{"id":17270,"date":"2021-05-06T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.n-able.com\/?p=17270"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:54:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T20:54:09","slug":"data-recovery-part-3-using-microsoft-azure-for-data-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n-able.com\/it\/blog\/data-recovery-part-3-using-microsoft-azure-for-data-recovery","title":{"rendered":"Data recovery: Part 3\u2014Using Microsoft Azure for data recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n-able.com\/blog\/data-recovery-part-2-targeting-amazon-aws-ec2-for-data-recovery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previous post<\/a>\u00a0I wrote about customer inquiries involving data protection and recovery in the AWS public cloud, which typically spark similar questions about other public clouds, so to get in front of that I felt it best to cover data protection and recovery on the Microsoft Azure cloud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While, officially, the Azure cloud is not a platform that we actively develop for, test, or support, I can confirm that due to the hardware abstraction of virtualization platforms, we have partners that are successfully protecting systems hosted and running on the Azure platform. In this blog, I\u2019ll highlight how those partners are deploying, configuring, and restoring data with N&#8209;able<sup>\u2122<\/sup> Backup.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Deployment<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Since Backup is not natively aware of Azure and cannot interact with Azure directly, the backup manager must be installed locally within the guest operating system. In this type of deployment, the backup manager is not aware of the host hypervisor and behaves just as it would if it were running on a physical system. Installing the backup client can be done manually within the guest operating system or it can be scripted and automated as discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n-able.com\/blog\/backup-automation-part-1-deploying-backup-devices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">in this blog post<\/span><\/a>. When provisioning an Azure instance that will run a local backup manager client, you should avoid single core instance configurations and ensure that the backup manager has access to at least 500Mb of available free memory.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Data protection<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Recurring data protection for Azure hosted systems will function normally with access to the same backup features, plans, policies, profiles, and settings that are available to physical systems. However, I should clarify Backup does not store your encrypted backup data within the Azure cloud, which means all backup data is sent offsite to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n-able.com\/features\/secure-backup-software\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">regional N&#8209;able data center<\/span><\/a> and Microsoft may charge for data egress from their cloud. To help reduce the data transfer in and out, I would suggest that partners layer their data protection by using a combination of Azure virtual machine snapshots for local protection and rapid recovery, and Backup for offsite protection and long-term archival.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Data recovery<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">All traditional file, folder, application, and volume level restore options are also available from within the backup manager and can quickly be used to correct a user error, accidental deletion, corruption, or even ransomware. However, advanced recovery tools like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n-able.com\/features\/bare-metal-recovery?promo=blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">bare metal recovery<\/span><\/a>, virtual disaster recovery, and the recovery console are not able to restore directly to Azure native installations. Situations requiring full recovery of the Azure native VM instance may require the combined efforts of deploying a new VM image or reverting to the most recent full VM snapshot, and then using the backup manager to selectively restore data and applications to the desired point in time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While a direct virtual disaster recovery to Azure is not possible, the recovery console can be installed and run inside an <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/virtualization\/hyper-v-on-windows\/user-guide\/nested-virtualization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">Azure nested Hyper-V environment<\/span><\/a>, allowing virtual disaster recovery, both on-demand and via continuous restore, to an offline VM. When configuring a nested Hyper-V environment, please choose an Azure VM with sufficient resources for your recovery needs. You can check regional availability of Dv3 or Ev3 series virtual machines <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/global-infrastructure\/services\/?products=virtual-machines\"><span class=\"s1\">here<\/span><\/a>. In addition, Microsoft provides steps to <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/migrate\/tutorial-migrate-hyper-v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">migrate Hyper-V VMs to Azure<\/span><\/a>, which could be used to later move those nested VMs into an Azure native configuration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><i>Eric Harless is the head backup nerd at N&#8209;able. Eric has worked with N&#8209;able Backup since 2013 and has 25+ years of data protection industry experience in sales, support, marketing, systems engineering, and product management. You can follow Eric on Twitter\u00a0at\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/backup_nerd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>@backup_nerd<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other blogs in this series:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.n-able.com\/blog\/data-recovery-part-one-are-you-disaster-ready\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data recovery: Part 1\u2014are you disaster ready?<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.n-able.com\/blog\/data-recovery-part-2-targeting-amazon-aws-ec2-for-data-recovery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data recovery: Part 2\u2014Targeting Amazon (AWS EC2) for data recovery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In part 3 of his data recovery blog series, Eric Harless looks at how N-able Backup can be used to support data protection and recovery in AWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","topic-backup-disaster-recovery","topic-head-nerds"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Data Recovery: Part 3\u2014Using Microsoft Azure for Data Recovery | N-able<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Find out more about how N-able Backup can be used to support data protection and recovery in AWS.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.n-able.com\/it\/blog\/data-recovery-part-3-using-microsoft-azure-for-data-recovery\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"it_IT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Data Recovery: Part 3\u2014Using Microsoft Azure for Data Recovery | N-able\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Find out more about how N-able Backup can be used to support data protection and recovery in AWS.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.n-able.com\/it\/blog\/data-recovery-part-3-using-microsoft-azure-for-data-recovery\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"N-able\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NableMSP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-06T14:00:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-06-15T20:54:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.n-able.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/720x356_Dark_v03.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"356\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Eric Harless\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.n-able.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/720x356_Dark_v03.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Nable\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Nable\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Scritto da\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Eric Harless\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Tempo di lettura stimato\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minuti\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.n-able.com\/it\/blog\/data-recovery-part-3-using-microsoft-azure-for-data-recovery#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.n-able.com\/it\/blog\/data-recovery-part-3-using-microsoft-azure-for-data-recovery\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Eric Harless\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.n-able.com\/it\/#\/schema\/person\/17837915039282731e00c56fd2b18ff2\"},\"headline\":\"Data recovery: Part 3\u2014Using Microsoft Azure for data recovery\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-06T15:00:07+01:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-06-15T20:54:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.n-able.com\/it\/blog\/data-recovery-part-3-using-microsoft-azure-for-data-recovery\"},\"wordCount\":620,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.n-able.com\/it\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Backup &amp; 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