Backup center:

Backup center is the centralized option to backup all azure resource and monitor the status
of Backup.

Consider supported scenarios. Backup center is currently supported in many scenarios:

1. Azure Virtual Machines backup, including SQL and SAP HANA in Azure Virtual
Machines backup
2. Azure Files backup, Azure Blob Storage backup, and Azure-managed disks backup
3. Azure Database for PostgreSQL Server backup

Azure Recovery Services

The Recovery Services vault is a storage entity in Azure that stores data. Recovery Services
vaults make it easy to organize your backup data, while minimizing management overhead.

To Backup any resource in Azure we need a Recovery service fault first. It’s used store the
backup data.

Things to know about configuring Recovery Services vaults

Azure Backup automatically handles the storage for your vault. Depending on your
configuration, you need to specify how your storage is replicated.

 If you're using Azure Backup for Azure Files file shares, you don't need to
configure the storage replication type. Azure Files backup is snapshot-based,
and no data is transferred to the vault. Snapshots are stored in the same Azure
storage account as your backed-up file share.
 You can configure replication for your Recovery Services vaults from the
Backup center dashboard under Properties > Backup Configuration > Update.
There are three storage replication options: Geo-redundant, locally redundant, and zone
redundant. The following table provides recommendations for the replication types.

You can also specify how to restore data in a secondary, Azure paired region by enabling
the Cross Region Restore.
List of Backup Solution in Azure for VM:
Azure Backup: Back up Azure virtual machines running production workloads. Create
application-consistent backups for both Windows and Linux virtual machine. In case of any
disaster we can restore entire VM if we are using Azure Backup option for VM.

Azure Site Recovery: Azure Site Recovery protects your virtual machines from a major
disaster scenario when a whole region experiences an outage due to a major natural
disaster or widespread service interruption. Replicate to the Azure region of your choice. As
compare to azure backup azure site recovery is more reliable solution also it’s costly than
azure backup.

Azure managed disks – snapshot: Quickly and easily back up your virtual machines that use
Azure managed disks at any point in time. This is only for only exact that point not
application consistent.

Each snapshot is billed based on the actual size used. If you create a snapshot of a managed
disk with a capacity of 64 GB that's used only 10 GB, you're billed for 10 GB.

This is useful in case of testing or devolvement. Nor recommended for Production

environment.

Azure managed disks – image: Create an image from your custom VHD in an Azure storage
account or directly from a generalized (via Sysprep) virtual machine.

Create hundreds of virtual machines by using your custom image without copying or
managing any storage account

Create virtual machine snapshots in Azure Backup

An Azure Backup job creates a snapshot for your virtual machine in two phases:

 Phase 1: Take a snapshot of the virtual machine data

 Phase 2: Transfer the snapshot to an Azure Recovery Services vault

The following diagram highlights this process.

After the Azure Backup job completes, you can use recovery points for the snapshot to
restore your virtual machine or specific files.
Things to know about snapshots and recovery points

Let's take a closer look at the characteristics of snapshots and recovery points in Azure
Backup.

 By default, Azure Backup keeps snapshots for two days to reduce backup and
restore times. The local retention reduces the time required to transform and
copy data back from an Azure Recovery Services vault.
 You can set the default snapshot retention value from one and five days.
 Incremental snapshots are stored as Azure page blobs (Azure Disks).
 Recovery points for a virtual machine snapshot are available only after both
phases of the Azure Backup job are complete.
 Recovery points are listed for the virtual machine snapshot in the Azure portal
and are labeled with a recovery point type.
 After a snapshot is first taken, the recovery points are identified with
the snapshot recovery point type.
 After the snapshot is transferred to an Azure Recovery Services vault, the
recovery point type changes to snapshot and vault.

Backup Process:
To use Azure Backup to protect your Azure virtual machines, you follow a simple three-step
process: create a vault, define your backup options, and trigger the backup job.

Implement soft delete for your virtual machines

Azure Storage now offers the soft delete option for Azure Blob objects. With this feature,
you can more easily recover your data when it's erroneously modified or deleted by an
application or other storage account user.
Soft delete for virtual machines protects backups of your virtual machines from unintended
deletion. Even after the backups are deleted, they're preserved in the soft-delete state for
14 more days.

Steps To enable Backup:

Create a Recovery service Vault
Now RSV is created

Create a Backup Policy:

Choose the resource which need to be backed up. Here we want to backup VM so we select
the same.
Check the auto populated details and modify as per requirements. Then Give the policy
name and hit on create.

Enable Backup of VM:

Choose the Backup policy and click on add for adding VM

Choose the VM which need to be Backup and click on OK

To verify if the enablement is successful or not go to the VM and then Backup blade of VM.
See if below screen is showing or not. If Yes then Backup is enabled.
VM Restore:
Select the restore point from where you want to restore the VM.

Select the restore option 1.Restore VM or 2.File Recovery

Here we are restoring the VM. Fill out the VM name, Subscription, RG, Vnet and Storage
account details. Click on restore.

VM Is successfully restored

File Recovery/Restore:
For testing Purpose we will delete one folder in C drive and restore same folder.
We deleted the Public folder.

Select the restore point from where you want to restore the VM.
Select the restore option 1.Restore VM or 2.File Recovery
Click on Download executable and once the down load completed copy the file to VM where
file is missing.

Open The script and paste the password which is showing in Azure portal.
Wait for some time clone disk will be created.
Check in file explorer extra disk will be there which is restored disk.

Go to the path where file was missing. Here you can see public folder is available.