1 Intro
2 Documentation
3 Tips and Tidbits
4 What’s The Difference Between Azure Backup And Azure Site Recovery?
5 System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)

Intro

Azure Backup is an Azure-based service you can use to back up (or protect) and restore your data in the Microsoft cloud. Azure Backup offers a simple solution for backing up your on-premises resources to the cloud. Get short and long-term backup without the need to deploy complex on-premises backup solutions.

Documentation

Azure Backup Service

Tips and Tidbits

What is the Azure Backup service?
On-premises - Back up files, folders, system state using the Microsoft Azure Recovery Services (MARS) agent. Or use the DPM or Azure Backup Server (MABS) agent to protect on-premises VMs (Hyper-V and VMware) and other on-premises workloads
Azure VMs - Back up entire Windows/Linux VMs (using backup extensions) or back up files, folders, and system state using the MARS agent.
Azure Managed Disks - Back up Azure Managed Disks
Azure Files shares - Back up Azure File shares to a storage account
SQL Server in Azure VMs - Back up SQL Server databases running on Azure VMs
Get unlimited data transfer: Azure Backup doesn't limit the amount of inbound or outbound data you transfer, or charge for the data that's transferred.
- Outbound data refers to data transferred from a Recovery Services vault during a restore operation.
Get app-consistent backups: An application-consistent backup means a recovery point has all required data to restore the backup copy.
Azure Backup stores backed-up data in vaults - Recovery Services vaults and Backup vaults.
- A vault is an online-storage entity in Azure that's used to hold data, such as backup copies, recovery points, and backup policies.

What’s The Difference Between Azure Backup And Azure Site Recovery?

What’s The Difference Between Azure Backup And Azure Site Recovery?

Azure Backupq	Azure Site Recovery

Azure Backupq	Azure Site Recovery
Backs up data on-premises and in the cloud	Coordinates virtual-machine and physical-server replication, failover, and fullback.
Have wide variability in their acceptable Recovery point objective. VM backups usually one day while database backups as low as 15 minutes.	DR solutions have low Recovery point objectives; DR copy can be behind by a few seconds/minutes.
Backup data is typically retained for 30 days or less. From a compliance view, data may need to be saved for years. Backup data is ideal for archiving in such instances.	DR needs only operational recovery data, which can take hours to a day. Using DR data for long-term retention is not recommended because of the fine-grained data capture.
Because of a larger Recovery point objective, the amount of data a backup solution needs to process is usually much higher, which leads to a longer Recovery time objective.	Disaster recovery solutions have smaller Recovery time objectives because they are more in sync with the source.

System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)

Data Protection Manager
System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) is a robust enterprise backup and recovery system that contributes to your business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) strategy by facilitating the backup and recovery of enterprise data

You can deploy System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) for:

Application-aware backup: Application-aware back up of Microsoft workloads, including SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint.
File backup: Back up files, folders and volumes for computers running Windows server and Windows client operating systems.
System backup: Back up system state or run full, bare-metal backups of physical computers running Windows server or Windows client operating systems.
Hyper-V backup: Back up Hyper-V virtual machines (VM) running Windows or Linux. You can back up an entire VM, or run application-aware backups of Microsoft workloads on Hyper-V VMs running Windows.

DPM can store backup data to:

Disk: For short-term storage DPM backs up data to disk pools.
Azure: For both short-term and long-term storage off-premises, DPM data stored in disk pools can be backed up to the Microsoft Azure cloud using the Azure Backup service.