5 Min Azure Backup

So we have our fs in WE from the previous tutorial:

Now let’s create a backup for it.

Go to Portal-> Create Recovery Services vault

Location is extremely important, vault has to be in same region as resource.

Region: Select the geographic region for the vault. For you to create a vault to help protect any data source, the vault must be in the same region as the data source.

Create and configure Recovery Services vaults – Azure Backup | Microsoft Learn

For this we created a rg testit4 in WE, same as the fs, we will name the valut testit4backupvault.

NOTE THE DEFAULT SETTINGS:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-create-rs-vault#modifying-default-settings

GRS (this allows you to restore in a secondary region), default security for soft delete enabled, check if this is what you need or alter it after creating the vault.

Now backup + and select available options:

Then configure the backup:

• Select storage account (this can take 1-2 min before it show up, then it will be registred after selecting it)
• Select the fs
• Backup policy
• Then enable backup

Since we do not have any backups, lets take on, got to resource:

testit4backupvault->Manage-> Press Backup Infrastructure (it can take some time)

testit4backupvault-> Protected items and view the count:

To delete the backup up must stop the backup, unregister the rg, then delete the vault and rg

*Several options in recovery service vault:

If you select On-Premises you can backup:

• Files/Folders
• Hyper-V VM
• VMWARE VM
• MS SQL SERVER
• MS SHAREPOINT
• MS EXCHANGE
• SYSTEM STATE
• Bare Metal Recovery