Hi all
Prologue: I ended up posting to the "Managing Services on Windows Azure" forum. I was actually looking for theAzure Backupforum (was part of Windows Azure – CTPs, Betas & Labs Forums), but I cannot see those anymore after the TechNet forum change.
I have created my first backup vault in Windows Azure. On the first server where I wanted to set up online backup, I exported the public part of the computer certificate that the computer automatically gets via auto-enrollmentand uploaded the public part of the certificate to Azure Backup. After installing the agent on this server, I selected the correctcert and was able to register the server, set up up a backup plan etc.
Then I discovered two issues:
- Every server can currently only have ONE backup plan (found this finally confirmed on TechNet, but don't have the Source URL right now)
- The SAME certificate must be present in the local computer store of ALL servers that are supposed to use the same backup vault
This has the following ramifications:
- More overhead for setting up backups since the Azure backup agent needs to be installed/registered on many servers
- Instead of using a computer certificate, it might be better to create a New certificate template With EKU "Client Authentication" and "Allow private key to be exported", then enroll on the first server and copy the certificate to the other servers. This "certificate distribution" creates also overhead.
What are Your experiences so far?
Regards
/Maurice