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Implementing Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: AZ-303 Exam Prep and Beyond
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Part of ensuring a reliable service is the ability to back up and restore VMs. Single VMs can still become unavailable, corruption may occur, or they may get deleted accidentally.
Azure Backup allows you to create regular or one-off virtual backups, and the backups are replicated to a paired region, with the option to use locally redundant or zone-redundant replication. These options mean your backups would not be available in another region, but it costs less and is therefore a cost-effective solution for non-critical workloads.
It isn't just Azure VMs you can protect with Azure Backup. You can also back up the following:
To enable backups on VMs, you need an Azure Recovery Services vault: