I am trying to leverage Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup of the same VM guest without VMM andwithout DPM.
I know I can install Azure Backup into the Guest VM and get filesystem level protection - but not VSS level protection.
Although the new Azure Backup feature for application workloads is GREAT -- giving us a free DPM-like experience, it does have requirements that limits its usefulness.
There is also the bandwidth issue of ASR + Backup running at the same time.
So now I am trying to do the use the following:
Azure Site Recovery - Primary way of getting the data into the cloud
Azure Online Backup - Lets back up the data that's in the cloud for longer term retention that the 24 hours allowed by ASR
Azure Automation - Trying to use Powershell runbooks (well I started with the older powershell workflow runbooks but that doesn't seem to support the latest azure powershell module).
Now I am trying to work around the following:
When I use ASR to create VMServer-Test, I am able to get the VM discovered and registered, and even protected. However, when the ASR test process finishes and destroys the VM, If I go back and re-discover, the registration process doesn't see the VM as the same.
Question 1:
Any suggestions on how to continue protection on a VM that is a later point-in-time ASR recovery than the last?
Question 2:
How would Asure Backup behave if I had installed the Azure Backup into the guest VM, and then performed a test-restore? Would the resulting Azure VM be treated like an Azure IaaS backup - or would it still perform only file system level backups? (also how would it handle the VM instance name change to Server-test?)
Thanks!
-Neil
neilgo