--- description: Review of Azure Backup Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice New Zealand. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Azure Backup | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice NZ --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Backup Software](/directory/4294/backup/software) > [Azure Backup](/software/402160/azure-backup) # Azure Backup Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/402160/azure-backup Page: 1 / 8\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/402160/azure-backup?page=2) > Azure Backup is a cloud-based backup solution, which helps businesses create policies and secure a variety of enterprise workloads such as Azure Virtual Machines, SQL and SAP databases and Azure file shares. Other features include reporting, customer managed keys, private endpoints, data export and more. The application enables IT teams to manage, monitor and optimize data protection and restore data from virtual machines with application consistency in Windows. Administrators can track the entire backup estate via the backup center module. It also lets professionals audit and analyze the backup data using historical patterns. Security teams can protect data against ransomware attacks through multiple user authentication and role-based access control. Pricing is based on the amount of storage required and support is extended via documentation. > > Verdict: Rated **4.6/5** by 158 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 158 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Microsoft - **Location**: Redmond, US - **Founded**: 1975 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$5.00 - **Pricing model**: Other - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - Backup Scheduling - Cloud Backup - Compression - Encryption - Incremental Backup - Monitoring ## Support Options - Knowledge Base ## Category - [Backup Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4294/backup/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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Some of the excellent products are even advertised on this site. They have their own unique approaches and points of sale, which I should applaud, and I encourage you to visit their sites and try their free trial versions. Then you have options, and that's a very good thing. We use a lot of DPM and store our long term in Azure, as described by Aiden. I want to share some important obstacles that we have come across so you can benefit from our experiences. 1) We had a DPM protection group with 76 protected Hyper-V virtual machines. This protection group was programmed to send recovery points to Azure all at once. 76 was too much and the OBEngine.exe service (Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Agent) was blocked every night, so I had to restart the OBEngine service and manually restart these online backups every day. By splitting the protection group into several smaller protection groups (each protecting about 20 Hyper-V servers instead of 76) and scheduling them to send recovery points to Azure at different times of the night, the problem was solved. I do not think this is a bandwidth problem (since we have a lot) but that the OBEngine service was being overwhelmed. The errors I found in DPM every morning clearly indicated that the OBEngine > > **Cons**: It lacks options for life cycle management. - Some of the functions only work in the classic portal. The reliability of the services depends on the technological and financial capacity of the providers of services in the cloud. The information of the company must go through different nodes to reach its destination, each of them (and its channels) are a source of insecurity. The centralization of the applications and the storage of the data originates an interdependence of the service providers. It is useful if you are not familiar with Azure to take an online training course that will definitely take you a long way to master it and increase your confidence in the product. It tends to use resources and when the VM goes down it is slow and freezes. the dashboard design is confusing AF, it is difficult to find things. You pay the support, or send them a tweet and cross your fingers. Billing is confusing, especially at the beginning, and it is impossible to estimate costs without seeing the use of an entire application / site. infrastructure as a service allows me to free up time and resources until then to maintain its own infrastructure, security measures are beyond the reach of most companies, security regulations give customers the confidence that their data will be totally protected. The support was incomplete (my experience of 1 in 18 months was very disappointing). In summary, regardless of what the system tells you, if you do not buy a help plan, it is SOL ----- ### "Excellent cloud storage service provided by Microsoft for smooth business experience" — 5.0/5 > **vikas** | *7 July 2021* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Backup maintenance in the Azure cloud is taken care of by Microsoft itself and no physical hardware is required. Hence, no cost is required for capital expenditure (CapEx). > > **Cons**: There are no cons as such for Azure Backup but data latency can be improved while recovering database from its backup image. > > Overall, Azure backup is an excellent way for backing up all business data with minimal configuration required for setting it up. Azure backup can be operated in the Azure portal in a really easy way and minimizes time for backup storage, increases retention period, and improved the recovery of the database. Azure backup service can be used with the Pay-as-you-go model which is nothing but only involves operational expenditure and huge capital expenditure can be saved and invested further to improvise other business aspects. ----- ### "One of Microsofts more expensive products, with average delivery." — 3.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *1 April 2018* | Recommendation rating: 5.0/10 > > **Pros**: Great integration with other Microsoft tools, and even other operating systems. User-friendly for storing data (Very secure,) great for beginners to set up. > > **Cons**: Pricing is affordable but can get very expensive right away. The pay-as-you-go option is deceptive. Tech support is at an additional cost. ----- ### "Great backup system" — 4.0/5 > **Chris** | *13 January 2019* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Cloud based backup. Easy to use and configure. > > **Cons**: Back ups are completely dependent on your office network speed. > > Set this up for a client with offices throughout the world. It was great, as all I needed to do was remote in and install the agent. Then we are backing up. Setup took 2 hours and we were running. Bad side is your are network dependent. We had one office in Jakarta that had a terrible network, and took months to get the initial backup. The problem is they had months of changes that didn't get backed up. Server eventually needed a recover, and pulling from the cloud there was not an option. But if you want a good price for the options, and you have a good network bandwidth, it's a great tool. ----- ### "Microsoft Azure - Cloud based backup and restore" — 4.0/5 > **Jaidev** | *2 December 2018* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: MS Azure is easy to use and we can customize the backup frequency as per the need. Backup schedule during working hours not impacting much on our network. After using this recovery task become pretty easy. Now we are paying only for that what we are using and we can change this usage limit at anytime. Its automatically restoration service is amazing feature. > > **Cons**: It does require a bit expertise to manage the server monitoring on cloud. > > After shifting on Azure Backup we reduced hardware cost but increased the data security, access over the network. Now our data is more secure and we are not worry about disaster. ----- Page: 1 / 8\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/402160/azure-backup?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/402160/azure-backup) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data