Backup and disaster recovery software for businesses
Tools that copy business data and systems somewhere safe and bring them back after deletion, ransomware, hardware failure or a site outage — from SaaS backup for Microsoft 365 to full replication and failover. Sponsored listings are paid placements ordered by daily bid; every other company below is listed free by our editors.
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Free listings · A to Z · sponsor yours from $5/dayAcronis Cyber Protect
Backup combined with anti-malware and endpoint management, sold widely through managed service providers.
Arcserve
Backup, replication and appliance-based recovery for mid-sized organisations with mixed on-premises infrastructure.
Backblaze
Low-cost cloud storage and computer backup, often used as an offsite target for other backup tools.
Cohesity
Data protection and recovery platform for large estates, now including the NetBackup product line.
Commvault Cloud
Enterprise data protection covering on-premises, SaaS and multi-cloud workloads from one console.
Datto BCDR
Backup appliances with local and cloud virtualisation, sold through managed service providers to SMBs.
Druva Data Security Cloud
SaaS-delivered backup for endpoints, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and cloud workloads, no hardware.
Keepit
Danish SaaS backup provider for Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Google Workspace and Salesforce data.
N-able Cove Data Protection
Cloud-first backup for servers, workstations and Microsoft 365, designed for MSPs and IT teams.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
Backup and replication for VMware, Hyper-V, physical servers and Microsoft 365 at SMB scale.
Rubrik Security Cloud
Immutable backup with ransomware investigation and recovery tooling for enterprise and cloud data.
Veeam Data Platform
Backup, replication and recovery for virtual, physical, cloud and Microsoft 365 workloads.
Zerto
Continuous data protection and journal-based replication for fast failover of virtualised workloads.
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What does backup and disaster recovery software actually do?
Backup copies data on a schedule so you can restore a file, a mailbox or a whole server to an earlier point. Disaster recovery (DR) goes further: it keeps systems ready to run somewhere else — a second site, a cloud region, a local appliance — so the business can keep working while the original environment is rebuilt. Many products do both, but the engineering behind a good restore and a good failover is different, and vendors are rarely equally strong at each.
The job has changed because of ransomware. Attackers now look for backup consoles and delete or encrypt the copies first, so the questions that matter today are whether backups are immutable (cannot be altered for a set period), whether they are isolated from the production identity system, and whether you can prove you can restore cleanly rather than simply that jobs completed.
Scope matters as much as technology. A complete programme covers servers and virtual machines, databases, file shares, laptops that hold local work, SaaS data, and the configuration of cloud infrastructure itself. It also needs a written recovery plan: which systems come back first, who decides to fail over, and how staff work in the meantime. Software cannot supply that plan, but good products make it easier to rehearse.
Do you need SaaS backup, image-based backup or full replication?
Most organisations end up with more than one of these, because they protect different things and are priced differently.
| Approach | What it protects | Typical fit |
|---|---|---|
| SaaS application backup | Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce and similar data the vendor's own retention does not fully cover | Any company running on cloud apps; often the first gap an audit finds |
| Image-based backup with cloud copy | Servers, virtual machines and endpoints, restored from snapshots taken every few hours | SMBs and mid-market with on-premises or hybrid infrastructure |
| Appliance with local virtualisation | Critical servers, which can boot directly from the backup device while production is repaired | Sites where hours of downtime cost real money and bandwidth is limited |
| Continuous replication and orchestrated failover | Tier-one systems, kept seconds behind in a second location with scripted recovery runbooks | Regulated or always-on operations with tight recovery targets |
The common mistake is buying replication for everything or backup for everything. Tier your systems first, then match the approach to each tier.
What should you compare before you shortlist?
Ask for demonstrations of restores, not of dashboards.
| Criterion | What to ask |
|---|---|
| Recovery objectives | What recovery point (RPO) and recovery time (RTO) can we realistically hit for our largest server and our mail tenant? |
| Immutability and isolation | Are copies locked against deletion, and can an attacker with admin credentials to our domain reach the backup console? |
| Restore granularity | Can we restore a single email, file or database table without rehydrating a whole image? |
| Recovery testing | Does the product boot and verify backups automatically and produce evidence an auditor will accept? |
| Coverage | Which workloads are native and which need agents, scripts or a second product? |
| Storage and egress | Where do copies live, who owns that storage, and what does it cost to pull data back in a disaster? |
| Data residency | Can we choose the region for cloud copies, and does support staff access data outside it? |
How is backup and disaster recovery software priced?
Pricing models vary more than in most categories. SaaS backup is usually per protected user per month. Server and VM protection is charged per workload, per socket or per protected terabyte, sometimes with storage bundled and sometimes billed separately by a cloud provider. Appliance vendors combine hardware, software and cloud retention into a term contract, and MSP-oriented products are billed monthly to the provider, who resells them with their own margin.
Retention drives cost more than anything else. Keeping seven years of monthly copies can cost several times what 30 days of dailies costs, so decide what legal and operational retention you actually need before comparing quotes.
Also ask how charges behave during a real incident. Some cloud targets bill for data retrieval and outbound transfer, and running recovered servers in a vendor's cloud may be free for a limited number of days and then metered. Clarify these terms in writing, because they apply precisely when you have least room to negotiate.
What usually goes wrong?
The most common failure is discovering during an incident that restores were never tested. Jobs report success for months while a misconfigured exclusion, an expired credential or a full target means the data you need was never captured. Schedule restore tests and treat them as a standing task, not a project milestone.
The second is assuming a cloud app keeps your data safe. SaaS providers operate the service, but deleted items, overwritten files and malicious changes are usually your responsibility after a short retention window. Third, backup systems often share the same admin accounts as production, so one compromised identity wipes both. Finally, restoring terabytes over a normal internet connection takes far longer than teams expect; check whether the vendor can ship data on a physical device or spin systems up in its cloud instead.
A quieter failure is scope drift. New SaaS tools, cloud databases and file shares are added every quarter, but nobody adds them to the backup policy. Review coverage against your application inventory whenever systems are introduced or retired.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between RPO and RTO?
Recovery point objective (RPO) is how much data you can afford to lose, measured as time since the last good copy. Recovery time objective (RTO) is how long you can afford to be down. A nightly backup gives an RPO of up to 24 hours; replication can bring it to minutes or seconds.
Is Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace backup really necessary?
Usually yes. Both platforms keep deleted items for a limited period and protect against their own infrastructure failures, not against accidental deletion, malicious insiders or ransomware syncing encrypted files. A third-party backup gives longer retention and point-in-time restores.
What does the 3-2-1 rule mean today?
The classic rule is three copies of data, on two types of media, with one offsite. Many teams now extend it to 3-2-1-1-0: one copy immutable or offline, and zero errors in verified restore tests.
How often should we test disaster recovery?
Automated backup verification should run continuously or weekly. A full failover exercise for critical systems is typically worth doing at least once or twice a year, and after any major infrastructure change.
How this directory is compiled
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