The second option involves running Azure Backup via the Mars agent. This option runs as a service in the Azure platform. First, their Azure native IaaS level backup. Here is what we found:Īzure Backup provides different options. Veeam has a version for Azure but there are organizations, like ours, that are considering moving to an Azure environment and wonder if Azure Backup is better than Veeam Backup and Replication (Veeam VBR). But if I need to do a backup from the Oracle database, from an Exchange server or from SharePoint, this ability isn't there. It has backup for the files, folders, and backup only the whole virtual machine.
It would be better to back up continuously throughout the day." "It doesn't have the option to have a backup from the database. You can only backup one to three times a day. It could be simplified a lot to make it more accessible to the average user." "They need to improve the frequency of the backup. They can reduce the duration or increase the data transfer rate." "The solution is quite technical. 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 improve the duration of such restore operations. It took around 25 to 30 minutes, which was much longer than I anticipated. It took a really long time to restore the environment and send the data from the storage to the disk. "I would like to see better integration with more products, and more services." "To make it a ten, it should have the ability to extend the retention and to perform a copy of the data outside of the subscription - with no additional costs." "We have a concern with the backup when were are working with VMs that are running in Barracuda Firewall because it usually fails." "We would like to see some kind of notification given to the user that a file was not synchronized well or what may have happened." "I once tried restoring a Linux environment, and the size of the Linux VM or the data disk was really huge.