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 #7 with an average rating of 8.4, while N-able is ranked #30 with an average rating of 8.5. Vembu Technologies holds a 0.6% 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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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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BDRSuite Backup & Replication vs. N-able Cove Data Protection

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

BDRSuite Backup & Replication

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

7th

Ranking in MSP Backup

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (7th)

N-able Cove Data Protection

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

30th

Ranking in MSP Backup

2nd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (17th), SaaS Backup (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of BDRSuite Backup & Replication is 0.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of N-able Cove Data Protection is 1.2%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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

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

Pros

"The automated backup of multiple virtual machines. We can back up two hypervisors, one is Microsoft Hyper-V and the other one is VMware Hypervisor."

"The agentless backups are the big selling point on this, as well as being able to send out across sites so that I can do a restore at either of our two locations."

"It has improved our business continuity."

"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."

"I get my backups done."

"Their support is great. I think they work 24 hours a day. I get a very quick turnaround time from them no matter the day or time that I send them an email."

"The best thing about it is that it has been adaptable to our business model. We are in industrial networking, and they were adaptable to give us offline installers and offline licenses. That has been the biggest thing. They also allow us to order the licenses on a perpetual basis."

"The most important features are the backup and the availability of the Universal Explorer. The in-transit compression is great."

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"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."

"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 valuables feature is the alerts and monitoring that catches the failed backups."

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

"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."

"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."

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Cons

"There are bugs. For one month, I encountered a big issue where my storage pool could not be identified. My backups were stopped because they were not able to locate the storage pool. So, I removed the settings and started the backups again. The application is not stable. It needs some debugging and testing on the build side of production."

"I don't know if it exists, but it would be helpful to get email notifications when there are issues with the backup. I'm sure it probably exists, but I just don't know how to do it. They also have an Azure proxy feature where you can restore to Azure. It's not really well documented. I think they should document how to do that a little better."

"The interface could be better because I have to fumble around to find things. I can't just sit down at the terminal and know exactly what to do. It could be just me, but I have used a number of different backup products, and I found them simpler. However, its features are very good, so I don't mind sacrificing a bit of extra time to do what I need."

"Scheduling backups is challenging due to the poor quality of the UI."

"The dashboard should more interactive."

"The system died twice and it was apparently the result of corrupted disk sectors. I tried to work with tech support to fix it, but they essentially gave up. So twice, I had to rebuild our server."

"I would like to have a different set of products instead of having a single software which does everything."

"They said they can support Red Hat Virtualization and we assumed that they support any compatible system but we found we need to do a network backup or a network image, which is not what it said on their website. I have had many discussions with them about where this component is. Initially, I was searching for a component which would back up Red Hat Virtualization. They said they support this in the same way they support Hyper-V and VMware. I haven't found the feature in their portal or in any of their software. They haven't made a special agent for it, in the way they did for Hyper-V."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is good. The tough part is estimating storage needs."

"We were able to take advantage of a promotional pricing campaign."

"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."

"For our company, the current price of Vembu against Veeam is a few times cheaper. In our infrastructure, if we picked Veeam, we would have to pay about $20,000 per year. Now, we are currently paying about $2,000 per year for Vembu. You can do the math. The price is great."

"The product is affordable, and we focus on SMBs for our customer base."

"The price for BDRSuite is justified."

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

"It's very affordable. We are very satisfied with the cost. It's very affordable for us."

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"The cost is around ten dollars per workstation a month and that includes a certain amount of data."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

87%

Retailer

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

21%

Manufacturing Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Comms Service Provider

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?

In terms of pricing, N-able Cove Data Protection is neither cheap nor expensive compared to other competitors.

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What needs improvement with N-able Backup?

N-able Cove Data Protection does not provide a lot of SaaS backup products, which is an area they can improve. Additionally, there are some limitations on the storage side, where I cannot have a lo...

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Also Known As

Vembu BDRSuite

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

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)

Vembu Technologies

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.

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Sample Customers

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

Computer Depot, Leading Edge Computers, IT Logic Australia

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