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Nov 03, 2017

Backing up Azure VM's with disks greater than 1TB

The standard VM backup can only backup VM's that have disks of size 1TB or less. 

Is there a workaround or alternative for this?

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      Thank you Trinadh.

      I had received this from another contributor. Unfortunately, the disks that we are making use of on our VM, are managed so this option will not work for us until the process supports managed disks.

       

  • Hello Greg, 

     

    To upload your VHD file larger than 1TB from on-premises directly to Azure as a page blob or unmanaged disk, you can use the latest tool sets:

     

    Azure tools Supported versions

    Azure PowerShellVersion number 4.1.0: June 2017 release or later
    Azure CLI v1Version number 0.10.13: May 2017 release or later
    AzCopyVersion number 6.1.0: June 2017 release or later

     

    The support for Azure CLI v2 and Azure Storage Explorer is coming soon. Also, Azure Site Recovery (ASR) now supports the disaster recovery and migration of on-premises virtual machines and physical servers with disk sizes of up to 4095 GB to Azure.

     

    Before you start protecting virtual machines/physical servers with greater than 1 TB disks, you need to install the latest update on your existing on-premises ASR infrastructure. This is a mandatory step for existing ASR users.

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      Dave, thank you for your response.

      My query was not referring to on-premise VM or disks. We have several VM's in the cloud with disks larger than 1TB and we can't use the standard backup tool to protect them.

       

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        kasunsjc
        Iron Contributor

        Hi Greg,

         

        Are you using Azure Recovery Service Vault for backup ?

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