We performed a comparison between N-able Cove Data Protection and Veritas Backup Exec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup of N-able Cove Data Protection was very easy."
"The most valuable aspect is the added protection of having a cloud-based backup service. It provides redundancy in case of data loss."
"The most valuables feature is the alerts and monitoring that catches the failed backups."
"What I like the most about it's the ease of use and the reliability that it has when copying information to the cloud."
"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."
"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."
"It's extremely important that Cove provides cloud-based data protection with backup, disaster recovery, and archiving. That is a necessity for my insurance. As an IT company, my insurance would cost more if my backups were not offsite and off-network."
"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."
"Recovery via Active Directory is painless and much easier than the complicated setup procedures of other products."
"For us, the main two features that we appreciate in this application are backup and restore. They are the main purposes for which we are using this application."
"We are happy with Veritas Backup Exec's stability."
"The interface for this solution is excellent, and it is easy to restore files compared to other solutions."
"This solution works well and has good integration with technologies such as VMware and Hyper-V."
"I have found the overall features of the solution very good and there is the option to backup to the cloud."
"We are satisfied with the stability of the product."
"The most important feature is the variety of backup applications it supports, including ERP systems and most other programs, such as Microsoft."
"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."
"A disaster recovery console would be an improvement for the product."
"We would like to have better reporting."
"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."
"I have some issues with the agent failing on workstations. I've had to completely uninstall several of them, delete everything, and start over to get them to work."
"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 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."
"Having the licensing available for partners to be able to take advantage of testing without paying would make a big difference."
"It could provide better ease of management than one of its competitors."
"It could be improved in the area of reporting and ease-of-use."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"The deduplication feature can be improved."
"The one thing which could be improved, which we have informed Veritas about, is the ability to plug in to the cloud. Meaning, instead of using local storage if we're backing up a small user or end user, we want to be able to make it so they can direct the backups directly to the cloud. It can't be done at the moment. We can only back up to the storage then replicate to the cloud, but we cannot use the cloud as a source of storage."
"The pricing is an area of improvement and the mode of marketing it."
"Veritas Backup Exec's dashboard feature could be enhanced."
"There is no training provided, and their technicians are unaware of the features available."
N-able Cove Data Protection is ranked 7th in Backup and Recovery with 20 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. N-able Cove Data Protection is rated 9.2, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. 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 Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". 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, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery. See our N-able Cove Data Protection vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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