I have Azure backup installed on my PCs and by mistake selected the wrong folder for Backup which is very large (around 50GB).
How to delete that data from the Azure backup (Stored in the cloud).
I can not find a way to delete that files from the cloud.
Backup for File and Folders on Win 10 PC. Yes in Recovery Services Vault. I do not want to delete entire vault, but one folder only.
Currently, you can’t delete individual recovery point/Backed-up data from the recovery services vault; recovery point/Backed-up data deletes automatically if it reaches the retention period. if you choose to delete your backup data while stopping the protection, it will delete all the recovery points/Backed-up data associated with the item.
Refer the below article to exclude file/folder from Backup:
Manage exclusion settings
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I have an Azure Fileshare and there are snapshots which were taken manually without the backup service. Meaning there is no Recovery Services vault.
I want to restore one of the snapshots. I can restore an individual file from the snapshot via Azure Portal. How can I restore the whole snapshot? (meaning not file by file)
Presently it's not possible, You can connect/mount the Azure file share into different OS system or use azcopy tool to copy the data Or Add new Recovervaullt.
This article explains how to use the Azure portal to restore an entire file share or specific files from a restore point created by Azure Backup.
Azure file share sits inside a Storage Account. Azure Backup can now see that file share and create backup snapshots of it, into the same Storage Account. To do this, the Storage Account is registered with a Recovery Services Vault, where the backup policy and retention points are managed.
Azure Backup offers a variety of options to restore your file share data. You can choose to restore the entire file share or individual files and folders. Restores can also be done to the original location or to alternate file shares in the same or different storage accounts. Azure Backup also preserves and restores all access control lists (ACLs) of files and folders.
I'm setting up a new Azure File Sync with a file server,
and there are some snapshots created by Azure File Sync every day.
I want to find a solution to change the snapshot creation time.
What do I need to set the command/Azure File Sync?
This is for a normal windows 2016 File Server, I registered the server endpoint "E:\"and the cloud endpoint "testsharefile1" into one sync group.
I had tried many times, sometimes there will be one snapshot created by Azure File Sync every day, and sometimes there will be two snapshots (almost same time) created by Azure File Sync.
I expect the Azure Files' snapshot can be created by Azure File Sync every day at the scheduled point time, but I don't know how to do it.
Azure File Sync used to create share snapshots daily to ensure files that are tiered can be accessed. These share snapshots are no longer needed by Azure File Sync so we stopped creating them when v7 released. To ensure you have a backup of the Azure file share, they should either manually create snapshots or use Azure Backup.
Note: Azure File Sync does still create a share snapshot when a new server is added to a sync group. Once the files have been downloaded to the new server, the temporary snapshot is deleted.
If I select to restore my Azure SQL database, I can choose from a large number of long-term backup files.
However, I just want to download those files locally.
I cannot see where I can access these files.
The Azure docs suggest that I click on the 'Manage Backups' link.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-long-term-backup-retention-configure
I cannot see this link though.
Has anyone any idea where I can access these files?
You cannot restore those backup files to a local computer because this is a service managed by Azure.
What you can do is restore to a point-in-time which will create a new database, then export that database as bacpac to your local computer, and remove the newly created database once is no longer needed.
SqlPackage /Action:Export /SourceServerName:SampleSQLServer.sample.net,1433 /SourceDatabaseName:RestoredDatabase /TargetFile:"F:\Temp\RestoredDatabase.bacpac"
I have started using the Azure Recovery Services Vault to backup some Azure VMs for the first time. While looking at the vault I noticed in both recovery services vaults that the backup files were being stored in Cloud-GRS storage and not Cloud-LRS storage. I've looked everywhere I can think of and I can't find a way to change it (or anything even saying why I would want to). So, a couple of questions:
Is it possible to change the backup destination to Cloud-LRS?
If yes, why would one want to change it?
Is it possible to change the backup destination to Cloud-LRS?
Once you have registered servers on it, no. You have to remove all protected items before switching vault type. By default, GRS is used.
Assuming you have no protected items, select the Recovery Services Vault >> Backup Infrastructure >> Backup Configuration >> Select storage type
If yes, why would one want to change it?
Basically, you'd want to change it only if Azure is not your primary backup storage endpoint or if your backup data is not so critical after all.
We have a worker role that's using local storage directory to save files uploaded by the customer and we'd need to have a backup of those files.
Given that we already planned to change the worker role to the storage services available on Azure, is there a temporary solution that we could use immediately to backup those files?
Is there an automated way (even with 3rd party services) to backup a local storage directory or even the entire C disk?
You can use AzCopy to bulk copy files from a local file system to an Azure blob container.
If you use the /XO option, that will only copy files newer than the last backup - in combination with the /Y option to suppress confirmation prompts, this is handy for running as a scheduled task to keep the blob backup current.