All right,
let's get this party started. In this demonstration, we'll work with
the restore scenario in our Recovery Services vault.
Hopefully, you're coming to this lesson from the previous module
in which we looked at backup into the vault.
We looked at a number of different ways to do that, the so‑called MARS agent,
the approach of just single servers and then installing that agent and
registering your servers into the Recovery Services vault.
We looked at installing the Azure Backup Server to do workload backups.
Now let's look at restore, like I said,
and let's go into the Azure portal and into our Recovery Services
vault, and let me show you where we go and what we do.
We want to come down past Getting started, and we'll go
down to Protected items, Backup items.
Now recall that there are a number of different scenarios. We've got,
it looks like a couple active Azure VM backups.
We've got two Azure Backup Agent, that's the MARS agent option, and
then we have the workload‑based Azure Backup Server,
that's the MABS option, and I've even run a backup against Azure Storage
protecting one or more of my file shares. What I don't yet have in my
vault are System Center DPM backups. That's because I don't have DPM
installed; I just have MABS installed. And then we've got SQL and SAP
HANA. I technically could do a SQL in Azure VM because at least a couple
of my Azure VMs do have SQL Server installed. But let's just run with it.
You want to come out of this demo with a nice feel for the
main built‑in recovery options in Azure specifically, okay?
That's important for the exam.
So let's go to Azure Virtual Machine for our backup item type, and we can see
that my web1 has at least one backup successful in the past.
It looks like web2, it hasn't had an initial backup yet, so that's fine.
We can go in and we can back up now, as you can see, which is what I'll select,
and I'll click OK, and that will run a backup against that machine using that
Instant Restore area that we talked about before.
Now let's say that we've got a problem with web1, or let's say, by
contrast, we want to do a trial restore to make sure that we know how to
do a recovery in Azure VMs. Let's come over here. Let's actually click
View details to go into the backup item screen. And there's a lot you can
do here that's pretty cool in terms of reporting. You can look at alerts.
If you go into jobs,
it'll give you a filtered view of the last 24 hours of not just what's
happening with the current VM, but across all of them. You see that
we've got our web2 backup in progress, and it looks like web1 was last
backed up on April 24th at 3 p.m.
Okay, that's fine.
Let me back up, whoops, let me try backing up again.
Go to Backup items, Azure Virtual Machine. Let's select our web1.