We performed a comparison between AWS Backup and N-able Cove Data Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Backup solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features we have found are the flexibility in the services offered."
"AWS Backup's most valuable feature is that you can configure it remotely to create backups."
"The most valuable feature is its ease of use."
"The advantage that AWS Backup has over competitors is that it's very simple."
"We can directly back up EC2 instances in AWS without using any third-party applications."
"The most valuable features of AWS Backup are point-in-time recovery and support resources."
"It also saves costs and is quick."
"It is highly scalable for both SMEs and large enterprises."
"The monitoring makes it very easy to check whether a backup has gone bad."
"The initial setup of N-able Cove Data Protection was very easy."
"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 product is simple to use and manage. The customers have access to verify the backups."
"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."
"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 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."
"For starters, this is one of few databases that allow us to backup MySQL databases, most others only support Microsoft SQL. This solution also has a very user-friendly interface accessed through a web browser. Additionally, backups can be easily configured through N-able Backup."
"If AWS Backup were a hybrid solution that also supported on-premises backups then it would be very helpful, especially if you are doing a migration to the cloud."
"The service disconnects a lot."
"There are some limitations to partial backup in AWS Backup."
"They should work on their visual capabilities."
"The notifications on the backup and on the mobile app could be more useful. If they could arrange notes or notifications properly and offer services for managing it in our region, it would be helpful for us."
"The solution's reporting features and restore features can be improved."
"It could be less expensive."
"There could be a centralized dashboard with a reporting feature notifying us of daily backup status."
"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."
"For the MSP side, they could have more of a "security user" that can go in and only see certain clients. If you give somebody access as a technician, they can see all the clients."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"There could be a possibility to create a local NAS backup for infrastructure."
"Integration with a hybrid cloud is something that I found complicated."
AWS Backup is ranked 12th in Cloud Backup with 23 reviews while N-able Cove Data Protection is ranked 8th in Cloud Backup with 20 reviews. AWS Backup is rated 8.0, while N-able Cove Data Protection is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of AWS Backup writes "Useful point-in-time recovery, highly scalable, and implementation straightforward". On the other hand, the top reviewer of N-able Cove Data Protection writes "Provides feature flexibility and modularity for our customers". AWS Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Rubrik Go and N2WS Backup & Recovery, whereas N-able Cove Data Protection is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Azure Backup and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery. See our AWS Backup vs. N-able Cove Data Protection report.
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