Azure VM backup now supports agentless multi-disk crash consistent backups in public preview.
Cross region for Backup vault using Azure Backup is now generally available.
Azure Business Continuity Center is now available in all regions
Azure Backup is announcing General Availability of Azure Backup for AKS allowing customers to protect their applications by providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.
Learn about the new and improved alerting capabilities offered for Azure Site Recovery, via Azure Monitor
Azure Backup customers using the Recovery Services Agent (MARS) can now save your encryption passphrase directly to Azure Key Vault.
Cross Region Restore for Recovery Services Agent for Azure Backup customers is now supported and is available for preview in all Azure public regions.
Cross Region Restore for PostgreSQL backups fore Azure Backup customers is now supported and is available in multiple public regions.
Protect Azure Virtual Machines with Recovery Point Objective (RPO) as low as four hours.
Azure Backup's soft delete of recovery points allows you to recover any recovery points that may have been accidentally or maliciously deleted owing to operations that could lead to deletion…
V4 is the latest upgrade for Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS). Azure Backup Server can now be installed on Windows Server 2022 with SQL Server 2022 as its database. MABS…
Public preview for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup.
Public preview for the support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup.
Classic alerts for Azure Backup will be retired on 31 March, 2026
Immutable vaults help you protect your backups against threats like ransomware attacks and malicious actors by ensuring that your backup data cannot be deleted before its intended expiry time.
Azure Backup now provides an improved experience for creating and using private endpoints for your Recovery Services vaults.
Azure VM backup now takes a SQL COPY_ONLY_FULL snapshots in SQL Virtual machines to avoid reset of Log sequence numbers and reduce snapshot delays
In Dec 2022, the following updates and enhancements were made for Azure Backup for SAP HANA – a backint certified database backup solution for SAP HANA databases in Azure VMs.Long…
Cross Zonal Restore for Azure Virtual Machines helps to restore to any zone of your choice.
Azure Backup is announcing private preview of AKS Backup providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.
Azure Backup enables you to configure cost-efficient backups while meeting your data residency requirements.
Enhanced soft delete helps you recover your backup data after it has been deleted, giving you protection against data loss scenarios like ransomwares, malicious actors, and accidental deletes.
Multi-user authorization provides enhanced protection for your backup data against unauthorized critical operations.
Immutable vaults helps you protect your backups against threats like ransomware attacks and malicious actors by ensuring that your backup data cannot be deleted before its intended expiry time.
Now, if a HANA database fails over with HANA System Replication, backups are automatically continued from the new primary, with Azure Backup for HANA.
Protect your large HANA databases in Azure Virtual Machines and recover them instantly with Azure Backup for HANA backint certified solution which now supports HANA snapshots.
Reserved capacity for Azure Backup Storage is now available.
Learn about the new and improved alerting capabilities offered for Azure Backup, via Azure Monitor.
Move to Azure Monitor based alerts for Azure Backup with just a few clicks.
You can now configure your backup policy to move all your eligible and recommended recovery points to vault-archive tier for Azure Virtual Machines, SQL Server/SAP HANA in Azure Virtual Machines.
Multi-user authorization for Backup provides enhanced protection for your backup data in recovery services vaults against unauthorized critical operations.
Azure Virtual Machine backup protects Write Accelerator enabled disks
Configure backup of your trusted launch Azure Virtual Machines through enhanced policy
Azure Backup now provides the capability to move long term retention (LTR) recovery points to low-cost archive tier for Azure Virtual Machines.
You can now monitor the restore job health of your backed up blobs via Azure Monitor metrics and write custom alert rules on these metrics.
Azure Backup now acquires a lease on the snapshots taken by scheduled/on-demand backup jobs.
The feature that allows you to configure multiple backups per day for Azure Files via backup policy is now generally available.
AKS persistent volume backup provides backup and restore ability for the persistent volumes of your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster.
Azure Backup and Azure Database Services bring to you a new backup solution for your PostgreSQL servers that retains backups for up to 10 years.
The new enhancements released for the security of hybrid backups enable you to integrate with MUA, protect against accidental deletion and avoid data loss in soft delete state.
Summary of key automation updates for Azure Backup in 2021
Multi-user authorization for Backup provides enhanced protection for your Recovery Services vaults against unauthorized critical operations.
Azure Backup now provides built-in metrics to enable you to monitor the health of your backups and write custom alert rules on these metrics.
Azure Backup now supports configuring multiple backups per day for Azure Files via backup policy. You can achieve RPO (Recovery Point Objective) up to 4 hours using Azure Files snapshot-based…
Azure Backup support to move backups for SQL and SAP HANA databases running in Azure VMs into the Archive tier, via Azure portal and Azure CLI, is also generally available.
You can now manage your Azure Monitor alerts via Backup center.
Azure Backup provides packaged pre-post scripts for Oracle VMs that can be used to instantly backup, create instant clones, reduce backup storage cost, and performance impact.
The capability to seed large initial Microsoft Azure Recovery Services (MARS) backups offline to recovery services vault using Azure Data Box is now generally available.
Azure Backup now provides the capability to move long term retention(LTR) recovery points to low-cost archive tier for SQL Server for Azure VM.
General availability of Cross Region Restore of SQL/SAP HANA databases running in Azure VM allows to restore data in the secondary region for compliance/audit and outage scenarios.