We performed a comparison between Azure Backup and BackupAssist based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Azure Backup is easy to configure and restore."
"The solution helped us use R2 RBO to back up frequently."
"You have the flexibility to encrypt your backups and choose the storage capacity you're comfortable paying for."
"I like the product's restoration cases."
"The most valuable features of Azure Backup for us are its flexible retention options and the ability to recover to a second region with geo-replication and read access."
"First of all, you can schedule a backup for the client. You can schedule it as you like. You can also control the bandwidth, so the backup will not utilize. The internet will depend on the bandwidth."
"We are happy with this product and have not found any issues while using it."
"The scalability has been good."
"The most valuable features of BackupAssist are ease of use, configure is simple, and more importantly, ease of recovery. If you needed to do a complete system recovery or another recovery it is straightforward."
"I have found that the backups are usually very successful."
"I get my reports. It is generally very reliable. Unless there is a major change, it doesn't stop backing up. I've got my server room set up with everything connected to the same power, and I never have power issues or failures of backups because a sub-site has gone off."
"We can configure the notifications themselves so that the right people get the notifications. This is very helpful. It allows key stakeholders to know if backups have happened and to remind each other to check the backups if something is not right."
"It still does not have a lot of customization, especially if your workloads are not in Azure."
"I would like to have the option to increase the frequency of the backups. Azure Backup does backups on an hourly basis, but I would prefer it to take backups more often."
"I would like to see better integration with more products, and more services."
"The only thing I would say that could be improved is the reporting."
"The solution is still in its infancy; it's not a mature product yet."
"Azure Backup must include features similar to enterprise solutions."
"I once tried restoring a Linux environment, and the size of the Linux VM or the data disk was really huge. It took a really long time to restore the environment and send the data from the storage to the disk. It took around 25 to 30 minutes, which was much longer than I anticipated. They can improve the duration of such restore operations. In the next release, it would also be good if they could reduce the duration for transferring the data from their storage to the actual storage while creating a virtual machine. They can reduce the duration or increase the data transfer rate."
"The monitoring and tagging features could be improved."
"Many solutions become stagnant over time. However, BackupAssist has been consistent in updates but they must continue to innovate and improve to avoid stagnation."
"The solution needs a dashboard or some form of central control from which you can manage all backups."
"In the future I would like to see more support for Linux."
"It stopped doing my backups after I did the last update on it."
"Many solutions become stagnant over time. However, BackupAssist has been consistent in updates but they must continue to innovate and improve to avoid stagnation."
Azure Backup is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery with 51 reviews while BackupAssist is ranked 27th in Backup and Recovery with 5 reviews. Azure Backup is rated 7.8, while BackupAssist is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Azure Backup writes "Straightforward to set up and manage and allows us to monitor all backups in one place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of BackupAssist writes "Provides ransomware protection, does good reporting, and is close to perfect for our use case". Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect and Veritas NetBackup, whereas BackupAssist is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication and Acronis Cyber Protect. See our Azure Backup vs. BackupAssist report.
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