How to backup Azure virtual machines?

How to backup Azure virtual machines?

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

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