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Sunday, October 7, 2012

Backup to Windows Azure Online Backup Services

In my previous article, i have talked about how to register DPM 2012 SP1 Beta to Windows Azure Online Backup Services. Now i will show you on how easy to perform backup data to Windows Azure Online Backup Services.

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The following data can backup to Windows Azure Online Backup Services

  • Files/ Folder
  • Virtual Machine

The following data CANNOT backup to Windows Azure Online Backup Services :- (when performing my testing using DPM 2012 SP1 Beta and hopefully be able to when product is RTM)

  • SQL Database
  • System State
  • Bare Metal Recovery

When configure backup to cloud, you need to select backup to disk first before select cloud protection. Without select backup to disk, you will NOT be able to select Cloud data protection.

Configuration:-

Backup Files/Folder to Windows Azure Online Backup Services

Backup Virtual Machine to Windows Azure Online Backup Services

Stay Tuned for next post on how do we use DPM to restore protected data from Windows Azure Online Backup

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