Azure Backup and SCDPM
Welcome to Cloud Integrated Backup (System Center Data Protection Manager & Azure Backup) feedback forum. This is where we would like to hear your feedback and ideas on how we can improve these products.
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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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Support for ARM Backup and Site Recovery vaults
Support for ARM Backup and Site Recovery vaults, as well as multiple vaults per workspace.
OMS only supports Classic (ASM) vaults, and it also supports only 1 Backup vault per OMS workspace, this sounds like a big limitation.418 votesWe have a preview of a solution for recovery services vaults available:
https://github.com/krnese/AzureDeploy/tree/master/OMS/MSOMS/Solutions/recoveryservices
Try it out and let us know what you think.
— Richard
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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.
314 votesThis is planned for the coming semesters. We will start with “blobs” as the first workload and expand to other resources.
-Trinadh
Sr. Program Manager, Azure Backup. -
DPM to Protect SQL 2014 using CSV as storage
With SQL 2014 it can now be deployed on Cluster Shared Volume as storage. DPM needs to protect SQL 2014 with CSV as storage.
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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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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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DPM Protecting NAS / CIFS shares
DPM to Offer Protection for NAS / CIFS shares
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Azure backup of Azure IaaS VM to a different region
It would be ideal if we could push the Azure backup of our Azure IaaS Vms to a different region. This would give people a lot more peace of mind in the event of a datacentre failure.
207 votesHi Folks,
We are working on “Disaster Recovery (DR) for Azure VMs in another Azure region using Azure Backup copy” scenario. If you have any customer who is interested in this scenario, please fill the below survey (one per customer) to participate in discussions and early previews.
https://aka.ms/asr-dr-using-backup
Thanks.
Sujay Talasila
Senior Program Manager
Azure Site Recovery -
Improve performance for backing up volumes with large number of files
"Estimating size of back items" can take several hours to complete. I have over 1 million files and It has been 6 hours now (backing up from an Azure VM to Azure Backup) and checking Resource Monitor I can see that it is only about halfway through reading the list of files to be backed up. Meanwhile CPU, Disk, and Network utilization (no throttle set) are all far below max utilization.
I can only hope this is at least just a one-time process...? But still it is way to slow.
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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#{toggle_previous_statuses}.192 votes -
Add support for backup for exchange/sql server database on ReFS volumes
Following the best practices guide for Exchange on TechNet, you can locate the database files on a volume formatted with ReFS file system,
Unfortunately, Exchange and SQL Server databases can't be backed up by DPM from a ReFS volume (only NTFS works).
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Cross Tenant Support For Azure Backup Reporting
The preview for Azure Backup Reporting only supports exporting data to a storage account in the same tenant. This means that MS partners cannot use the solution - in most cases each managed customer has their own tenant.
The alternative approach, creating multiple instances in Power BI and pinning duplicate reports to a single dashboard will not work.
Please make it possible to export RSV data to a storage account in another tenant, e.g. storage account name + access key.
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Backup as a service for Azure Stack (a.k.a Backup resource provider)
We waited for a backup plugin for Windows Azure Pack, which never came. As a hosting service provider and a large enterprise with dfferent departments to cater, being able to provide backup as a service is key. Please bring this resource provider with GA of Azure stack please!
161 votesMoved to Azure Backup Forum.
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DPM 2016 and VHD Sets
Would like DPM 2016 to support backing up VHD Sets.
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Azure Backup ReFS Support
Our Server 2012 R2 Essentials has all of our mission critical data stored on a set of HDDs formatted with ReFS, as would seem good practise for this sort of data.
Today I started a trial of Azure Backup to see if it would work as a Cloud backup solution for our server.... to no avail as I have used ReFS on the drive I want to protect.
Will ReFS be added in the near future? From what I have seen in forums, there has been no response to questions about Azure Backup and ReFS since 2012.
If it is…133 votes -
Azure Files Backup maximum retention increase
Currently Backup for Azure File shares only offers the ability to retain your daily backups up to 120 days. For compliance and continuity reasons the maximum retention range for Azure File Backup should be increased to mirror the retention range for Virtual Machines. Specifically: 9999 Daily, 9999 Weekly, 9999 Monthly, and 9999 Yearly.
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Multiple backup schedules for Azure for Windows Server
I want to schedule daily backup for one folder and weekly backup for another folder
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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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Exclude Disks from VM Backup
Currently it's not possible to exclude Disks from a Hyper-V VM backup. (except using the Exclude Pagefile Disk workaround) to exclude single disks from the backup.
The possibility to exclude disks from a hyper-v vm backup would be a great improvement in case you've really large fileservers or other workloads where another backup mechanism is in place or you simply dont want a backup because of temp data etc.
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Granular recovery of Active Directory domain controllers
When I backup my Domain Controllers to Azure, it would be great if the Backup Agent could see inside AD at a graular object level. So for example deleted users or groups could be recovered.
73 votesThanks a lot for your ask. We will review this internally.
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