Prepare your environment to back up Resource Manager-deployed virtual machines
Take a look at this article which provides the steps for preparing your environment to back up a Resource Manager-deployed virtual machine (VM). The steps shown in the procedures use the Azure portal. The Azure Backup service has two types of vaults (back up vaults and recovery services vaults) for protecting your VMs. A backup vault protects VMs deployed using the Classic deployment model. A recovery services vault protects ** both Classic-deployed or Resource Manager-deployed VMs** . You must use a Recovery Services vault to protect a Resource Manager-deployed VM.Learn more about Azure Backup Security Features
Enable and leverage these Security Features using Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Agent and Microsoft Azure Backup Server. Start with this resource documentation, Security features for protecting hybrid backups using Azure Backup. Next Steps Get started with Azure Recovery Services vault to enable these features Download latest Azure Recovery Services agent to protect Windows machines and guard your backup data against attacks Download latest Azure Backup Server to protect workloads and guard your backup data against attacksAnnouncement: Azure Backup security capabilities for protecting cloud backups
Azure Backup now provides security capabilities to protect cloud backups. These security features ensure that customers are able to secure their backups and recover data using cloud backups if production and backup servers are compromised. These features are built on three principles – Prevention, Alerting and Recovery – to enable organizations increase preparedness against attacks and equip them with a robust backup solution. Features Prevention: New authentication layer added for critical operations like Delete Backup Data, Change Passphrase. These operations now require Security PIN available only to users with valid Azure credentials. Alerting: Email notifications are sent for any critical operations that impact availability of backup data. These notifications enable users to detect attacks as soon as they occur. Recovery: Azure backup retains deleted backup data for 14 days ensuring recovery using any old or recent recovery points. Also, minimum number of recovery points are always maintained such that there are always sufficient number of points to recover from. Get Started To start leveraging these features, navigate to recovery services vault in the Azure portal and enable them. This video explains how to get started by enabling these features and how to leverage them in Azure Backup. Read more on Azure Blogs.Introduction to Microsoft Azure Storage
Azure Storage is the cloud storage solution for modern applications that rely on durability, availability, and scalability to meet the needs of their customers. Learn about: What Azure Storage is, and how you can take advantage of it in your cloud, mobile, server, and desktop applications What kinds of data you can store with the Azure Storage services: blob (object) data, NoSQL table data, queue messages, and file shares. How access to your data in Azure Storage is managed How your Azure Storage data is made durable via redundancy and replication Where to go next to build your first Azure Storage application Get started with Azure Storage here!
