Azure Site Recovery vs NovaStor NovaBACKUP comparison

Microsoft and NovaStor are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Additionally, 92% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of NovaStor users who would recommend it.

Azure Site Recovery

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92% willing to recommend

NovaStor NovaBACKUP

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Azure Site Recovery and NovaStor NovaBACKUP based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Azure Site Recovery vs. NovaStor NovaBACKUP Report (Updated: June 2025).

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery as a Service (3rd)

NovaStor NovaBACKUP

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (33rd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (19th)

Featured Reviews

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

The time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes

First of all, we initially faced a challenge as Azure Site Recovery was not supporting shared disk options on SQL clusters with VMs, which are important for a Windows cluster mode. Additionally, the setup is quite easy, only requiring the creation of a vault. Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.

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Rainer Kummerfeldt

IT-Teamleader at Bechtle

Easy to work and offers features for tape backups, disk backups, and whatever you want

NovaStor NovaBACKUP is still working on new features because they listen to the customers and integrate their needs into new versions. You can see they make progress with each new version. They are much faster than IBM, where you sometimes have to wait years for new features. It is very quick and fast. NovaStor have big competitors like Veeam, which is very fast and aggressive. It's good, but it depends on the price. I think NovaStor might be cheaper. They have a direct connection to their developers and sales teams, which makes getting answers very fast. Veeam has a lot of features, like a special reporting tool. However, I've heard from some customers that Veeam wasn't always the right decision because it couldn't work with their environment. But Veeam has aggressive marketing, which is why they are probably in first place at the moment, besides Commvault. IBM has lost its competitive edge and is trying to catch up, but it might be too late.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"They're moving a lot of their workload to cloud and aiming for a seamlessly integrated product."

"Our primary use case is for disaster recovery and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR)."

"The most valuable features of Azure Site Recovery are its ease of use and speed of recovery."

"We use the tool for business continuity purposes."

"Site Recovery's most valuable features include its user-friendly console and the ease of migration."

"It is a very stable product and very scalable."

"Azure Site Recovery helps to save costs."

"Provides generally good performance, from protection to production to failover to data recovery."

More Azure Site Recovery pros

"It is a very good and easy-to-use tool for non-technical people."

"It's the easiest way to configure it."

Cons

"The flexibility of Azure Site Recovery regarding integration with different IT environments is limited; it is purely an Azure platform service for business continuity, not meant for integration with other services."

"Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options."

"I would like to see more security features."

"When it runs, it runs well but when it doesn't run, the solution needs to make it clearer as to why and what the troubleshooting process is. All this would be possible if the error logging was streamlined a bit."

"we lack a straightforward method to automate the restart of services, which can be quite time-consuming."

"It is for site-to-site replication. When something goes wrong on your site, you only get 15 minutes before it also goes wrong on your replicated site. There should be some way to be able to say that we want to restore it, but we want to restore it to the version from yesterday. It should support versioning. I would also like to see real-time scanning for advanced threat protection, more straightforward billing, and quicker turnaround on the tech support."

"Currently, Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options. Moreover, it does not support services like AppConfig or App Services."

"Site Recovery's scalability could be improved."

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"The room for improvement lies in the compatibility of NovaBACKUP with older operating systems."

"The price of NovaStor NovaBACKUP is an area that can be considered as a weakness or drawback, where improvements are required."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."

"It should have more straightforward billing. The billing was what got funky. It was really cheap. We would pay based on the usage. We paid around $225 a month for site-to-site replication."

"They have a license to pay."

"The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."

"The tool is expensive. What is expensive to me might not be expensive to you. As I mentioned, we seek ways to reduce our costs. If the price goes down, that would be great. I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."

"I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."

"Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."

"Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."

"My company has to make yearly payments towards the solution's maintenance and support."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Site Recovery?

Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Site Recovery?

The price of Azure Site Recovery was reasonable compared to other data costs. It was not the expensive part of our costs, but, as always, there is room to make it cheaper.

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What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?

To be honest, I didn't use it directly. As far as I know, there weren't any significant problems with Azure Site Recovery. Although pricing for data solutions can always be cheaper, site recovery w...

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What do you like most about NovaStor NovaBACKUP?

It is a very good and easy-to-use tool for non-technical people.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NovaStor NovaBACKUP?

My company has to make yearly payments towards the solution's maintenance and support.

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What needs improvement with NovaStor NovaBACKUP?

The room for improvement lies in the compatibility of NovaBACKUP with older operating systems like Windows XP. Some customers still rely on outdated systems due to specific production requirements....

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Overview

Help your business to keep doing business - even during major IT outages. Azure Site Recovery offers ease of deployment, cost effectiveness, and dependability. Deploy replication, failover, and recovery processes through Site Recovery to help keep your applications running during planned and unplanned outages. Site Recovery is a native disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), and Microsoft been recognized as a leader in DRaaS based on completeness of vision and ability to execute by Gartner in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

Microsoft

NovaBACKUP is a data protection software that enables SMBÂ users to backup and recover mission critical data across a hybrid of physical and virtual machines. NovaBACKUP is designed to work onÂ Microsoft Windows operating systems, offering local and online file backups and disaster recovery image backups.

NovaStor

Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace

Ex'pression College, Osborne Wood Products Inc., REIT Technologies

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