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.
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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.
We are trying to migrate a VM in a private cloud to azure. This VM has multiple web applications and databases. We don't have access to the virtualization, just access to this single VM.
Can anyone suggest how we can do the migration to azure with just having access to the VM itself?
Regards
Anup
As far as I know and as per the document, we can't migrate Single VM without having access to Virtualization.
Because while processing Migration you need to generate Project Key where you need to have access Virtualization.
You can go through the Microsoft Document for further details.
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.
I need help for Automating the VM configuration using backup of existing VM restored in Azure storage.
Scenario here is- we are be backing up set of VMs
(using Azure Back Up) using PowerShell and restoring on cloud service with
reserved IP(We cannot restore VM backup to cloud service with reserved IP using the portal). We want to automate this using Azure Automation.
Thanks,
Manmohan Singh
I have been reading about LocalDB and how it can not be used in Azure Roles (since they do not persist if the role stops working) and that you should move towards either Azure SQL or Azure Storage.
However, is it possible to use the LocalDB in a Windows Azure VM? Because I do not currently have access to a Azure Account I am not able to test this myself.
Kind regards
Tom
Azure VM should work fine, since it is fully persisted and largely compatible with regular Windows. Note that I'm referring to the new Azure VM feature, not the old Azure VM Role, since the VM Role was not fully persisted. Just clarifying the answer in case someone doesn't read the question too carefully.