This is the module people buy after a bad week and wish they had bought before it. Nine lines covering desktops, tin servers, virtual guests, and the cloud accounts a great many companies quietly assume somebody else looks after. Nobody else looks after them.
Microsoft and Google keep your data available. That is a different promise from keeping your data recoverable. Both run a retention window and a recycle bin, and both will faithfully replicate a deletion, an encryption event, or a departing employee tidying up on the way out. Once the window closes the copy is gone, and support cannot conjure it back for you.
Accounting data is no different. QuickBooks Online is not a filing cabinet you can rummage through after somebody removes a year of transactions. Directory configuration in Entra is worse, because nobody thinks of it as data at all until a misfired script drops a few hundred group memberships and nothing works on Monday morning.
A backup job reporting success means the job ran. It does not mean the data is complete, that the image will boot, or that anybody in the building knows the procedure. The verification line exists to close that gap: restores get performed on a schedule against real recovery points, and the result gets written down where you can read it.
Copies also live away from the systems they came out of, because a backup sitting on the same network as the thing it protects is a backup that gets encrypted alongside it. Retention is agreed with you, in months, rather than in vague reassurance.
Every rate below arrives live from billing. Anything you pick up drops into the inventory panel and sits there quietly.
Frequent version history for the documents somebody is working on right now. It is aimed at the everyday accident, which is far more common than a disaster: the file overwritten at four o'clock on a Friday.
| Engine | N-able Cove |
|---|---|
| Boxes | Windows workstations |
| Eyes on | File and folder version history |
| Best for | Overwritten, corrupted or wrongly deleted documents |
| Counted by | Windows workstation, each month |
A complete picture of the machine rather than only the documents on it. When a drive fails, the machine comes back as a machine instead of as a pile of files waiting for somebody to reinstall everything.
| Engine | N-able Cove |
|---|---|
| Boxes | Windows and macOS workstations |
| Eyes on | Full disk image plus file level recovery |
| Getting it back | Same hardware, replacement hardware, or single files |
| Counted by | Workstation, each month |
Image level cover for the physical boxes, including the one in the corner running an application whose install media nobody has laid eyes on since 2014.
| Engine | N-able Cove |
|---|---|
| Boxes | Physical Windows and Linux servers |
| Eyes on | Full image, with application aware handling |
| Getting it back | Bare metal, virtual, or individual files |
| Counted by | Physical server, each month |
The same protection for guests on Hyper V or VMware, counted per protected guest so the invoice follows what you genuinely run instead of how the host happens to be licensed.
| Engine | N-able Cove |
|---|---|
| Boxes | Hyper V and VMware guests |
| Eyes on | Full guest image |
| Getting it back | Whole guest, alternate host, or file level |
| Counted by | Virtual server, each month |
Independent copies of mail, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams content, held outside Microsoft, because a tenant that faithfully replicates a deletion is doing precisely what it was built to do.
| Engine | N-able Cove |
|---|---|
| Takes in | Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams |
| Getting it back | Point in time, per user or per item |
| Copies live | Held independently of the Microsoft tenant |
| Counted by | Licensed user, each month |
The same argument on the Google side. Gmail, Drive, Calendar and Contacts are copied out on a schedule, so a deletion that outlives the recycle bin is still recoverable afterwards.
| Engine | Dropsuite |
|---|---|
| Takes in | Gmail, Drive, Calendar and Contacts |
| Getting it back | Per item or per user, from a chosen point |
| Kept for | Agreed with you, beyond the tenant recycle bin |
| Counted by | Licensed user, each month |
A copy of the books that does not live inside the accounting product. Deleted transactions, a bad import, or a departing bookkeeper with tidy instincts all become recoverable rather than theoretical.
| Engine | Dropsuite |
|---|---|
| Takes in | QuickBooks Online company data |
| Getting it back | Record level restore or export |
| Copies live | Held outside the accounting platform |
| Counted by | Company file, each month |
The directory is data as well. Users, groups, roles, memberships and policy settings are copied, so a bulk change made by mistake can be seen, compared and put back.
| Engine | Dropsuite |
|---|---|
| Takes in | Entra ID users, groups, roles and policy settings |
| Getting it back | Compare points in time, then restore configuration |
| Eyes on | Directory configuration rather than mailbox content |
| Counted by | Tenant, each month |
The line that turns a backup into a fact. Restores run on a schedule against real recovery points, the outcome is recorded, and a failure becomes a case instead of a discovery you make in the middle of an emergency.
| Engine | Fortify 24x7 process over N-able Cove and Dropsuite |
|---|---|
| Cadence | On a schedule agreed with you |
| You get | A written result for each verified system |
| When it fails | A case is raised and worked at our desk |
| Counted by | Protected system, each month |
Backup is the one line where a wrong assumption only shows up on the worst day. So here it is in plain terms.
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