Azure DevOps Now Available in the HYCU Marketplace

Azure DevOps is the delivery backbone for tens of thousands of engineering organizations, and it is strongly represented in industries where software ships under regulatory scrutiny. More than 30,000 companies run it, and many of them run their most regulated, business-critical products through it. A platform this important needs enterprise-class data protection. 

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of HYCU backup and recovery for Azure DevOps, purpose-built data protection and granular recovery for the platform your teams ship through. 

Why Azure DevOps protection is critical 

When teams think about protecting Azure DevOps, they think about repositories. Repositories are a small part of the problem. The much larger part is the delivery system around them. 

• The plan, the record, and the configuration exist only in the service. Work items carry requirements, decisions, comments, and full revision history. Boards, backlogs, queries, dashboards, process templates, and custom work item types took years to build and are in nobody's clone. They get rebuilt from memory, tickets, and screenshots. 
• Delivery stops without the automation. Pipeline definitions, variable groups, environments, agent queues, and service hooks are how working code becomes shipped software. Lose them and the code is intact but nothing ships.  
• Audit evidence is destroyed. In regulated development, work items and test plans are the requirements-to-test traceability record an assessor asks for. If you cannot produce it, you are looking at an audit finding and a release that waits while somebody rebuilds the paperwork.  
• Tokens and extensions reach further than people expect. A personal access token, a service account, or a Marketplace extension with broad permissions can reach and destroy far more than the person who created it intended. An offboarded engineer's token is often the credential a critical pipeline depends on.  
• Native recovery is real, and it is bounded. A deleted organization or project is recoverable for 28 days, a repository for 30, test plans and suites for 14, and there is no point-in-time restore at all. A script that calls the delete API with the destroy parameter skips the recycle bin, and Microsoft's own documentation warns those work items cannot be recovered. On the rest, Microsoft is blunt: "We don't support restoring assets that customers accidentally delete." 

What makes Azure DevOps hard to protect on your own 

• Five services, five data models. Repos is a Git object graph. Boards is a work tracking store. Pipelines is definition metadata. Test Plans are work items that behave unlike other work items. Artifacts are binary package payloads. Each needs its own capture method and its own write path, so no single export produces a usable copy.  
• The schema is data, and it has to come back first. A process template defines every work item type, field, rule, and state in the project. Work items are instances of it. Restore them before the schema exists and they have nowhere to land.  
• A pipeline depends on things stored somewhere else. A build definition resolves its variable groups, service connections, task groups, and environments from project settings, and its agent queues from organization settings. Back up the definition on its own and you get a pipeline that cannot run, so protection has to span both scopes, which Azure DevOps keeps separate.  
• Wikis are repositories in disguise. A wiki is a Git repo with a service-level registration on top, so it is neither purely code nor purely content. Protecting it means treating it as both. 

If a backup captures the objects without capturing how they fit together, what you get back is a project nobody can work in. 

HYCU R-Cloud for Azure DevOps: Recover exactly what broke 

HYCU for Azure DevOps is built for how these incidents usually go: one thing that mattered gets deleted or corrupted, and somebody notices later. Here is what that means in practice: 

• Complete delivery system protection: Most tools protect the repository. R-Cloud protects everything around it too: work items and their history, boards and queries, pipeline definitions, wikis, test plans, and organization settings. 
• The schema is in the backup: Process templates and custom work item types are protected alongside the work items built on them, so the shape the work was created in is recoverable rather than rebuilt from memory. 
• Recovery at any level: Whether you need one work item, one repository, one pipeline, a full project, or your organization settings, R-Cloud handles it from the same platform. Restores happen in place, so the teams that were not affected keep working through it. 
• Evidence that outlives the window: Build and release history, test runs, and the organization audit log are captured and exportable, so when an assessor asks about a release from eighteen months ago, you can still show what shipped, what was tested, and who changed what. 
• Storage-level immutability: Object lock and WORM immutability are available, and an Azure DevOps credential cannot reach the backup, so a compromised token or an administrator mistake does not propagate into it. 
• Your storage, your control: Backups land in storage you own, in your account and region.  
• Flexible retention: You decide how long copies are kept, independent of the 28-day window the platform gives you. 
• Unified Microsoft protection: Azure DevOps, Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Azure, and GitHub protected from one platform, under one policy framework, with one place to manage recovery. 

The system your company ships through deserves the same level of data protection as any other mission-critical system in your organization. 

See a recovery in action 

Ready to see it against your own Azure DevOps organization?  

Take this self-guided tour to see how you can recover the lost items in a matter of minutes.