Cove Data Protection vs Trilio Site Recovery

Cove Data Protection brings backup, disaster recovery, and archiving for servers, workstations, and SaaS data into a cloud-first service managed from a web dashboard. It covers physical and virtual machines alongside Microsoft 365, including Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams; Google Workspace sources listed include Gmail, Calendar, My Drive, Shared drives, and Contacts. Recovery options range from file and folder restores to bare-metal and virtual disaster recovery, with local or cloud server recovery also available. Standby Image can stage a bootable virtual machine in VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, or Microsoft Azure. Backups can run as often as every 15 minutes, and N-able says TrueDelta can move up to 60 times less data than traditional image backup products. Included pooled cloud storage supports configurable retention up to 10 years. N-able describes encrypted, immutable backups isolated from the local network by default. Supported operating systems include Windows, macOS, and GNU/Linux. Pricing is on request; a 30-day trial is listed, and there is no free plan.

Trilio Site Recovery is a paid, hybrid disaster-recovery product for KubeVirt and OpenShift Virtualization virtual machines. It uses continuous, storage-agnostic replication without a VM agent. Synchronous block replication targets near-zero RPO, while asynchronous replication is also available. Automated failover can start VMs in a defined order, reassign networks, and cut over DNS. Isolated tests run from replicated snapshots without disrupting production, with compliance reports available. Replication policies are Kubernetes custom resources that can be kept as Git-managed manifests, and the product lists ArgoCD, Flux, and ACM compatibility. Its OpenShift-native operator architecture uses CRDs and a centralized control plane for multiple clusters. Hooks before and after failover can quiesce databases, flush writes, and notify dependent services. Listed capabilities include persistent-volume and cluster-resource backup, application-consistent backup, dependency mapping, instant VM recovery, immutable storage, cloud targets, and off-site replication. Availability is described as Technology Preview through Trilio’s Early Adopter Program, supporting Red Hat OpenShift 4.20 and later. Pricing is on request.