CodeTwo Backup for Office 365 vs N-able Cove Data Protection comparison

CodeTwo and N-able are both solutions in the SaaS Backup category. CodeTwo is ranked #17 with an average rating of 8.0, while N-able is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.3. CodeTwo holds a 0.7% mindshare in B, compared to N-able’s 4.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of CodeTwo users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of N-able users who would recommend it.

CodeTwo Backup for Office 365

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CodeTwo Backup for Office 365

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

N-able Cove Data Protection and CodeTwo Backup for Office 365 are competing in data protection and backup solutions. N-able Cove has the advantage in storage efficiency and automation, whereas CodeTwo stands out with its seamless Office 365 integration and granular recovery options.

Features: N-able Cove Data Protection includes cloud-first architecture, centralized management, and advanced automation capabilities, enhancing data recovery speed and efficiency. CodeTwo Backup for Office 365 features tight Office 365 integration, item-level recovery, and flexible backup scheduling.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: N-able Cove Data Protection offers a streamlined cloud deployment model with proactive support, reducing infrastructure demands. CodeTwo Backup for Office 365, while requiring more initial setup, provides comprehensive documentation and responsive support.

Pricing and ROI: N-able Cove Data Protection provides competitive setup costs and a solid ROI with predictable pricing plans. CodeTwo Backup for Office 365, though potentially more expensive, offers higher value through its extensive features, making it suitable for comprehensive Office 365 deployments.

To learn more, read our detailed CodeTwo Backup for Office 365 vs. N-able Cove Data Protection Report (Updated: April 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

CodeTwo Backup for Office 365

Ranking in SaaS Backup

17th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

N-able Cove Data Protection

Ranking in SaaS Backup

9th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (30th), Cloud Backup (17th), MSP Backup (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the SaaS Backup category, the mindshare of CodeTwo Backup for Office 365 is 0.7%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of N-able Cove Data Protection is 4.3%, down from 4.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Nikola Uvalic

Senior IT Support Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Streamlines our processes and makes everything more efficient and less prone to errors

While CodeTwo Backup for Office 365 is generally great, there is some room for improvement in integrating with Office 365's restore options. Additionally, there is room to improve in managing email signatures. If it could make handling email signatures simpler or offer more features, that would be a plus. An additional feature that could be valuable is a search functionality within Office 365 tenants for specific mailboxes or logs related to events like receiving certain emails or bounce occurrences.

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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 most valuable feature of CodeTwo Backup for Office 365 is its restore functionality."

"The tool's porting of targeted sources in CSV was a nice feature. The integration and connection between the tenants were smooth. We could access a template CSV as well."

"Almost all the features of CodeTwo are valuable for Microsoft 365."

"The solution offers ease of configuration. With a wizard, you run through the setup, and everything is configured correctly. Additionally, creating a job is very easy, and overall, the ease of access is excellent. Also, it allows you to use the backups to migrate to another Office 365 environment."

"The user interface is the most valuable. It gives us the ability to check everything. With more than 100 endpoints running that software, I like the ability to quickly check that everything is working correctly. That's one of the biggest selling points."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"What I like the most about it's the ease of use and the reliability that it has when copying information to the cloud."

"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."

"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."

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

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Cons

"I attempted to modify the XML files in the product's configuration to enhance the speed and efficiency of the process. While the KBs and documentation were well-written, technical aspects related to speed adjustment parameters were unclear."

"There are two major improvements. First, the UI seems outdated. Second, the tool should support cloud backups. I suggest using Windows Server 2016 or 2019."

"The customer service and support could be improved. When communicating via email, they sometimes take until late the same day to respond."

"There is room to improve in managing email signatures."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"N-able Cove Data Protection for Microsoft 365 is an area with shortcomings that need improvement."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool's pricing was reasonable. I don't remember the amount per mailbox, but the cost seemed fair, considering we had around 300 mailboxes to migrate and needed to do it in a rush over a weekend. We didn't have many choices for people to operate the migration."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about CodeTwo Backup for Office 365?

The tool's porting of targeted sources in CSV was a nice feature. The integration and connection between the tenants were smooth. We could access a template CSV as well.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CodeTwo Backup for Office 365?

The license for signatures is expensive compared to my previous experience with other companies. We compared CodeTwo and Letsignit pricing plans for a project three years ago and found CodeTwo's pr...

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What needs improvement with CodeTwo Backup for Office 365?

I can't provide an exact area for improvement because I left the company. However, I believe that enhancing the ability to modify user attributes directly needs improvement. Also, from my perspecti...

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

Overview

CodeTwo Backup for Office 365 provides a comprehensive data protection solution designed to safeguard and restore Office 365 mailboxes. It offers numerous backup options ensuring data integrity during accidental deletions or data corruption events.

Focused on data backup and recovery for Office 365, CodeTwo Backup for Office 365 supports incremental and continuous backups, allowing timely data recovery. It is structured to handle large datasets efficiently and provides various options for customizing backup and recovery processes. Its intuitive approach streamlines the safeguarding of emails, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams data across business environments.

What are the main features of CodeTwo Backup for Office 365?

Incremental Backup: Reduces storage usage by only backing up changes since the last backup.
Automated Backup: Set schedules to perform backups automatically without manual intervention.
Data Recovery: Restore specific items or entire mailboxes with ease.
PST Export: Export backup data to PST for offline access and archiving.

What benefits and ROI can users expect?

Data Security: Mitigates data loss risks by providing reliable backup options.
Cost Efficiency: Saves costs with optimized storage and backup features.
Flexibility: Responsive to different business needs with various customizable settings.
Scalability: Effective for growing businesses, handling increasing data loads effortlessly.

In industries such as finance and healthcare, CodeTwo Backup for Office 365 is deployed to ensure compliance with data retention policies and facilitate quick data retrieval when needed. Its robust functionality supports critical backup and recovery processes, integral to maintaining operational continuity and regulatory compliance in data-driven sectors.

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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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Computer Depot, Leading Edge Computers, IT Logic Australia

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