About Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure
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.