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About Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure

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    Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure is a solution developed for protection and disaster recovery tasks for Microsoft Azure environments.

    With Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, you can create image-level backups of Microsoft Azure VMs and keep them in Microsoft Azure storage accounts for high availability, cost-effective and long-term storage. In addition to image-level backups, you can protect your data by creating and maintaining a chain of cloud-native snapshots of Microsoft Azure VMs.

    To recover backed-up data, in Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, you can perform the following operations:

    • Restore of entire Microsoft Azure VMs
    • Restore of virtual disks of Microsoft Azure VMs
    • Restore of Microsoft Azure VMs guest OS files and folders

    Integration with Veeam Backup & Replication

    Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure creates backups in the native Veeam format. Therefore, you can use Veeam Backup & Replication to create a copy of Microsoft Azure VMs backups in on-premises repositories and perform data migration between cloud, on-premises and virtual infrastructures. For details, see the External Repository section of the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.