Azure Backup Reviews & Insights

Score8.2 out of 10

97 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Azure Backup are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Flexibility in Backup Options: Users have expressed satisfaction with the wide array of backup choices available through Azure Backup, catering to diverse needs and preferences. The ability to customize backup settings for different types of data, such as files, folders, virtual machines, and databases, has been particularly praised by users.

Integration with Azure Services: Many reviewers have noted the significant value of Azure Backup's seamless integration with various Azure services, enhancing overall functionality and compatibility for users. This tight integration allows for efficient management of backups across different platforms within the Azure ecosystem.

Built-in Security Measures: The inclusion of robust security features within Azure Backup has instilled a sense of confidence and reliability among users regarding the protection of their data. Features like encryption, access controls, and compliance certifications contribute to ensuring data privacy and integrity throughout the backup process.

Azure Backup Reviews

6 Reviews

Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees)

Azure Backup

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

August 13, 2025

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?

Likelihood to Recommend

Azure backup is well-suited for complete VM restores or partial file-level restores. If you're looking for more elaborate backups and restores, consider exploring another vendor to replace or augment Azure's backup capabilities.

Verified User

Director in Information Technology (Education Management company, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Azure Backup Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

August 8, 2025

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

Likelihood to Recommend

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,

Verified User

Employee in Research & Development (Information Technology & Services company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Protect your data effortlessly with Azure Backup

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 22, 2023

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:

Likelihood to Recommend

Azure Backup is ideal for organizations that already use Microsoft Azure and want to back up their data to the cloud. It also works for hybrid IT infrastructure, with a mix of cloud-based and on-premises resources. Runs SQL Server workloads , Exchange, SharePoint and others. Azure Backup is not designed for complex backups.Azure Backup may not be the best choice for high-performance workloads that require near real-time backup and recovery

Adrian Cambronero

Consultor TI AZURE in Engineering at ITQS (Information Services, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Azure Backups = Sleep Well

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

August 6, 2022

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.

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.

Matthew Kerfoot

Infrastructure and Networking Manager in Engineering at Virteva (Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

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The best model for automated backups in the cloud

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 14, 2020

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

Out-of-the-box simplicity.
Provides a single location to ensure backups are covered.

Cons

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.

Verified User

Vice-President in Information Technology (Marketing & Advertising company, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Azure Backup - The Best Choice For Azure Infrastructure

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 14, 2019

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

Relatively quick backup times.
Protects the entire VM as well as file system/app consistent backups.

Cons

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.

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology (Information Technology and Services company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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