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Native Azure Backup and Recovery

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An assumption for this course is that you are using the latest product versions and package updates. Check for available updates manually if required.

 

First, let's start with understanding the two ways you can achieve native Azure backup and recovery with Veeam:

  • With the standalone Veeam Backup for Azure to back up and recover Azure workloads within Azure only
  • With Veeam Backup & Replication via Microsoft Azure Plug-in for centralized and unified management and monitoring of hybrid-/multi-cloud environments, which provides you with a greater portability of backups and opportunity to store data on premises as well as across any of the supported public cloud providers.

 

 

Deployment Guidelines and Prerequisites

Before you start using Azure Native Backup and Recovery, make sure to:

  1. Digest an overview & sizing best practices by Veeam Solution Architects
  2. Study hardware, software, and infrastructure limitations and considerations
  3. Ensure that all required ports are open and user accounts that you plan to use have the required permissions
  4. Add custom sets of worker profiles to specify VM sizes of worker instances that will operate in different regions in order to boost operational performance
  5. Check out configuration actions to work with Azure resources that operate in private environment.

 

Deployment

In this five-minute demo, you will learn to deploy and configure Azure-native backup and recovery from Veeam Backup & Replication console and create your first backup policy.

 

 

  • 0:22— Deploying Veeam Backup for Azure
  • 3:40 – Creating a backup repository
  • 5:15 – Configuring a backup job

 

Alternatively, you can deploy and configure Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure from the Azure marketplace:

 

 

Did you know? Besides using a policy-based backup approach, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure allows you to manually create snapshots of Azure VMs or manually create backups of Azure SQL databases.

 

Backup & Recovery

Watch this quick demo to see how easy it is to back up public cloud in Microsoft Azure with Veeam.

 

 

Now let’s deep dive into restores. In various disaster recovery scenarios, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure allows you to perform the following restore operations using backed-up data:

  • Restore of Azure VMs — restores Azure VMs from cloud-native snapshot or image-level backups to the original location or to a new location.
  • Restore of Azure SQL databases — restores Azure SQL databases from image-level backups to the original or to a new location.
  • Restore of Azure file shares — restore files of Azure file shares from cloud-native snapshots to the original location or to a new location.

Veeam Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure enables you to maintain business continuity by easily protecting both on-premises and cloud-based workloads. It delivers an easy way to move, test and restore Veeam backups — eliminating the complexity of setting up an on-demand recovery site in Microsoft Azure.

This three‑minute demo includes:

  • How to quickly set up Veeam Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure
  • How to restore an on‑premises Veeam backup of a virtual machine in Azure

 

Did you know? Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure stores information on all protected Azure resources in the configuration database until all restore points associated with this resource are removed, according to the retention settings. You can also remove the restore points manually on the Protected Data page.

 

Pro tip: It is recommended that you regularly perform configuration backup for every backup appliance present in Microsoft Azure. Periodic configuration backups reduce the risk of data loss and minimize the administrative overhead costs in case any problems with the backup appliances occur. Continue reading in the User Guide.

 

NOTE Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure does not include restore points created manually in backup and snapshot chains, and does not apply the configured retention policy settings to these restore points, unless you remove them manually:

Check out what’s new in the latest release to ensure you're keeping your business up to date:

  • Azure Blob Backup
  • Azure Virtual Network Backup
  • Granular Azure Account Permissions
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Continue exploring advanced options for Native Azure Backup and Recovery through these resources by Veeam Solution Architects:

 

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