Losing the material is quieter than having it stolen, and it happens far more often. A drive fails with the only edit on it. A mailbox is emptied by whoever got into it. An assistant leaves and a Google account goes with them. These nine lines are about second copies kept away from the thing they protect, and about recoveries that get tried before you need them.
N-able Cove handles machines and the Microsoft side of things: file history, whole workstation images, hardware servers, virtual servers, and a Microsoft 365 tenant. Workspace, the Entra ID configuration, plus the QuickBooks Online ledger, all go to Dropsuite.
Nobody needs all nine of them. A household with three laptops and a Microsoft tenant takes three lines. A name with a production company, a merchandise business, and a foundation attached takes rather more. Keeping them separate is what stops you paying for the parts that have nothing whatever to do with you.
Recovery testing gets cut from the order to save a few pounds, and it is the line that turns backup from an expense into a fact. It runs recoveries on a schedule and keeps the evidence that they worked.
Until somebody restores from it, a backup is a belief and not a fact. Finding out that a job has quietly been failing since February should not happen on the morning after a drive dies. Knowing instead costs very little.
The rates underneath arrive from billing as this page opens. Anything you set is held in the running order meanwhile.
Version history for the folders somebody is in every day, so a file flattened this morning can be taken back to what it looked like yesterday afternoon.
| Made by | N-able Cove |
|---|---|
| Runs where | Windows workstations |
| Holds | Whichever files and folders you nominate |
| Going back | 28 days of prior versions |
| Not this line | A whole machine image. That is the next one down |
| Counted | One per Windows workstation |
The whole machine rather than a chosen folder, so a dead drive becomes an afternoon of rebuilding instead of a fortnight of reconstructing somebody's working life from memory.
| Made by | N-able Cove |
|---|---|
| Runs where | Machines on Windows, Linux, or macOS |
| Holds | The lot, rather than a chosen part of it |
| Storage | 500GB of pooled space per machine |
| Recovery | The whole machine, or single files from inside the image |
| Counted | One per workstation |
For the box in a cupboard that a business quietly depends on: the media server, the archive machine, the thing an accounts package has been running on since 2019.
| Made by | N-able Cove |
|---|---|
| Runs where | Server hardware on Windows or Linux |
| Databases | Copied as well |
| Storage | 2000GB of pooled space per server |
| Recovery | Onto bare metal, or single files lifted out |
| Counted | One per physical server |
The same again for hypervisor guests, one line per virtual server, so the bill matches what runs rather than what a host could hold one day.
| Made by | N-able Cove |
|---|---|
| Runs where | Windows and Linux guests |
| Databases | Copied as well |
| Storage | 2000GB of pooled space per guest |
| Counting | One line per guest, never per host |
| Counted | One per virtual server |
Microsoft keeps the tenant running. What Microsoft does not keep is a copy of whatever somebody cleared out of it last quarter. This line is that copy.
| Made by | N-able Cove |
|---|---|
| Holds | Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams |
| Storage | 1TB of pooled space per user |
| Recovery | Right down to one item |
| Why | A live tenant is not a copy, whatever anybody assumed it was |
| Counted | One per licensed user |
The identical argument over on the Google side. Mail, files, contacts, calendars and tasks, copied somewhere no deletion inside the tenant can follow.
| Made by | Dropsuite |
|---|---|
| Holds | Mail, drives, contacts, calendars, tasks |
| Recovery | Item by item |
| Fits | A household or office working on Google Workspace |
| Kept where | Apart from the tenant being copied |
| Counted | One per licensed user |
Continuous copies of the accounts. A bad import, a deleted account, or somebody tidying with more enthusiasm than judgement stops being permanent.
| Made by | Dropsuite |
|---|---|
| Holds | QuickBooks Online |
| How often | Continuously |
| Recovery | One click, back to how it was |
| Counting | Several entities means several lines |
| Counted | One per company file |
Not what is in the tenant but the shape of it: accounts, groups, roles, policies. The part that is miserable to rebuild from memory once somebody has changed it badly.
| Made by | Dropsuite |
|---|---|
| Holds | Entra ID configuration |
| Kept for | As long as you keep the line |
| Watching | Configuration changes, tracked as they happen |
| Not this line | Mailboxes and files. Those sit on the Microsoft 365 line |
| Counted | One per tenant |
Recoveries run to a schedule against systems you already protect, with the evidence kept afterwards. It converts a hopeful assumption into something you can point at.
| Made by | N-able Cove |
|---|---|
| What it is | Automated recovery testing with proof of the restore |
| Applies to | Systems already carried by one of the backup lines |
| You get | Evidence a restore finished, kept on the record |
| Why bother | An untested backup is an assumption with a timetable |
| Counted | One per protected system |
Backup is bought last and needed most, and it also gets oversold, so here is the shape of what it will not do for you.
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