Your application’s consistent backup of VM is not feasible as Line of Business (LOB) applications do not support Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).You need agent-less backup due to security or performance concerns on the application.

Your applications are running on cluster scenarios – both Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) and Linux clusters that are writing to Shared Disk.

You need frequent backups per day without impacting your application.

With the Azure Disk backup solution, you can benefit from the following use cases: It supports backup and restores of both OS and Data disks ( including Shared disk), regardless of whether or not they are currently attached to a running Azure Virtual machine.Īzure Backup for Azure managed disk is also integrated into Backup Center which allows you to manage all backups centrally using backup policies. Moreover, it is an agent-less solution and does not impact production application performance. Protecting Azure managed disk is a crash-consistent backup solution that takes backup of a managed disk using incremental snapshots with support for multiple backups per day. You can easily manage the disk snapshots with zero infrastructure cost and without the need for custom scripting or any management overhead. On January 18, 2021, the Azure Backup team in coordination with the Azure Storage team announced the public preview of protecting Azure-managed disks, thus giving you the ability to automate the backup of your Azure disks and restore them to a chosen point in time by leveraging snapshot lifecycle management.

Azure Backup replaces your existing on-premises and off-site backup solution with a cloud-based solution that is reliable, secure, and cost-competitive. Azure Backup is an Azure-based service that you can use to back up (or protect) and restores your data in the Microsoft cloud.

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