Just Released! Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Cookbook #AzureBackup
System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) is a robust enterprise backup and recovery system that contributes to your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) strategy by facilitating the backup and recovery of enterprise data. With an increase in data recovery and protection problems faced in organizations, it has become important to keep data safe and recoverable. This book contains recipes that will help you upgrade to SCDPM and it covers the advanced features and functionality of SCDPM. This book starts by helping you install SCDPM and then moves on to post-installation and management tasks. You will come across a lot of useful recipes that will help you recover your Hyper-V and VMware VMs. It will also walk you through tips for monitoring SCDPM in different scenarios. Next, the book will also offer insights into protecting windows workloads followed by best practices on SCDPM. You will also learn to back up your Azure Stack Infrastructure layer as well as the Tenant layer using SCDPM. You will also learn about recovering data from backup and implementing disaster recovery. Lastly, the book will show you how to integrate SCDPM with Azure Backup service as well as how to enable protection groups for online protection, and finally how to centralize reports and monitor your backups using Power BI and Log Analytics. Learn more about what this book covers in this blog post.Prepare your environment to back up Resource Manager-deployed virtual machines
Take a look at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-arm-vms-prepare 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, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-security-feature. Next Steps https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-vms-first-look-arm to enable these features https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-configure-vault to protect Windows machines and guard your backup data against attacks https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-microsoft-azure-backup to protect workloads and guard your backup data against attacks
