# Challenge 3 (optional): VM and Azure Backup - Save your VM state
# Here is what you will learn 🎯
- How to backup an Azure VM using the Azure backup service.
- Create a backup vault
- Recover a file
# Table Of Contents
- Starting point
- Create a Backup Vault
- Trigger a Manual VM Backup
- Do a VM Recovery (optional)
- Do a File Recovery (optional)
# Starting point
In case you need a VM to backup - Click on the
button.
# Create a Backup Vault
[Azure Portal]
-> Resource Groups
-> 'rg-contosomortgage-www'
-> 'vmweb01'
-> Operations -> Backup
###
Recovery Services vault
-> 'Create new'
-> 'vault...'
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Resource Group
-> 'Create new'
-> 'rg-contosomortgage-backups'
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Choose backup policy
-> '(new) DailyPolicy'
-> Enable Backup
TIP
📝 You might want to pack all of your VM backups in a separate Resource Group as backups of VMs might live longer than the actual VM.
# Trigger a Manual VM Backup
Navigate to your VM in the Azure portal -> Operations -> Backup 🔎 Observation The view has changed after creating the vault.
Trigger the backup manually
Press
View all jobsto get a status of the backup. It'll take some time for the backup to finish.❔ Questions:
- How many copies of backup data does Azure do ('redundancy') by default?
- Do offline VMs also get backup'ed?
- What is 'Soft Delete'?
- Which 'Azure' workloads can be backed up?
- Does Azure Backup support 'on premise' backups?
TIP
📝 Try to answer some questions through navigating to your backup vault properties
[Azure Portal] -> Resource Groups -> 'rg-contosomortgage-backups' -> 'vault...' -> Properties
# Do a VM Recovery (optional)
[Azure Portal]
-> Virtual Machines
-> vmadds01
-> Operations
-> Backup
-> Restore VM
❔ Question What is needed for a VM recovery?
# Do a File Recovery (optional)
File recovery enables you to recover individual files selected from a backup at a given point in time.
The backup is mounted as drive to your local machine via the internet.
[Azure Portal]
-> Virtual Machines
-> vmadds01
-> Operations
-> Backup
-> File Recovery
