Full volume restore using MARS console stuck at Estimating size of Backup items...
Hi, I've been attempting to start a full volume recovery from MARS, however it has been stuck at "Estimating size of Backup items..." for 24 hours and I believe there is nothing currently in progress. Additionally, on the Backup jobs blade in…
How do I recover Azure Backup Passphrase?
Hello, During setup for Azure Backup for on-premises machines, the backup server passphrase was misplaced. I would like to retrieve it since I am taking one of the servers off site recovery. How do I go about retrieving the backup passphrase? since…
Unable to enable backup on fortigate VM
Hi Team, I have a fortigate VM on which we have deployed fortigate firewall in our environment. Following are the details of the VM. Operating system:Linux (FortiOS v7.0.14) Size:Standard F2s (2 vcpus, 4 GiB memory) I am trying to enable backups on this…
How to use REST API to get Recovery Services Vault Security PIN?
I'm trying to use this API to programmatically get the security pin for my recovery services vault. The endpoint is documented here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/backup/security-pi-ns/get?view=rest-backup-2023-02-01&tabs=HTTP But I'm…
Azure backup for VM - Recommend policy settings for archiving of to-be-deleted VM
Hi, I have VMs that will soon be deleted and want to keep 1 backup/snapshot of the VM for archiving. What is the recommendation backup policy settings for such purpose? The goals: Run backup on-demand only. Retain that snapshot/recovery point for 10…
How to move my VMs from an existing RSvault to a new RSVault without deleting my restore points.
Hi, How to move my VMs from an existing RSvault to a new RSVault without deleting my restore points. How do I do that?
Save your data before it’s deleted - Email From Microsoft
A month or so ago, I received an email from Microsoft saying "Your subscription offer, Access to Azure Active Directory, will be disabled on May 2, 2024". I have a Pay as you go account that I created when Azure was very first released (2009?)…
Oracle Database with ASM on Oracle Linux VM in Azure will support for Azure Site recovery for Disaster recovery case
We are currently using Oracle 12C/ Oracle Linux 6.0 on Azure VM with regular storage (Premium SSD) with ASM. We are looking for information about setting up Oracle DR using Azure Site Recovery. Specifically, we want to know if Azure Site Recovery is…
Getting an error while changing Standard to Enhanced backup policy
Getting an error while changing Standard to Enhanced backup policy : Deployment Fails with terminal provisioning state 'Failed'. I have a standard policy specified for Backup of Azure VM, want to change to Enhanced policy to take multiple backups a day.…
how to enable full backup of each snapshot instead of incremental in azure db vault
lets say i have a retention period of 2 days. i have enabled daily backup of azure disk. After 3 days, my first backup snapshot (full) will be deleted. Will i be able to restore my entire data after 3 days?
Update snapshot Property by using Azure Automation account
Hello, I have a Backup vault that takes snapshot for OS disks and shared disks everyday, during 14 days. When checking the snapshot file, the network setting is enabled public access from all network. Because there are a lot of snapshot file that I need…
Need to configure Report to check daily backup, patch and Reboot status for azure virtual machine using Powershell script
Need to configure Report to check daily backup, patch and Reboot status for azure virtual using Powershell script
MABS Database backup
Hello, I need to backup the MABS Server (so the database). I have a server with the MABS agent installed and 4 VMWare VMs are backupped regularly each day. Reading the documentation is not so clear which agent should I install on the MABS Server to…
MARS Server Registration Error
I am trying to get the MARS Agent to connect to azure and backup some files on a Windows Server. I follow the steps and eventually get an internal error shown below. Says contact support but when I try that it says I need to purchase a support…
How to migrate VMs from gen1 to Gen2 on different azure resource group using backups
We want to migrate our existing VMs from gen1 to Gen2 on different azure resource group using backups without disturbing existing VMs, we have VMs backups so is it possible to migrate disk storage of OS and data from backups to Gen2? Regards, Agha
i lost my items in files shared under my account storage, how i can restore it
i lost the items in the File shares without soft delete enabled
Azure backup vault
Hi All, I want to understand how to recover a drive from the Azure backup vault, where the on-prem server where the MARS agent was installed is not online. Thanks
AzureBackup data recovery
The server I'm using AzureBackup on breaks down and I want to re-set it up and restore the backup, but it says the passphrase is incorrect. If the passphrase memorized in a local file does not work, is there a way to reset it?
DPM 2022 agent install
HI all, there's a new server installed DPM 2022 there is a backup client server on OS 2008R2 The problem is that I can't install a client on it DPM earlier there was installed not the latest version of the agent, but by mistake it was deleted and now it…
How to properly size scratch/staging/etc locations
Currently dealing with a new installation, where the expected large storage array has not yet arrived, and I need to start backups before it arrives. Have a 10TB vmWare VM that MABS is backing up to Disk and online. (currently contains very little date.…