BDRSuite Backup & Replication vs N-able Cove Data Protection comparison

Vembu Technologies and N-able are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Vembu Technologies is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.3, while N-able is ranked #17 with an average rating of 8.8. Vembu Technologies holds a 0.7% mindshare in BRS, compared to N-able’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of Vembu Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of N-able users who would recommend it.

BDRSuite Backup & Replication

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91% 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

BDRSuite Backup & Replication and N-able Cove Data Protection are powerful solutions in the data backup and recovery category. BDRSuite has an upper hand in pricing and support, while N-able Cove excels in comprehensive features.

Features: BDRSuite Backup & Replication is known for reliable backup scheduling, efficient restoration capabilities, and user-friendly interface. N-able Cove Data Protection offers robust disaster recovery tools, extensive cloud storage options, and advanced functionalities.

Room for Improvement: BDRSuite needs a more intuitive setup process, better integration with third-party tools, and enhanced user documentation. N-able Cove requires improved documentation, more responsive customer support, and streamlined user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: BDRSuite is straightforward to deploy with positive customer service feedback. N-able Cove, despite robust deployment options, has mixed reviews for customer service quality.

Pricing and ROI: BDRSuite offers competitive pricing with good ROI, attractive to budget-conscious buyers. N-able Cove, although more expensive, provides long-term reliability and advanced features, justifying its price.

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Categories and Ranking

BDRSuite Backup & Replication

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

10th

Ranking in MSP Backup

2nd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (7th)

N-able Cove Data Protection

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

17th

Ranking in MSP Backup

1st

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (11th), SaaS Backup (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of BDRSuite Backup & Replication is 0.7%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of N-able Cove Data Protection is 1.2%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Redha Benlaksira

Technical Sales Director (Owner) at HSR IT Services SARL

The ability to maintain multiple restore points is critical because it lets customers choose to restore their data to an hour or a day ago

BDRSuite is better than competing solutions because it can protect, back up, and recover data. A feature called live migration allows you to recover the same data in different environments. For example, I can back up the data from a VMware machine and restore it to a Hyper-V. You can also create repositories and back up environments to a cloud platform like GCP and AWS S3 buckets. BDRSuite allows you to back up virtual machines hosted on an EC3 instance or Microsoft 365 mailboxes, SharePoint, etc. The solution allows us to recover data instantly. We can recover all our data in under 15 minutes. In a virtual environment, we can recover a virtual machine and all its data in under 15 minutes. It's the same for a NAS, SAN, or DAS disk. The ability to boot instantly enables customers to maintain their business operations without interruption. BDRSuite's ability to maintain multiple restore points is critical because it gives customers the option to restore their data to an hour or a day ago. They can choose a full, incremental, or synthetic backup. Incremental backup makes sense if you are backing up the same data daily and you want to save space and network resources. It only backs up the differences or updates in every block. I've worked with lots of backup solutions, and BDRSuite is the easiest to use. It's simple to install and create backup jobs. It doesn't require many tasks to install the solution. You can easily back up and restore from one console

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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

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Pros

"The compression, encryption and deduplication features are fabulous and great stuff."

"We only use BDRSuite to back up two VMs in our current environment. It helps us with maintenance, monitoring, etc. We are satisfied with BDRSuite so far and plan to add a few more VMs in the future, including Citrix VMs and XenServer."

"The most valuable features for me are that I can back up the entire virtual machine, but when restoring I can restore at the file level."

"It's easy to restore."

"I back up one particular server with close to 1.2 TB, and the way the software compresses it is close to 600 or 700 TB. Vembu compresses it to close to 450 gigabytes, that's gigabytes. So that’s really amazing, the way in which the backup compression happens."

"Backup of the VMware server is the most valuable feature."

"It backs up our virtual machines with the CBT, Changed Block Tracking."

"The scalability is good. It can scale. Adding a new server to a foreign location is easy."

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"The product is simple to use and manage. The customers have access to verify the backups."

"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."

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

"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 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."

"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."

"It provides a single dashboard for all types of data protection, we monitor everything through a single dashboard. It simplifies everything overall. It allows us to see everything, whether passing or failing any issues, any problems through a single pane of glass that we don't have to click through or adjust as we go forward."

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

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Cons

"For the more sophisticated backups that do not have a set backup process, procedures that are outside of the norm, it would be nice if we had more control and did not have to use their technical support. While they're very responsive and have always come through in a reasonable time frame, we would like to be able to manage everything on our own."

"I had a small problem integrating VMware and Hyper-V when customers used a free VMware license to create VMs. This is a problem because many customers use the free version of VMware. There are also some issues backing up old systems. They have a little difficulty but can always get strong support from customer service."

"The process is a bit cumbersome when you remove an agent, delete that job, and add the agent to the same server. Even though the agent is already installed in that server, the system does not recognize it. We have to uninstall the current agent, restart the server, install the push agent - a new agent - and then restart the server. I think they should try to avoid that."

"One thing that I reported with the backups: When there are accentuated characters in a path, then we can't restore documents into a folder. There is a bug with the restoration and restoring files with accentuated characters in the path. Hopefully, they have repaired this because otherwise we will restore files and find out that they are not there."

"The reports are at a basic level and there is room for improvement there. It only has historical reports and VM backup job-level reports."

"Maybe they can add some features regarding working with the vCenter cluster to be able to have more power over the cluster overall, not just over a single or specific host. Also, I would like some enhancements in technology for the web interface, e.g., some interactive technologies to advance the interface of Vembu. Although the current interface is very good, maybe they can use more advanced technologies for its web development."

"It would be a great improvement if they can give a console to control the systems. All other vendors let you simply log in to the cloud console and control everything from there, but for Vembu, whether you choose Vembu Cloud Backup or Vembu Disaster Recovery, you still need to install the Vembu software on your on-premise system and configure it from there. It would be great if I can get a cloud console to manage the systems."

"Vembu BDR currently supports backups of O365, although it does not currently have an email archiving function to the O365 backups."

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"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."

"Integration with a hybrid cloud is something that I found complicated."

"The one thing they don't are Linux servers, it's Windows only. I understand that directive. I have another product that I use for our Linux servers and stuff, but it would be nice if they had that flexibility on the Linux side. I understand the development and the world is geared towards Windows in 365, I know that's where the clienteles are and the business and the money is."

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

"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."

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

"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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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing is fair enough. What was not clear enough in the documentation on the website was that that you're licensing per CPU socket and you are only licensing on the restore sockets, not the backup sockets. It's a bit technical, but it was very well explained during the demonstration that we had during the evaluation period."

"This solution helped us deliver an enterprise level data protection solution and reduced our budget by 50 percent. We spent $3,000 on Vembu's licenses where other solutions were almost double."

"It has actually benefited my operation a fair bit. VMware requires a special hardware while Hyper-V runs on pretty much anything. It doesn't require any special hardware, so it saves a bit of money. Because Vembu does Hyper-V backup, there is no limit on how many VMs you can have. The newer version has a 100 VM limit on the single license, which has been greatly beneficial, because on one host a 100 VMs is a fair bit."

"For someone who doesn't want the Application-Aware feature to work, everything else is up to par. The licensing is straightforward. They license it per CPU."

"It's more affordable than Veeam, so smaller companies can afford to have a solution like this in place, which is very nice."

"The pricing is fair."

"The license is per unit and is expensive."

"The product's pricing is a good value. Vembu is cost-effective versus using VMware Essentials. Regarding licensing, make sure you find the right workstation or server that you're going to install it on, and know the number of sockets it has, since the price depends on that."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

84%

Retailer

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

21%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Educational Organization

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BDRSuite?

The best part of BDRSuite is how user-friendly it is and how it does not require any maintenance after the initial setup.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BDRSuite?

BDRSuite is cost-effective because you can purchase a perpetual license that covers multiple environments. You only renew the support costs annually. It offers advanced features at roughly 75 perce...

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What needs improvement with BDRSuite?

I had a small problem integrating VMware and Hyper-V when customers used a free VMware license to create VMs. This is a problem because many customers use the free version of VMware. There are also...

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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

Vembu BDRSuite

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

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Vembu Technologies

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Overview

BDRSuite by Vembu offers comprehensive and cost-effective Backup and Disaster Recovery software tailored to meet the diverse data protection requirements of Businesses and Service Providers. BDRSuite provides robust backup solutions for a wide range of IT workloads, including virtual machines, servers, endpoints, SaaS applications, cloud VMs, NAS/File Shares, and databases & applications. It offers the flexibility to store backups anywhere and centrally manage the entire backup infrastructure.

BDRSuite is designed to help businesses keep their data secure and ensure it is easily recoverable in the event of data loss or ransomware attacks. With BDRSuite, businesses can achieve reliable data protection and ensure business continuity – all at an affordable price.

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PRICING DETAILS

VMs, Servers & Cloud Backup at $48 per workload/year (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, oVirt, Proxmox, Windows, Linux, AWS, Azure, File Share-500 GB)

Endpoint/Workstation Backup at $12 per endpoint/year (Windows, Linux, Mac)

SaaS Backup at $12 per user/year (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace)

DBs & Applications Backup at $72 per application/year (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint Server)

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

NASA, Intel, CISCO, PHILIPS, Atos, HEXAWARE, Motorola

Computer Depot, Leading Edge Computers, IT Logic Australia

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