Item: Azure Backup
Rating: 10
Author: Matthew Kerfoot

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 and Cons

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.

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

Azure Backup is cheaper however Veeam is more visually pleasing and allows you to send the backups to other places including Azure, or other competitors remote DR vaults.

Key Insights

Do you think Azure Backup delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Azure Backup's feature set?

Yes

Did Azure Backup live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Azure Backup go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Azure Backup again?

Yes

Other Software Used

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

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Azure Backups = Sleep Well

Overall Satisfaction with Azure Backup