We demonstrate how easy it is to set up an azure backup process we're on the
Azure portal and the hardest part is actually finding the backup process so
you want to go up to the top in the search box and type in recovery services
and pick that recovery service vault option from there you want to add a new
vault and we're gonna call it a what's called a friendly name something that
you'll remember this can be as small as two characters or as many as 50
characters for purposes of this demo I'm just doing a test backup so that's what
I'm going to call it you're going to sign it a subscription there are some
demo subscriptions you can sign up for you're gonna pick a resource group or
create a new one and again I'm just doing a test backup here so I'm just
gonna call it a test name so I'm going to delete this I'm done and then you're
gonna pick a location we're gonna store it I'm in the Pacific area so I'm going
to pick West but you can see that there's all sorts of places if you need
to be geographically in certain area you can pick and then you hit create and
it's gonna start creating the vault and up in the upper right hand corner it
indicates what the process is or what the progress is of that vault and you
may hit need to hit refresh because when it's done it you have to hit refresh to
see it and once it's there you can then click on it and launch it to setup the
backup so we're gonna click on backup because we're gonna start the backup
process and we're gonna pick where our workload is what we want to backup and
in my case I want to do an on premise backup and I want to pick what I want to
backup you can do system state bare metal recovery files and folders for
purposes of this demo I'm only gonna do files and folders
then I'm going to prepare the infrastructure and we're gonna download
the Microsoft Azure agent then what's called the Mars agent we're gonna
install it on this machine because I'm actually doing it on this machine itself
and if it doesn't have a certain prerequisite it downloads it so
obviously it needs Visual C++ 2012 redistributable and there's a certain
version of.net that it needs as well and then you pick where you're going to
install the location if you go through a proxy server you'll need to enter that
if you need a dotnet 4.5 you would download that and install that I already
had that on this Windows 10 machine but if let's say you're on a Windows 7 it
would download the 4.5 it installs what it needs and now we're ready to register
the device up in the backup service so now we need to provide what's called
vault credentials and you go back to your infrastructure page and because
we've already installed the latest agent we're already ready to go so you click
on that box and you say download and it will download the credentials to your
machine you want to save at some place on your machine so you can get to it I
tend to use downloads a lot I probably shouldn't use that folder anymore but
especially in 1809 where it tries to clean up that folder so now you go back
to your vault identification and you find your credentials and you upload
that I usually pick generate the passphrase and then I store that you'll
probably want to put that in news or key vault for purposes of this demo I'm just
putting it down on this machine again for best practices you want to store it
in another location so look into that as your key vault and then it's registering
the server with the Azur backup now this part usually takes the longest and you
kind of sometimes think is it working it really is working
give it time be a little bit of pace for me it took or it takes about a
minute for this process to occur on a like a normal beefy machine and even
then it's not that exceedingly long but just be a little patient in this process
as it registers the computer up on the network and gets it ready to go and now
it's ready to start the backup process and as you can see it's just like a
normal Windows Backup where you select and schedule the backup and you select
the files that you want to backup as you can see the interface is very if you've
ever done a normal windows backup the interface is very very familiar again in
this case I'm only doing a test so I'm just gonna do a quick and dirty download
file backup you want to pick when it's going to back it up and as you can see
it has a very healthy retention policy
and then you want to do it over the the Internet you can use what's called a zoo
or data box we'll get into that later and there you go it's creating the
backup schedule and it's done and it's ready to go