Azure Backup and Disaster Recovery

Protect critical data and systems from potential disasters through automated backups, impeccable disaster recovery planning, and secure data archiving on the Azure cloud.

Adastra Named 2024 Data & AI Americas Partner of the Year

Adastra is proud to have won our 11th Impact Award this year—the Azure Data & AI 2024 Microsoft Americas Partner of the Year Award! We were also recognized as a finalist for three awards: Analytics Partner of the Year (Global), Business Applications (Americas), and Azure Infrastructure and App Innovation (Americas).

Azure Site Recovery replicates workloads running on physical and virtual machines (VMs) from a primary site to a secondary location. When an outage occurs at your primary site, you fail over to the secondary location, and can access apps from there. After the primary location is running again, you can fail back to it.

Why Embrace Azure Backup and Disaster Recovery?

Data Protection

Ensure your critical business data is protected and available, even in the event of a disaster or other disruption.

Faster Recovery

Create and test disaster recovery plans in advance, which can help make recovery faster in the event of an actual disaster.

Cost Savings

Pay only for the resources actually used and save money on disaster recovery and backup costs compared to traditional, on-premises solutions.

Scalability

Leverage AWS’s global infrastructure and wide range of services that can scale to meet the needs of businesses of all sizes, from small start-ups to large enterprises.

Flexibility

Gain flexibility to best meet your specific disaster recovery and backup needs, with the ability to add or remove replicating servers as needed.

Automation

Automate numerous disaster recovery and backup processes, which can help save time and reduce the risk of human error.

What is Azure Site Recovery and Backup Service?

Azure Site Recovery

Site Recovery helps ensure business continuity by keeping business apps and workloads running during outages.

Azure Backup

Azure Backup service keeps your data safe and recoverable in the Azure cloud.

Azure Disaster Recovery Plan

Adastra can help you create, configure and maintain your business-critical applications with a cloud-based solution. Our Azure Disaster Recovery plan consists of the following:

Create Recovery Services Vault

Install and configure Azure Site Recovery

Create replication policies that fit your workload including Hyper-V and VMWare

Create and deploy Recovery plans

Transfer required backup

Perform failover and failback testing

Success Story

Disaster Recovery in Azure

Our client needed to migrate Disaster Recovery infrastructure from their secondary data center environment to Azure. Adastra implemented an Azure Site Recovery solution for Disaster Recovery in Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Subscription, created under customer’s tenant.

High

availability due to reliable recovery time objectives

Easy

disaster recovery drills, without affecting production environments

Keep

all apps consistent over failover due to reliable data

Make Sure Your Business Recovers Fast When It Matters

We will review your recovery objectives and design an Azure Backup and Site Recovery setup that protects critical workloads.

Azure Backup and Disaster Recovery FAQ

What can I back up with Azure?

Azure Backup protects both on-premises and cloud resources: files, folders and operating systems on-premises, entire Windows and Linux Azure VMs, Azure Managed Disks, Azure Files shares, SQL Server databases running on Azure VMs and Azure Blob storage. Adastra helps you decide what to protect, how often and for how long, based on business impact.

Azure Site Recovery supports your business continuity and disaster recovery strategy by orchestrating and automating replication. It replicates Azure VMs between regions, on-premises Hyper-V and VMware VMs and physical servers to Azure, and on-premises machines to a secondary data center. If an outage happens, workloads fail over and keep running.

You can protect most workloads running on a supported virtual machine or physical server, including Azure VMs, Hyper-V VMs and physical servers. Site Recovery supports application-aware replication, so applications recover to a consistent, working state rather than just restored disks. Adastra creates replication policies and recovery plans that fit each workload.

Yes. Site Recovery gives you one central view and orchestration of replication and failover for all branch office workloads. You can run failovers and administer disaster recovery for every branch from your head office, without visiting the branches. Adastra designs the setup so each location has recovery plans that match its business importance.

Recovery point objective (RPO) is how much data you can afford to lose. VM backups usually have an RPO of one day and database backups as low as 15 minutes, while Site Recovery keeps copies seconds or minutes behind. Recovery time objective (RTO) is how long recovery takes, and it is much shorter with Site Recovery.

We follow a clear plan: create a Recovery Services vault, install and configure Azure Site Recovery, define replication policies for your workloads, including Hyper-V and VMware, and create recovery plans. We then transfer the required backups and perform failover and failback testing, so you know recovery works before you ever need it.

Adastra was named 2024 Data and AI Americas Partner of the Year and brings hands-on experience with Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup. We align recovery objectives with business priorities, automate replication and testing, and document everything, so your organization recovers quickly from outages while keeping backup and recovery costs under control.