How to automate On-Demand Azure Backup for Azure Virtual Machines using PowerShell

This guest post is authored by Swathi Dhanwada, Customer Engineer 2, who is frequently seen answering Azure Backup community queries. Azure Backup supports multiple backups of Azure Virtual Machines per day using Enhanced Policy. For hourly backup, the minimum RPO is 4 hours and the maximum is 24 hours. You can…

06/12/2022Azure Storage Blog

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