Azure Classroom Series – 13/Nov/2021

Azure Backup

• Azure Backup Service provides simple, secure and cost-effective solutions to backup your data and recover from the Azure

• What can be Backed Up?

  • On-premise: Backup files, folders and system state, on-premises VMs
  • Azure VMS
  • Azure Managed disks
  • Azure Files Shares
  • SQL Server in Azure VMs
  • Azure Blobs

• Activity:

  • Create a resource group
  • Create an Azure VM with managed Disk
  • Create a storage account in that disk and create a container & upload some objects
  • In the same Storage account create an azure file share. Mount into vm created and create some files in Azure File Share.
  • Lets install any software in the vm

  sudo apt update
  sudo apt install tree openjdk-11-jdk -y
  

  • Enable Backup on Azure VM:
    • Manual Option:
      • All the data of the VM Resides on the Disk, We can take manual backup of the disk which is called as snapshot
    • Using Azure Backup:
  • Enable Backup for Azure File Shares
  • In the Same way enable backups for Blobs and managed disks Refer Here for the official docs
  • Try to configure backups for all the storages as done in the class.