Performing backup and restore operations via Azure Backup – Implementing Backup and Recovery Solutions

Performing backup and restore operations via Azure Backup

One of the most important parts of backup operations is to ensure that the resource gets backed up and can be restored. To test whether the resource was backed up correctly, you should test the backup by doing a restore.

Let’s go ahead and use the Azure portal to trigger an on-demand backup:

1. Navigate to the Azure portal by opening a web browser and going to https:// portal.azure.com.
2. In the top search bar, search for and select Backup center:

Figure 21.10 – Selecting Backup center

3. Under Manage, select Backup instances and choose your vault. In my case, this will be Az104RecoveryServicesVault:

Figure 21.11 – Selecting your Recovery Services vault

4. Select Backup Now. This will kick off a backup immediately, regardless of any backup policy. It will ask you for how long you want to retain the backup and kick off the backup:

Figure 21.12 – Enabling Azure Backup

Now that we have created a backup of the VM, let’s learn how to restore the backup via the Azure portal.

If you want to restore a backup via Backup center in the Azure portal, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the Azure portal by opening a web browser and going to https:// portal.azure.com.
2. In the top search bar, search for and select Backup center:

Figure 21.13 – Selecting Backup center via the Azure portal

3. Under Manage, select Backup instances and choose your vault. In my case, this will be Az104RecoveryServicesVault:

Figure 21.14 – Selecting the configured backup instance

4. Select Restore VM:

Figure 21.15 – Restoring a VM from a backup

5. You will be prompted to select a valid restore point:

Figure 21.16 – Selecting a valid restore point

6. Next, under Restore Configuration, you need to choose if you want to replace the existing VM or create a new VM. In our case, we are going to select Replace existing and select a storage account for the staging location – we are going to use one of our existing storage accounts and click on Restore:

Figure 21.17 – Choosing to replace the existing VM

With that, we have successfully restored a VM via Backup center in the Azure portal.

I We encourage you to learn more by going to the following links regarding Azure Backup:

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-vms-automation

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-center-overview

In this section, we learned how to perform backup and restore operations via Backup center in the Azure portal.