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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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Hi Kasun.

We would make use of Azure Recovery Service Vault for backup, but the limitation of 1TB disks prevents us from using it, unless there is a workaround?

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kasunsjc
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Nov 06, 2017

Hi Greg,

 

Yes Azure backup still not supporting more than 1TB disks. There wont be a workaround for this because its a Azure infrastructure limitation. But I can give you a suggestion to try 

 

First Create a VM in Azure and install Azure Backup Server (Free), by using it you can backup VMs to Azure Recovery Service Vault.

 

Keep in mind we use azure backup server to backup on-prem  servers to Azure.

Use following guide to configure Azure Backup Server 

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

 

Disclaimer :- I wan't be taking any responsibility of any production workload failures. Please try in test environment before use it in production

 

Thanks

 

 

 

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    Deleted
    Nov 06, 2017

    Thank you Kasun.

     

    We will investigate this option. 

     

    Thanks again.

    Greg

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      Nov 07, 2017

      This option also doesn't allow the backing up of disks larger than 1TB :(

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        kasunsjc
        Iron Contributor
        Nov 08, 2017
        Hi Greg,

        Are you wish to backup full VM or any specific files and folders?

        Another alternative you can try is backup files and folders if VM level backup is not intended to do

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