# Azure DevOps

Cloudback provides secure, automated backups for your Azure DevOps repositories, ensuring your intellectual property and project history are safe from accidental deletion, corruption, or malicious attacks.

## Getting Started

* [Installation Guide](https://docs.cloudback.it/azure-devops/installation-guide) - Step-by-step guide to setting up Cloudback for Azure DevOps
* [First Backup Walkthrough](https://docs.cloudback.it/azure-devops/first-backup-walkthrough) - Learn how to monitor and manage your first backup
* [Restore](https://docs.cloudback.it/azure-devops/restore) - How to restore Azure DevOps data from a backup

## Key Features for Azure DevOps

* **Automated Daily Backups**: Set it and forget it. Cloudback automatically backs up your data every day.
* **Backup coverage**: Cloudback backs up repositories, repository metadata, refs, commits, branches, pull requests, and pull request metadata.
* **Azure Marketplace Integration**: Available on the [Microsoft Azure Marketplace](https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/myrtlelabs-sas.cloudback) for easy setup and billing.
* **Flexible Restore**: Restore repositories directly to Azure DevOps or download as secure archives.

## What Gets Backed Up

Cloudback backs up your Azure DevOps repositories, including repository content, pull requests, and associated metadata. For a complete list of what's included, see [Azure DevOps Backup Contents](https://docs.cloudback.it/azure-devops/backup-contents).

**Coming Soon**: Work Items, Boards, Pipelines, Artifacts, Wikis, and Test Plans.

## Pricing

Azure DevOps backups use a per-repository pricing model - each repository consumes 1 unit. See [Azure DevOps Pricing](https://docs.cloudback.it/azure-devops/pricing) for plans and details.


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