Guidance and best practices - Azure Backup

Summary

Discover the best practices and guidance for backing up cloud and on-premises workload to the cloud

Highlights

Azure Backup comprehensively protects your data assets in Azure through a simple, secure, and cost-effective solution that requires zero-infrastructure. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gzmtbbskctan5keyztrmmdj3))

As the vault is scoped to a subscription, your Subscription design will highly influence your Vault design ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gzmtbpcm4ng6b6k7th76hy6w))

Azure Backup uses vaults (Recovery Services and Backup vaults) to orchestrate, manage backups, and store backed-up data. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gzmtcx08xqw6awshnywrzy0v))

If your organization has global operations across North America, Europe, and Asia, and your resources are deployed in East-US, UK West, and East Asia. One of the requirements of Azure Backup is that the vaults are required to be present in the same region as the resource to be backed-up. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gzmtdc7hqrhkra37qrdvqthd))

Your business needs may require each department to manage and access their own backups and restores; also, enable them to track their individual usage and cost expense. For such scenarios, we recommend you to create one vault for each department in a BU ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gzmte2czvre0nwbgqprgm057))

If you plan to protect different types of workloads (such as 150 VMs, 40 SQL databases, and 70 PostgreSQL databases), then we recommend you create separate vaults for each type of workload ( ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gzmteabqptgvj9h0z8wmag13))

If your operations require you to work on multiple environments, such as production, non-production, and developer, then we recommend you create separate vaults for each. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gzmtenffwk2vtg57jm1ywxj7))

Azure Backup allows only 1000 Azure VMs to be backed-up in one vault. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gzmtf3a629w0eyzxa0ee1pq2))

ity considerations
To help you protect your backup data and meet the security needs of your business, Azure Backup provides confidentiality, integrity, and availability assurances against deliberate attacks and abuse of your valuable data and systems. Consider the following security guidelines for your Azure Backup solution: ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gzmvsdetgz1hj358ggjyd0f7))