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Azure Backup

Overview

What is Azure Backup?

Microsoft's Azure Backup is a cloud backup service.

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Recent Reviews

Best Azure Backup for Servers

9 out of 10
July 23, 2021
It is used across all servers at the Enterprise level across [the] department. There is a lot of customization available in terms of the …
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Popular Features

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  • User and role management (11)
    9.3
    93%
  • Access control (11)
    9.3
    93%
  • Reliability (11)
    9.3
    93%
  • Performance (11)
    9.2
    92%
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Pricing

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Storage in GB/Month

$0.0224 to $0.0569

Cloud
per GB

Backup Instance <50GB

$5.00 + storage consumed

Cloud

Backup Instance > 50 GB but < or = 500 GB

$10.00 + storage consumed

Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

File Sharing & Management

Features that allow collaborators to view, work on, and organize files.

8.7
Avg 8.4

Cloud Storage Security & Administration

Features related to security and administration for cloud storage platforms

8.9
Avg 8.6

Cloud Storage Platform

Features around the functionality of the cloud storage platform.

9
Avg 8.5
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Product Details

What is Azure Backup?

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Azure Backup is the service that you use to back up and restore your data in the Microsoft cloud. It replaces your existing on-premises or off-site backup solution with a cloud-based solution that is reliable, secure, and cost-competitive. It also helps protect assets that r...
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Azure Backup Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Microsoft's Azure Backup is a cloud backup service.

Reviewers rate Access control and User and role management and Reliability highest, with a score of 9.3.

The most common users of Azure Backup are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Adrian Cambronero | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Azure Backup is a cloud-based backup and recovery solution that can be used to protect data and applications running on-premises, on Azure, or in other cloud environments. Azure Backup helps us with various organizational needs. we use it to protect a wide range of data sources, including virtual machines, SQL databases, and file servers. Some common use cases for Azure Backup include: Protecting virtual machines running on AzureBackup of hosted SQL databasesProtection of file servers, including Windows and Linux servers.
  • Flexible backup options
  • Integrated with Azure services
  • Built-in security features
  • Scalability
  • Backup and Recovery Speed
  • Granular Control
  • Integration with Third-Party Tools
  • Cost Optimization:
Azure Backup is ideal for organizations that already use Microsoft Azure and want to back up their data to the cloud. It also works for hybrid IT infrastructure, with a mix of cloud-based and on-premises resources. Runs SQL Server workloads , Exchange, SharePoint and others. Azure Backup is not designed for complex backups.Azure Backup may not be the best choice for high-performance workloads that require near real-time backup and recovery
Matthew Kerfoot | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We backup on-premises physical machines and Azure virtual machines with Azure Backup. We also use Azure Site Recovery with a few clients and it has had to be used and saved the day. Azure backups are always rock solid.
  • Backup on-premises physical machines
  • Backup Azure virtual machines with Azure Backup
  • Restore from backups
  • Azure Site Recovery syncs servers to Azure for disaster recovery purposes
  • backup schedule calendar would be cool
  • Backup vaults should ask if you want to send notifications when you first set it up, there have been a couple of times when I noticed a month later that, backup job failures were not configured to send email notifications.
I sleep better at night knowing that we have Azure Backup configured. Having had to restore files and full backups multiple times I am confident in this solution. I would strongly encourage everyone with Azure to use Azure Backups, in fact, If they don't, I don't think I would want to do business with them.
Luciano Ghilarducci | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
To create backups for on-premises and on cloud servers. It is simple to use and the cost is affordable when compared to other backup solutions. It is all cloud-based.
  • Easy to setup on the client side.
  • Ready to use.
  • Storage has a competitive cost.
  • Supports cloud and on premises resources.
  • Support for more operational systems.
  • Deduplication
It is a robust solution that stores only modified data, this way it saves storage. It is really easy to use and the storage costs are one of the most competitive on market. It is handy even when the customer has nothing in the cloud and sometimes is the gateway to the cloud journey. You can use a backup set to restore a machine to the cloud, it can help business continuity.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We keep the backup of all critical systems working 24/7 in our Data Center and databases that are continuously transacted on the cloud side with Azure Backup. Azure Backup provides tier levels that cannot be provided by non-IT companies like us, far below the investment costs as a service.
  • Backup; Files, Folders
  • Virtual Machines, SQL Databases
  • Even Ä°mage Backups
  • There are more features than you need, just learn how to do it.
  • Really, it is constantly being developed, so I don't think of anything.
By using Azure Backup, you can back up your NAS device you use locally as a file server, virtual machines you use in [a] production environment, critical databases, and everything you can think of. I do not know if there are scenarios that are not suitable, it meets all my needs.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have used it for over two years in a scenario to perform backups of virtual machines, SQL databases, and data in general. The interface is excellent, clean, friendly, and easy to learn and use. Even local non-IT users can use it without problems. With this tool, backups and restores are easy and simplified.
  • Easily backup and restore virtual machines.
  • Friendly and clean interface and very easy to configure.
  • Integrations with other Microsoft products. Customizations.
  • Excellent documentation from Microsoft. The guides help and are easy to follow to set up.
  • Successful solution. No errors or bugs or problems.
What we like most is how easy it is to effectively backup and restore virtual machines. It can be done in the following ways: complete restoration, disk, and volume mounting on the local computer. It is a well-established solution in the market and a secure cloud with high availability and security.
John Fester | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you have managed backups, then you know of all the sufferings you've dealt with, ranging from errors to insufficient storage, to permissions, checking consistency, deduplication, mounting backups to restore entire systems...or random files only. These routines cause significant stress and concern if you do not have your backups set up appropriately, or worse, use a system that does not give you these abilities. With Microsoft Azure in place, it only makes sense to use Azure Backup. The ability to directly tie a machine to a user, or backup media to a project or dataset, and easily deploy in your Microsoft network, is superb with Azure as opposed to other software that you will have to set up all of these items manually to finagle them to work properly. Being a Microsoft network, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Servers and Microsoft Exchange...adding Microsoft Azure is a clear recommended path and utilizing Azure for backups is a must in this type of environment.
  • Azure Backup is fast! Coupled with the fact that Microsoft created Azure and Windows - these two operate phenomenally together!
  • Administering the backups inside of Azure is a breeze. The ability to mount, restore entire backups, or recover files, has been made very easy. You do not have to download any media to recover something, you do this all in the cloud and it gets mounted in Microsoft's systems. Making this process less than a quarter of the time you would have spent with your 'other' backup solutions.
  • Having an admin console that you can use to manage backup schedules across your network would be useful. Going machine to machine to check the current settings is ok but would be better in a GUI.
  • Maybe an agent utility installed on each workstation where the user can specify or customize the backup, perhaps just a set of folders, or ignore certain folders, would be helpful to eliminate garbage in the cloud.
Azure is secure, one of the most secure cloud-based user management software that easily and thoroughly connects to Microsoft Active Directory. Microsoft does a tremendous job at redundancy across their data centers and data itself inside each data center. This gives you the knowledge that regardless of what happens to one building, all your data is safe in Azure. Azure backups are very fast and work well with QOS in your network to allocate resources to other important tasks rather than a backup. Not everyone is a GUI user, many of us techs prefer to use Powershell commands to manage, setup, troubleshoot systems and data. As Microsoft owns all of this, Powershell is a quick way to get access to your data in the cloud and issue any needed commands to your system(s) in bulk or one at a time. If you have a complete Linux or Mac environment, you may want to consider another solution as much of what Azure Backup offers is best used with Windows.
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