Azure VM Backup – BDRShield

Native Agentless Backup & Recovery for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

  • Agentless backups for Azure virtual machines
  • Incremental backups to efficiently backup only changed blocks
  • Application-aware backups & Pre/Post Scripts
  • Store backups locally or on cloud storage – Azure Blob, S3, Google Cloud, Wasabi, etc
  • Customizable backup policies include scheduling, retention & more
  • Flexible restore options include entire VM, file recovery, etc
  • Cross Subscription Restore
  • Automated snapshots & retain them to launch VMs instantly
  • Built-in encryption & compression for backups

Azure VM Backup & Recovery with BDRShield

BDRShield provides a comprehensive Azure VM backup solution, allowing you to choose the best azure backup strategy that best suits your requirements. Whether you prefer automated snapshots within the Azure cloud or leveraging Azure APIs for agentless backups, BDRShield ensures the reliability, efficiency, and flexibility of your Azure VM backups.

Option 1: Agentless Backup using Azure Native APIs

BDRShield leverages Azure’s native APIs and snapshots to create copies of Azure virtual machines for backup. This method offers flexibility and scalability by allowing you to store backup data in either local or cloud storage.

Key Features:

  • Agentless VM Backup with application-aware support
  • Flexible VM Restore Options – Entire VM, File recovery & more
  • Retention for snapshots and backup data
  • Store backups on local disk, NAS, SAN or cloud storage (Azure blob, S3, Google Cloud, Wasabi, etc)

Option 2: Automated Snapshots within Azure Cloud

With BDRShield, you can leverage automated snapshots to backup your Azure virtual machines (VMs). Automated snapshots allow quick VM recovery or Volume recovery in case of data loss or system failure.

Key Features:

  • Automated & scheduled snapshots for Azure VM backup
  • Application-aware processing and pre/post scripts
  • Storage of snapshots within the same region
  • Restore as entire Azure VM or only specific Volumes

Key Features of Azure VM Backup and Recovery in BDRShield

Backup of Azure VMs

Agentless VM Backup

BDRShield uses Azure native APIs to effortlessly backup & protect your Azure virtual machines without the need for additional agents on the VMs.

Supports Managed & Unmanaged Disks

BDRShield supports backup and restore of both managed and unmanaged disks in Azure VMs.

Application-aware Backups

BDRShield ensures application-consistent backups by leveraging Microsoft’s VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) technology for Windows VMs. You can customize Pre/Post scripts for app-consistent backup on Linux VMs.

Full & Incremental Backups

BDRShield performs the first backup as a full backup for Azure VMs and then performs incremental backups, capturing only the changed blocks made since the last backup.

Flexible Storage Options

BDRShield supports wide range of storage options, allowing you to store your Azure VM backup data in local disk, NAS, SAN, S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud, Wasabi, etc.

Scheduled & Automated Backups

BDRShield offers flexible scheduling options, including every 15 mins, hourly, daily, weekly, & more. You can schedule regular backups to ensure that your Azure VMs are consistently protected.

Recovery of Azure VMs

Azure VM Recovery

BDRShield allows for quick restore of entire Azure VM to any subscription and resource group available within your account. It also supports customizations such as selecting the virtual network, VM name, and power on/off settings for seamless recovery.

Download VMs & Disks

BDRShield allows you to download the backed up VMs/Disks into different virtual formats such as VHD, VHDX, VMDK, Flat-VMDK and RAW which can be used during VM migration.

Volume Recovery

BDRShield gives you the flexibility to restore and access specific volumes from backup.

File Recovery

BDRShield provides the option to mount the backup disk and instantly recover individual files or folders using the Disk Mount option.

Cross Subscription Restore

BDRShield provides you the flexibility to restore the backed up Azure VMs to any subscription available within your account in the same region.

Management of Azure VM Backups

Snapshot Retention

BDRShield creates snapshots of azure virtual machines during backup. You can choose to retain the number of snapshots you want to retain in your azure account.

Retention for Azure VM Backups

Store backups in storage targets as long as you need with flexible retention policies, complying with regulatory requirements.

Centralized Management

BDRShield offers centralized management console that allows you to easily configure backups, monitor backup status, and manage recovery of azure backups.

Reporting and Notifications

BDRShield provides comprehensive reporting and email notifications to keep you informed about the status of your backup and recovery tasks.

Azure VM Backup & Restore – FAQ

Azure VM backup refers to the process of creating snapshot of virtual machines (VMs) running in Microsoft Azure cloud and then backing up & storing the VM data in offsite securely (either locally or on cloud). This ensures that if data loss or system failure occurs, you can recover your VMs and data easily. Dowload BDRShield’s Azure VM backup solution now.

Azure VM Backup solutions like BDRShield offers comprehensive backup features such as agentless backup, application aware processing, data retention policies, flexible recovery & more to ensure complete data protection for Azure virtual machines.

BDRShield uses Azure native APIs and snapshot-based backup mechanism to capture point-in-time copies of your Azure VMs. It creates incremental snapshots to perform incremental backups, ensuring efficient storage utilization and minimal impact on VM performance. The backup data can be stored either in local storage or cloud.

  1. Download & Install BDRShield: Download BDRShield and setup in your environment
  2. Add Azure account: Add Microsoft Azure account as Data Sources on BDRShield, from which you want to backup VMs
  3. Configure backup storage: You can store the backup data on NAS, SAN, S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud, S3 Compatible storage – Wasabi, MinIO, Backblaze, etc
  4. Configure backup job:
    • Select VMs for backup
    • Automate backups at specific intervals
    • Configure Retention & Encryption settings
  5. Save & Run the Backup Job: Backup will start to run as per the schedule

BDRShield offers multiple restore options to restore Azure VMs from backup. You can choose the most suitable method for restoring your Azure VMs based on your recovery requirements, whether it’s a complete VM restore, file-level recovery, or volume recovery.

BDRShield supports backup of both managed and unmanaged disks in Azure virtual machines and includes all the disks for backup as it is an complete image backup (OS & data).

Agentless VM backup: Complete image backup of the Azure VMs, including the operating system, applications, and data and store the backups in On-premise or Cloud.
Incremental backup: Only the changes made since the last backup are backed up.
Application-consistent backup: Ensures application-consistent backups by leveraging Microsoft’s VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) technology.
Automated Snapshots: Create automated snaphots for Azure VMs and launch them as VMs or restore only specific volumes.

BDRShield’s Azure VM backup solution offers a reliable and efficient way to protect your Azure VMs and their data. It ensures that your VMs are backed up regularly, allows for flexible recovery options, and helps you meet your business’s recovery objectives (RTO & RPO). Dowload BDRShield for Azure VM Backup now.