It's a comprehensive, agentless, and proxy-less data protection solution that safeguards your Azure File shares by backing them up to the Druva Cloud. It provides features like air-gapped backups, deduplication, and granular recovery. For more information, see Introduction to Data Protection of Azure Files.

Yes, the solution operates entirely within Druva's cloud infrastructure, utilizing Azure APIs for discovery, backup, and restore. No software agents or additional compute resources are required in your Azure environment.

Backups are stored in the secure, air-gapped Druva Cloud. You can choose to store them in Druva's Azure storage (same or different region) or Druva's AWS storage.

No, Druva's architecture is designed to incur zero egress charges from Azure to the customer during backup operations.

No. We currently protect the SMB Azure file shares accessed via public endpoints only. However, if you want to protect the SMB Azure file shares accessed via a private network or public access and restricted network scope, you can do so by deploying our Azure Files agent in your environment. For more information, see How to configure your environment for a private network or public network with restricted access.

Druva provides multiple layers of defense, including air-gapped backups (stored in an isolated security domain) and immutable backups (DataLock), which prevent modification or deletion of recovery points.

Yes, Druva supports backing up and restoring Azure File shares that are encrypted with Customer-Managed Keys (CMK) or Microsoft-Managed Keys (MMK).

Druva requires minimal, least-privileged permissions for discovery, backup, and restore operations. For more information, see Roles and Permissions.

Druva supports granular backups at the entire file share level, specific directories, or individual file levels. You can also define inclusion/exclusion criteria.

Yes, Druva backs up all metadata related to your Azure storage account, file share, folders, and files, and preserves it during restore.

Yes, in addition to policy-based scheduled backups, you can initiate on-demand backups for any configured Azure file share. For more information, see On-demand backup of Azure Files

Yes, Druva provides immutable backups through DataLock functionality, ensuring that your backup data cannot be altered or deleted for the configured retention period. For more information, see Enable Data Lock for Azure Files.

You can restore data to the original location (with options to overwrite or restore with a different name) or to an alternate location across different subscriptions, storage accounts, or file shares, even across regions. For more information, see Restore Azure Files.

Yes, Druva indexes all backed-up metadata, enabling advanced search capabilities by file name, file type, file size, and date range to quickly locate data for restore. For more information, see Advanced Search Functionality.