Azure Backup — VMs, files and databases
Back up your Azure virtual machines, on-premise files and SQL databases in a few clicks. Backups are automated, encrypted and stored in an Azure backup vault independent of your main infrastructure.
What Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery change for your business continuity
Azure Site Recovery — automatic failover
In the event of a critical failure, Azure Site Recovery automatically fails over your workloads to a secondary datacentre. Your applications restart within minutes with a measured and guaranteed Recovery Time Objective (RTO).
Granular restore
Restore exactly what you need: a single file, a complete database, an entire virtual machine or your full infrastructure. Granular restore avoids starting from scratch when only one element is affected.
Configurable retention
Define your retention policies according to your regulatory obligations and business needs: 30 days, 1 year, 7 years. Azure retains your restore points according to the schedule you choose, with no management complexity.
Multi-datacentre geo-redundancy
Your backups are replicated to at least two Microsoft datacentres in Europe. Even in the event of a major disaster affecting an entire region, your data remains accessible and restorable from another geographical zone.
Automated DRP tests
Azure Site Recovery lets you test your disaster recovery plan without impacting production. A failover test in an isolated network validates that your applications restart correctly. You test, you document, you sleep soundly.
Is your backup strategy truly reliable?
- Your backups have never been tested — you will only know whether they work at the moment you truly need them, and by then it will be too late
- Your NAS is your only backup point — a fire, theft or flood takes the data and the backup with it at the same time
- Your disaster recovery plan exists on paper but has never been tested under real conditions — nobody on your team knows whether it would hold up against a genuine disaster
- You have no visibility into the status of your backups: when did the last full backup occur? Is it intact? How long would it take to restore your servers?
The Air Cloud approach to business continuity
A DRP that has never been tested is not a DRP. We build it, test it and train your team.
A managed disaster means a preserved business
Every hour of downtime costs revenue, productivity and reputation. We size your disaster recovery plan based on your actual RTO and RPO: what data loss you can afford and what downtime duration is acceptable. No over-engineering, no under-engineering.
Your team knows what to do in a crisis
We train your administrators on the Azure Backup console and Azure Site Recovery failover procedures. When the time comes, your team executes the plan without waiting for our intervention. We remain available for complex situations, but you hold the keys.
Certified Azure DRP architect
We design, deploy and test your disaster recovery plan from A to Z. Existing infrastructure audit, RTO/RPO definition per application, Azure Backup and Site Recovery configuration, documented failover tests and compliance report. A single point of contact for the entire protection chain.
Our services for backup and business continuity
Security Pack
The Security Pack includes configuring your Azure Backup strategy, setting up Azure Site Recovery and regular DRP tests. Comprehensive support to secure your data and guarantee business continuity.
→ Discover the Security PackSecurity Audit
We audit your current backup strategy: data coverage, backup frequency, restore tests, disaster recovery plan. You receive a detailed report with identified gaps and a prioritised action plan within 5 days.
→ Request a security auditAcronis Cyber Protection
For multi-platform protection that complements Azure Backup — workstations, physical servers, Microsoft 365 SaaS applications — Acronis Cyber Protection provides comprehensive backup for your entire IT environment, even beyond Azure.
→ Discover AcronisCustomer story
« We had Azure backups, but we had never verified that they actually worked. Air Cloud audited our strategy, configured Azure Site Recovery and organised a complete failover test. When we had an incident on our production server three months later, we resumed operations in 20 minutes. Without that DRP, we would have lost two days. »