Azure Backup
Welcome to the Azure Backup feedback forum! This is where we would like to hear your feedback and ideas on how we can improve our product.
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Backup for O365
I Like to see Longtime protection in Azure Backup or System Center Data Protection Manager for Office 365 Exchange, Sharepoint services. Because today you have to buy a third party solution. There are a lot of Educational institutes around the world in the free edition of Office365 on the Campus Agreement, but backup, restore services of Office 365 is a must have. Think about backup and restore mailboxes, teamsites of Sharepoint etc. Best Regards, James
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Backup On-Premises VM to Azure and Restore the VM in Azure
When creating a new machine an Option to select an backup for restore would be great.
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Migrate data from GRS to LRS
I have an existing vault that uses GRS storage. I want to make use of the new LRS storage available. However this LRS choice is available only to new vaults created.
I don't want to lose the data that has already been backed up to Azure. Can I migrate my data and vault from GRS storage to LRS storage?
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Backup Azure PaaS resources
Backup any Azure PaaS resource using Azure Backup. Please comment with resources you are looking backup support for.
577 votesUpdate: We are currently working on enabling operational backup for blobs and the ETA for the limited preview is November ’20.
Do check out this short demo to catch a glimpse of what operational backup of blobs will offer: https://aka.ms/AB-BlobBackup
For more details, please reach out to us at AskAzureBackupTeam@microsoft.com
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move vm from recovery services vault to new vault
I need a way to move a VM from one recovery services vault to another. For example, I want to stop backing up a VM in recovery services vault A, and start backing up the VM in recovery services vault B. At the moment, I can stop backing up the VM, but cannot choose to back it up in the other vault.
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511 votes
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Automatically upgrade MARS via Windows Update
We have had frequent updates of the MARS agent in the last few months. The last update is required for accurate pricing based on the April 2015 changes. But there is little to prompt admins to do this. There needs to be automatic (manually prompting adds unwanted and unnecessary work) upgrades of the agents.
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Enable Full Backup/Bare Metal Recovery with Azure Backup Standalone (no DPM)
Enhance Azure Backup to be able to support Bare Metal Recovery, Full Image backups.
NOTE: This is without the use/requirement of DPM.
Please refer to the following UserVoice suggestion: https://feedback.azure.com/forums/258995-azure-backup-and-scdpm/suggestions/6874594-bmr-thru-azure-backup#{togglepreviousstatuses}.223 votesCurrently there is support available for backing up System State using just the MARS Agent to recover to the same/similar hardware in case of server or software malfunction.
We wanted to understand the scenarios where a full server recovery cannot be achieved using Azure Site Recovery. Please share your feedback so we can review and plan this accordingly.
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Enable SQL database backup in MARS
Enable SQL database backup in MARS.
We would like to use MARS also to backup SQL databases.
Now we have to use DPM/MABS and that is overkill for only the backup.We have around 180 servers with SQL databases spread over the world. And installing DPM on all these sites is overkill.
So we like to have the option to use MARS also for SQL database backup.
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Backup Tables and Blobs
Ability to restore and schedule backups of Azure Table Storage and Blob Storage.
165 votesUpdate: We are currently working on enabling operational backup for blobs and the ETA for the limited preview is November ’20.
Do check out this short demo to catch a glimpse of what operational backup of blobs will offer: https://aka.ms/AB-BlobBackup
For more details, please reach out to us at AskAzureBackupTeam@microsoft.com
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Email notification bor successfull backup of files
please add an option to receive alerts by mail when backup succeed. For all kinds of backups.
157 votesYou can create alerts using Log Analytics to be notified for your successful backup:
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multiple backups per VM per day
You have GOT to be kidding me, you can ONLY backup an Azure VM ONCE a day?! What the heck Microsoft?! We MUST have the option to backup a VM as MANY TIMES A DAY as we choose. We are paying for the backup, the storage, and the VM so why do you guys prevent this? I feel like I am dealing with a new company in the 90's but no, its Microsoft the biggest bunch of backwards thinking company there is. This is why I go open source, only MS for clients. Because of this backwards design, my client…
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Allow Pausing of Azure Backup
Pausing a large backup, particularly the initial Online backup, would have saved me 4-5 days vs. starting from scratch. Additionally, you can't throttle bandwidth while a backup is running. Pausing would should also allow a change in throttling.
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99 votes
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Configure Notifications for Backup Alerts in Recovery Service Vaults with PowerShell
When using Recovery Services Vaults to backup VMs in Azure, we can configure Backup Alert notifications using the portal- it would be useful if this could be done with PowerShell as well.
Use case- we want to turn on email notifications on all our vaults, or update/add an email address.
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Backup solution for Ultra disks
Backup solution for Ultra disks. Ultra disks doesn't currently support integration with Azure Backup or Azure Site Recovery (Windows/Linux - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/disks-enable-ultra-ssd#ga-scope-and-limitations). Until this is supported, Selective Disk Preview is not an option with ultra-disks on the machine even with the concept to exclude those disks. MARS agent to backup files & folders to exclude Ultra disks is not an option for Linux.
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Use TAGS for selecting Backup schedule/policy
Today, I like to use TAGS to identify who owns a VM, where charges should go, who to contact for support, etc. I'd like to be able to use a tag to determine AUTOMATICALLY what backup schedule/policy to use. Veeam has an option to do that based on vSphere tags. I'd like to propose that as an enhancement if it's not already in the works. Thanks.
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Change Resource Group for restorePointCollections
"Microsoft.Compute/restorePointCollections are store in a special ressource group named : AzureBackup<Region><number>.
The good idea could be to be able to configure an other RG for each Recovery Service Vault to store restorePointCollections.
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Make Consitency Check jobs Faster
Time taken by Consistency check jobs have been always a pain when it comes to enterprise level backups with huge Datasources and high amount of churn. i have seen CC jobs going for days failing and restarting. We can only expect the data to grow in future which calls for a better solution for these CC jobs
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Azure VPN gateway should support MARS agent backup
Currently, Azure VPN gateway only support IaaS service, like Azure VM. We hope Azure VPN gateway can support MARS agent backup.
63 votes
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