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GAB 2018 - Backup de clientes Windows 10 con azure backup
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This is not a total surprise to everyone: the amount of data organizations are collecting and now storing is rising. Analysis tells us that data rates are growing at over 40% per year. 90% of the world’s current data was created in the past 2 years
This rapid rise means that the cost of storing this data is rising year on year. The good news is the cost per terabyte is falling year on year, but unfortunately not at the same rate as data growth. The cost of back is also rising, from purchasing a solution, running it, and training people to use it. The cost and complexity of managing the storage is a factor - you have to manage all the backup media, store it, and test it in case you need it.
All this leads to possibility that important data may go unprotected, either entirely or for longer periods than is ideal.
As we consider these challenges, let’s see how Windows Azure Backup helps address them.
“If only there were a convenient, elastic, pay-as-you-use service…”
Windows Azure Backup is a new service in Windows Azure. In a nutshell, it provides customers the ability to store backups offsite in storage provided by Windows Azure.
It integrates with Microsoft backup tools, both the in-box Windows Server backup tool and the System Center Data Protection Manager product, as well as being driven by PowerShell scripting.
By integrating into these existing tools, Windows Azure Backup delivers simple and reliable server backup to the cloud for customers.
Windows Azure Backup helps protect server data against loss and corruption by enabling backup to offsite cloud storage in Windows Azure. It provides a consistent experience configuring, monitoring, and recovering backups across local disk and cloud storage, integrating with the in-box backup program in Microsoft Windows Server or System Center Data Protection Manager.
Windows Azure Backup encrypts and protects your backups in offsite cloud storage with Windows Azure, adding a layer of protection in case data loss or disaster impacts your servers.
Windows Azure Backup can integrate with the backup tools in Windows Server or System Center Data Protection Manager. You can manage cloud backups from these familiar tools to configure, monitor, and recover backups across local disk and cloud storage with ease.
Windows Azure Backup delivers efficient data protection. It minimizes network bandwidth use, provides flexible data retention policies, and provides a cost-effective data protection solution.
Convenient offsite protection: Windows Azure Backup provides convenient, automated offsite data protection. Local backups leave data vulnerable to unfortunate events such as fire. Continuously migrating backup media offsite can be inconvenient. Windows Azure Backup stores data safely away from your premises, reducing the need to secure and protect onsite backup media.
Safe data: Data stored in Windows Azure is geo-replicated among Windows Azure data centers, for additional protection.
Encrypted backups: Your data is encrypted before it leaves your premises, and remains encrypted in Windows Azure – only you have the key.
Familiar interface: Small businesses protecting a single server, or a few servers, can use the familiar in-box backup tool to protect data, manually or on a regular, automated schedule. Larger organizations with System Center 2012 can use the Data Protection Manager component to centrally manage backups across multiple servers.
Windows Azure integration: Windows Azure Backup is fully integrated with the Azure Management Portal for sign-up, billing, and web-based management.
Efficient use of bandwidth and storage: Both WAN bandwidth and Windows Azure storage are conserved by sending only changes to files with incremental backups.
Flexibility in recovery: Incremental backups provide multiple versions of data for point-in-time recovery. Plus, you can recover just what you need with file-level recovery.
Flexible configuration: Configurable data retention policies, data compression, and data transfer throttling provide for both flexible backup policies and backup efficiency.
Cost-effective: Control costs by reducing the need for local storage and offsite media management, while benefiting from simple storage-based pricing with no per-server or data transfer fees.
When can you use Windows Azure Backup?
If you’re already using System Center Data Protection Manager, you can start using Windows Azure Backup today – it integrates with System Center Data Protection Manager.
If you’re a small business or branch office and have a small number of servers to protect, Windows Azure Backup integrates with the in-box Windows Server backup tools you may already be using.
Windows Azure Backup is suitable for any workload, file servers, SharePoint®, SQL, Exchange, or others. Windows Azure Backup integrates with Windows Server technologies to make this happen.
From the previous slide we’ve seen that Windows Azure Backup is suitable for a variety of organizations and workloads. Let’s look at how Windows Azure Backup works in more detail, starting with how to use Windows Azure Backup today in a small business environment or branch office.
As previously mentioned, if you have a small number of servers and you want to protect the data they hold using the built-in tools, the process to configure Windows Azure Backup is relatively simple.
[FIRST CLICK]
First, sign up for a Windows Azure account. This will provide you access to the Windows Azure Management Portal. From there, you can select the Recovery services option and add the Windows Azure Backup service to your account.
[SECOND CLICK]
The next step involves an exchange of data. We’ll cover the certificate part later on in the security section, but for now the important part is the installation of the agent on the server or servers that you want to register to use the Windows Azure Backup service.
[THIRD CLICK]
As mentioned, the Windows Azure Backup agent integrates with the existing Windows Server backup tool. When you start the tool after the agent installation, you register this server using your certificate. Then you configure what data you want to back up and what schedule you want to use.
[FOURTH CLICK]
That is it. So if you are using a schedule, the server will now back up your data to that schedule. You can monitor it from the backup tool, to see when the backup ran, when the next one will run, and view any issues.
[FIFTH CLICK]
If you need to recover data at any time, for example a server failure, or even an accidental deletion of a file or folder from a location being protected, you can use the backup tool to recover that data. Windows Azure Backup provides very granular recovery options, either to the original server or a different one.
Recovering data to an alternative server is a good practice for testing recovery procedures.
Let’s now look at how Windows Azure Backup works in an environment where you are using System Center Data Protection Manager.
Most of this procedure is the same as we’ve just seen.
[FIRST CLICK]
First, sign up for a Windows Azure account as we talked about in the previous slide.
[SECOND CLICK]
The next step involves installing the agent on the DPM server, not, as in the previous example onto the server you want to protect.
[THIRD CLICK]
The Windows Azure Backup agent integrates with DPM. When you restart DPM after the tool has been installed, you register this server using your certificate. Then you configure what data you want to back up and what schedule you want to use.
[FOURTH CLICK]
The DPM server will continue to protect the existing server as it did before the agent was installed, but the server will now back up data from servers you have configured.
[FIFTH CLICK]
If you need to recover data at any time, for example a server failure, or even an accidental deletion of a file or folder from a location being protected, you can use DPM to recover that data, while still continuing to monitor and protect the other servers.
[First Click]
The first stage in the transfer process is the encryption of your data on premise using your key.
[Second Click]
Your data stays encrypted with your key while in transit over the wire to Windows Azure storage.
[Third Click]
Your data stays encrypted while in Windows Azure storage. It is never decrypted while it resides in Windows Azure storage.
Your data can only be decrypted once it’s restored on your premises. Only you have the decryption key to do this.
This makes it very important to protect this key. Make sure you back up your key, keep it safe, and store a copy offsite. Your data cannot be decrypted without it. In the event of key loss, Microsoft cannot help you as Microsoft does not keep a copy of your key and has no access to it. The key is never passed to Windows Azure during any Windows Azure backup.
Let’s look at what we’ve discussed today.
Thinking back to the data protection challenges, we know that as data rates grow organizations need a solution that is simple and reliable.
Windows Azure Backup provides a simple, reliable backup solution that utilizes an enterprise class storage system in Windows Azure, this delivers convenient, reliable, secure offsite protection. All this is delivered using Microsoft’s backup tools.
You can get started with Windows Azure Backup today; let’s end with a look at the three simple steps to get you going.