Azure Backup Service for Australian Businesses
Azure Backup is Microsoft's cloud-native backup service — Mycelium 365 manages the complete Azure Backup environment for Australian businesses, from initial configuration and policy setup through to automated monitoring, restore testing, and compliance reporting. Unlike traditional backup software, Azure Backup requires no infrastructure, scales automatically, and keeps your data in Australian Azure datacentres.
Fully managed Azure Backup services and managed backup services for Australian organisations — vault management, geo-redundancy, recovery testing and documented continuity plans so the business keeps running when something goes wrong.
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Azure Backup Vault Management
End-to-end management of Azure backup infrastructure including vault configuration and policy management.
Storage Account Protection
Automated backup policies for Azure storage accounts with geo-redundancy options.
Agentless VM Backup
Seamless backup of Azure virtual machines without agent installation, with granular recovery options.
Disaster Recovery Planning
DR planning and regular drills to ensure business continuity in case of data loss.
Monitoring & Reporting
Backup health monitoring, success rate tracking, and monthly reports on backup status.
What's Included
Backup Vault Configuration
We design and deploy Recovery Services vaults in the right Australian Azure region, with the correct redundancy tier and access controls. This sets the foundation for everything else — done badly, it creates cost blowouts and compliance gaps; done well, it gives you a clean, auditable backup estate from day one.
Policy Management
We build backup policies that match each workload's criticality, retention obligation, and recovery target. The result is that finance data, clinical records, and project files each get the right schedule and retention — without paying to keep everything forever.
Storage Account Protection
We protect Azure Blob, File, and Disk storage with operational backup and point-in-time restore where supported. If a ransomware event or user error corrupts a container, you can roll back to a known-good state rather than rebuilding from scratch.
VM Backup (Agentless)
We enable agentless backup for Azure VMs and Windows Server workloads so there is no software to install or maintain on each machine. You get application-consistent snapshots, faster restores, and one less agent for your security team to worry about.
Geo-Redundancy Options
We configure geo-redundant or zone-redundant storage where the workload justifies it, replicating backup data across paired Australian Azure regions. This protects you from a regional outage without your data ever leaving Australia.
Disaster Recovery Planning
We document the recovery runbooks, RTOs, and RPOs for each workload and align them to your business continuity plan. When something goes wrong, your team follows a tested process rather than improvising at 2am.
Regular DR Drills
We run scheduled restore and failover drills, not just backup success checks. Each drill produces evidence you can hand to auditors, insurers, and the board to prove recovery actually works.
Monthly Status Reports
Each month you receive a clear report covering backup success rates, storage trends, restore tests, and recommended actions. It turns backup from an invisible IT function into a measurable governance control.
Who this is for
Managed Azure Backup is built for Australian organisations that have outgrown ad-hoc, on-premises backup and want a cloud-native solution they don't have to babysit. It is a strong fit for legal, financial services, healthcare, and government-adjacent businesses that carry strict data retention, Privacy Act, and APRA CPS 234 obligations and need defensible evidence that backups are tested and recoverable. It also suits small and mid-sized businesses without a dedicated backup engineer, who need enterprise-grade protection delivered as a service with fixed monthly costs. If you are migrating workloads to Azure, consolidating from a mix of veeam, tape, or USB drives, or preparing for a cyber insurance review, this service gives you a single, audited backup platform across VMs, Microsoft 365 data, and file workloads.
Why Azure Backup?
Azure Backup stores your data in Australian Azure regions — Australia East (Sydney) and Australia Southeast (Melbourne) — so backups never leave the country, which matters for privacy, sovereignty, and government tenders. It integrates natively with the Microsoft stack, including Azure VMs, SQL, Windows Server, and Microsoft 365 workloads, so there is no third-party agent estate to license, patch, or troubleshoot. Compared to traditional backup vendors, Azure Backup typically delivers lower total cost of ownership because you pay only for the storage you use, with no per-VM licence and no separate backup appliance. It also aligns directly with the ACSC Essential Eight "regular backups" mitigation strategy — immutable vaults, soft delete, and tested restores give you the controls auditors and cyber insurers expect to see.
Benefits for Your Business
What is Azure Backup and how does it work?
Azure Backup is Microsoft's built-in, cloud-native backup service — a fully managed data-protection platform delivered directly from Azure. Unlike traditional third-party backup software, there are no backup servers to build, no proxy appliances to license, and no agent estate to maintain across every workload. Protection is enabled from the Azure portal, data is written straight into a Recovery Services vault, and pricing is consumption-based — you pay per GB protected and per GB of storage consumed, not per socket or per VM. Azure Backup protects a wide surface: Azure virtual machines (agentless, application-consistent snapshots), on-premises Windows and Linux servers via the MARS agent, SQL Server in Azure VMs, Azure Files shares, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft 365 mailboxes, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams data. Mycelium 365 designs the vault topology, configures policies against your RTO and RPO targets, enables immutability and soft delete, and runs it as a fully managed service so your team never touches the platform.
What does managed Azure Backup include?
Our managed Azure Backup service covers the full lifecycle. We design and deploy backup policies tuned to each workload — daily, twice-daily, or hourly schedules, retention from seven days to ten years, and locally-, zone-, or geo-redundant storage inside Australia. Every vault is monitored daily by our engineers with automated alerting into our ticketing system, so failed jobs are triaged and remediated the same business day rather than waiting for a monthly review. We perform monthly restore testing on a rotating basis — real files, VMs, and databases restored into isolated targets to verify integrity, RTO, and RPO. All vaults are pinned to Australia East (Sydney) or Australia Southeast (Melbourne) for onshore data residency. You receive monthly compliance reporting aligned to ACSC Essential Eight "regular backups" evidence requirements, and 24/7 alerting escalates any backup failure that threatens your recovery window.
How much does Azure Backup cost for an Australian business?
Azure Backup uses a consumption-based pricing model — Microsoft charges a small protected-instance fee per workload plus the underlying storage consumed in the Recovery Services vault, billed in AUD from the Australian Azure regions. There is no per-socket licence, no backup appliance to buy, and no capacity planning three years out. Mycelium 365 includes Azure Backup management as a standard inclusion in our managed services plans, so vault design, policy tuning, daily monitoring, and monthly restore testing are covered by a fixed monthly fee rather than time-and-materials. Compared to traditional tape rotation or on-premises NAS backup — which carry hardware refresh, media handling, offsite courier, and dedicated engineering time — Azure Backup typically lowers total cost of ownership while improving recoverability. It also satisfies the ACSC Essential Eight requirement to perform regular backups and to test restoration, which is increasingly a precondition for cyber insurance renewal in Australia.
Frequently Asked Questions
Further reading on backup and disaster recovery
Deepen your understanding of Australian backup strategy, Microsoft 365 disaster recovery, and Essential Eight-aligned resilience.
- How Azure Backup secures your Microsoft 365 dataWhy native retention is not enough and how Azure Backup fills the gap for Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive.Read the article
- Why Microsoft 365 disaster recovery is critical for Australian businessesAligning M365 DR planning with Privacy Act, APRA CPS 234, and Essential Eight recovery obligations.Read the article
- Building a disaster recovery plan with Sydney IT supportA practical, Essential Eight-aligned framework for tested backups and defined RTO/RPO targets.Read the article
