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 #16 with an average rating of 8.3. Acronis holds a 7.3% mindshare in CB, compared to N-able’s 2.6% 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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87% willing to recommend

N-able Cove Data Protection

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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

10th

Ranking in Cloud Backup

5th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

120

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

N-able Cove Data Protection

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

25th

Ranking in Cloud Backup

16th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SaaS Backup (8th), MSP Backup (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Acronis Cyber Protect is 7.3%, down from 8.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of N-able Cove Data Protection is 2.6%, 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

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

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

"I've reimaged servers and been back up and running in exactly no time with the completely new hardware."

"The licensing model is very good."

"The most valuable feature is the quick restoration. We can restore the data quickly."

"In our recent experiences, Acronis Cyber Protect proved most valuable during instances of colleagues facing migration challenges due to ransomware impacts. In these situations, where servers and backups were affected, having a backup stored in external drives or other devices within our data centers posed risks. To address this vulnerability, we decided to shift to a cloud backup solution."

"Acronis has a very rich functionality."

"The performance has been fine so far."

"The NASDAQ level CFS level backup is the feature I find most beneficial for our data protection strategy."

"i use the backup solution and I use something called Disk Director, which is a related product. Together, they allow me to manage all of my storage space."

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"The ease of use and the console are great."

"The monitoring makes it very easy to check whether a backup has gone bad."

"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."

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

"N-able Cove Data Protection is user-friendly and straightforward, and the dashboard is clear."

"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 most valuable feature is that it's hands-off. I log in every morning and there are pre-canned filters that I've created to make my life easier. I have something called server status color bars, and that gives me all the servers and, in a nutshell, I can see: if any errors are being reported; when the last backup was; if one is not working, should there be one, and it literally jumps off the page."

"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."

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Cons

"I would change the GUI a little to make it a bit more interactive. It should have a slightly more updated look, not something which looks like it was designed five years ago despite the fact it is easy to follow and very appealing."

"We have sometimes issues with the child copies and other similar functions, but it's normal with any backup solution. We need to fix those issues first in order for us to be able to do the backup properly."

"The pricing could be improved."

"The dashboards for digital operations can be improved."

"We needed to have help from the vendor for implementation. The vendor used two personnel. We have system administrators and they do the server backups themself."

"When an error occurs, the information is not always easy to understand and these messages should be made more clear."

"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."

"If I could create a protected image backup on a computer partition that just would be just for the image backup; and only the program could access it to prevent viruses from getting into it. That would be very, very good."

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"A feature I'd like to see would be a more customizable admin console."

"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."

"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."

"There could be a possibility to create a local NAS backup for infrastructure."

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

"Having the licensing available for partners to be able to take advantage of testing without paying would make a big difference."

"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."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a license required for this solution and it can be on a monthly basis."

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

"You don't have to pay for licenses. You can pay per gig per month. It is pretty reasonable, especially when you do it per gig."

"I would say that at the pricepoint that it's at, it's definitely worth the money."

"The cost of updates is less than $100 USD yearly."

"The pricing is comparable to the newest solution available on the market, Altaro."

"Acronis Cyber Protect's pricing is reasonable."

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

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"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."

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

"Cove only takes the data you have on the physical server. I can back that up for long periods of time, and I don't accrue high charges to have the data in the cloud. It stays at one rate. This allows me to forecast payment for the next one or two years and show clients their estimated growth."

"The only option I would like to see is an adjustable scale. Right now we have 250 seats and we're not using all of them. It would be nice to be able to save that little bit of money by being able to buy just what we need."

"The pricing, for now, is good. The package that they gave us recently is pretty good. It depends on how many clients you have, and you pay for certain terabytes per license. These terabytes, if not used, are pooled together."

"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."

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

"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."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

18%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

21%

Educational Organization

Government

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

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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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