Azure – You can now centrally manage your backups with Backup Center (preview)

October 6, 2020 — Azure

As you know, you have the capability to backup your workloads (either from on-premises or Azure) to an Azure Recovery Vaults.

Well, as you may have multiple backup vaults (or you are a CSP managing Azure services for your customers), it may be difficult to easily manage backup tasks and reports.

Good news, a new backup capability has been added to help you centrally manage your recovery/backup vaults called Backup Center.

This is new Backup Center is currently in preview and currently supports Azure VM, Azure Database and PostgresSQL Server backups (see below for supported scenario)

Category	Scenario	Supported workloads	Limits
Monitoring	View all jobs	Azure Virtual Machine Azure Database for PostgreSQL server	7 days worth of jobs available out of the box Each filter/drop-down supports a maximum of 1000 items. So Backup Center can be used to monitor a maximum of 1000 subscriptions and 1000 vaults across tenants
Monitoring	View all backup instances	Azure Virtual Machine Azure Database for PostgreSQL server	7 days worth of jobs available out of the box Each filter/drop-down supports a maximum of 1000 items. So Backup Center can be used to monitor a maximum of 1000 subscriptions and 1000 vaults across tenants
Monitoring	View all backup policies	Azure Virtual Machine Azure Database for PostgreSQL server	7 days worth of jobs available out of the box Each filter/drop-down supports a maximum of 1000 items. So Backup Center can be used to monitor a maximum of 1000 subscriptions and 1000 vaults across tenants
Monitoring	View all vaults	Azure Virtual Machine Azure Database for PostgreSQL server	7 days worth of jobs available out of the box Each filter/drop-down supports a maximum of 1000 items. So Backup Center can be used to monitor a maximum of 1000 subscriptions and 1000 vaults across tenants
Actions	Configure backup	Azure Virtual Machine Azure Database for PostgreSQL server	Refer to support matrices for Azure VM backup and Azure Database for PostgreSQL Server backup
Actions	Restore Backup Instance	Azure Virtual Machine Azure Database for PostgreSQL server	Refer to support matrices for Azure VM backup and Azure Database for PostgreSQL Server backup
Actions	Create vault	Azure Virtual Machine Azure Database for PostgreSQL server	Refer to support matrices for Recovery Services vault
Actions	Create backup policy	Azure Virtual Machine Azure Database for PostgreSQL server	Refer to support matrices for Recovery Services vault
Actions	Execute on-demand backup for a backup instance	Azure Virtual Machine Azure Database for PostgreSQL server	Refer to support matrices for Azure VM backup and Azure Database for PostgreSQL Server backup
Actions	Stop backup for a backup instance	Azure Virtual Machine Azure Database for PostgreSQL server	Refer to support matrices for Azure VM backup and Azure Database for PostgreSQL Server backup
Insights	View Backup Reports	Azure Virtual Machine SQL in Azure Virtual Machine SAP HANA in Azure Virtual Machine Azure Files System Center Data Protection Manager Azure Backup Agent (MARS) Azure Backup Server (MABS)	Refer to supported scenarios for Backup Reports
Governance	View and assign built-in and custom Azure Policies under category ‘Backup’	n/a	n/a
Governance	View datasources not configured for backup	Azure Virtual Machine Azure Database for PostgreSQL server

To start using the Backup Center, logon to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) and search for Backup Center

This will then list all backup vaults and supported workloads you have access to

Benoit HAMET