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Azure Backup

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What is Azure Backup?

Microsoft's Azure Backup is a cloud backup service.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Azure Backup has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Video files

    Supports video file types

    Category average: 8

  • Document collaboration

    Users can edit files and attach comments to files.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Access control

    Users can control access to (shared) files, including different levels of access such as view-only or permission to edit.

    Category average: 8.6

Areas for Improvement

  • Audio files

    Supports audio file types, such as .mp3, .mp4, and .wav

    Category average: 8.3

  • File search

    A search function that allows users to easily find files, and in some cases even search within multiple files.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Storage Reports

    Includes reporting capabilities to monitor user activity and storage levels.

    Category average: 8.6

Reviews

What users are saying about Azure Backup.
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Azure Backup Review A Reliable and Cost Effective Choice for Azure Workloads.

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, Azure Backup serves as the primary cloud‑based data protection solution for safeguarding Azure‑hosted workloads. We use it to ensure that our critical systems, databases, and virtual machines remain recoverable in the event of accidental deletion, corruption, ransomware attacks, or full‑scale disaster scenarios. Azure Backup provides automated, policy‑based backups for our VMs, file servers, application servers, and databases.

Pros

  • Azure Backup excels at protecting both cloud and on-premises workloads, enabling organizations to adopt a unified backup strategy.
  • Azure Backup performs application‑consistent backups, capturing full application state, including in-memory data and pending transactions.
  • Azure Backup requires no backup servers, appliances, or tapes. Azure Backup includes multiple built‑in ransomware mitigation features.

Cons

  • Still Missing or Delayed Support for Some Workloads.Azure Data Lake Storage, Elastic SAN, PostgreSQL Flexible Server.
  • Missing coverage for Teams, Power Platform, and fast recovery.
  • Backup management still time-consuming in practice.

Return on Investment

  • We eliminated on‑prem backup hardware, tapes, and offsite logistics.
  • Risk reduction & resilience.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI

Other Software Used

Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI, Veem

Azure Backup

Incentivized
Verified User
Director in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Azure backup as the single source for our IaaS VMs hosted in Azure. We do not layer on any third-party tools in addition to the native Azure backup services.

Pros

  • Backing up Azure IaaS VMs.
  • Easy to manage using the Azure portal.
  • Can restore file-level data or the entire VM. Your option.

Cons

  • Cost
  • Not sure, but maybe it's time to restore an entire VM?

Return on Investment

  • We have spent no additional money on backups or backup process.
  • We have spent no additional money on training for the backup process.
  • We have not experienced any technical issues with the backup process or restoration process.

Usability

Azure Backup Review

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Research & Development (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Azure backup is currently the go-to solution for our VM's in Azure.
It is easy and fast to setup so it's quickly up and running.

Previously our "legacy" backup solutions were unable to provide Bare Metal Restores of Azure VM's because of the lack of Hypervisor access. With Azure backup we can do simple file restores our full machine (Bare Metal) restores.

Pros

  • Bare Metal Restore for Azure VM's
  • Ease of installation
  • Security of the backups (Immutability)

Cons

  • Monitoring / Alerting could be more simplified/easy to setup
  • Projected cost (including storage) would be nice, to tell how in what range the cost will be of backing up a VM for x amount of days

Return on Investment

  • It is our default offering, easy and fast to setup by Junior engineers with immediate ROI due to our pricing method for our SaaS offerings

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Veeam Backup for Azure, Cove Data Protection and Arcserve ShadowProtect

Other Software Used

Veeam Data Platform, Cove Data Protection, Arcserve ShadowProtect

Protect your data effortlessly with Azure Backup

Incentivized
Adrian CambroneroView profile
Consultor TI AZURE in Engineering at ITQS (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • Flexible backup options
  • Integrated with Azure services
  • Built-in security features
  • Scalability

Cons

  • Backup and Recovery Speed
  • Granular Control
  • Integration with Third-Party Tools
  • Cost Optimization:

Return on Investment

  • Data Protection
  • Efficiency
  • Cost Savings

Alternatives Considered

Commvault Complete Data Protection, Acronis Advanced Backup, Micro Focus Data Protector and Veeam Backup for Azure

Other Software Used

Check Point Harmony Connect, Microsoft Teams

Azure Backups = Sleep Well

Incentivized
Matthew KerfootView profile
Infrastructure and Networking Manager in Engineering at Virteva (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • 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

Cons

  • 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.

Return on Investment

  • there is a cost associated but it is very competitive with the marketplace
  • The price is expensive for a company with little budget
  • The price is nice for a larger company with plenty of CapEx

Alternatives Considered

Veeam Backup & Replication

Other Software Used

Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Azure, Veritas Backup Exec