Since its inception, Azure Backup has played a vital role in helping enterprises back-up their data on-premises or in the Cloud. Recently, besides Backup-as-a-Service, Microsoft introduced Restore-as-a-Service for instant restore of enterprise data.

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INSTANT FILE RESTORATION:
A WHOLE NEW BALL GAME FOR
DATA BACKUP ON AZURE

2. Instant File Restoration – a whole new ball game for data backup
on Azure:
Since its inception, Azure Backup has played a vital role in helping enterprises
back-up their data on-premises or in the Cloud. Recently, besides Backup-as-a-
Service, Microsoft introduced Restore-as-a-Service for instant restore of
enterprise data.
Using this service, enterprises can recover their data from previously created
restore points without paying additional costs. With Instant Restore, you can not
only create a writable snapshot of the recovery point, but once you do this, you
can create one or more ISCSI based recovery volumes. These can be browsed to
recover items by simple copy-paste method from recovery volumes to your
favourite destinations.
Benefits of using Azure Backup for Instant File Recovery:
1. Single restore process – an enterprise may use Azure Backup Agent to back
its on-premises data or may use Azure VM Backup to protect Azure VMs. They
can instantly restore their data using Restore-as-a-Service model. It acts as a
one-stop mechanism to immediately recover an enterprise’s files and folders.
2. Instant recovery – the option to instantly recover files from Cloud backup of
Azure VMs or on-premises file servers, is one of the main advantages of Azure
Backup. Whether an enterprise has accidently deleted a file/folder or is simply
validating a backup, instant restore helps in reducing the downtime drastically
while recovering the files.
3. Review before restore – users can run and check files with the help of
applications such as Oracle and SQL directly from the Cloud recovery point
snapshots, without having to first restore them. In this way, they can review the
final list of files before restoring them.
4. Flexibility in recovery – Since Azure Backup provides the entire snapshot of
the recovery point and relies on a copy of items for recovery; enterprise users
can restore many files from multiple folders to a local server or even to a
network share of their choice.

3. According to a recent update from Microsoft, customers using Azure Backup
Agent and Azure VM Backup (Windows VMs) can avail Azure Backup Instant
Recovery of files for preview. Click here to check how to instantly recover the
files from Cloud recovery points using Azure Backup Agent.
Contact Sysfore’s Cloud Disaster Recovery & Backup experts for your no
obligation / no cost in-depth analysis to see just how simple and cost effective it
is to implement a robust cloud Backup / Disaster Recovery plan for your
Enterprise. Write to us at info@sysfore.com or call us on +91-80-4110-5555 to
know more.