Azure Backup Review
August 08, 2025

Azure Backup Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Azure Backup

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
  • 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
No issues yet with 500+ VM's in backup spread over our customers. Easy to setup and manage and quick to restore in case disaster strikes. It is compatability with all our workloads (Windows Server, Linux) and requires no additional configuration our setup, all is managed and present in the default Azure VM UI
  • Veeam Backup for Azure
  • Cove Data Protection
  • Arcserve ShadowProtect
Main advantage is the integrated nature of Azure Backup, it's integrated in the Azure UI for VM's so it's quick to enable/access.

Cove and Shadowprotect don't support Bare Metal Restore for Azure VM's
And Veeam Azure Backup requires additional setup & resources (worker vm's, management vm...) and thus increasing overal cost.

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

It is suited for all Azure VM workloads, the easiest way to get a Azure VM backup up & running.

We deployed it on the Typical Windows Server VM's but also on Linux vm's,

Azure Backup Feature Ratings

File Sharing & Management
8.5
Versioning
8
Access control
9
Cloud Storage Security & Administration
9.0
User and role management
9
File organization
9
Device management
9
Cloud Storage Platform
8.3
Performance
9
Reliability
9
Storage Reports
7

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