Vaulted backups: Choose the frequency of backups between daily and weekly, specify the schedule when the backup recovery points need to be created, and then edit the default retention rule (selecting Edit) or add new rules to specify the retention of recovery points using a grandparent-parent-child notation.

For each data store you selected, add or edit the schedule and retention settings:.

To use the backup policy for vaulted backups, operational backups, or both, select the corresponding checkboxes.

On the Schedule + retention tab, enter the backup details of the data store, schedule, and retention for these data stores, as applicable. You can view the details of the selected vault in this tab, and then select continue. On the Basics tab, enter a name for the policy and select the vault you want this policy to be associated with. Select the data source type as Azure Blobs (Azure Storage), and then select Continue. This takes you to the create policy experience. Go to Backup center, and then select + Policy. To create a backup policy, follow these steps: You can use the same backup policy to configure backup for multiple storage accounts to a vault.

You can use a single backup policy for your vaulted backup, operational backup, or both. The role assignment might take up to 30 minutes to take effect.Ī backup policy defines the schedule and frequency of the recovery points creation, and its retention duration in the Backup vault. Though operational backup of blobs is a local backup and doesn't 'store' data in the vault, the vault is required for various management operations. These include taking on-demand backups, performing restores, and creating backup policies. Create a Backup vaultĪ Backup vault is a management entity that stores recovery points created over time and provides an interface to perform backup related operations. Once here, ensure that the check-box is enabled.įor more information about the supported scenarios, limitations, and availability, See the support matrix. You can check this by navigating to the storage account > Object replication > Advanced settings. Ensure the storage accounts that need to be backed up have cross-tenant replication enabled.If any conflicts arise due to the same name of containers, the restore operation fails. While performing restores, ensure that the target storage account doesn't contain any containers with the same name as those backed up in a recovery point. Currently, you can use the vaulted backup solution to restore data to a different storage account only.You can retain data for a maximum of 10 years. Vaulted backup of blobs is a managed offsite backup solution that transfers data to the backup vault and retains as per the retention configured in the backup policy.Ensure that the Microsoft.DataProtection provider is registered for your subscription.įor more information about the supported scenarios, limitations, and availability, see the support matrix.Also, Microsoft recommends enabling soft delete for containers, in addition to operational backup, to protect against accidental deletion of containers. Rather than deleting an entire container, delete individual blobs if you may want to restore them later.

If you delete a container from the storage account by calling the Delete Container operation, that container can't be restored with a restore operation.The solution can be used to perform restores to the source storage account only and may result in data being overwritten.Long retention durations may, however, lead to longer time taken during the restore operation. This solution allows you to retain your data for restore for up to 360 days. This solution doesn't maintain an additional copy of data in the vault. Operational backup of blobs is a local backup solution that maintains data for a specified duration in the source storage account itself.

Configuring data backup solution