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ASR Vs Azure backup
Hi, What exactly is the difference between Azure Site Recovery and "Recover as a VM" from an Azure backup? Im asking from both a cost and recover efficiency perspective. I assume both dont charge f...
Primary difference being when you trigger a restore: Backup is for correcting human errors such as accidental deletion or corruption introduced because of a patch etc. On the other hand, disaster recovery is when your primary data center is gone and you want to run your business from secondary data center. Also, backup typically has a data loss up to one day(once a day backup is norm across VMs) where as Site Recovery, post restore you want data loss to be as minimal as few seconds to max minutes.
Given these differences, Azure Backup recovery mostly works on the source region as your production VM where as ASR recovery will let you failover to a different region than production VM region.