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Azure Backup is Microsoft's managed cloud backup service that protects Azure VMs, databases, file shares, blobs, disks and on-premises servers, storing recovery points in a vault with policy-based retention.
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2026-07-17 · Video on YouTube
Azure Backup is Microsoft's native backup service for protecting Azure and hybrid workloads against accidental deletion, hardware failures, ransomware, and disasters. Instead of managing backup infrastructure yourself, Azure Backup provides automated, secure…
2025-12-07 · Video on YouTube
Think your Azure backups are safe by default? They’re not. In this episode, we uncover how a single over-privileged identity can quietly kill “immutable” backups in Azure. You’ll hear real-life attack paths using compromised automation, shadow admins, and…
2025-11-03 · Video on YouTube
Building reliable and resilient systems in Microsoft Azure isn’t just a technical exercise, it’s a strategic advantage, and in this episode we unpack exactly how to architect cloud environments that stay up even when everything around them fails. You’ll learn…
2026-07-17 · Video on YouTube
Azure Files is Microsoft's fully managed cloud file sharing service that allows organizations to create secure, scalable, and highly available file shares without maintaining traditional file servers. Using familiar SMB and NFS protocols, Azure Files enables…
2026-07-17 · Video on YouTube
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…
Azure Backup is a cloud-based service that protects data such as virtual machines, databases and on-premises servers, replacing tapes and backup servers with policy-based automation. · From the episode: Azure Backup - Simply Explained
It centralizes backup management in Azure Backup, so you can oversee your data protection strategies in one place. · From the episode: Azure Backup - Simply Explained
Create a policy, enable backup on your first VM (the extension installs automatically), confirm the first backup completes, test a restore and then expand. · From the episode: Azure Backup - Simply Explained
Enable soft delete on every vault, require multi-user authorization for destructive changes, and add Vault Lock with least-privilege IAM. Together they make deletion hard even for privileged accounts. · From the episode: Harden Azure Backup with Soft Delete, MUA, and…
Traffic management services reduce customer impact during Azure disruptions by directing users appropriately. In the episode it is one of the core building blocks alongside availability zones, Azure SQL Database and Azure Backup. · From the episode: Design Reliable and Resilient Azure…
Cross-Tenant Restore (CTR) helps organizations establish an independent recovery path by enabling Azure VM backups to be restored into a separate Azure tenant. It strengthens cyber resilience while using the existing backup copy, without requiring customers to maintain and manage duplicate backup data.
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Preview: October 2026
Azure Backup now supports Item-Level Recovery (ILR) for Azure virtual machines using Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks with both 512 byte and 4KB logical sector sizes. You can now recover individual files and folders from your Azure VMs with Premium SSDv2 and Ultra disks.
You can generate a file-recovery executable or script through the Azure portal, CLI, or PowerShell, then run it on a compatible machine to access the recovery point, selectively browse, and copy individual files or folders without performing a full disk or virtual machine restore, in parity with the existing ILR behavior.
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General Availability: October 2026
Azure Backup for PostgreSQL flexible server and elastic cluster (v2) preview brings enterprise-grade long-term retention to PostgreSQL. Backups are taken as physical backups from managed disk snapshots and vaulted in an Azure Backup vault, so protection now extends to servers of up to 32 TB on Premium SSD v1 and up to 64 TB on Premium SSD v2. The first backup is full and every backup after it is incremental, which keeps daily protection practical at multi-terabyte scale, with a recovery point objective goal of one day and retention configurable from 7 days up to 10 years.
The v1 solution took logical backups, which capped server size at 1…
Preview: October 2026
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