We compared Acronis Cyber Protect 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: In comparing Acronis Cyber Protect to N-able Cove Data Protection, both options are user-friendly and have efficient setup processes. Acronis Cyber Protect stands out for its flexibility and ability to back up a wide range of products, while N-able Cove Data Protection is praised for its ease of use, reliability, and cloud-based data protection. Acronis Cyber Protect offers additional features like antivirus and ransomware protection, while N-able Cove Data Protection has unique capabilities such as backup of MySQL databases. However, Acronis Cyber Protect has more reviews mentioning potential complexities related to pricing structure, licensing, and configuration processes, whereas N-able Cove Data Protection receives more positive feedback regarding customer service and support.
"Our customers can backup to local storage and they can back up or replicate to the cloud."
"The interface is easy to use. They keep on adding new features. Acronis recently added multi-platform support."
"Stability is always good. I have used Acronis for 10 years now, if not more. I have never had a problem with availability, etc."
"Since the last version, everything has been improved."
"The solution has all the features I need and user friendly."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to back up and recover our production environment from ransomware."
"For local backups, it has options to back up almost any storage. The back can be either a shared folder or anything you want, it's pretty flexible."
"Centralized management is valuable to us."
"The ease of use and the console are great."
"The most valuables feature is the alerts and monitoring that catches the failed backups."
"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."
"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."
"The monitoring makes it very easy to check whether a backup has gone bad."
"The ability to back up, restore, and do different types of testing for the preventative maintenance has really increased our importance to these clients because they see the value in how fast we can get them back up and running. We're saving them money in that way."
"The most valuable aspect is the added protection of having a cloud-based backup service. It provides redundancy in case of data loss."
"The product is simple to use and manage. The customers have access to verify the backups."
"The tool's dashboard for daily operations is useful, but I find that it could benefit from enhancements, particularly in terms of reporting. While exporting reports, the format is not fancy as it appears on the dashboard. The exported files are typically in Excel CSV or PDF format."
"On the cloud side, security could always be better."
"It would be nice to have it on the cloud platform without using third-party equipment."
"Because Acronis Backup is an on-premises solution, there is extra overhead. It's harder to manage, and there's no real remote access. You have to physically log in to the machine to manage it. The reporting feature works fine, and you will be able to send out reports. However, that is where it stops. The deployment could be improved and could be through a network chain. If we need to deploy two machines that are not connected to the internet but connected to two different networks, it would be great to have a machine with dual mix that has access to the backup server and to those machines. It would be like a relay that you can install on the machine with a two-mix, and that machine can then connect to your backup server and to the other machines. You should be able to see the other machines on that network and be able to deploy to it and push jobs to it."
"A little bit more integration would be good. It should support broader platforms."
"The solution could use a single sign-on integration that can default to the admin dashboard. Right now, it's only username and password. If you had had an additional two-factor authentication, this would be beneficial for me."
"I believe that the next release should be easier to configure as this one is difficult to configure even the easiest of tasks."
"The dashboards for digital operations can be improved."
"A disaster recovery console would be an improvement for the product."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"N-able Cove Data Protection for Microsoft 365 is an area with shortcomings that need improvement."
"The recovery side, the restore side, could be a little more optimized."
"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."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 117 reviews while N-able Cove Data Protection is ranked 8th in Backup and Recovery with 20 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while N-able Cove Data Protection is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect writes " Good backup solution but challenges with the stability". 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 is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Azure Backup and Commvault Cloud, whereas N-able Cove Data Protection is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Azure Backup, MSP360 Backup and Datto Cloud Continuity. See our Acronis Cyber Protect vs. N-able Cove Data Protection report.
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