Takeaways from Azure Friday Talk on Azure Backup

In the informal & entertaining Azure Friday Talks, the inimitable Scott Hanselman chats up with Azure product team members on a variety of Azure topics in roughly 10 minutes. Takeaways from the discussion on Azure Backup

* Why do you have to backup if every byte on Azure is already stored 3 times?
- To protect against ransomware, corruption of data, human error, accidental deletion

* Backup is an option within the VM experience

* Recovery Services Vault (and not a Azure Storage account) is the centralized location that stores the backup.

* Recovery Services Vault holds data for both Backup & DR

* Recovery Services Vault is still connected to Azure Storage account but it is abstracted for user

* Backup can be retained up to 99 years

* You pay for Backup of each VM (~$10) and the storage consumed

* Security PIN constantly updated every 5 minutes in the Azure Portal is required before a Azure Backup copy can be deleted

* Backup allows you to restore both VHDs as well as individual files and folders across Linux & Windows

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