Azure backup (On Premise)

 Lab on Azure backup

Go to All Services> Storage > Recovery Services Vaults

Provide following information. Name, Subscription, RG, Location

After providing all information click on Create button. It will take some time to create your resource. when It is completed then open this service vault resource. 

Here you will see two option Backup and Site Recovery. So we will first learn Backup of on-premise file on cloud. Click on Backup link. 

In the Backup page, It will ask two question 

1- Where is your Workload running? 

    a- Azure  b- On-Premises   c- Azure-Stack

2- What do you want to backup? 

    (options depend on the above option selected)

So here I will select On-Promises in first drop down and Files and folders in second drop down. and click on Prepare Infrastructure button. 

Here we need to follow instructions given in this page. 

So lets download Recovery service agent and install it in our on-premise system.

download the second option also (Vault credentials).

Now open the Microsoft Azure Backup in your system. (Recovery service agent)

Click on Register Server option Right side Backup section. 

It will open a wizard. In Proxy Configuration nothing to do. click on Next. In Vault Identification tab browse the downloaded vault credential file. and click on Next button. 

In Encryption setting tab, You have to set passphrase. click on Generate Passphrase button. It will generate passphrase for you. you can save this passphrase in any location. finally click on Register button.

Now our system is synchronized with azure.

Now you can see, there is no backup scheduled. Lets schedule a backup. Click on Schedule Backup link. 

Select the files/folder to backup. 

Specify the backup schedule day/time. you can set maximum 3 times per day.

As of now you can skip retention policy.  Choose initial backup type 'Online'. Finally click on finish button. Backup schedule for 8PM per day has been created.

But here we will not wait till that time. So we will click on BackUp now link available on right side.

Backup will take some time based on file size. So you will have to wait. when processing will be done click on Finish button. Now backup is ready. 

Now We will delete all existing files which are backup. 

Now we will Recover the files which we backed Up. Click on Recover data link. select the red marked options below.

In the Select Volume and Date tab you will see the last backup date. select it and  click on Mount button.

It will take some time, till then you will have to wait. 

Finally you can see the data in my computer drive section.