Rewind Backups for Azure DevOps

Back up Azure DevOps, restore what broke and keep your team shipping.

Microsoft keeps Azure DevOps running. When a migration fails halfway, you own the recovery. Resilience starts there: Rewind puts your code and work items back at the point in time you choose.

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What Rewind backs up

Eighteen object types. Backed up daily, exportable on demand.

Organizations

Restore On Request rebuilds your organization and maps your projects back into it.

Projects

Restorable, and a project restore brings its test plans, suites, cases, configurations, and variables.

Git repositories

Branches and commits. The repository is the unit of recovery, and it comes back whole.

Pull requests

Tags, comments, comment attachments, attachments, and linked work items. Open pull requests restore.

Work items

Work items and their comments, restorable one at a time or with the whole project.

Boards

Exports as JSON, and the work items on your boards restore one at a time.

Test plans

Test suites, cases, configurations, and variables. Test plans come back with a project restore.

Pipelines

Automated build and release pipelines, exportable as JSON whenever your team needs them.

Artifacts

Feed and package metadata, exportable as JSON with links to where each package is hosted.

Why it matters

Your organization holds more than repos. Protect all of it.

You own the data inside Azure DevOps.

Microsoft protects the platform, not your project data. Every work item, pull request, and pipeline your team depends on is yours to protect. When one is lost, the comments and history showing how it got there go with it.

Auditors need backup evidence, tested procedures, and documented RTO and RPO targets. Holding a copy of your data is one thing; showing you can reconstruct from it is what the audit asks for.

Some incidents delete a single repo, others corrupt an entire project, and a few rewrite work items quietly enough that the change surfaces weeks later. Either way, engineering stops and delivery timelines slip. Your recovery plan has to cover every failure mode.

AI agents can rewrite branches or delete work items in seconds. A wrong instruction hits repos, pull requests, and pipelines faster than any team can catch it. You need a way to undo the damage just as fast.

Resilience

Pick a point in time. Put your code, your work items, and your projects back.

Resilience is recovery built into the way your team already works. A failed migration, a deleted repo or work items changed at scale is a roll-back to the point in time you choose.

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Find the version you need.

No digging through logs. Search the vault for a repository, work item or pull request, or jump straight to a point in time before the incident. Backup history goes back 365 days.

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Restore it, at the level you choose.

Restore a single work item, an open pull request, a repository or a whole project. Restores are non-destructive, so nothing is deleted and values roll back to backup time. Repositories arrive as a new timestamped copy beside the original.

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Export any version as JSON.

Boards, pipelines and artifact feeds export as JSON. So does every repository, project, work item and pull request Rewind holds. Download one version or your whole backup whenever your team or your auditors need it.

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Rebuild an organization with Rewind.

Rewind’s Restore On Request service rebuilds a whole Azure DevOps organization for you. Our restore team brings your projects into a fresh organization and maps them across, so repositories, work items and delivery history arrive together.

Use cases

However things go wrong, Rewind helps you recover.

Connect once, back up automatically every day

Rewind runs automated daily backups across every Azure DevOps organization the connecting account can reach, and keeps 365 days of backup history. Pricing is per user, so a multi-organization estate stays on one subscription.

Meet your compliance needs with confidence

Backups are encrypted in transit and at rest with AES-256. Every backup, restore, and export is written to an exportable audit log with 365 days of history. Rewind offers data residency in six regions.

Restore what you need, down to a single item

When mistakes happen, restore one repository, work item or open pull request in a few clicks. Restore a whole project, and its test plans, suites, cases, configurations and variables come back with it. Nothing you still need gets deleted.

Move fast with AI knowing you have a safety net

A rogue AI agent, broken integration, or misconfigured pipeline can wipe repos and work items across your organization. Rewind restores the code and the context around it, so your team keeps shipping instead of rebuilding from memory.

Features

Every capability your team needs to protect Azure DevOps data.

Backup

Recovery

Governance

Security & Compliance

More DevOps integrations

Rewind is the resilience layer for your entire DevOps stack.

Recover boards, workflows and work items.

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Back up repositories, pull requests and projects.

Recover repositories, pull requests and issues.

Protect your code.
Preserve your progress.

Frequently Asked Questions

What organizations ask before they get started with Rewind Backups for Azure DevOps.

What does Rewind back up in Azure DevOps?

Daily backups cover organizations, projects, Git repositories with branches and commits, and pull requests with tags, comments and attachments. They also cover work items and their comments, boards, test plans with suites, cases, configurations and variables, pipelines, and artifact feeds with package metadata. Rewind covers Azure DevOps Services, the cloud product, across every organization your connecting account can reach.

A Git clone captures code, and only code. It does not capture work item history, pull request comments, test plans, pipelines or project configuration, and somebody has to remember to run it on every repository. Rewind backs all of that up automatically every day, and restores repositories, open pull requests, work items and whole projects.

Rewind restores projects, Git repositories, and work items with their comments. Open pull requests come back with their tags, comments, comment attachments, attachments and linked work items. A project restore brings back test plans, suites, cases, configurations and variables. Boards, pipelines and artifact feeds export as JSON whenever you need them.

Yes, through Rewind’s Restore On Request service. Rewind restores your projects into a fresh organization and maps them across, so repositories, pull requests, work items and test plans come back together. Our restore team plans the recovery and runs it alongside your team.

Rewind provides it. Unlimited cloud storage for backups is included in the Professional plan, the one plan Azure DevOps is sold on. Backups are stored independently of Azure DevOps, encrypted with AES-256 in transit and at rest. You choose which of six data residency regions holds them. Bring Your Own Storage on AWS S3 is in early access.

Yes. Rewind backs up every organization the connecting account can reach, under one subscription priced per user. A multi-organization estate stays on one bill. When you enable third-party application access via OAuth in an organization, Rewind captures every project and repository inside it.