Acronis Cyber Protect vs N-able Cove Data Protection comparison

Acronis and N-able are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. Acronis is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.1, while N-able is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.8. Acronis holds a 7.5% mindshare in CB, compared to N-able’s 2.7% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Acronis users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of N-able users who would recommend it.

Acronis Cyber Protect

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Acronis Cyber Protect and N-able Cove Data Protection compete in the comprehensive data protection solutions category. Acronis Cyber Protect appears to lead due to its extensive integrated cybersecurity features.

Features: Acronis Cyber Protect offers robust anti-malware integration, advanced encryption, and extensive backup options. N-able Cove Data Protection provides efficient cloud storage, continuous data protection, and scalable architecture.

Room for Improvement: Acronis Cyber Protect users note areas for improvement in customer support responsiveness, simplifying advanced feature configurations, and complex setups. N-able Cove Data Protection users suggest enhancements in reporting tools, faster data recovery times, and more intuitive interfaces.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Acronis Cyber Protect is recognized for its straightforward deployment but faces issues with complex setups. Customer service reviews are mixed. N-able Cove Data Protection is noted for smooth initial deployment with minimal setup time and generally better-rated customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Acronis Cyber Protect is considered cost-effective with good ROI for its bundled security features and backup solutions but shows variability in perceived value. N-able Cove Data Protection offers competitive pricing with strong ROI, favored for predictable costs and scalable usage.

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Categories and Ranking

Acronis Cyber Protect

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

9th

Ranking in Cloud Backup

5th

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

119

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

N-able Cove Data Protection

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

17th

Ranking in Cloud Backup

11th

Average Rating

9.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SaaS Backup (6th), MSP Backup (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Acronis Cyber Protect is 7.5%, down from 8.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of N-able Cove Data Protection is 2.7%, down from 2.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Stuart Grigor

Senior Manager Governance and Quality Assurance at Motus Car Rental

Apr 24, 2023

Good backup solution but challenges with the stability

It is recommended that people know what they are starting with. A part of our challenge was we bought and needed to implement it. So by the time we went to implement it, we were running into support issues. Also, make a market comparison to ensure that the product you choose is what you want to end up with. I would give it a six out of ten because restoring from a backup takes longer than usual. It should happen in a matter of hours, not a matter of days. We are yet to have an experience when trying to restore from Acronis that we haven't had to wait at least a couple of days for our server to be available for testing or working.

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Jack Henson

Owner at Henson Business Products

Sep 15, 2022

Allows us to back up workstations and servers, and saved us time when checking endpoints and the viability of backups

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. That's been the biggest source of my problems recently. The problem is that when we delete one, we lose the backup. Consequently, it means we're without a backup unless we have a local copy. When we delete the agent, there's the problem of how to go back and restore it. I haven't had to deal with it yet, because I haven't had a failure that occurred while I was doing that. I had a workstation that started failing, and we couldn't get the services to run. I don't know what caused it. I had to reinstall the agent, which didn't work. I had to go into the machine and delete everything and load another agent onto it. Once I did that, I was able to make it work, but 90% of the time I never have an issue. During the other 10% of the time when I have a problem, it's a mess. The ability to recover to a different workstation or a different data point is a little bit clumsy. It could use some work.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"All the necessary features required to set up a proper backup are already present in Acronis Backup."

"The solution is exceptional for desktop backup."

"Acronis Backup is easy to use, intuitive, and has high performance."

"This is a full software so deployment time is very quick."

"The backup timing and restoring process is great compared to other options."

"The most valuable feature is its consistency."

"It actually does its job very well and has interesting capabilities, but it has the most awful interface."

"The main reasons that our customers like Acronis are that it is very strong and easy to use."

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"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."

"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 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."

"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 most valuable aspect is the added protection of having a cloud-based backup service. It provides redundancy in case of data loss."

"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."

"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."

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Cons

"For smaller companies it's a little more challenging to maintain."

"The problems that we face are often related to the customer's network, although sometimes there are problems with the software, such as an error in the configuration."

"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 can't select a network location. I have to map a drive on the server, and then I have to select the mapped drive in order for it to put the backup out there."

"In some cases, at the time of reinstallation, some disasters happen. For the licensing on the computer the name of the computer and domain, everything is removed from the registry level. Then we have to install the Acronis from the start for it to work properly. Otherwise, the Acronis software will cause a lot of trouble at the time of reinstallation. That's where they need to improve the product. In the case people want to install the same software with the same hardware, it should not stop me."

"The solution could improve by providing more database backup features and have better integration with many different types of databases. We cannot implement it in all of our infrastructures."

"I needed tech support to straighten out an issue with cloud backup. I have troubleshooting to do with failed backups."

"The solution's error handling can be improved specifically for Linux errors."

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"There aren’t any challenges. Regarding the additional features, Cove is limited to disaster recovery with Azure. It would be great to make disaster recovery compatible with AWS."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The recovery side, the restore side, could be a little more optimized."

"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."

"A disaster recovery console would be an improvement for the product."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I find the pricing structure satisfactory, it is around $25 per year."

"The license is a perpetual license. The cost is an area for improvement."

"Acronis Backup is cheaper. If you install it on a hypervisor, you only pay for a single license. It would be for the backup server, and everything else will be covered by it. In that sense, it becomes a much cheaper option. However, if you have virtual machines, then it can be more expensive. Also, if you have a lot of physical machines the cost can be higher because each entity will need a separate license. There is a monthly license cost."

"The price of Acronis Backup could be reduced, it is expensive."

"The price of the solution is expensive and could be reduced a little."

"There are monthly fees to use Acronis Backup."

"The price of the solution is reasonable."

"This is an affordable product and fits within our customers' budgets."

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"N-able Cove Data Protection is an averagely-priced product."

"The pricing is affordable. N-able Cove Data Protection has a direct-to-cloud architecture, but it also allows saving backups locally without extra storage costs."

"I believe that the price is very reasonable in comparison to other options. It is cheaper than both Redstor and Acronis and, since we are now using our own on-premise cloud, there is absolutely no comparison since we have unlimited storage rather than paying per gigabyte used for their onsite storage. We are currently able to backup fifty computers for the same price that we use to backup five computers."

"The price isn't extreme, but I'd love to pay less."

"The pricing of SolarWinds seems to be fair compared to the rest of the industry."

"There is no per node cost, at least not the way I am doing it. I am on bulk. New customers can be set up on a trial, where they can get things all squared away, then they can switch over to being a billed customer."

"When you have a device/appliance on the site quite a lot of the other enterprise class backup people insist that you have their appliance, which is frankly offensively expensive. Because when you pry the top off, it's just a standard 19-inch tin box with a standard Intel I5 in it, some RAM, and a hard drive. Then, you go, "Why have they just charged me 5,500 quid for a box, which I could have probably build for under 500." Whereas, with the SolarWinds product, they don't have that. The backup appliances that we have onsite are just plain cooking PCs. We can build our own machines, which is reflected in the price that we can offer a customer."

"The pricing is very competitive and it's well worth the price."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

19%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

21%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Educational Organization

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

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How does Acronis Backup compare with Veeam Backup & Replication?

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What do you like most about Acronis Backup?

One of its most valuable aspects is its user-friendly interface.

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What do you like most about N-able Backup?

The initial setup of N-able Cove Data Protection was very easy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for N-able Backup?

The pricing is affordable. N-able Cove Data Protection has a direct-to-cloud architecture, but it also allows saving backups locally without extra storage costs.

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What needs improvement with N-able Backup?

There aren’t any challenges. Regarding the additional features, Cove is limited to disaster recovery with Azure. It would be great to make disaster recovery compatible with AWS.

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Also Known As

Acronis Backup, Acronis Backup 12.5 Standard, Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced

N-able Backup, SolarWinds Backup, SolarWinds MSP Backup & Recovery, SolarWinds MSP Backup

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Overview

Acronis Cyber Protect offers a revolutionary approach to cyber protection by integrating data protection with cybersecurity. This integrated method eliminates complexity challenges, delivers better protection against today’s threats, and maximizes efficiency by saving time and money. With its full-stack antimalware protection and comprehensive endpoint management, Acronis Cyber Protect combats advanced cyberattacks with a unique integration of protection technologies while simplifying daily IT operations, endpoint deployments and management, and reporting. Now you can manage all cyber protection aspects from a single pane of glass.

Cove Data Protection, from N-able, is a comprehensive solution designed to safeguard critical business data. It offers a range of features including backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and endpoint protection. With automated backups and flexible scheduling options, it ensures data is protected and easily recoverable.

The solution also includes advanced security measures such as encryption and ransomware detection to prevent unauthorized access and data breaches. Cove Data Protection provides seamless integration with various platforms and offers centralized management for efficient monitoring and control.

With its user-friendly interface and robust capabilities, Cove Data Protection is an ideal choice for businesses seeking reliable data protection.

Sample Customers

Kings Academy, Rush Memorial, Pentagon Credit Union, Oxford School District, New York City Probation, Dolmen Insurance, New Bedford Community Health, Gerard Darel, Ready Honda

Computer Depot, Leading Edge Computers, IT Logic Australia

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