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To learn about Azure Backup pricing, visitPriceside Azure Backup.
Download a detailed estimate of Azure Backup pricing
If you want to estimate costs for budgeting or cost comparison, download the breakdownBackup Azure Billing Estimator.
What does an estimator contain?
The Azure Backup cost estimate table includes an option that allows you to estimate all possible workloads that need to be backed up with Azure Backup. These workloads include:
- Azure Virtual Machine
- local server
- SQL and Azure VM'er
- SAP HANA σε Azure VMs
- Azure File Sharing
Calculate the cost of backing up Azure VMs or on-premises servers
To estimate the cost of backing up Azure VMs or on-premises servers with Azure Backup, use the following parameters:
The size of the virtual machine or local server you are trying to back up
- Enter the "used size" of the disk or server you want to back up
Number of servers of this size
What is the expected amount of data traffic on these servers?
Churn is the amount of change in data. For example, if your virtual machine has 200 GB of data to back up and 10 GB of data changes every day, then the daily rollover rate is 5%.A higher variance means you're backing up more data
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Choose a backup strategy
How long do you want to keep "daily" backups? (in days)
How long do you expect to keep the "weekly" backup? (in weeks)
How long do you want to keep "monthly" backups? (in months)
How long do you expect to keep "yearly" backups? (For many years)
How long do you want to keep "Instant Recovery Snapshots"? (1-5 days)
- This option allows you to quickly restore up to 7 days of data using snapshots stored on disk.
Elective courses– Selective disk backup
- If you are usingselective disk backupWhen backing up an Azure VM, selectdisk skipand enter the percentage of the disk size that you want to exclude from the backup. For example, if you have a virtual machine attached to three disks that use 200 GB each, and you want to exclude two of the disks from backups, enter 66.7%.
Elective courses– Redundancy for backup storage
- This indicates redundancy in the storage account where the backup data resides. We recommend usingGRSfor maximum availability. By ensuring that copies of backup data are kept in different regions, it helps you meet multiple compliance standards. Enable redundancyremote sensing systemIf you are backing up a development or test environment that does not require enterprise-grade backups. chooseRAGRSIf you want to know the price, select from the tableRestoration in all areasis enabled for backup.
Elective courses– Edit local prices or apply reduced prices
- To check estimates or reduced prices for different regions, selectAndtoTrying to estimate for different regions?and enter the percentage you want to estimate.
Calculate the cost of backing up a SQL Server to an Azure VM
To calculate the cost of backing up a SQL Server running on an Azure VM using Azure Backup, use the following parameters:
The size of the SQL Server you are trying to back up
Number of SQL servers with the above sizes
What is the expected compression of SQL Server backup data?
Most Azure Backup customers find that when SQL is compressed asactivated.
If you want to see a different compression, enter a number in this field
What is the expected size of the log backup?
- % specifies the daily log file size as a percentage of the SQL Server size
What is the expected daily traffic on these servers?
Typically, the database has a "high" churn rate
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Choose a backup strategy
backup type
The most effective policy you can choose isdaily differenceWeekly/monthly/yearly full backup. Azure Backup can also restore from differentials with a single click.
You can also choose a daily/weekly/monthly/yearly full backup strategy. This option will consume slightly more storage space than the first option.
How long do you want to keep "log" backups? (in days) [7-35]
How long do you want to keep "daily" backups? (in days)
How long do you expect to keep the "weekly" backup? (in weeks)
How long do you want to keep "monthly" backups? (in months)
How long do you expect to keep "yearly" backups? (For many years)
Elective courses– Redundancy for backup storage
- This indicates redundancy in the storage account where the backup data resides. We recommend usingGRSfor maximum availability. By ensuring that copies of backup data are kept in different regions, it helps you meet multiple compliance standards. Enable redundancyremote sensing systemIf you are backing up a development or test environment that does not require enterprise-grade backups.
Elective courses– Edit local prices or apply reduced prices
- To check estimates or reduced prices for different regions, selectAndtoTrying to estimate for different regions?and enter the percentage you want to estimate.
Estimate the cost of backing up a SAP HANA server to Azure VM
To calculate the cost of backing up a SAP HANA server running on an Azure VM using Azure Backup, use the following parameters:
The total size of the SAP HANA databases you are trying to back up. This should be the sum of the full backup sizes reported by SAP HANA for each database.
Number of SAP HANA servers with above scale
What is the expected size of the log backup?
- % represents the average daily log file size as a percentage of the total size of the SAP HANA database backed up on the SAP HANA server
What is the expected daily traffic on these servers?
- % represents the average daily diversion size as a percentage of the total size of the SAP HANA database backed up on the SAP HANA server
- Typically, the database has a "high" churn rate
- if you know yoursagitation%, you can use itEnter your %chances
Choose a backup strategy
- backup type
- The most effective policy you can choose isdaily differenceandweekly/monthly/yearlyFull backup. Azure Backup can also restore from differentials with a single click.
- You can also choose todaily/weekly/monthly/yearlyFull backup. This option will consume slightly more storage space than the first option.
- How long do you want to keep "log" backups? (in days) [7-35]
- How long do you want to keep "daily" backups? (in days)
- How long do you expect to keep the "weekly" backup? (in weeks)
- How long do you want to keep "monthly" backups? (in months)
- How long do you expect to keep "yearly" backups? (For many years)
- backup type
Elective courses– Redundancy for backup storage
- This indicates redundancy in the storage account where the backup data resides. We recommend usingGRSfor maximum availability. By ensuring that copies of backup data are kept in different regions, it helps you meet multiple compliance standards. Enable redundancyremote sensing systemIf you are backing up a development or test environment that does not require enterprise-grade backups.
Elective courses– Edit local prices or apply reduced prices
- To check estimates or reduced prices for different regions, selectAndtoTrying to estimate for different regions?and enter the percentage you want to estimate.
Calculate the cost of backing up your Azure file shares with the following toolsSnapshot-based backup solutionProvided by Azure Backup, use the following parameters:
Size (Unit: GB) the file share you want to back up.
If you are backing up a file share that is spread across multiple storage accounts, specify the number of storage accounts that host the file share with the above size.
The expected amount of data traffic on the file share you are backing up.
Churn refers to the amount of data change, which directly affects the size of the snapshot store. For example, if your file share has 200 GB of data to back up and 10 GB of that data changes every day, then the daily rollover rate is 5%.- A higher churn rate means a higher number of data changes per day to the contents of the file share, and therefore a larger incremental snapshot size (which records only data changes).
- Choose Low (1%), Medium (3%) or High (5%) based on your file sharing features and usage.
- if you know exactlyagitation%For file sharing, you can chooseEnter your %options in the drop-down menu. Enter prices (in %) for daily, weekly, monthly and yearly departure.
The storage account type (basic or premium) and storage redundancy settings for the storage account hosting the backup file share.
In our current Azure file share backup solution, snapshots are stored in the same storage account as the backup file share. Therefore, the storage costs associated with the snapshots will be billed as part of your Azure Files bill, depending on the account type of the storage account hosting the backup file share and snapshots, and snapshot pricing for redundancy settings.Storing various backups
- How long do you want to keep "daily" backups? (in days)
- How long do you expect to keep the "weekly" backup? (in weeks)
- How long do you want to keep "monthly" backups? (in months)
- How long do you expect to keep "yearly" backups? (For many years)
reportAzure file sharing support matrixLearn about the maximum storage values supported in each category.
Elective courses– Edit local prices or apply reduced prices.
- The default values specified in the Storage Instance cost estimator per GB and Protected Instance costs are for the US East region. To check estimates or reduced prices for different regions, selectAndtoTrying to estimate for different regions?and enter the percentage you want to estimate.
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