failed backups."
"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."
"I know I won't have an issue if the data is there. The reliability and the confidence that we have is amazing. It doesn't matter. We've had customers have ransomware. We've had customers that have had corruption. We've had customers that have had employees destroy their data. As long as it's been backed up, I know that I can get it back and I know I have nothing to worry about. Our confidence level is very high."
"The product is simple to use and manage. The customers have access to verify the backups."
"It's their cloud, it's their storage. I don't have to buy a space on Amazon or Google's cloud and then use their software to push it. That works well for me. This way, I don't have to worry about another option or the opportunity that there might be a credential leak."
"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."
"We'd like to see more integration for Nutanix, Oracle, et cetera."
"The solution's provisioning of packages and how they are charged could be improved."
"For you to actually see the full logs, you have to use additional tools or even contact support so they can pull them with own tools."
"I don't see any room for improvement in the solution itself, but their marketing could be better. Dealers and customers aren't aware of this product or the company, so maybe they should concentrate more on marketing."
"It will be good if Acronis can provide more documentation and videos describing how to do different things. Their documentation is good, but it is without examples. They don't have lots of videos. They should put more videos on YouTube to show how to set up certain things, how to restore, and how to back up. They should provide step-by-step documentation and videos for specific scenarios. I would like them to improve the command line feature. The command line is not working smoothly, and there is some problem with it. If the command line is improved, it will take the product to the next level. It would be great if it can back up data from storage so that people are able to back up old data. Such a feature will make it an enterprise solution for a full backup."
"I would rate the product an eight out of ten. The tool needs to have better protection. The tool should be also able to take backups while users are offline and upload to the cloud whenever the internet connection is restored or if there is a good bandwidth."
"We'd like to see more DLP, data loss prevention."
"I think the pricing part of the solution is very complicated, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There could be a possibility to create a local NAS backup for infrastructure."
"A better default view on my dashboard would be great. There is a lot of useless information there that it pulls up. They could present the dashboard slightly better, in terms of the extra information after the first five columns. The first five columns are awesome. After that, I don't care about the rest, and there are another seven things after that."
"The reporting feature and functionality need improvement. We would like to see a little bit more detailed reporting that offers more CEO or C-level focused reporting options."
"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."
"A feature I'd like to see would be a more customizable admin console."
"For small amounts of data, recovery is easy, but when it's large amounts of data, it takes forever. So, if they can have a service where they put our data on a hard drive and ship it to us as fast as possible, it would be great. Even if there's a fee associated with it, it's fine."
"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."
"The recovery side, the restore side, could be a little more optimized."
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is ranked 11th in Cloud Backup with 44 reviews while N-able Cove Data Protection is ranked 8th in Cloud Backup with 20 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is rated 8.6, while N-able Cove Data Protection is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud writes "A solution that unites backup and next-generation, AI-based anti-malware, antivirus, and endpoint protection management in one solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of N-able Cove Data Protection writes "Provides feature flexibility and modularity for our customers". Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, AWS Backup, Synology C2 Backup, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and Redstor Backup and Archiving, whereas N-able Cove Data Protection is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Azure Backup and MSP360 Backup. See our Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud vs. N-able Cove Data Protection report.
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