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  1. 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

    1,910 votes
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    under review  ·  71 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  2. 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.

    1,277 votes
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    unplanned  ·  32 comments  ·  IaaS VM  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  3. 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?

    747 votes
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    unplanned  ·  29 comments  ·  Retention and Storage  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  4. Backup Azure PaaS resources

    Backup any Azure PaaS resource using Azure Backup. Please comment with resources you are looking backup support for.

    547 votes
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    48 comments  ·  PaaS Backup  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  5. 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.

    409 votes
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    12 comments  ·  Management  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  6. Archive storage in Azure

    365 votes
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    planned  ·  18 comments  ·  Retention and Storage  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  7. 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.

    314 votes
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    20 comments  ·  IaaS VM  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  8. 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.

    306 votes
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    planned  ·  5 comments  ·  MARS  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  9. 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.

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    started  ·  8 comments  ·  IaaS VM  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  10. 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}.

    220 votes
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    8 comments  ·  MARS  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    need-feedback  ·  AdminThe Azure Team on UserVoice (Product Owner, Microsoft Azure) responded

    Currently 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.

  11. 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…

    212 votes
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    unplanned  ·  15 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  12. 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!

    197 votes
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    7 comments  ·  Azure Stack  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  13. 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.

    161 votes
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    under review  ·  5 comments  ·  MARS  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  14. Email notification bor successfull backup of files

    please add an option to receive alerts by mail when backup succeed. For all kinds of backups.

    135 votes
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    6 comments  ·  Management  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  15. 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.

    115 votes
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    under review  ·  6 comments  ·  Management  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  16. Add support for storage tiering in Azure backup

    Add support for some kind of storage tier in Azure Backup that moves older snapshot/backup copies from hot to cold storage.

    105 votes
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    under review  ·  4 comments  ·  Retention and Storage  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  17. Enable Read-Access GRS Storage for Backup/Recovery Services Vaults.

    Many use cases for DR-BCP involve recovery testing on quarterly or biannual basis. Having access to a RA-GRS recovery vault in paired region would enable these BCP best practices for recovery from backups as a DR strategy.

    100 votes
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    started  ·  4 comments  ·  Retention and Storage  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  18. ability to backup mapped network drives

    95 votes
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    under review  ·  5 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  19. Backup Tables and Blobs

    Ability to restore and schedule backups of Azure Table Storage and Blob Storage.

    92 votes
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    2 comments  ·  PaaS Backup  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  20. Administrative Management on Soft Delete on Backup

    There are instances where customer would like to purge the previous Backup Data and start afresh but the limitation to trigger new Backup after 14 days do not let them to suffice the requirement. Also, if we want to change the recovery service vault to configure new Backup, it doesn't allow it to configure instantly and hence, it would be highly recommended to provide administrative access on soft delete if it can be disabled to configure new backup and then can be re-enabled.

    89 votes
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    4 comments  ·  Retention and Storage  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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