Compare the Top MSP Backup Software and Solutions in 2025

Managed service providers (MSPs) often use backup solutions to ensure that their clients' data is safe and recoverable in case of any catastrophic event. Generally speaking, MSP backup solutions are designed to give clients a greater degree of control over their backups, allowing them to configure backup schedules, set retention policies, and monitor the performance of their backups. MSPs typically offer a range of different backup options, from cloud storage services to on-premises physical servers. Moreover, most will provide a suite of tools for monitoring and managing backups that enable easy recovery in the event of an emergency. Lastly, these solutions are often highly customizable so they can be tailored to meet the needs of individual customers rather than having them rely on a generic solution. Here's a list of the best MSP backup solutions:

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    NinjaOne

    NinjaOne

    NinjaOne

    NinjaOne automates the hardest parts of IT, delivering visibility, security, and control over all endpoints for more than 20,000 customers. The NinjaOne automated endpoint management platform is proven to increase productivity, reduce security risk, and lower costs for IT teams and managed service providers. The company seamlessly integrates with a wide range of IT and security technologies. NinjaOne is obsessed with customer success and provides free and unlimited onboarding, training, and support.
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    Comet Backup

    Comet Backup

    Comet Backup

    Start running backups and restores in less than 15 minutes! Fast, secure backup software for businesses and IT providers. Comet is a flexible, all-in-one backup platform available in 13 languages. You choose your backup destination, server location, configuration and setup. Backup to your own storage/location, SFTP, FTP or cloud storage provider (Wasabi, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure, Backblaze B2, or other S3-compatible cloud providers). Comet’s modern ‘chunking’ technology powers client-side deduplication with no full re-uploads after the first backup. Backups are incremental forever—your oldest backup can restore just as fast as your most recent. No need for differentials or delta-merging. Data is compressed and encrypted during backup, transit and rest. Test drive Comet Backup with a 30-day FREE trial!
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    Starting Price: $19 per month
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    Cove Data Protection
    Protect servers, applications, databases, workstations, and Microsoft 365 data with Cove Data Protection (formerly N-able Backup). Cloud storage in one of 30 worldwide data centers is included, with the option to keep a local copy of your backups using the hardware of your choice. Flexible recovery options include bare-metal restore, virtual restore, and file/folder-level recovery. Reduce administrative time by managing backups for all your customers, and all their device and data types, from a single dashboard. Automated recovery testing provides screenshot backup verification. TrueDelta deduplication, compression, and WAN optimization make daily backups lightweight and fast. Find out how easy fast, reliable data protection can be, with Cove Data Protection.
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    Unitrends Backup
    Unitrends Unified Backup platform protects your data no matter where it lives. A complete and agile platform, Unitrends offers protection for on-premises infrastructure, cloud-based workloads, SaaS applications and remote endpoints devices like PCs and workstations. Integrations with remote management, security and IT documentation tools provide end-to-end protection from human error, cyberthreats and inject automation and artificial intelligence to simplify complex systems. Managed through a singular portal, Unitrends offers a unified experience with visibility and control across a complete backup infrastructure.
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    Veeam Data Platform
    #1 Global Leader in Data Resilience How we keep businesses worldwide up and running: From secure backups to intelligent data insights, Veeam Data Platform is built to handle the complexities of modern data management. Your data, protected, recoverable, free, and smart — just the way it should be. Veeam offers a simple yet powerful data management platform that goes beyond backup, providing businesses with reliable data protection, orchestrated recovery, and streamlined data management. With Veeam, businesses gain peace of mind knowing their data is secure, always available, and easily recoverable, empowering organizations to achieve true data resilience.
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    Hornetsecurity VM Backup
    VM Backup (formerly Altaro VM Backup) is an award-wining virtual machine backup and replication solution for Hyper-V and VMware environments. It is used by 40,000+ businesses worldwide. Designed for IT departments, IT resellers, IT consultants and Managed Service Providers (MSPs), the solution provides robust, streamlined, enterprise-level functionality. It’s characterised by ease of use, speed and affordability. With its WAN-Optimized Replication and Continuous Data Protection (CDP), you can achieve minimal RPO and RTO, i.e., drastically reduce the length of time your virtual machines are down and the amount of data lost when disaster strikes – to just minutes. Virtual machine backup and replication software packed with powerful features for Hyper-V and VMware.
    Starting Price: $595.00/one-time
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    CrashPlan
    Cloud backup software to protect your small business data. Enterprise-grade data loss protection at small business prices. CrashPlan® for Small Business makes protecting files on your devices easy. Just US$10/month per computer. CrashPlan cloud data backups give you peace of mind. Get all the data protection you need in one seamless online cloud backup solution. Cloud backup runs automatically in the background. Doesn’t slow you down. No additional charge for space. Our cloud backup allows you to control how long we keep your deleted files. Restore your files to the latest versions without paying a ransom for them. Included for no additional cost. Keep a local copy of your files for fast recovery. Support staff available by phone, chat, email. Documentation is always available. CrashPlan protects the files you’re currently working on first, and makes it easy to go back to previous versions of your files by date. Restore via desktop app or browser. No charge to restore your files.
    Starting Price: $10 per computer per month
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    Druva

    Druva

    Druva

    Druva Data Security Cloud is a leading SaaS-first platform that delivers comprehensive data protection and rapid recovery across cloud, hybrid, and endpoint environments. It offers zero-trust security, AI-powered threat detection, and automated ransomware recovery to safeguard critical business data. Designed for modern enterprises, Druva enables scalable, cost-efficient backup and compliance with industry standards such as SOC2, HIPAA, and FedRAMP—all managed from a single secure cloud platform.
    Starting Price: $4 per user per month
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    Spanning Backup
    Spanning Backup delivers powerful, yet easy-to-use data protection for Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Salesforce enabling administrators and end users to seamlessly restore lost, deleted or corrupted data in just a few clicks. The solution installs in minutes with quick, easy and secure setup with no expensive training costs, ongoing installations cases and zero headache. An intuitive user interface makes finding and restoring data a breeze. What’s more? With end user self-service recovery, users can non-destructively restore data unique to their account on the tenant without admin intervention, freeing IT to work on more critical projects. Spanning Cloud Apps, a Kaseya Company, is a leading provider of backup and recovery for SaaS applications, protecting more than 2.2 million users across 10,000+ organizations globally. Protect your data from accidental deletions, configuration and sync errors, malicious activity and more.
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    MSP360 Managed Backup
    MSP360 Managed Backup. Simple. Reliable. MSP360 Managed Backup is an easy-to-use backup solution with centralized management, monitoring, and reporting. The platform is natively integrated with AWS, Wasabi, Backblaze B2, and Microsoft Azure to enable best-in-class data protection for Windows, Linux, macOS, VMware, Hyper-V, Microsoft 365, and Google Workspace. Main features: ▸ File backup ▸ Image-based backup ▸ Desktop backup ▸ Server backup ▸ Windows backup ▸ macOS backup ▸ Linux backup ▸ VM backup ▸ SQL server backup ▸ Office365 backup ▸ Google Workspace backup ▸ MS Exchange backup ▸ Immutable backups ▸ System restore ▸ Item-level restore ▸ Backup to AWS, Wasabi, B2; local backup ▸ Centralized management ▸ Rebranding
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    Datto SIRIS

    Datto SIRIS

    Datto, a Kaseya company

    From servers to virtual machines, SIRIS is the secure data protection solution built for MSPs to protect their client data. Security comes first with two-factor authentication and the immutable Datto Cloud to deliver the all-in-one solution for backup and recovery in a ransomware world. Born for the MSP with a cloud first architecture that delivers an all-in-one solution that spans backup to DRaaS, all administered from a secure, multi-tenant cloud portal. Immutable backups and the secure Datto Cloud make SIRIS your best line of defense against ransomware. Patented Inverse Chain Technology™ fundamentally changes the way backup and recovery is done allowing for every incremental snapshot to be a fully constructed recovery point. Does deleting backups either accidentally or maliciously mean you can’t recover? Think again with Cloud Deletion Defense™ that undeletes the unthinkable.
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    NAKIVO Backup & Replication
    NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers complete data protection for virtual, physical, cloud, and SaaS environments including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Amazon EC2, Windows and Linux physical machines and servers, files shares/NAS, Oracle database, and Microsoft 365. You can install the NAKIVO solution on Linux and Windows OS, or deploy it as a pre-configured virtual appliance (VA) or Amazon Machine Image (AMI). You can also install the solution on NAS to create a cost-efficient and fast backup appliance. NAKIVO Backup & Replication includes advanced disaster recovery functionality with Site Recovery and Real-Time Replication for VMware. In addition, you can protect backups from ransomware using built-in cybersecurity features like immutability and pre-recovery malware scans.
    Starting Price: $229/ socket; $25 workload/y
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    Asigra

    Asigra

    Asigra

    Asigra helps IT teams increase their data recovery confidence through our unsurpassed reliability, security, manageability, and affordability in data protection software. Asigra's Enterprise Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) software platform was designed for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to host and operate their own Backup as a Service solution. The easy to manage platform offers users the ability to white-label it to match your brand, while its breakthrough Hybrid Cloud Backup architecture combines a Cloud optimized scale-out architecture, a Cloud backup and recovery software platform, and a Cloud API and management system to help IT Teams seamlessly and efficiently manage, scale and deliver data protection services.
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    NovaBACKUP Managed Backup

    NovaBACKUP Managed Backup

    NovaBACKUP Corporation

    NovaBACKUP Managed Backup is a centrally managed backup and recovery solution for MSPs with local and cloud storage that allows you to offer as a service to your customers. Supports Windows systems, Microsoft SQL, Exchange, and virtual machines. This SaaS solution is a secure, flexible, and scalable managed backup solution that focuses on making life easier for systems integrators, MSPs, and resellers. Providers can create and manage backup jobs for their customers with intuitive, centralized management that includes extensive reporting and notification capabilities. In addition, providers receive initial setup assistance and ongoing support from experts who understand each provider's environment. NovaBACKUP Managed Backup is account-based, which means there is no need to track license keys. Just connect your clients and start protecting their data. It’s that easy. Deploy quickly, and easily manage all your clients from a single interface.
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    Alert Centric

    Alert Centric

    Invarosoft

    Alert Centric is a unified backup alert‑reporting solution for MSPs that consolidates alerts from any backup system into a single, centralized dashboard. It automatically monitors backups across diverse vendors and sites, detects failures, and delivers real‑time, customizable notifications to technicians, reducing human error and dramatically cutting the time spent on backup verification. It aggregates alerts via email or integration, prioritizes based on severity, correlates related events, and escalates issues as needed. Automated workflows can trigger actions like service restarts or IP blocks and generate reports and visual insights on backup status, trends, and resolution metrics. Designed for rapid deployment, Alert Centric integrates easily with PSA tools and supports all major backup vendors, offering MSPs full confidence in their clients’ backup health through proactive incident management and simplified oversight.
    Starting Price: $99 per month
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    Axcient x360Cloud
    Protect Everything with Axcient x360. For too long MSPs have had to use multiple vendors for business availability. Now Axcient x360 provides the only unified platform and experience for MSPs to protect client data. The Axcient x360 portal is a single pane of glass for MSPs to manage BCDR, Cloud to Cloud Backup, and Secure Sync & Share. Axcient x360 supports SSO, MFA, and multi-tenant management to increase MSP productivity and reduce total cost of managed services (TCOMS). Axcient x360 gives MSPs one platform to Protect Everything – business continuity, cloud to cloud backup, and secure sync and share. Through a single pane of glass, MSPs can protect themselves and their customers with single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and multi-tenant management to increase MSP productivity and reduce total cost of managed services (TCOMS).Axcient offers MSPs the most secure backup and disaster recovery technology stack with a proven business availability suite.
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    BackupAssist

    BackupAssist

    BackupAssist

    BackupAssist keeps you in business when disaster strikes. Survive cyber attacks, ransomware, natural disasters, hardware failures and user accidents with the right backup and a clear path to recovery. We specialize in only business-grade backup and data protection software for Microsoft Windows Server environments and Office 365. Provider of Cyber Resilience and Cyber Security solutions since 2002, to people and organizations in over 165 countries to properly backup and protect Windows Servers and Data. BackupAssist is the leading-edge provider of affordable Windows Server Backup and DR software. Used in over 165 countries, our award-winning software helps businesses avert financial ruin when disaster strikes. Our software allows for the back up of anything from just a few files to whole servers—virtual or physical. It supports all modern backup destinations from local to external disks, network locations, to public and private cloud.
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    Unitrends MSP
    Attack the downtime problem without the hassle and anxiety of legacy backup. Switch to a solution built on 30 years of innovation with no upfront cost – making the promise of cloud economics achievable for every MSP. The Unitrends MSP Portal is built to give you complete visibility into your entire backup universe so you can monitor and manage everything from one place. Who has time to manage backups all day? The Unitrends MSP Portal is tightly focused on helping you address problems so you can get in, get out, and get on with your day. BackupIQTM uses artificial intelligence to surface the most important issues so you can feel confident that your technicians are working on the right things all the time. Automatically send beautiful reports every week, month, or quarter so your customers rest easy knowing they’ve got a stellar team and world class technology keeping their business up and running.
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     Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud
    Avoid downtime and data loss for your clients at a lower cost. Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is the only solution that natively integrates cybersecurity, data protection and management to protect endpoints, systems and data. This synergy eliminates complexity, so service providers can protect customers better while keeping costs down. Next-generation cybersecurity. Advanced AI-based behavioral detection engine for zero-day attack prevention. Reliable backup and recovery. Full-image and file-level backup, disaster recovery, and metadata collection for security forensics. MSP-ready protection management. URL filtering, vulnerability assessments, and patch management for greater control. The traditional stack of endpoint protection products lacks integration and requires much more time for management – maintaining licenses, installing updates and patches, verifying compatibility after updates, and managing multiple policies using a variety of different user interfaces.
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    365 Total Backup

    365 Total Backup

    Hornetsecurity

    365 Total Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup) enables you to back up and recover all your company's Microsoft 365 mailboxes, Teams, and files stored within OneDrive and SharePoint, automatically backing them up to a secure data center. As Microsoft 365 is a communications system rather than a data protection solution, we help you to back up and restore your M365 data with ease. Enjoy the benefits of an easy automated backup process, freeing up your thoughts and time for other tasks. Your subscription includes backups, unlimited storage, 24/7 support and a central management Control Panel. No hidden costs! You can scale to tens of thousands of users.
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    Barracuda MSP

    Barracuda MSP

    Barracuda MSP

    Our portfolio of solutions enables you to build comprehensive security services that include prevention, detection, and response across attack surfaces such as email, endpoint, network, and more, creating layers of security around your customers’ data, users, and reputation. When partnering with us, you have one number to call when a security event occurs, although, we may call you first. Our team takes a proactive approach, enabling quick response and reducing the damage an event can have on your customers. Get the best email security service out there. Protect customers’ mailboxes, browsing, files, and data against all 13 email threat types such as ransomware, account takeover, and spear phishing. Enhance your protection for today's modern IT environments, our multi-tenant, next-generation SASE firewall combines network protection, web content filtering, SD-WAN, and more. Provide a holistic managed security service that secures your customers everywhere, all the time.
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    ScalePad Backup Radar
    ScalePad Backup Radar is an automated, cloud-native backup monitoring and reporting solution designed specifically for managed service providers. It consolidates backup statuses across servers, workstations, VMs, and NAS devices from over 300 integrations (including major RMM, PSA, and backup tools), presenting them in a customizable dashboard. It highlights gaps, supports trend analysis, and surfaces only actionable alerts through intelligent ticketing that groups, appends, and auto-closes notifications to avoid noise. Backup Radar also delivers color-coded, white-label reports with flexible scheduling, which can be embedded within ScalePad’s Lifecycle Manager for unified client insights. It adheres to SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 cybersecurity standards and offers seamless API-powered PSA ticket integrations to automate incident workflows and maintain compliance.
    Starting Price: $99 per month
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    Axcient x360Recover
    Axcient x360Recover is an enterprise-grade backup, business continuity, and disaster recovery (BCDR) platform designed for MSPs, providing persistent, chain-free backups with industry-leading features like AirGap immutability, AutoVerify automated test restores, Local Cache–accelerated recoveries, and Virtual Office cloud virtualization. Its chain-free architecture stores backups as immutable ZFS snapshots, preventing degradation or reseeding even over long retention periods, and guards against ransomware and accidental deletion via a secure AirGap layer. AutoVerify conducts nightly boot-and-deep-volume backup integrity checks for recoverability assurance. Local Cache enables rapid bare-metal restores from on-prem block storage, and Virtual Office can instantly spin up entire offices or individual systems in the cloud for testing or live failover.
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    Xopero

    Xopero

    Xopero

    Total data protection, backup and disaster recovery – protect your data onsite and in the cloud. Computers and laptops have become essential tools on which we create and store more and more critical data. With Xopero protection of a large number of endpoints won’t be a problem anymore. Computers and laptops have become essential tools on which we create and store more and more critical data. With Xopero protection of a large number of endpoints won’t be a problem anymore. Today’s business is data-driven companies are particularly threatened by this kind of cyber-attacks. Once it's happened even well-established companies rank big losses. Are you an MSP or Reseller looking for reliable Backup and Disaster Recovery? Boost recurring revenues, build a desirable cybersecurity services portfolio, and manage everything remotely. Professional backup and recovery solution #1 that protects your GitHub and Bitbucket repos and metadata.
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    ConnectWise BCDR

    ConnectWise BCDR

    ConnectWise

    Reliable backup, disaster and recovery services. Avoid downtime and disruption with a cost-effective, unified backup and disaster recovery (BDR) solution. With ConnectWise BCDR, formerly ConnectWise Recover, you can automate key tasks and get expert support for diverse environments and workloads. Activate powerful, reliable backup and disaster recover solutions that help you build trust with your clients and expand your business relationships.
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    Axcient DRaaS
    Axcient Fusion allows MSPs to consolidate and converge infrastructure and workloads in a single cloud platform. Reduce the cost, easy management, near instant recovery, and Automated Run-books.
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    Datto Endpoint Backup

    Datto Endpoint Backup

    Datto, a Kaseya company

    Datto Endpoint Backup is designed for MSPs to protect their clients’ Windows servers, virtual machines (VMs), cloud instances, desktops, and laptops from downtime and data loss. Designed to maximize MSPs’ profits, it enables quick recovery of entire systems and data if downtime or cyberattacks occur. Although implementing backup for every Windows endpoint is paramount for any organization, it should not break the bank for either MSPs or their clients. Now you can back up all Windows systems, in primary data centers, at remote or distributed locations, in VMs, in any cloud, in the offices, or with remote employees, and leave no workload behind. At Datto, we set out with a vision many years ago to create a world where data loss and downtime are nonexistent and where backup is a necessity, not a luxury. Datto Endpoint Backup enables MSPs to provide reliable and cost-effective backup services for all Windows endpoints, ensuring profitability for MSPs and affordability for clients.
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    Boxafe

    Boxafe

    Boxafe

    Protect Enterprise SaaS data with Boxafe, a simple, comprehensive, and efficient backup/recovery solution for Google™ Workspace and Microsoft 365®. QNAP's Boxafe is a SaaS backup and recovery solution, specifically designed for enterprises or MSPs. Backup cloud data to a local QNAP NAS, which can easily safeguard your enterprise data. The highly secure private NAS prevents data from being viewed by third parties. Use Boxafe to backup and manage multiple Google™ Workspace and Microsoft 365® data. Schedule multi-version backup reduces the risk of data loss. Backup all your emails and attachments in Outlook. Back up all the document libraries of your website, including subsites, site content, pages, assets, apps, and more. You can recover your files to any of your SharePoint websites. Backup all Teams' conversations, calendars, and content in the Teams Site including document library, page, OneNote, and more.
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    Magnus Box

    Magnus Box

    Magnus Box

    Deploy and scale backups for your clients with industry-leading security and support. We charge a flat fee per device per month, you pay nothing extra for data usage. The Magnus Box team is HIPAA trained and certified. All data is encrypted, with zero personal information exposure. Magnus Box was created because of these kinds of situations. We tried other backup solutions, and they either limit how much data you can backup, or they are too complicated or too clunky to use. Magnus Box fills these gaps by being easy to use and allowing unlimited data. Magnus Box is available exclusively to technology service providers, computer repair providers, and MSPs worldwide. Magnus Box will never sell directly to the general public. Why do we do this? We do this because we were where you are, trying to provide services to our clients when our providers were directly competing with us. Our team has extensive first-hand experience in the MSP industry.
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    Barracuda Intronis Backup

    Barracuda Intronis Backup

    Barracuda Networks

    Barracuda Intronis Backup – MSP is a software-only BDR solution designed to offer value to your customers by protecting what matters most, while creating new opportunities to expand your margins and grow your business. Intronis Backup and the ECHOplatform is a software-only solution that goes beyond file-and-folder and delivers secure hybrid local and cloud backup services that offer flexible, comprehensive data protection — complemented by a simple pricing structure and a centralized management portal. Intronis Backup is available at a fixed cost per SMB site, creating cost certainty for MSPs. Fixed pricing also makes it easier for MSPs to build margins and makes data protection a growth driver. Intronis Backup includes management and reporting tools you need to support SMBs effectively. And you can maximize your efficiency thanks to our tight integrations with core MSP business tools.
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    Asigra Tigris Backup
    Asigra Tigris protects your backups from today’s new breed of attacks, improving your odds of data recovery while being easier to manage than traditional backup software. With a unique network-based data security architecture, Asigra provides inline advanced antimalware, encryption, authentication, and obfuscation features to do what traditional backup software can’t do. Protect your backup data from determined attackers so you avoid paying ransoms. Asigra deploys to the network quickly, without requiring endpoint agents, enabling smoother updates, reduced administration, and a minimized security footprint. Whether you are recovering last night's file for a user or your entire data center, you can be confident that your restores will succeed with advanced recovery capabilities. Incremental forever lets you restore backups from any point in time. Autonomic healing repairs corrupted backups automatically.
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    Datto Unified Backup

    Datto Unified Backup

    Datto, a Kaseya company

    With Datto Unified Backup you can protect customer data and keep their businesses running. Protect servers, files, PCs, and SaaS applications. Datto works with MSPs to customize a solution tailored to you and your clients. With software and hardware for MSPs of all sizes, Datto has you covered. MSPs around the world have been trusting Datto with their business continuity and disaster recovery for over a decade.
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    ShadowProtect

    ShadowProtect

    StorageCraft Technology

    Like disasters, IT environments are anything but standard. That’s why businesses need a single cross-platform solution that protects a mixed, hybrid environment. ShadowProtect® backup and disaster recovery software ensures on-prem business systems and data are fully protected and always available. With ShadowProtect, meet or beat your recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTOs and RPOs). Recover files and folders in minutes. Restore failed servers. Use patented VirtualBoot technology to instantly boot a backup image into a virtual machine. ShadowProtect image-based backups arm you with multiple ways to recover. Grab a missing file, restore an entire data volume, or restore a failed server’s system to a new physical or virtual machine with no headaches (P2P, P2V, V2P, V2V). You can rely on ShadowProtect because it provides automated verification of backup images to ensure they’ll work when disaster strikes.
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    SysCloud

    SysCloud

    SysCloud

    SysCloud creates automatic backups for critical SaaS applications, monitors for malicious files, and delivers powerful insights about your data and compliance - all from one dashboard. Accidental email or file deletions and overwrites can happen to anyone. Recover your lost data from any backup snapshot. SysCloud actively monitors your cloud backup for issues and sends daily notifications and solutions straight to your dashboard. Now you can run powerful backup reports, check your organization’s data compliance, respond to malicious files before they harm your business, and much more. SysCloud makes it easy to protect your enterprise.
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    Rubrik

    Rubrik

    Rubrik

    A logical air gap prevents attackers from discovering your backups while our append-only file system ensures backup data can't be encrypted. You can keep unauthorized users out with globally-enforced multi-factor authentication. From backup frequency and retention to replication and archival, replace hundreds or thousands of backup jobs with just a few policies. Apply the same policies to all your workloads across on-premises and cloud. Archive your data to your public cloud provider’s blob storage service. Quickly access archived data with real-time predictive search. Search across your entire environment, down to the file level, and select the right point in time to recover. Reduce recovery time from days and weeks to hours or less. Rubrik and Microsoft have joined forces to help you build a cyber-resilient business. Reduce the risk of backup data breach, loss, or theft by storing immutable copies of your data in a Rubrik-hosted cloud environment, isolated from your core workloads.
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    CloudAlly

    CloudAlly

    CloudAlly

    Enterprise-ready Office 365 data protection with the pioneers of SaaS backup. Secure Office 365 Cloud Backup and Recovery​. End-to-end automated or on-demand backup of all your Office 365 data (Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks), SharePoint Online, OneDrive, and Office Groups/Teams. Metadata included. Anytime/anywhere non-destructive restore from any point-in-time, granular level, or across users to any storage (CloudAlly’s Amazon S3, Azure, Google Cloud Platform). Plus unlimited data retention. Exceptional Customer Service real-person, responsive, 365x24x7 to resolve all your Office 365 backup queries. Dedicated Customer Support Hub with video tutorials and a detailed knowledge base. Secure and Certified with Microsoft-mandated OAuth and MFA/2FA support. ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR compliant. Global data centers of your choice. Secure Amazon AWS S3 Encryption.
    Starting Price: $3.00/month

MSP Backup Solutions Guide

In our rapidly changing digital world, data is the cornerstone of business operations. From vital financial details to key operational data, each fragment of information is crucial in propelling a business forward. This underscores the importance of data protection, particularly for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), who bear the responsibility of defending their clients' precious data.

This guide dives deep into the realm of MSP backup solutions. We'll explore their critical role in data defense, highlight essential features to seek, and discuss considerations for selecting the most suitable solution for your clients. We also tackle current challenges such as the increasing prevalence of ransomware and share top strategies for enhancing data security in the digital era.

The Changing Face of Data Security

The digital realm is a constantly shifting landscape where threats to data security are ever-changing. Hackers are growing more cunning, using advanced methods like ransomware and breaches to target businesses and misuse confidential data. This calls for a strong, forward-thinking approach to data protection, ensuring businesses stay robust against these changing threats.

The Broad Spectrum of Data Threats Beyond Cybercrime

While cybercrime is a primary concern, other factors like accidental data loss are also significant threats. Mishaps caused by human error, equipment failure, or software glitches can lead to data loss or corruption, leading to expensive downtime and reduced productivity. Furthermore, natural disasters and system outages add to these risks, underscoring the need for all-encompassing data protection strategies that extend beyond conventional backup methods.

MSP Backup Solutions: Defenders Against Data Loss

MSP backup solutions act as a formidable barrier against various threats to data integrity. By generating backup copies of client data and securely storing them offsite, these solutions guarantee the availability of critical information in disaster scenarios. This enables swift recovery from data loss incidents, reduces downtime, and ensures continuous business operation.

Features of MSP Backup Solutions

Selecting an MSP backup solution requires focusing on features that provide thorough protection and user-friendliness. Key aspects include:

  • Broad Platform Compatibility: A solution that operates smoothly across different operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux) and virtual environments (VMware, Hyper-V) guarantees extensive coverage for varied client requirements.

  • Automated Processes: Automation streamlines data protection by scheduling backups and recoveries automatically, reducing manual effort and ensuring consistent safety. Options for detailed recovery allow for restoring specific files, folders, or entire systems, offering adaptability and control.

  • Cloud-Based Backup: Cloud storage offers a secure repository for client data, protecting against local disasters and facilitating access from remote locations. This ensures data availability and assists in disaster recovery processes.

  • Strong Encryption: Maintaining data confidentiality and integrity is critical. Opt for a solution with robust encryption to ensure data is accessible only to authorized individuals, protecting against unauthorized access and breaches.

  • In-Depth Monitoring and Reporting: Effective monitoring of backup activities and system health is vital for early problem detection and resolution. Detailed reporting offers valuable insights into the effectiveness of data protection and compliance with relevant regulations.

  • Centralized Control: Managing multiple client backups from a single platform enhances efficiency and saves time. This centralized method eases administration and promotes effective resource management.

  • Scalability: As your clientele and data volume grow, your backup solution should adapt accordingly. Choosing a scalable solution ensures ongoing data protection and avoids future constraints.

  • Advanced Security Measures: Features like access controls, intrusion detection, and multi-factor authentication are crucial in mitigating security risks and shielding data from cyber threats. These additional safeguards help prevent unauthorized access and malicious activities.

  • Regulatory Compliance Support: The solution should assist in adhering to industry-specific regulations and data privacy laws, such as HIPAA and GDPR. This builds trust with clients and reduces risks linked to non-compliance.

Customizing to Client Requirements: Selecting the Ideal Solution

The optimal MSP backup solution is one that aligns precisely with your clients' unique data protection needs. When choosing, consider these factors:

  • Client-Specific Requirements: Evaluate each client's distinct data protection needs, considering aspects like data volume, platform diversity, regulatory needs, and budget constraints to select a solution that provides necessary protection within financial limits.

  • Scalability: Focus on a solution that can handle future data and client base expansion, ensuring ongoing protection as businesses grow and change.

  • Security: Opt for a solution with strong security features tailored to the particular threats your clients face, including advanced ransomware defense, data encryption protocols, and user access controls.

  • User-Friendliness: Assess the solution's interface and configuration ease. Choosing an intuitive, easy-to-manage option reduces training needs and ensures swift deployment.