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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
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Popular Features

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  • Access control (11)
    9.3
    93%
  • User and role management (11)
    9.3
    93%
  • Reliability (11)
    9.3
    93%
  • Performance (11)
    9.3
    93%
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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.

8.8
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?

Azure Backup Video

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 Video files and Access control and User and role management highest, with a score of 9.3.

The most common users of Azure Backup are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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August 30, 2020

A reference and great cloud backup solution.

AW
Amanda Wiens
Analista de Suporte
Oi (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
Azure Backup Feature Ratings
File Sharing & Management (7)
97.14285714285714%
9.7
Versioning
100%
10.0
Video files
90%
9.0
Audio files
90%
9.0
Document collaboration
100%
10.0
Access control
100%
10.0
File search
100%
10.0
Device sync
100%
10.0
Cloud Storage Security & Administration (3)
100%
10.0
User and role management
100%
10.0
File organization
100%
10.0
Device management
100%
10.0
Cloud Storage Platform (3)
100%
10.0
Performance
100%
10.0
Reliability
100%
10.0
Storage Reports
100%
10.0
Return on Investment
  • The data is secure and can be restored at any time.
  • Optimizes time and increases IT productivity.
Support Rating
10
One of the differentials of the solution is the high level of guarantee and support of the Azure Backup solution. Microsoft is a reference in a technology company with a highly trained support team and helps us with any questions or technical problems with the tool. Service is fast and efficient with trained engineers.
Other Software Used
January 14, 2020

The best model for automated backups in the cloud

Verified User
Vice-President in Information Technology
Marketing & Advertising Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Azure Backup to ensure that all of our own assets and those we manage for clients are fully recoverable with the proper RTO/RPO targets. The thing that is striking about Azure Backup compared to other cloud environments is how straightforward and simple the initial configuration is. In addition, it's not been my experience to find a straightforward utility designed around managing traditional backups on other major cloud platforms. I was expecting to have to do some of the custom scripting and scheduling that I needed to do in the past and was really happy to discover how easy it is to manage backups with Azure Backup.
Pros and Cons
  • Out-of-the-box simplicity.
  • Provides a single location to ensure backups are covered.
  • Perhaps makes users a bit more dependent on the UI of the service to use it.
  • The lack of detailed APIs makes it a little harder to integrate into an automation chain.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you're looking to quickly establish backup schedules and need to quickly configure a set of new assets, Azure backup will work well. Azure backup works especially well if you're working with a standard set of needs around your scheduling, recovery, and distribution parameters. If you want to do more complicated integration into custom automation pipelines, some more web-services based providers might be a better fit.
Azure Backup Feature Ratings
File Sharing & Management (7)
40%
4.0
Versioning
90%
9.0
Video files
N/A
N/A
Audio files
N/A
N/A
Document collaboration
N/A
N/A
Access control
100%
10.0
File search
90%
9.0
Device sync
N/A
N/A
Cloud Storage Security & Administration (3)
66.66666666666667%
6.7
User and role management
100%
10.0
File organization
100%
10.0
Device management
N/A
N/A
Cloud Storage Platform (3)
100%
10.0
Performance
100%
10.0
Reliability
100%
10.0
Storage Reports
100%
10.0
Return on Investment
  • Allows for quick configuration of backups.
  • Recovery is extremely simple.
Support Rating
10
Microsoft has really listened to its user base and developed a solution to backups that work well. Their support of Azure Backup falls under the umbrella of the Azure support team overall which continues to impress as always. I feel that Azure Backup adds to the many compelling reasons that Azure continues to grow year over year.
December 20, 2019

Back That Thing Up - With Azure Backup

John Fester | TrustRadius Reviewer
John Fester
IT Manager
Travel Planners International (Leisure, Travel & Tourism, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
Azure Backup Feature Ratings
File Sharing & Management (7)
87.14285714285714%
8.7
Versioning
90%
9.0
Video files
80%
8.0
Audio files
80%
8.0
Document collaboration
90%
9.0
Access control
100%
10.0
File search
80%
8.0
Device sync
90%
9.0
Cloud Storage Security & Administration (3)
93.33333333333334%
9.3
User and role management
100%
10.0
File organization
90%
9.0
Device management
90%
9.0
Cloud Storage Platform (3)
93.33333333333334%
9.3
Performance
100%
10.0
Reliability
100%
10.0
Storage Reports
80%
8.0
Return on Investment
  • Azure Backup has saved us approximately 23% of our annual cost for backups, by switching to them from Symantec Backup Exec. And keep in mind, my backups were not in the cloud before...saving money and more access and redundancy...YES!
  • We have not had a negative impact with using Azure, unless we consider a need to restore a system. In that case it would be the time to download the backup media from Azure Backup first as opposed to a local backup that you would already have in your hand. I view this as a benefit, not setback, because the backups are available anywhere in the world...not just your office.
Alternatives Considered
Azure Backup is based on the most secure and encrypted cloud storage facility available...Microsoft. They have been doing this a long time and have ironed out all the kinks, leaving only the good and dependable solution in place. Azure Backup is fast also, you do not have major delays and internet throttling happening from Microsoft, unlike nearly all other competitors. Have you ever tried downloading a backup you have in the cloud from any solution other than Microsoft Azure Backup? If you have, you know they throttle the speed drastically and it could take you more than an hour to restore just 100mb of data. Most server backups are over 50 GB, some of mine are over 1.5 TB. With those slow speeds it could take weeks to recover your system just because you are waiting on the download to finish. Those companies then offer to send you an external drive with your data on it...but for a major price tag! You should not have to pay extra to get your data back and should not have to wait more than an hour to get it all downloaded either. Microsoft does not throttle Azure Backup downloads and I can almost guarantee that they have faster speeds than you have, meaning that you will be able to download at your maximum internet speeds and recover your systems quickly!
Support Rating
7
I am pretty confident that everyone knows that contacting Microsoft can be a hit or a miss. If you land a knowledgeable tech that can speak clear English, you are in luck! Now, do not let them put you on hold or transfer you...or you might get forgotten or the wrong department and have to start all over. Microsoft does offer good support and on the business level you can get good assistance...but many times must patiently get through the first many steps with the tech as they are required to follow scripts...including the steps taken to troubleshoot, regardless if you are already on step 6, they will start at step 1. Anyways, there is a tremendous number of online resources to support Azure and their products including Backups. My first step in getting assistance is to check the TechNet forums and Spiceworks forums before reaching out to Microsoft. Most times, a search on DuckDuckGo for the exact error you are troubleshooting or subject of a topic you are trying to understand, will land you an article someone wrote specifically about what you are trying to do. So there is are resources available but possibly not directly from Microsoft.
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December 14, 2019

Azure Backup - The Best Choice For Azure Infrastructure

Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Azure backup is in many different deployments and environments. We use it only for infrastructure in Azure. Azure backup is used for our customer environments as well as internal Azure environments. Azure backup addresses the need for a consistent and reliable backup solution in Azure that has the ability to snapshot/protect the entire VM.
Pros and Cons
  • Relatively quick backup times.
  • Protects the entire VM as well as file system/app consistent backups.
  • Restoring from Azure backup is a whole new VM deployment instead of just a VM restore.
  • Not as many metrics available for deep dive/analytics.
Likelihood to Recommend
Azure Backup is well suited for infrastructure in Azure. Azure backup is built into the platform and comes at no additional costs (you are charged for the storage, however), it is very easy to configure and get going. Azure backup is easy to work with when needing a restore and ties into the Azure platform really well.
Azure Backup Feature Ratings
File Sharing & Management (7)
52.857142857142854%
5.3
Versioning
100%
10.0
Video files
N/A
N/A
Audio files
N/A
N/A
Document collaboration
100%
10.0
Access control
100%
10.0
File search
70%
7.0
Device sync
N/A
N/A
Cloud Storage Security & Administration (3)
83.33333333333334%
8.3
User and role management
90%
9.0
File organization
90%
9.0
Device management
70%
7.0
Cloud Storage Platform (3)
90%
9.0
Performance
100%
10.0
Reliability
100%
10.0
Storage Reports
70%
7.0
Return on Investment
  • The ability to provide customers with peace of mind that their VM's are protected.
  • Low cost as you only pay for the storage.
Alternatives Considered
  • Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery
When it comes to protecting VM's in Azure, Azure Backup is the way to go versus offerings from Commvault. If you only have the infrastructure in Azure, Azure Backup is the much more attractive solution because it's built into the product, offers ease of configuration, and ties in with the Azure infrastructure. If you only have an infrastructure in Azure, you do not have to pay additional costs for backup software.
Support Rating
8
As Azure Backup is a Microsoft product, you get support directly from Microsoft if the product is not working as intended. This is a benefit and a drawback at the same time. The benefit being that the product ties in with the Azure platform, drawback as Microsoft support is not always the easiest to work with, depending on the technician you are assigned.
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