Configuring Backups

By now, you should be familiar with lots of basic concepts related to building and managing infrastructure with Azure. This time, we’re going to cover a more advanced topic that is very important in all production-ready systems – backup. Just to be clear – in this chapter, we won’t dive into backing up databases or applications’ data and instead focus on virtual machines (VMs), their disks, and additional components that can be used to provide disaster recovery (DR) and secure their data.

Throughout this chapter, we’ll be discussing how Azure can help you back up and restore the state of VMs. We’ll cover not only generic topics such as general infrastructure and authorization setup but also specific solutions leveraging native components such as Azure Backup Server and Azure Site Recovery.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

• Protecting VM data
• Understanding backup...