The Azure Backup service provides simple, secure, and cost-effective solutions to back up your data and recover it from the Microsoft Azure cloud.
What all we can backup using Azure Backup services:
On-premises – We can back up files, folders, system state using the Microsoft Azure Recovery Services (MARS) agent. We can also use Azure Backup Server (MABS) agent to protect on-premises VMs running on Hyper-V or VMware
Azure VMs – We can back up entire Windows/Linux VMs using back up files, folders, and system state using the Microsoft Azure Recovery Services (MARS) agent.
Azure Files shares – We can back up Azure File shares to a storage account
SQL Server in Azure VMs – In this we can back up SQL Server databases running on Azure VMs
SAP HANA databases in Azure VMs – This supports us to backup SAP HANA databases running on Azure VMs
Why use Azure Backup?
Azure Backup delivers these key benefits:
Offload on-premises backup: Azure backup offers a simple solution for backing up your on-premises resources to the cloud. We can get short and long-term backup without the need to deploy complex on-premises backup solutions.
Back up Azure IaaS VMs: Azure Backup provides independent and isolated backups to guard against accidental destruction of original data. Backups are stored in a Recovery Services vault with built-in management of recovery points. The configuration of the backup are simple and you can easily restore as needed.
Scale easily – Azure Backup provides scalability of the Azure cloud to deliver high-availability with no maintenance or monitoring overhead.
Get unlimited data transfer: Azure Backup doesn’t limit the amount of inbound or outbound data you transfer, or charge for the data that is transferred.
Keep data secure: Azure Backup provides solutions for securing data in transit and when its stored
Centralized monitoring and management: Azure Backup provides built-in monitoring and alerting capabilities in a Recovery Services vault. These capabilities are available without any additional management infrastructure. You can also increase the scale of your monitoring and reporting by using Azure Monitor.
Application Aware backups: An application-consistent backup means a recovery point has all required data to restore the backup copy. Azure Backup provides application-consistent backups, which ensure additional fixes aren’t required to restore the data. Restoring application-consistent data reduces the restoration time, allowing you to quickly return to a running state.