Getting Started with Azure – Backup Vaults and Policies

Brian Christopher Harrison

One of the biggest questions that government customers may have when migrating to Azure Government, is how they can quickly get up and running. There are a number of different challenges that a customer may have, and many different services that we offer within Azure. Backup Vaults and policies are one of the many services we offer to ease your transition to the cloud.

What I thought that I would do is to try and make it as easy as possible for our customers and potential customers to get started with our services by providing a video blog series. This blog series will provide a video walkthrough of how to setup a service, as well as PowerShell scripts and an ARM template to automate and parameterize the process.

To kick things off, I figured that I would begin with a service that every customer who is using VMs either On-Prem or in the Public Cloud will need: Backup and Recovery which we provide as a service.

Hopefully the video above will be able to get you started with an Azure Backup Vault and its corresponding backup and retention policies that can then be applied to VMs as they are attached to the Vault. In addition to the walkthrough within the Azure Portal that is shown in the video, below you will find a PowerShell script and an ARM template that can be used to deploy the exact same Azure Backup Vault and there by allow you to automate the process.Both of the scripts are parameterized so that you can specify your own information.

Scripts

• PowerShell Script: click here
• ARM template: click here
• ARM parameters template:  click here
• ARM deployment script: click here

References

• Azure Backup Service Overview
• Azure Backup Documentation
• Backup Files and Folders

Conclusion

I hope that this was helpful. In the next post, I will take this to the next step by walking you through how you can connect your VMs or Servers to the newly created Backup Vault and apply a specific Policy to that VM or Server. In the future I will hopefully be providing other Getting Started posts that will provide walk throughs for other commonly used Azure Services.

Brian Christopher Harrison

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