It is evident that having backups alone is insufficient, and in the ransomware-infected world of today, the architecture of your data security solution matters. It's essential to store backups offsite, away from the local network, and unreachable by ransomware that might be looking for backup files and programs.

For this requirement, a practical, cloud-first architecture is created, minimising the attack surface in two ways: by hosting the application remotely and maintaining the primary backup store in the cloud. This way, you can still access the Cove dashboard from any browser (with required two-factor authentication) and perform the necessary cloud recovery operations even if secondary local backup copies are destroyed or encrypted.

The modern approach to data protection is through the cloud. Legacy on-premise image backup solutions have attempted to modernise by adding extra steps, licences, and configuration requirements to push secondary backup copies to a third-party cloud location. Cloud-first data protection is conceptually far ahead of these solutions. These items significantly increase cost, complexity, and administrative time to supplement what has evolved into a core demand. The contrary is true at Cove, where backup copies are automatically sent to our private cloud, making local backup storage optional and secondary.

Traditional image backup would not be practical for this architecture because incremental backup files can be up to 60 times larger than Cove. The cove is designed to produce quick incremental backups that may be sent to our cloud as frequently as every hour.

reducing downtime

Thanks to the recently announced new Standby Image feature, you now have extra recovery choices. Standby Image can assist you with creating, managing, and reporting on a bootable copy of your most recent backup at the secondary location of your choice for a nominal monthly cost per device. Customers or applications that need the quickest recovery can then have a standby image prepared, hastening the process and cutting down on downtime.

How about the phrase "beyond" in this headline? Don't overlook the essential preventative steps, even though backup and disaster recovery are your final line of protection and key path to recovery. N-able provides a complete line of security solutions to assist you in creating a layered defence because of this.