I've setup an Azure Backup vault some time ago and made backups of my systems to it. The backup vault is of type 'Backup vault (classic)'
Now there is a new kind of Azure Backup vault that enables alert among other options. I need to make use of that options.
How can I migrate the classic vault (which contains a lot of historical information) to the new vault type (Recovery Services Vault)?
I cannot find any option in the portal, nor can I find a Powershell script to execute the migration.
Unfournately, it's not possible to do that.
Can I migrate a Backup vault to a Recovery Services vault?
Unfortunately no, at this time you can't migrate the contents of a
Backup vault to a Recovery Services vault. We are working on adding
this functionality, but it is not currently available.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-backup-faq
It's better wait for a while.
Now you can upgrade a Backup vault to a Recovery Services vault. The upgrade process doesn't impact any running backup jobs, and no backup data is lost. The primary reasons to upgrade a Backup vault to a Recovery Services vault:
•All features of a Backup vault are retained in a Recovery Services vault.
•Recovery Services vaults have more features than Backup vaults, including:
better security, integrated monitoring, faster restores and item-level restores.
•Manage backup items from an improved, simplified portal.
•New features only apply to Recovery Services vaults.
For more information refer: Upgrade a Backup vault to a Recovery Services vault
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Use Case:
Current production system is running in azure VM
Database are backed up using azure recovery service vault with proper policy
Technical team wants the database to be restored on-premises server based on a button click / Program execution?
Based on the use case, we were searching for an option to restore database backup as files to storage account from recovery service vault. Then we can download the backup from SAS URL and proceed to restore!
But we cannot find such options in official documents.
Am aware that we can restore backup to azure VM as files and databases.
Any thoughts or Suggestions are much appreciated.
The issue is we migrated from physical servers to Azure using Azure migrate and we started using these test VM's that we got from test migrations but never fully migrated them.
We did the test migration in a different new Subscription and resource group. We would like to keep and continue using these test migration VM's as is. But we are trying to get rid of the old Recovery Services Vault that has unnecessary Azure Site Recovery costs associated with it in the old subscription.
If we were to Cancel and delete the resources within this older subscription that has replicated items. Would the deletion of the Recovery Services vault from the old subscription have any affect on the test migration VM's that currently reside in the other new subscription and resource group?
Generally speaking, it is always advised to do verification by testing out your specific scenario on a different setup.
From what you wrote I understand that there is a new recovery service vault in place in the new subscription, so it should be safe to delete the resources in the old subscription (still, the above is good advice).
Take note that you can't delete a recovery service vault resource straight away. First, the backups are only "soft deleted". This is so that you can undo the deletion if it caused you any harm.
See this for a reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-delete-vault
I currently use Azure snapshots to backup my Azure-hosted Windows servers. The problem is that if my Azure-hosted Windows VM fails restoring a snapshot can take hours. That is way too much downtime. Is there a solution that will let me backup an Azure VM and restore it directly to Azure that is faster and/or better than the built-in Azure snapshotting?
I suggest you to use Azure IaaS VM backup to backup and restore your VMs. Azure backups can be created through the Azure portal. This method provides a browser-based user interface to create and configure Azure backups and all related resources. You can protect your data by taking backups at regular intervals. Azure Backup creates recovery points that can be stored in geo-redundant recovery vaults. This article details how to back up a virtual machine (VM) with the Azure portal.
Hello i want to know about the Backup Vaults which is an azure service.
Can anyone please tell me the best configuration,Like i mean while i will configure the Backup Vaults service of azure then what configuration i will keep so that i will get the best performance.
Can I backup VM instances using Azure Backup Services, with Site Recovery Vault?
As far as I can tell, Azure Backup doesn't support backup VM instance yet.
The ability to protect ARM VMs with Azure Backup is now in public preview. You can find more information at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/backup-azure-vms-first-look-arm/
You can also find the steps to protect classic VMs at the same link, although we've had that support for a while.