Introduction
Azure Backup provides independent and isolated backups to guard against unintended destruction of the data on your virtual machines. Administrators can implement Azure services to support their backup requirements, including the Microsoft Azure Recovery Services (MARS) agent for Azure Backup, the Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS), Azure managed disks snapshots, and Azure Site Recovery.
Your company has several critical virtual machine workloads running on Azure. You're responsible for ensuring the company can recover these virtual machines if there's data loss or corruption. You're using the built-in capabilities of Azure Backup to help protect your virtual machines. Your configuration uses Azure Backup for both Azure and on-premises workloads.
In this module, you learn about different virtual machine backup strategies. these strategies work for both Azure and on-premises virtual machines. You review how Azure Backup provides many options for backup and recovery. You also learn about other strategies like snapshots, soft delete, and Azure Site Recovery.
The goal of this module is to equip you with the knowledge and skills to effectively use Azure Backup and Recovery Services.
Learning objectives
In this module, you learn how to:
Identify features and usage cases for different Azure virtual machine backups.
Configure virtual machine snapshots and backup options.
Implement virtual machine backup and restore, including soft delete.
Perform site-to-site recovery by using Azure Site Recovery.
Compare different virtual machine backup options.
Skills measured
The content in the module helps you prepare for Exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.
Prerequisites
Familiarity with Azure and on-premises virtual machines and their components.
Working knowledge of how-to backup and store data in an enterprise infrastructure.
Basic understanding of data protection and disaster recovery tasks.