2026-07-17

Azure Site Recovery - Simply Explained

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is Microsoft's disaster recovery service that helps keep business applications and workloads running during planned and unplanned outages. By continuously replicating virtual machines and physical servers to a secondary Azure region or recovery site, ASR enables organizations to recover quickly from failures while minimizing downtime and data loss. In this episode of Microsoft Knowledge Nuggets, Mirko Peters explains Azure Site Recovery in simple terms and shows how it fits into a modern business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) strategy. You'll learn how continuous replication, failover, failback, and recovery plans work together to keep critical services available when unexpected outages occur. The episode covers key concepts including Recovery Services Vaults, replication policies, recovery points, planned versus unplanned failovers, test failovers, an

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