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Azure Backup — Easily back up Windows to the cloud
Let’s imagine your company plans to embrace the Microsoft Azure public cloud. As a gentle first step, you want to use Azure Backup to back up files and folders on the Windows Server virtual machines in your on-premises datacenter to Azure. Where do you begin?
Well, I’ll assume you already have an Azure subscription, and you have basic Azure portal navigational skills. Follow my lead!
Examine our options
The approach we’ll use today is the simplest. We will create a Recovery vault in Azure and use the Microsoft Azure Recovery Services (MARS) agent to link our on-premises VMs to that Recovery vault. From then on, we can perform on-demand or scheduled backups to Azure and make file recoveries.
Note that the MARS Agent approach limits our backup scope to files and folders. To perform bare-metal server restores, you will need to deploy Azure Backup Server (ABS). ABS is a free, stripped-down version of System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM). In this method, you download the Recovery Services vault credentials and add them to ABS to create the necessary “umbilical cord” between your local servers and Azure.
Let’s proceed!
Deploy a Recovery Services vault
In Azure Portal, open the Recovery Services vaults configuration blade and click…
