Summary and resources
Azure Backup provides independent and isolated backups to guard against unintended destruction of the data on your virtual machines.
In this module, you identified features and usage cases for different Azure backup methods. You learned how to configure Azure managed disks snapshots and Azure Backup options. You explored how to implement Azure virtual machine backup and restore, including soft delete. You discovered how to complete site-to-site recovery by using Azure Site Recovery. You compared the Microsoft Azure Recovery Services (MARS) agent for Azure Backup and the Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS).
The main takeaways from this module are:
Azure Site Recovery enables failover and continued access to applications in the event of an outage. This protection is provided by replicating workloads to a secondary location.
Azure Backup provides secure backups for virtual machines, allowing for the restoration of entire virtual machines or specific files.
Both Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup offer features such as consolidated management, reduced cost and complexity, and replication resilience.
Learn more
An overview of Azure VM backup. This article describes how the Azure Backup service backs up Azure virtual machines.
Back up a virtual machine in Azure. This quickstart enables backup on an existing Azure virtual machine.
Quickstart: Set up disaster recovery to a secondary Azure region for an Azure VM. This quickstart describes how to set up disaster recovery for an Azure VM by replicating it to a secondary Azure region.
Learn more with self-paced training
Introduction to Azure Backup. This training module helps you determine if Azure Backup is appropriate for your backup needs.
Introduction to Azure Site Recovery. This module explains what Azure Site Recovery does, how it works, and when you should choose it.
Protect your virtual machines by using Azure Backup (exercise, subscription required). Learn how Azure Backup works to protect and restore virtual machine data.
Implement hybrid backup and recovery with Windows Server IaaS (exercise,subscription required). Learn about Windows IaaS VM recovery, perform backup and restore of on-premises workloads, and manage Azure VM backups.
Protect your Azure infrastructure with Azure Site Recovery. Learn how to use Azure Site Recovery to manage and orchestrate replication for your on-premises infrastructure.