How Cove Works
Smarter because it’s different.
Different because it’s smarter.
Cove’s TrueDelta technology makes backups small, fast and ultra reliable. It will have you rethinking your assumptions of what great backup should be.
How is Cove so much better?
Cove’s cloud-first architecture isolates immutable backups away from your local network while giving you fast, easy restores to your environment of choice.
Reliable Backup
Cove backs up your local devices, cloud workloads, and Microsoft 365 data — all managed from one dashboard.
SaaS Simplicity
Cove is a SaaS application, and primary backup storage in our worldwide data centers is included. So an attack on your network isn’t an attack on your backups.
Flexible Restore
Recovery flexibility gives you options — bring up a recovery VM locally or in the cloud.
When you aren’t restricted by legacy technology, something amazing happens.
We’re frequently asked why Cove is so much more efficient than image-based backup tools.
Here’s how it works:
TrueDelta efficiency
TrueDelta efficiency
Cove processes deduplication at a sub-block or byte level—a more granular approach than changed block tracking that yields better dedupe results without the compute demands of full-image scanning.
Real-time scanning
Real-time scanning
Cove identifies changes to protected workloads in the background, eliminating resource-intensive scanning during backups.
Smarter data exclusion
Smarter data exclusion
Temporary internet files, browser cache, and other unnecessary data are automatically excluded from backups. Users have the option to exclude additional data types, as well.
Here’s what it means:
Low change rate
Low change rate
Image-based tools typically see 6-10% change rate between backups. Cove’s change rate averages just 0.1%, making incremental backups smaller and easier to move to the cloud.
Faster backup
Faster backup
Let’s say that a single file is modified between backups. Cove uses a hashing algorithm to identify and copy the segment of data within the file that was changed, instead of the entire file.
Faster recovery
Faster recovery
This intelligence makes recovery faster, as well. Cove identifies existing segments on a recovery machine and only recovers missing or changed blocks to “rehydrate” a full restore.
Over time, TrueDelta's big difference adds up
Classic Image-Level
Cove Data Protection
Computer size
Computer size
500 GB
500 GB
Incremental change rate
Incremental change rate
6%
0.1%
Incremental (GB)
Incremental (GB)
30 GB
0.5 GB
And the impact compounds:
With 60 restore points:
30 GB x 60 vs. 0.5 GB x 60
And the impact compounds:
Incremental (GB)
1800 GB
30 GB
How does this help my business?
Perform frequent, direct-to-cloud backups of even your largest devices for better RPOs and improved service levels, while saying goodbye to time-out errors.
- Back up as often as every 15 minutes
- Never sacrifice retention due to storage constraints
- Virtually no bandwidth restrictions
- Enjoy smarter, faster restores
- Worldwide in-region cloud storage included
“We can back up more often, with a lot less overhead on customers’ networks. It’s a more efficient backup.”
Lionel Naidoo
Director and CEO of Dragon IS
Secure by design
Legacy backup attack vectors
Legacy backup solutions are being compromised by ransomware, including your ability to recover secondary cloud backups, rendering all of your backups unusable.
The Cove advantage
Cove’s backups go direct to cloud, so they are isolated and immutable by default for increased cyber-resilience with no additional effort.
Cloud native
Cyber‑resilient
