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Administer data protection This module explains how to secure and recover data in Microsoft Azure and hybrid environments. It covers core capabilities, best practices, and operational workflows for protecting data and enabling recovery across common scenarios. What you’ll learn
  • How Azure Backup protects cloud and on-premises resources and how to configure it for common workloads.
  • How to back up files and folders to protect user data and application files from accidental deletion or corruption.
  • How to back up entire virtual machines to enable fast recovery of OS, applications, and attached disks.
  • How to use the Azure Recovery Services vault to manage backups, configure redundancy (for example, LRS/GRS), apply backup policies, and use soft delete to prevent accidental removal of backups.
  • How Azure Site Recovery provides disaster recovery by replicating VMs to another region and enabling orchestrated failover.
These services together form a layered data protection and disaster recovery strategy for Azure workloads.
Use Azure Backup for regular point-in-time recovery of files, folders, and virtual machines. Use Azure Site Recovery for orchestrated disaster recovery and cross-region failover testing.
Key services and when to use them Core topics we’ll cover
  • Configure file and folder backups to protect user documents and application files so accidental deletion or corruption can be recovered quickly.
  • Configure virtual machine backups to protect entire VMs and enable fast recovery of operating systems, applications, and data.
  • Use the Recovery Services vault to create and manage backup policies, choose redundancy (e.g., LRS, GRS), monitor jobs, and enable soft delete to guard against accidental deletion of backup data.
  • Implement Azure Site Recovery to replicate VMs across regions for disaster recovery, perform planned and unplanned failovers, and test recovery plans without impacting production.
Relevant documentation
Be sure to configure retention and soft delete settings in the Recovery Services vault. Without appropriate retention, backups may be purged; without soft delete, accidental deletions can be irreversible.
A presentation slide titled "Learning Objectives" showing a numbered list of five Azure backup and recovery topics (Azure Backup Solution; Configure File and Folder Backups; Configure Virtual Machine Backups; Vault data protection; Azure Site Recovery) with colorful icons and a blue gradient sidebar.

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