The Veeam for Azure Backup is pretty simple you have backup server which runs as a Linux VM and is managed trough a web UI. Incremental snapshots will always use standard HDDs storage, irrespective of the storage type of the disk, whereas regular snapshots can use premium SSDs. Veeam can also use incremental snapshot data, the important aspect here is that there are a few differences between an incremental snapshot and a regular snapshot.
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The full backup file becomes a starting point of the backup chain. When Veeam does a backup of a virtual machine in Azure, Veeam Backup copies the whole content of the virtual machine instance and creates a full backup file in an Azure Blob storage repository. Veeam can also provide direct restore of virtual machines in Azure using Instant restore. Therefore, you can use Veeam Backup & Replication to create a copy of VM instance backups in on-premises repositories and perform data migration between cloud, on-premises and virtual infrastructures. Veeam Backup for Azure creates backup files in the native Veeam format. As mentioned in the other blog post, one of the advantages that Veeam has is that it supports Hot/Cold Storage tiers which allows you do save a lot of money for long-term backups.
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Now the way this works, is that Veeam for Azure product (Which is running as a product on virtual machines in Azure) has an API integration using a service principal in Azure. It even supports incremental backup using the newly introduced incremental snapshot feature on managed disks in Azure. Veeam for Azure provides a native backup solution for virtualized workloads on Azure.Ī Couple of weeks ago I wrote a blogpost looking at Azure native backup vs Veeam Backup using agent based solutions ( ) now a big difference with this product is that is integrates and provide a native backup solution using the built-in API’s in Azure Resource Manager to do a full backup of virtual machines using the snapshot mechanism for managed disks. Since it was announced at Ignite last year I have been waiting for this product to be released.