Disaster Recovery Master Class
Part of the series Disaster Recovery Master Class
View SeriesFrom DR fundamentals to DRaaS in action. Hands-on skills for every stage of recovery.
The worst time to learn about disaster recovery is when you're already in one. Whether you're building a DR strategy from the ground up or ready to take recovery to the next level with Disaster Recovery as a Service, this Master Class gives you the hands-on skills and confidence to recover fast — no matter what hits.
What you'll learn
Disaster Recovery Fundamentals
- The critical decisions you must make before disaster strikes
- Key recovery prerequisites and cyber recovery best practices
- The most common errors and pitfalls that cause recovery to fail and how to avoid them
DRaaS in action
- Simplify: How Cove DRaaS delivers co-managed disaster recovery through the N‑able cloud - with guided failover, VPN setup, and opinionated defaults that reduce complexity
- Validate: How automated recovery testing and boot screenshots give you proof of recoverability before an incident forces you to find out
- Recover: How to pause, pick a restore point, and fail over to a secure cloud environment - without building or maintaining DR infrastructure yourself
Live demo
We'll walk through the full DRaaS setup experience inside the Cove platform — from enrolling servers in a DRaaS plan and configuring protection, to monitoring readiness on the DRaaS dashboard.
Who should attend
This session is built for MSPs and IT teams who want to move from knowing they should have a DR plan to knowing it actually works. Cove setup required — a free trial is all you need to get started.
60 minutes | Live demo included
Invest one hour. Walk away knowing how to deploy, test, and trust your disaster recovery.
Speakers
Keith Young
Keith Principal Sales Engineer with Cove Data Protection who has been with N‑able for over 8 years, so you’ll be in extraordinarily safe hands in this session!
Eric Harless
Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, Eric started at N‑able in 2013 as a Product Manager focused on Cove Data Protection. He has over 25 years of data protection industry experience in sales, support, marketing, systems engineering, and product management. In 2019, Eric joined the Head Nerds Team as part of the pilot program, with the full team officially launching in 2020.
When Eric isn’t living life in the N‑able Cove, he enjoys spending his time with family and going to Renaissance fairs with his wife. You may have spotted him as the “Cove Pirate” at an Empower event, making good use of a past Renaissance costume. Eric enjoys sci-fi, fantasy, and is also an avid Trekkie—be sure to ask him his favorite captain.