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Service Description

The backup tools in Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 Essentials, and System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager, working together with the Microsoft Azure Backup Service, allow the creation of (incremental or full) backups of local systems in Microsoft Azure Storage. Backups can then be loaded very easily on any server systems as needed.

Getting Started

Azure Backup Learning Path

9/27/2016, Webpage

Use Azure Backup to protect your data by backing it up to the Microsoft cloud. Your data can be anything from a single file or folder up to a datacenter. Azure Backup can be...
Protect your data with Microsoft Azure Backup

10/5/2017, Video, 1:07:07

Backups are susceptible to corruption, accidental deletion and ransomware. In this session, learn how Azure Backup can reduce the costs and complexity traditionally associated...
Introduction to Azure Backup

3/19/2018, Blog

Tim Tetrick Hello Microsoft Cloud Partners! One of the first services that we see a lot of partners and customers getting started with in Azure is Azure Backup. I recorded...
Business continuity for your business running in IaaS

9/27/2017, Video, 1:11:53

Learn how Microsoft Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery protect your enterprise data and applications while reducing costs and limiting downtime. We outline the current...
Getting Started with Azure – Backup Vaults & Policies

1/5/2017, Blog

One of the biggest questions that we have been getting from either customers that are new to Azure or who are considering Azure, is how can I quickly get up and running with...
Hybrid IT Management Part 2: Cloud-Enabled Protection

8/18/2017, Mva

If you’re wondering how the cloud can enhance your ability to protect and recover on-premises data and workloads, be sure to check out this course, the second in a multi-part...

Latest Content

Date	Title
7/2/2018	7/2/2018 Azure Backup hosts Ask Me Anything session Microsoft Azure Blog We will be conducting Azure Backup Twitter AMA on July 10th, 2018.
6/27/2018	6/27/2018 RPO-RTO Backup y Site Recovery RPO y RTO en Azure Backup y Azure Site Recovery Hola. En la actualidad la información crece cada vez más, se estima que la información se duplica cada año en las empresas, y el reto mas...
6/25/2018	6/25/2018 Backup your applications on Azure Stack with Azure Backup Microsoft Azure Blog Last year, we announced Azure Stack being ready to order. Today, we are extending the capability to backup applications and files in your Azure Stack Tenants using Microsoft Azure Backup Server. This…
6/7/2018	6/7/2018 Azure Backup for SQL Server on Azure now in public preview Microsoft Azure Blog Earlier this week, Corey Sanders announced the preview of a new Azure Backup capability to backup SQL workloads running inside Azure Virtual Machines and I am excited to share some details in...
5/23/2018	5/23/2018 (Cloud) Tip of the Day: Azure Backup now supports storage accounts secured with Azure Storage Firewalls and Virtual Networks Today's tip... We are happy to announce the Azure IaaS VM backup support for network restricted storage accounts. With storage firewalls and Virtual Networks, you can allow traffic only from...
5/10/2018	5/10/2018 Customer success stories with Azure Backup: Somerset County Council Microsoft Azure Blog This is a continuation of our customer success story blog series for Azure Backup. In the previous case study we covered Russell Reynolds, here we will discuss how United Kingdom’s Somerset...
5/6/2018	5/6/2018 Secure and manage your Azure resources [1:33:22] In Azure, Security & Management are a joint responsibility between Microsoft and our customers. Microsoft recommends that every production virtual machine and application is secure and well...
5/3/2018	5/3/2018 Getting Started with Azure Backup: Protect Windows Server with MARS Agent YT: Microsoft Azure [0:05:37] This video gives a brief overview of how to backup Files and Folders as well as the System State on Windows Server 2016 to Azure. This can be achieved by using MARS Agent (Microsoft Azure...
4/25/2018	4/25/2018 How to get started with Azure Backup \| Protecting an IaaS VM YT: Microsoft Azure [0:08:57] Watch a brief overview of Azure Backup and learn how to protect an IaaS Virtual Machine running in Azure. Azure Backup is Microsoft's cloud-based service that offers data protection in a simple,...
4/19/2018	4/19/2018 Azure Backup now supports storage accounts secured with Azure Storage Firewalls and Virtual Networks Microsoft Azure Blog We are happy to announce the Azure IaaS VM backup support for network restricted storage accounts. With storage firewalls and Virtual Networks, you can allow traffic only from selected virtual…
4/17/2018	4/17/2018 Recovery Services vault limit increased to 500 vaults per subscription per region Microsoft Azure Blog Today, we are delighted to announce increased scale limits for Azure Backup. Users can now create as many as 500 recovery services vaults in each subscription per region as compared to the earlier…
4/10/2018	4/10/2018 Now available - Integration of Azure Backup into VM create experience Azure Roadmap You can now enable backup of virtual machines while creating them from the Azure portal.

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Web Content

Azure Backup Documentation

1. Overview
     1.1. What is Azure Backup?
2. Quickstarts
     2.1. Back up a VM - Portal
     2.2. Back up a VM - PowerShell
     2.3. Back up a VM - CLI
3. Tutorials
     3.1. Back up Azure VMs at scale
     3.2. Restore a disk
     3.3. Restore individual files
     3.4. Back up Windows Server
     3.5. Restore files to Windows Server
4. Samples
     4.1. Azure PowerShell
     4.2. Resource Manager templates
5. Concepts
     5.1. FAQ
          5.1.1. FAQ on Recovery Services vault
          5.1.2. FAQ on Azure VM backup
          5.1.3. FAQ on file-folder backup using Azure Backup agent
          5.1.4. FAQ on auto-upgrade of backup vault
     5.2. Role-Based Access Control
     5.3. Security for hybrid backups
     5.4. Configure offline-backup
     5.5. Offline backup for DPM and Azure Backup Server
     5.6. Replace your tape library
6. How to
     6.1. Azure Backup Server
          6.1.1. Azure Backup Server protection matrix
          6.1.2. Install or upgrade
               6.1.2.1. Install Azure Backup Server
               6.1.2.2. Add storage
               6.1.2.3. Upgrade to v.2
               6.1.2.4. Unattended installation
          6.1.3. Protect workloads
               6.1.3.1. VMware server
               6.1.3.2. Exchange
               6.1.3.3. SharePoint farm
               6.1.3.4. SQL Server
               6.1.3.5. Protect system state and bare metal recovery
          6.1.4. Recover data from Azure Backup Server
     6.2. Azure Backup Server on Azure Stack
          6.2.1. Install Azure Backup Server
          6.2.2. Protect files and applications
          6.2.3. Protect SharePoint farm
          6.2.4. Protect SQL Server database
     6.3. Azure File shares
          6.3.1. Back up Azure File shares
          6.3.2. Back up Azure File shares FAQ
     6.4. Azure VMs
          6.4.1. Prepare the VM
               6.4.1.1. Prepare Resource Manager-deployed VMs
               6.4.1.2. Application consistent backups of Linux VMs
          6.4.2. Plan your environment
               6.4.2.1. Plan VM backup infrastructure
          6.4.3. Back up VMs
               6.4.3.1. Back up Azure VMs to Recovery Services vault
               6.4.3.2. Back up encrypted VMs
               6.4.3.3. Enable VM backup during VM creation
               6.4.3.4. Upgrade to VM backup stack V2
          6.4.4. Manage and monitor VMs
               6.4.4.1. Manage Azure VM backups in Azure portal
               6.4.4.2. Monitor alerts for Azure VM backups
          6.4.5. Restore data from VMs
               6.4.5.1. Recover files from Azure VM backups
               6.4.5.2. Restore VMs in Azure portal
               6.4.5.3. Restore encrypted VMs
               6.4.5.4. Restore Key Vault key and secret for encrypted VMs
     6.5. Configure Azure Backup reports
          6.5.1. Configure Azure Backup reports
          6.5.2. Data model for Azure Backup reports
          6.5.3. Log Analytics data model for Azure Backup
          6.5.4. Updating Azure Backup Central Reporting Content Pack
     6.6. Data Protection Manager
          6.6.1. Prepare DPM workloads in Azure portal
          6.6.2. Use DPM to back up Exchange server
          6.6.3. Recover data to alternate DPM server
          6.6.4. Use DPM to back up SQL Server workloads
          6.6.5. Use DPM to back up a SharePoint farm
     6.7. Use Azure PowerShell
          6.7.1. Azure VMs in Azure portal
          6.7.2. DPM in Azure portal
          6.7.3. Windows Server in Azure portal
     6.8. SQL on Azure VMs
          6.8.1. Back up SQL database in Azure
     6.9. Windows Server
          6.9.1. Back up Windows Server files and folders
          6.9.2. Back up Windows Server System State
          6.9.3. Recover files from Azure to Windows Server
          6.9.4. Restore Windows Server System State
          6.9.5. Monitor and manage Recovery Services vaults
     6.10. Recovery Services vault
          6.10.1. Overview of Recovery Services vaults
          6.10.2. Upgrading a Backup vault to Recovery Services vault
          6.10.3. Delete a Recovery Services vault
     6.11. Troubleshoot
          6.11.1. Azure VM
          6.11.2. Azure Backup agent or VM extension timed out
          6.11.3. Files and folders backup is slow
          6.11.4. Azure Backup Server
          6.11.5. System Center DPM
          6.11.6. Azure Backup agent
          6.11.7. Azure File share
          6.11.8. SQL Server
7. Reference
     7.1. .NET
     7.2. Azure CLI 2.0
     7.3. PowerShell
     7.4. REST - Backup
     7.5. REST - Recovery Services vault
8. Resources
     8.1. Azure Roadmap
     8.2. MSDN forum
     8.3. Pricing
     8.4. Pricing calculator
     8.5. Service updates
     8.6. Videos

Web Pages

Content	Type
Azure Backup Learning Path	Webpage

Online Training Content

Date	Title
8/18/2017	Hybrid IT Management Part 2: Cloud-Enabled Protection If you’re wondering how the cloud can enhance your ability to protect and recover on-premises data and workloads, be sure to check out this course, the second in a multi-part series on Hybrid IT Management. With the new speed and agility brought to the datacenter by the cloud come challenges around visibility, protection, monitoring, and streamlining...
1/19/2016	Design and Implement Cloud Data Platform Solutions Would you like to know how to design and implement Microsoft cloud data platform solutions? Check out this course, and get the help you need. Learn the features and capabilities of the Microsoft cloud data platform. Get a platform overview, and hear about security features, options for high a
12/14/2015	Modernize Your Datacenter What’s driving business transformation in the cloud-first world? Technology innovation! And Windows Server, System Center, and Microsoft Azure can play a pivotal role. To accelerate value and to stay ahead of the competition, you need infrastructure that unleashes application innovation and you need
1/20/2015	Hybrid Cloud Workloads: Disaster Recovery and High Availability Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager protects applications by coordinating the replication of virtual machines (VMs) at a secondary location. In this course, explore how Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager brings together Hyper-V Replica asynchronous virtual machine replication capabilities in
12/30/2014	Microsoft Business Continuity If you'd like a deeper understanding of the breadth of capabilities that Microsoft provides for business continuity, be sure to check out this course. Microsoft business continuity offerings enable you to achieve higher levels of availability, protect important data, and reduce downtime. And all of
8/26/2014	Hybrid Cloud Workloads: Storage and Backup This course introduces you to strategies and features of both on-premises and cloud solutions in the area of storage from Microsoft, along with some hands-on experiences.
8/26/2014	Hybrid Cloud Workloads: Disaster Recovery and High Availability Explore how Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager brings together Hyper-V Replica asynchronous virtual machine replication capabilities in Windows Server and the Virtual Machine Manager component of System Center

Tools

Tool	Description	Author

Videos

Date	Title	Length
5/6/2018	Secure and manage your Azure resources In Azure, Security & Management are a joint responsibility between Microsoft and our customers. Microsoft recommends that every production virtual machine and application is secure and well managed with security, backup and monitoring...	1:33:22
5/3/2018	Getting Started with Azure Backup: Protect Windows Server with MARS Agent YT: Microsoft Azure This video gives a brief overview of how to backup Files and Folders as well as the System State on Windows Server 2016 to Azure. This can be achieved by using MARS Agent (Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Agent). The first step for...	0:05:37
4/25/2018	How to get started with Azure Backup \| Protecting an IaaS VM YT: Microsoft Azure Watch a brief overview of Azure Backup and learn how to protect an IaaS Virtual Machine running in Azure. Azure Backup is Microsoft's cloud-based service that offers data protection in a simple, cost effective, and secure manner. Azure...	0:08:57
3/27/2018	Azure Backup Tips n Tricks - Fix Backup Issues with NSG rules YT: Microsoft Azure This video helps users running into backup failures on network locked down IaaS VMs which are protected by Azure Backup. We walk through how to add NSG rules that enable specific access and let Backups pass. For more information on...	0:06:03
2/3/2018	Configure application consistent backup for Linux VMs using Azure Backup Channel 9 This video talks about how to configure application consistent backup for your Linux VMs running in Azure.	0:03:23
1/29/2018	Cloud Tech 10 - 29th January 2018 - Zone Redundant Scale Sets and Storage and more! CloudTechTV Like keeping up with Azure but struggling to find enough time? Then this is the video for you! I'm Mark Whitby, a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft UK. Each week, I cover what's happening with Microsoft Azure in just 10 minutes,...	0:04:22
1/18/2018	Azure Friday \| Azure Backup YT: Microsoft Azure Even though Azure takes three copies of your virtual machines and stores them in Azure Storage, you still need to protect your data against ransomware, corruption, or accidental deletion. Kelly Anderson stops by to chat with Scott...	0:12:36
1/18/2018	Azure Backup Azure Friday Even though Azure takes three copies of your virtual machines and stores them in Azure Storage, you still need to protect your data against ransomware, corruption, or accidental deletion. Kelly Anderson stops by to chat with Scott...	0:12:35
11/13/2017	Cloud Tech 10 - 13th November 2017 - Grafana, Linux FUSE Adapter, Azure Stack and more! CloudTechTV Like keeping up with Azure but struggling to find enough time? Then this is the video for you! I'm Mark Whitby, a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft UK. Each week, I cover what's happening with Microsoft Azure in just 10 minutes,...	0:06:15
11/9/2017	Windows Server System State with Azure Backup is now GA Channel 9 Windows Server System State backup to Azure with Azure Backup is generally available. Learn how to get started with backing up the System State directly to Azure using Azure Backup and protect your production workloads running Active...	0:05:05

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