Data Recovery
In various disaster recovery scenarios, you can perform the following restore operations using backed-up data:
- Restore of Azure VMs — restore Azure VMs from cloud-native snapshots or image-level backups to the original or to a new location.
- Restore of Azure SQL databases — restore Azure SQL databases from image-level backups to the original or to a new location.
- Restore of Azure file shares — restore files of Azure file shares from cloud-native snapshots to the original location or to a new location.
- Instant Recovery — immediately restore of Azure VMs from image-level backups to VMware vSphere and Hyper-V environments, and to Nutanix AHV clusters.
- Azure VM disk export — restore virtual disks and convert them to disks of the VMDK, VHD or VHDX format.
- Restore to AWS — restore Azure VMs from image-level backups to AWS as EC2 instances.
- Restore to Google Cloud — restore Azure VMs from image-level backups to Google Cloud as VM instances.
- Restore to Nutanix AHV — restore Azure VMs from image-level backups to Nutanix AHV as Nutanix AHV VMs.
Note |
You can perform all recovery operations using restore points stored in standard repositories. For restore points stored in archive repositories, only restore to Microsoft Azure is supported. |