In Cove 26.4, Cove Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is now available in public preview for all customers. Cove DRaaS is designed to help you recover faster after a disaster, with less cost and complexity. Sign-up for the public preview on our website.
What’s New in the Cove?
Management Console
Historical Charts UI Modernization Public Preview
We’ve modernized the UI for ‘Historical charts’ to our new APEX design system, making it simpler to track backup and storage trends over time, plan capacity with greater confidence, and spot any coverage gaps across your protected workloads.
Profiles UI Modernization Public Preview
We’ve modernized the UI for ‘Profiles’ to our new APEX design system, making it easier for you to view and manage backup configurations across your devices.
Classic Products Update
Classic Products are now hidden for partners without usage or assigned devices and are no longer created by default for new partners. This change supports standardization on the new retention model.
Backup Manager
Security Improvements
Curl vulnerability, CVE-2025-14819, was identified in the VDDK 9.0.1 bundle. We’ve updated the Backup Manager to use a more secure version of curl and replaced the affected library with an updated and signed version in Windows packages.
No action is required on your part. For more information about CVE-2025-14819, see the advisory here.
Additionally, all communication between Backup Manager and the cloud is now restricted to FIPS-compliant ciphers.
Improved Support for Spares Files on Linux Systems
Previously, sparse files were restored as full-size files which could consume large amounts of disk space (e.g., systemfiles like /var/log/lastlog) and lead to recovery failures.
Now, these sparse files are properly identified during the backup and will be restored as sparse files which utilizes disk space efficiently and improves recovery reliability.
More Accurate OS Version Detection for Linux
We’ve improved the identification of Linux distributions and versions. Devices previously shown as “Unknown” are now correctly recognized (e.g., Rocky Linux, openSUSE).
Linux Bare-Metal Recovery (BMR) Enhancements
This update improves handling of GRUB bootloader settings during recovery to support more reliably system restores, adds out of-the-box support for modern boot configurations (BLS – Boot Loader Specification), and introduces the ability to exclude specific files and folders during file system restore.
Microsoft 365
PST Export GA
PST Export for Exchange Online backups is now generally available, enabling you to export mailbox data from Cove in .pst format for user offboarding, compliance and legal workflows, and data migration needs.
This feature now also supports exports of Exchange Contacts and Calendars. For more information, please refer to our user guide.
PST Export Billing Disclaimer: PST Export is included in your standard Cove Microsoft 365 Backup licensing. No additional charges apply.
Rebuilt SharePoint Restore Wizard
We’ve redesigned the SharePoint Restore Wizard, allowing you to find and restore SharePoint sites faster and with greater reliability, especially for large environments.
In-Place Archive Backup Improvements
Cove now backs up mailboxes with In-Place Archive enabled more efficiently by reducing the number of Microsoft Graph API requests needed to retrieve archived content.
Backup reliability has also been improved by adding fallback handling for attachment retrieval issues. For archive availability errors caused by an issue from Microsoft, our support team can enable error suppression on request.
Exchange Backup Concurrency and Throttling Improvements
Cove now handles Exchange backup concurrency and throttling more efficiently, reducing repeated throttling, improving backup performance, and reducing backup time for exchange mailboxes (including Online Archive content).
Google Workspace
Google Workspace Backup Limited Tech Preview
Google Workspace Backup is now available in limited tech preview. This phase is focused on validating assumptions and gathering partner feedback ahead of general availability.
The current scope of protection is Gmail and Personal Drive, with Shared Drives, Calendar, and Contacts to follow in later milestones. Sign-up for the limited tech preview here.
Continuity
Cove DRaaS Public Preview
We’re excited to announce that Cove Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is now available in public preview.
Cove DRaaS provides a secure, cloud-hosted environment with already recovered VMs, eliminating the need for you to build and maintain your own DR infrastructure. This reduces operational overhead, liability, and risk associated with storing and securing data.
The public preview is available free of charge until July and is supported across all regions. We encourage you to try out Cove DRaaS, see how it fits into your current workflows, and start planning how you will use it before general availability. Sign-up for the public preview here.
Note: Only partial failover is supported during public preview. This means if your primary site goes down completely, there’s no way to connect to the failover VM yet. Your primary site must be at least partially online as you will need it to deploy a VPN appliance that creates a secure tunnel between your local network and the N-able Cloud. Once that tunnel is up, users on your local network can reach the failover VM as if it were running locally. At GA, we will support full site failover.
Cove DRaaS Disclaimer: Cove DRaaS is available at no cost during the public preview, which is limited to five devices. If Cove DRaaS remains deployed and active at the time of general availability, it will automatically convert to a paid feature and billing will apply. To add additional devices, contact our sales team.
Granular Selection for One-Time Restore to Hyper-V
One-Time Restore to Hyper-V now includes the ability to selectively exclude data from a restore across all supported platforms. This gives you more control over the restore process and helps streamline recovery when full VM data restoration is unnecessary.
Resources and Events
Configuration Health Check
Schedule a free, in-depth engagement with a Cove expert to help you uncover unknown gaps in your backup health and configurations that could undermine your recovery efforts. Schedule now
Become a Master of Disaster Recovery
Join this interactive masterclass on May 19th, 2026, that prepares you and your team to respond before disaster strikes. Register here
Office Hours: Cove Data Protection
Join Head Backup Nerd, Eric Harless, and Product Management guests on May 25th, 2026, for Q&A, roadmap updates, practical automation and scripting insights, and to improve your overall chance of a successful data recovery. Register here
Cove 26.3 Release Notes
Cove 26.3 delivered Group-Based Data Protection which allows users to select Microsoft Entra ID security groups to define how and which groups of Microsoft users are protected in Cove, instead of selecting them one by one. This will help you apply consistent policies across security groups and protect the right user segments without protecting the whole tenant. Check out last month’s update to learn more. Read now
Legal Disclaimer: Any usage of the product while in Limited Tech Preview or Public Preview is provided as part of early access. Features may change before General Availability, and performance or availability is not guaranteed.
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