Understanding the prerequisites for the Microsoft Azure backup service
The online protection will provide you with a great opportunity to place your production data in Azure, which means that you can securely provide and fully optimize an offsite replication for the company production data that represents the datacenter's hosted services.
There are some considerations that you must keep in mind:
- The online protection is only available for primary DPM servers
- The retention time for your production data in Azure is 99 years
- You can protect Hyper-V, SQL, Client, SharePoint, Exchange, and File resources with the online protection
- You must have a DPM disk pool attached to the DPM server
- The restore process consists of two separate steps
- Microsoft Azure Backup Agent will use the Windows Identity Foundation 3.5 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4 features
The certificate used for the backup vault in Azure must fulfill the following prerequisites:
- To upload the certificate to the vault, you must export...
