This is the layer beneath all the others, and the one practices find out they got wrong at the least convenient possible hour. Nine lines: desktops, physical boxes, hypervisor guests, the Microsoft tenant, the Google tenant, the directory deciding who may sign in, the ledger your bookkeeper lives in, and one line whose entire purpose is proving a recovery works.
A duplicate parked on the very network it duplicates is a duplicate somebody scrambles at the same moment. What is held here stays out of reach of the estate it came from, and that single property decides whether a bad week is an expensive nuisance or the end of a practice.
These lines are split by what they cover because those things genuinely differ. A reception desktop, a box carrying the practice management database, and a guest on a hypervisor want different mechanics, different rhythms and different recovery routes. Pricing them as one line would only mean guessing on your behalf.
Microsoft and Google keep your tenant running. Neither of them is holding a duplicate for you against a deletion nobody spotted for six weeks, a departing employee emptying a mailbox, or a stolen account tidying up behind itself. Cove takes the Microsoft side. Dropsuite takes Google Workspace, the Entra ID settings deciding who may sign in, and the QuickBooks Online books your practice gets paid through.
The rehearsal line is the one we push hardest for and the cheapest to leave off. It recovers on a calendar and checks the result, which turns the claim that you have backups into something you have personally watched happen.
Every figure below arrives from the billing system while this page opens. Whatever you add sits waiting in the panel while you keep reading.
Rolling versions of the files somebody is working in, so a document mangled at eleven can be brought back the way it looked at ten. The cheapest line here, and the one that gets called on most.
| Built on | N-able Cove |
|---|---|
| Runs on | Windows desktops |
| Holds | Frequent versions of documents in active use |
| Recovers | Individual files, with no machine rebuild involved |
| Goes with | Workstation image copies on the same machine |
| Counted in | Windows workstations, monthly |
A duplicate of the entire disk, kept out of reach of the practice network, so a dead drive or a scrambled desktop gets replaced from an image instead of rebuilt from memory and a shoebox of installers.
| Built on | N-able Cove |
|---|---|
| Runs on | Windows and macOS desktops |
| Holds | Duplicates of the whole disk |
| Recovers | A file, a folder, or the machine entire |
| Storage | Kept out of reach of the network being covered |
| Counted in | Workstations, monthly |
Image duplicates of a physical server, which in most practices means the box carrying the practice management database and the record archive. Recovery onto replacement hardware is part of it.
| Built on | N-able Cove |
|---|---|
| Runs on | Physical Windows and Linux servers |
| Method | Image duplicates taken with the application quiet |
| Recovers | Onto replacement hardware from bare metal |
| Suits | The box holding practice management and imaging archives |
| Counted in | Physical servers, monthly |
The same treatment for hypervisor guests, counted one guest at a time, so a host carrying six servers is charged for six rather than for one.
| Built on | N-able Cove |
|---|---|
| Runs on | Hypervisor guests |
| Method | Image duplicates taken with the application quiet |
| Recovers | A guest, onto the original host or a new one |
| Basis | One line for each guest, not for each host |
| Counted in | Virtual servers, monthly |
Duplicates of mail, files and collaboration content taken out of your Microsoft tenant. Microsoft keeps the service running. Holding a copy of what it contained last month is somebody else's job.
| Built on | N-able Cove |
|---|---|
| Includes | Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, plus Teams content |
| Recovers | One item, one mailbox, or an account entire |
| Separate | History depth held apart from tenant policy |
| Basis | Licensed users inside the tenant |
| Counted in | Licensed users, monthly |
The same treatment for a Google tenant: mail, drive contents, calendars and contacts, kept apart from Google so a deletion nobody spotted stays recoverable long after the fact.
| Built on | Dropsuite |
|---|---|
| Includes | Gmail, Drive, Calendar and Contacts |
| Recovers | Single items or an account entire |
| Separate | Held apart from the Google tenant |
| Basis | Licensed users inside the tenant |
| Counted in | Licensed users, monthly |
A duplicate of the QuickBooks Online company file your practice gets paid through. A botched import, a deleted account and a bookkeeper moving on are the everyday reasons this line gets called upon, and none of them are dramatic.
| Built on | Dropsuite |
|---|---|
| Includes | QuickBooks Online company data |
| Recovers | Records and lists, after a botched import or a deletion |
| Basis | One line for each company file |
| Suits | Practices and billing companies running several entities |
| Counted in | Company files, monthly |
A duplicate of the directory settings deciding who may sign in and what they may open. Nobody thinks about this line until an account structure gets changed badly, at which point it is the only thing that helps.
| Built on | Dropsuite |
|---|---|
| Includes | Entra ID users, groups, roles, plus policy settings |
| Recovers | Directory settings after a change went wrong |
| Basis | One line for each tenant |
| Suits | Any practice whose sign in runs through Entra ID |
| Counted in | Tenants, monthly |
Recovery rehearsed on a calendar across whichever systems you nominate. A duplicate gets recovered, checked and reported on, which turns the sentence about having backups into a sentence with evidence behind it.
| Built on | N-able Cove |
|---|---|
| Does | Rehearsed recovery and verification on a calendar |
| Produces | A dated report for each system covered |
| Suits | The servers and tenants you cannot open the doors without |
| Basis | One line for each system covered |
| Counted in | Protected systems, monthly |
Backup is where optimism causes the most damage, so we will be exact about where the boundary sits.
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