Microsoft Azure backup on premises is a data backup that copies the hardware data to a storage device located at the Azure cloud. Users can back up data on-premises machines and Azure virtual machines. These devices can back up your data manually or automatically. The data is stored onsite for quick access or physically moved off-site for some archival reasons.

Moreover, most companies traditionally start with an on-premise solution. Due to its initial simplicity in understanding and setup. Absolutely, users have more flexibility and granular scheduling options for running backups. On-premises, the backup solution includes network attached storage, storage servers, and tape backups.

Here are some of the salient features of Azure backup on-premises :

Automatic Storage Management

Hybrid environments mostly need diverse storage, some on-premises and some on the cloud. With the Azure backup server, there is no cost for using the Azure backup on-premises storage devices. Automatically, the Azure backup server allocates and manages backup storage. Especially, Users only have to pay for the storage they have consumed. It works as a pay as you go, model.

Unlimited Scaling

AzureVM backup uses the underlying power and unlimited scale of the Azure cloud. It delivers high availability with no maintenance or monitoring overhead. Further, Users can set up alerts to provide information about events. But they don’t need to worry about high availability for the data in the cloud.

Multiple Storage Options

As an aspect of high availability is storage replication. Microsoft Azure recovery services offer two types of replication. So, users can choose the required backup storage option as their need

Locally Redundant Storage (LRS) replicates the data three times in paired data centers and in the same region. So, LRS is a low-cost option for the protection of data from local hardware failures.

Geo-redundant storage (GRS) replicates the data to a secondary region. Miles away from the primary location of source data. GRS cost is little more than LRS, as it provides a higher level of durability of the data even if there is a regional disgrace.

Long Term Retention

Importantly, instead of switching backup copies from the disk to tape and moving the tape to an offsite location. Particularly, users can use Microsoft Azure recovery services for short-term and long-term retention. Furthermore, Azure doesn’t limit the length of the time data remains in an Azure backup server or recovery services.

Smart businesses always choose the best solution to compete well in the market. therefore, they choose Microsoft ERP, Office 365 in UAE and Azure VM to fulfill their business needs.

Recovery Points

Azure Backup Server has a limit of 9999 recovery points. These points show the maximum backup frequency for each component. So, the user backup policy configuration determines how quickly you consume the recovery points. For example, if a user creates a recovery point each day then you can retain recovery points for 27 years before it runs out.

Advantage of Backup Server

Users can manage backups for multiple machines that he/she gathers into protection groups in a single console. The users don’t have to install MARS (Azure Agent) on each machine they want to backup. Each machine runs the DPM/MABS protection agent, and the MARS agent runs on MABS/DPM only. These agents are used to replicate the server’s data on the cloud.

Security

The data is encrypted from Azure Backup on the premises machine using AES256 and the secure HTTPS link is sent. Clearly, the data transmitted in the cloud is protected by the link only between storage and recovery service. Hence, for on-premises backup encryption at rest is provided using the passphrase you provide when backing up to Azure. Microsoft doesn’t decrypt the data at any point.

Last Words

Azure backup on premises refers to business’s computer files, applications and other digital content stored onsite. In offices, data is in the form of physical and removable storage media, backup tapes, and disks to save in servers. Furthermore, with fast recovery times, low cost and portability. Preferably, TMR consult partners of Microsoft is providing these services in Pakistan.