 Welcome everyone to another learn life session life on learn TV. My name is Thomas Maurer and I'm here with my boss manager friend and beer expert Rick Claus. Hi, Rick. Hey Thomas, thanks for having me man. This is going to be an interesting one. It's about backup and restores. Is that right? Is that what we're talking about today? Absolutely. Yep. I'm happy that we're going to both talk about the same thing tonight. So the learn life or the learn module on Microsoft learn. We're going to talk about today and we're going to through go through today is called implement hybrid backup and recovery with Windows Server. And you can obviously follow us live directly on this learn module here directly on learn TV, YouTube or wherever you're watching. But you can also open this learn module up right now and actually join us when we go through this short link or you can also go through and use the QR code. One of the other will get you to the right spot. I will ask that you do sign in because then you can get points and actually build up your profile for what's going on. I noticed that the beginning of this before we're getting ready for this, you're like a level 12 or something like that, man. That's crazy. I'm only like level seven. I've got more to go on here. Yeah, I did not even notice. I don't even know if it's good, but assume that you're like not that high and I think it's good. So we can definitely compete a little bit and would be happy if people also, by the way, if you're watching and you have like a lot of points and done a lot of learn modules and they have different levels, feel free to share them and tell us what you're doing. Absolutely. So, Rick, shall we go into and have a look at the module because we also, by the way, just to mention before we jump into this, we also prepared obviously a couple of demos for you to actually go through this stuff, which is mentioned in the learn module. But I don't know if you noticed, but the last time I did the demos, my demo failed because it was a video capability that was using, which just was not good for some reason. So I'm coming to you with live demos this time to have some fun with it. So that'll be fun. And yourself, are you doing videos? You're doing live demos as well? What are you doing? Of course, I'm going live. I mean, there's no way I'm going to do recorded stuff. Obviously, recordings can help, but today we're going to do all of the stuff live. So that's a good thing, I guess. And the interesting part about this being learn live is that we're being streamed to about three or four, maybe even five different endpoints. And so if you do have questions, you do have stuff you want to chat about, please make this interactive. I mean, I love talking with Thomas. He's an awesome guy to talk with. But we also like to hear from folks that are inside the different various chat rooms. If you're joining us on Learn TV, there's a technology or a plugin that we have for the chat you can go off and use. You can directly engage with us as well. Wherever you happen to be watching on the YouTubes or on stream elements, sorry, not stream elements on Twitch or wherever it happens to be, go off and say hello. Because I can already see my good friend, Angel McCallum, saying hello from the UK side of things. If I remember correctly, yes, from the UK. So over there in the Europe. Yep, yep. Must be late for Andrew. Must be late for him. So we definitely wouldn't want to disappoint him when we talk today about backup. And I think that also brings us directly into the module or the learn module itself. Backup obviously a very, very important topic for a lot of like IT administrators or if you're in IT, basically for everyone, back up even if you're a developer or even if you're not in IT, backup should be absolutely on your list of things to do. But we're going to have a special look today at Azure backup and how you can leverage that to do backup on your Windows servers. But not only in Azure, right? We also going to look at the hybrid side of things and how you can leverage Azure backup for your Windows servers running in your own data center or edge location. Right. One thing that's interesting is while you're going through these different learn modules, a little hint, if you are actually trying to search in finals, different points you can get, you do have to visit every single one of those pages and scroll down to the bottom and hit the next button to continue or take those individual different quizzes that might happen to pop up to be able to claim those points. I only mention this because I saw that Thomas was getting sloppy and hadn't claimed the first set of points yet or has not completed them all. So he will at least complete them during the course of this learn live session to make sure he collects all the points. Absolutely. Definitely. So in this case, we're going to be going through our lovely process of backup and recovery with different types of things, specifically in a hybrid and also inside of a pure Azure world for being able to do some backups of stuff. We'll be talking about policies. We'll be talking about recoveries as well. We'll be able to talk about how to manage those backups and enable them on a variety of types of machines. All that sort of stuff happens to be there. Pre-requisite twice. You built your demo just out of curiosity. There's a video at the end of this module you can watch if you're interested. But even with the free trial of Azure, you can actually set up a backup using Azure backup and install the appropriate things. I'm not going to give away what they are because Thomas is talking about that. To be able to backup even like lab machines you might have inside of your environment or you could go ahead and like I did because my half of the demos that I'm doing are all inside of Azure, I just split up a couple of VMs and went through the backup process up there too. You can get some really easy hands-on. It's not very complex to set up. If you understand the basics of creating VMs and then installing agents on them, you're set to go basically. Absolutely, absolutely. There's not much. If you're already a Windows Server administrator, you probably already have things ready to go so you can try it out and make sure that it actually works. Absolutely. Before we actually dive into the next part, let's have a look at the different units here. We're going to have to look today. We're definitely going to have a look at the introduction where we actually talk a little bit about backup in general. Then obviously for those who haven't really heard, we're going to have to look at Azure backup in general. What is it? What are the terms and explain that a little bit that you understand when can you actually use Azure backup? Rick, I don't know about you, but when I speak to a lot of people, when I talk about Azure backup, they think, well, this is only for stuff in Azure. It's great. That's true. You can use it for stuff in Azure. Again, as I said before, it's also something you can leverage to run it on-prem and backup, like for example, long-term data to Azure as well. Absolutely. Then obviously we have to talk about recovery vaults because that's where the configurations and the policies are stored and then how to create those policies so that it applies on a regular basis. There's a bit of a nuance there that you'll learn about between the on-prem version and the Azure version as far as doing policies are concerned. How to recover individual machines, how to recover files off of those. Obviously you always want to try circumferies to make sure you understand how they work in a non-pressure basis. Then when you are under pressure, you know exactly what's going on. Then going through and doing some backup and restore of the on-premises world. Then finally, managing those virtual machine backups with a different backup service, doing some reporting on them and things like that and then going through. I think that's where Casey, this is the points because you haven't done the knowledge check. We'll do the knowledge check together to make sure that Thomas gets all of his points and gets his questions answered correctly and then he gets awarded the missing points they need to have for this. Sounds like a plan, Rick. Sounds like a plan. Good. Let's have a look at the introduction part. Again, this is just to get you a little bit of a feeling what we can actually do with the Azure backup service and why also the Azure backup or general backup is important. We always have these cool scenarios. In this case, we have our favorite company again or at least my favorite company. I like how you said cool scenarios. I think I might be putting too much energy into this. No, but it's good to realize when would I use this? It goes like Contoso. Again, stress, don't stress enough. This is probably my favorite or my second favorite company in the world at least, directly after Microsoft to work for. They obviously want to leverage Azure backup to do some of their backups for the Windows IS VMs running in Azure but then also to do file backups in case of disasters and stuff like that for their on-prem Windows servers. Obviously, we already went through the learning objectives in the introduction piece, so it's just simply copied here for your reference. The interesting thing here is that some of the nuances they call out in that particular scenario talks about that Contoso currently uses your traditional on-premises tape backups for restores, remember tapes? Those were fun. Then we're going to be looking at how to implement recovery vaults, backup policies, and then implement them across both VMs in Azure and also VMs inside of the VMs and physical machines inside of your on-premises world. Yeah, that was great times. I remember when I first started in IT, obviously we had the short-term backup from file servers mostly, but then also applications and stuff like that. We put them on a disk, on a server with lots of disks, so we have the short-term backup and then what we called the long-term backup, that was really done on tapes. I remember we had to, obviously every day, the tape has to be changed and they were in the larger companies, we had automatic machines doing that, but then for smaller companies, there was one person actually in the morning going and changing the tape and then that tape was taken and put into a safe. Then also, I remember, I think every month or so, they took one of the tapes and they put it even into a bank, that it was like an external disaster. And not just any bank, a Swiss bank, because you're in Switzerland, so it's even the highest level of capabilities that you happen to have inside of that too. Exactly, but now think about it. Now with the cloud, obviously, things became way easier with that. Instead of having someone doing the short-term backup, you probably still want to have in your location, in some cases, where you can do a fast restore without using a lot of bandwidth to restore a lot, if you have to restore a lot of files. But if you think about long-term backup, tape handling, maybe not the most fun thing to do in the world. So we can actually leverage the cloud to actually do very long-term backups and restore them in the cloud. I think if I remember correctly, Rick, I think it's like 99 years retention rate or something like that, but we can actually see that in the demo then. Yeah, it just, you can be as creative as you want with these different policies and as customized as you want to have, so definitely for sure. The description of Azure backups, let's actually go in and dive into this a little bit, man, because we're kind of dancing around some of these things, but basically it is your ability to go through and to basically do away with some of your on-premises tapes if you want to or start to deprioritize them, but it allows you to simply protect files and folders on Windows servers and also on client systems that are both on-prem and inside of Azure, and it all runs through a 64-bit server and client agent or installable that you go in and put on the individual box, and then it's going to go through and use that to be able to create your long-term storage of backups inside of the Azure world. But the interesting thing is, and maybe you can mention a little bit about this, is that it actually ties into and if you needed to, can tie into the data protection manager if you're using DPM in the on-premises world. Yeah. Thoughts on that, my friend? Yeah, absolutely. So I mean, if you're looking at, like if you already have system center in your environment, that you're running data protection manager or DPM in your environment to backup things like Exchange or SharePoint, SQL files, VMs, and so on, you can actually use a plug-in there. Well, it's integrated the latest services, but then use that instead of, for example, the tapes for the long-term backup and actually bring that to Azure. What I also find very cool, if you don't have system center data protection manager in place and you still want to do all this cool stuff and you don't need the tape part, you can actually download our Azure backup server directly in your environment, which is basically a stripped-down version of system center data protection manager, but you get it actually for free in terms of like if you pay for the backups but you get it in your environment, you don't have to have any system center licenses or pay anything upfront. And then the only feature which you don't have with this one is actually to do the tape backup, right? So if you decide, well, I don't even want tapes, I do a short-term backup on this and then the long-term backups to Azure, you can absolutely use the Azure backup server to do that. That one works well from a scale perspective as well, too, because you can have multiple different systems protected on-premises all talking to that backup server and then that backup server is the one that goes up to Azure in case you're worried about your network traffic so it's not a good architectural option you can do for your design for this. Now, an interesting thing that comes up is the way that we look after this. Some things that we mentioned here and the Azure backup offers optional features. The first thing is when someone goes and deletes a backup, there is a 14-day retention policy even if the deletion happens. I mentioned this only because at the very end of this module we talk about how obviously ransomware and malware are going in and deleting content and encrypting your hard drives. If a malicious attacker actually goes in and gains access to your system and then has the ability to go through your credentials to log in and look at the Azure world and they delete a backup to try to prevent you from restoring your files prior to when they're encrypted, you can get notified of a deletion of a backup history and you can also obviously restore back up to 14 days in case the entire backup scenario for that particular system has been erased from our backup services. We have this buffer protection window, if you will, that exists automatically for 14 days, which is very, very good. That makes a lot of sense in these cases. There's also these ransomware attacks where your production data gets encrypted, for example, and then they obviously want to make sure that you don't have any backups to restore, and in this case, we want to help you to protect that as well, absolutely. And it's good to know under the benefits and description area inside this one module in case you're getting to ask these questions for why using this. First of all, it's unlimited scaling. You can't run out of space. It's the cloud. So if we run out of space because you run out of space, there's a bigger issue that we've got to worry about. So basically it's a pay as you go model. We're using automatic tiering to make sure that you're trying to stay in the most cost-effective storage that's there. The one thing that comes up as well is by default we will be using geo-redundant storage or GRS storage. You can actually save a bit of cost if you don't need to have geo-redundant storage and change the storage, the recovery vault to only use locally redundant storage or LRS instead, in case you needed to save a little bit of money there. And it does have, as I mentioned, long-term retention. I think you brought up the point of something like 99 years was one of the configurable options as far as the policy is concerned. But it can be as creative as you want to with that. And then we have to tie back into this whole concept of a solid backup plan is one part of a business continuity or of a recovery plan in case something goes wrong inside of your environment. There are obviously other things you should be looking at as well, but the nuts and bolts of basics of what you have to have in place is a good plan that you've tested for being able to back up and restore those critical systems. Yeah, absolutely. And yeah, you just mentioned the long-term retention again, right? I think one interesting conversation I had was like, okay, well, but 99 years is actually a lot. So you will probably have more problems restoring that and actually using it and finding an application can still read the file format, right? If you've installed something exotic, I don't know, something which is used today, like a hundred years from now, I don't know if I still will be able to open a specific file format. So that's going to be interesting. I also want to add two things here when we talk about these benefits here. One is obviously the inbound and outbound data transfer and obviously as you can see here, it's basically unlimited so you can actually put as much in and out as you want. Now, if you're familiar with Azure, you know that like outbound traffic, like so if you will get stuff from Azure down to your environment again or out of Azure, there's usually a cost in that, right? With Azure backup, there's no cost involved in that. That's already included in the backup price. So we don't want to like trick you in and say, well, now you need to restore, now pay us, right? Now you pay us more. That's absolutely not the idea when it comes to backup. Yeah, that's the egress and ingress and so there's no egress charges on this. And the demos and the stuff that we're talking about right now is going down the nuts and bolts of virtual machines and physical machines on-premises in Azure. Azure backup also will work for other services inside of Azure as well. Obviously, different databases because database has to be backed up differently. SAP HANA database has to be backed up differently as well. So a bunch of different stuff is also covered in there. We're only going to be covering the VM side to keep it nice and simple and kind of go from there. Yeah, and the next, the only point on this slide, I'm sorry, I want to also quickly mention that we're on this page is encryption, right? I get asked about this a lot. So obviously these stuff is encrypted when you back it up to Azure. So I will not show you this, but when you set this up, for example, you need to define a key phrase. For example, when you back up your on-premises data to Azure. Now, this key phrase is needed if you need to do a restore when the server is gone and you need to set up a new server, you need to actually put in that key phrase to encrypt that data. If you lose that key phrase, there is no way you will get we will be able to access it or you will be able to access it nor anyone else will be able to access it. So this is a very crucial part that when you set these things up, keep that in mind as well, that you need to actually make sure that they restore your key phrase in a safe place. Right. Good. So we talked already a lot about these things, but I think it's good to highlight this again. How can you actually use Azure Backup and what are the scenarios? I just mentioned before that you can obviously use that on-premises. So you can use Azure Backup, not only for Azure, but you can use Azure Backup to backup files and folders in the system state using the Recovery Service agent or also what we call it in short, the Mars agent. Right. It sends from Microsoft Azure Recovery Service agent. So that is something you could use and this is very handy if you backup two servers or you have some machines you want to backup. But as soon as you want to scale, we talked about systems entity protection manager as well as the Azure Backup server which you also can install on-prem and then you can backup on-premises workloads again, such as SQLs or Exchange or deep or even virtual machines running on Hyper-V or even VMware as well and then back that up long-term to Azure. Sounds like a plan, my friend. Good. And then obviously we have Azure Backups and as you mentioned a couple of other workloads there as well to backup that, as you just mentioned. We also integrate to a backup for SAP. Hannah, database is running in Azure VMs, as you mentioned a ton of different Azure services which can leverage that as well. Got it, man. All of this is anchored around the Recovery Services Vault. That's actually the next module that's coming up right now. Do you want to talk a bit about this first? Yeah, absolutely. So a Recovery Service Vault as we have in the description here is actually your centralized place where you put in or configure your backup. So if I scroll down here you can see here a print screen in the module itself which you can look at. But I was thinking why not just directly look at this in Azure itself. So if you go to Azure and then you go to Recovery Service Vaults you can see I have a couple of them already ready. One is conveniently called the Learn TV Backup. So no worries, this is not the backup of Learn TV. This is just for myself. But you can see I did already set this up. It takes a couple of seconds to set it up. And then you have a lot of different management stuff going on. And what you can actually do here is very simple. When you want to start backing up things you just hit this button here. As the choices can be hard like you have the Mars agent, you have workloads in Azure, you have the Azure backup server and so on, it can be sometimes difficult. So we help you here to actually choose which workloads you want to back up. So in my case what I will show later on is how I actually do the backup of on-premises workloads. So I have some on-premises servers. And then I also have a question, what do I actually want to back up? In my case we're going to do files and folders. That's what I want to back up. I want to just backup for my file server. So I'm going to select that. And then we if you hit the prepare infrastructure button it will actually tell you in this case we recommend that you basically use the Windows server or Windows client like the Mars agent which you can download here. And then you can download and install that as well. Right. Now, simple if you would choose for example some other workloads. If you want to back up together maybe, like VMware via virtual machines as well. In this case it will tell you that you actually need to have the Azure backup server installed. Right. And so you can actually go and download that and it will help you to prepare your environment as well. So let's go back quickly to the learn module itself. I can actually select, oh there it is. And then so it's actually going through how you actually create one of these recovery service walls. Right. I'm not going to do that. It's fairly simple as I showed you going just to search for recovery service walls. And then you hit the add button. And that's always you need to select the subscription and the resource group you want to put this in and you give it the name and the location where we actually want to place this service wall. Now the location is important just usually because of two different reasons. One reason is because some people are very sensitive about data retention and where the data sovereignty happens to reside for the data. So if they want to make sure that everything stays in their country, make sure you choose a region inside of your country if their regions and countries have two locations so they'll have the geo redundant storage so you should be good to go. The other thing you want to be conscious of as well is potentially where your protected assets are. So basically your entry point into Azure is in that same region just to try to prevent the traffic from having to go for the distances. So obviously I'm not going to go in and choose the European region if all my stuff is over here in the west coast of America in North America that just wouldn't make sense. So that's where the region comes into play and comes into play as well for the location of your VMs inside of Azure again faster and simpler if they're inside the same region when you're trying to back them up then if you try to back them all the way up across the way and link someplace else in the fiber someplace else. Absolutely, absolutely. So this is where what you need to set up first if you do want to use Azure backup in any capacity you need to set up an Azure Recovery Wolf to actually do that. Good. So do you want to have a quick look on implementing the Azure backup policies like this is this is interesting obviously what does actually policies mean Rick? What are policies? If you haven't really worked with backup, what are the policies? Yeah, I mean the policies perspective is really just think of your how frequently when to back things up and also how long you want to keep things around is the two simplest things I can suggest. You can create as many policies as you want and you're able to have different machines and snap to different policies that happen to be applied inside the Azure world against your Azure VMs and so potentially you might want to back up your production machines on a more regular basis but your dev test machines you maybe only want to back up maybe just like once in a blue moon just in case you need to recover something for some reason as opposed to having to go off and rebuild things and so policy wise it allows you to go off and choose when snapshots and systems are taken it's important to note that these are incremental so when you take your original backup and then you have the different snaps taking place they're going to be incremental for the way they're applied the good thing is you don't have to worry about having to know where they are and what's going on we handle all that in the back end as far as the service is concerned then the module deviates and goes from here from policies to talking about the Mars agent specifically I'm going to leave that to you to talk about because you're going to be demoing the Mars stuff coming up but the policies are very similar to what you'd be doing with the configuration of the Mars agent yeah correct I'm going to show you actually how you set up a new policy for the Mars agent in just a bit so one thing very simple the Mars agent is super handy if you want to use Azure backup and this is important to backup files and folders or system state this can be from on premises servers or from Azure VMs or even from VMs running at other cloud providers right and then it does actually back all this data up to Azure into the recovery vault and so on and to set this up as I showed you before you can actually just go and hit this plus button and then it will show you here as you can see on the screen in the module itself it will take you exactly that step and it will show you that it can actually go and download this agent and then when you actually download it you need to run the installer and it will ask you to register this with your vault credentials which you can also say download here so you can directly download it from here and this will make sure that your server is registered to the right recovery vault in Azure that's the connection there how it does do that backup and then from there on and that's what we're going to do right now is going to schedule a backup for the recovery vault because now we just basically installed it let's just jump right into this quick demo here so here I have a server this is nothing else then I think it's a Windows server 2022 already but it obviously works with later versions of Windows or earlier versions of Windows server as well and after installing the Mars agent I have this little icon here and if I load this you can see here that this MMC console for Microsoft Azure backup for the Mars agent it pops up and you can see here I already set up one of my backups so you can see I have a couple of jobs which already did run some of them also failed but if you want to schedule now a new one you would just go to this action panel on this side and then hit schedule backup and you can also see by the way you can also do a just in point on demand backup as well there if you need to back me up now kind of thing exactly so here I for example I already like as you can see I already set something up so I could actually now go and modify this for files and folders or it could create a new backup schedule for the system state so for me let's go through and modify the files and folder stuff here as well and again this would be the same procedure if you haven't set it up at all you can do the same thing so quickly go here again it tells you what you want to do you want to make backups to the backup items or times or stop this schedule at all in my case we want to make changes right so I can select here what I actually want to do backup and so I want to back up the folder called important files because I obviously only have important files which is on my C drive very descriptive name it's important so you actually know what files you're going to back up right and then you can obviously add more folders and so on if you want to you can also exclude certain file types and folders if you want to and then the next thing is actually you would go and do the scheduling so in this case I'm just selected that I want to do a daily backup and I can select for example the different times here so I want to 1 at 5 30 1 at 12 30 and 1 at 9 o'clock right these are the times where I want to do a snapshot basically of the files and have a recovery point from these times available so in case I delete something like after lunch break I will be still able to restore it from the morning and then I would go and now this is important this is now where we talk actually about retention rate and we give you obviously a couple of different options here so you can see here I can have daily retention policy weekly monthly and even yearly retention rate and this is now set for example I want to have Saturday of last week of March at 5 30 I want to keep that backup for at least 10 years right so I always be able to to actually go down and restore even back in 9 years from now and if I want to again I could go up here I'm not going to press the button it takes too long but I could go up until 99 years really important files you got to keep them around absolutely absolutely you never know when you need them right so you can can absolutely go and do that and do that retention and at the end it basically just tells you okay is this what you want to do and you would obviously say yes finish and that that's basically all the setup you need to do and then it will tell you ask you for an initial backup right so the initial backup you would usually do by default you would use your internet connectivity but if you don't have a good enough internet connectivity or you just have too much data to back it up then you can also use something called Azure data box for example to transfer a large amount of data on physical disks basically we also have something called the data box heavy which is still my favorite product of all time which is basically a big chunk of disk you can roll in a little wagon that has little wheels on it into the data center and you can plug it in to your network copy all the data in it and then send it back to our Azure data center and transfer a big amount of data there for example for the initial backup in that sense you're talking petabytes and petabytes of data with that data box heavy for sure it is quite large to say the least so let me quickly switch back to the module itself I know we have a lot of other things to cover so this is how you then set it up again you can do like if you go through the module you can see here a couple of other things you can obviously configure such as proxy settings and so on but the module really covers also the installation process and it also goes through the things I just showed you for example to set up the retention and policy here for example the screen I just showed you as well and then you can obviously go and have a look at this in the Azure portal which is the last thing I want to quickly show you to actually show you how does that now show up in the Azure portal so if I scroll down here to back up right now you're just looking at the main information page for the recovery service of all right exactly so here I'm in the main page of it and you're always there can do multiple things and it's not that I need a recovery service for like every server I back up I can like have multiple servers backing up to the same recovery world multiple services backing up as well and then I could actually go to like backup items and now you can see here in my case I have this one agent as a backup agent deployed and if I click on it it will tell me okay hey the state is actually good the last backup worked and I can actually find more information about this as well so I know like if I have a large amount of servers I back up I can actually have that in a centralized place and see how this server is actually doing now I love the fact that you've got C backslash important files resting on a server that's using a default auto-generated name of win dash blah blah blah don't you know when names like this don't use any of my files anywhere that's that's like you're my favorite like default name all my servers are called like this like this generated automatically I mean that is awesome if you can actually go back in and just under two levels down from where you are right now on the left hand side there you want to click on that for backup policies yep this is where you would configure the azure policies for VMs that are running inside of azure so there's a default policy and there's a default hourly log backup policy as well so I've gone in and created some policies and say are inside of mine you want to switch over to my screen here for just a second so I've got my own contoso recovery vault that I've created so just like in Thomas's world I have it already backing up and restoring some VMs as well for backup items you can see that I've got one VM protected as well but in this case I'm protecting one of the boxes that I have properly named SRV01 inside of my world and as well inside that recovery vault I can take a look at the policies that I established and they look surprisingly familiar here's the one I created called daily backups surprisingly familiar to the settings the second part of those settings that Thomas showed you the first part was simply back up this file or back up this folder structure and this is what I want to go through this time here it basically does an entire machine and the data disks as well all at once through snapshots to then go through and then choose how long do you want to retain your backups for and I chose the defaults like you did to say back me up on a weekly on a monthly on a yearly basis up for 10 years and it will go ahead and set it up for you so it's all basically done and ready to go exact same process except it's through the web interface now the difference is when I onboard new VMs inside of this I can choose how I want to go and actually have them backed up so in that case I have one machine already being backed up I have one machine SRV02 this is the general overview page of that particular box itself but if I just go down here to the bottom and choose back up did I go pass it already or is it there it is I choose back up all I have to do is simply say select my existing vault and then choose the recovery vault that I just showed you and then choose the policy that I want to apply to it that reminds me what the policy looks like or I can even create a new policy on the fly if I have the appropriate rights I simply say enable back up and that's going to go ahead and schedule a job to take place and integrate this machine into that job environment just like you would see slightly different interface and what you saw from the Mars interface when you do it through the portal that's cool that's cool perfect so now I think interestingly the next week after setting up these policies you obviously want to see how we can actually recover certain types of back up right and that's also what the unit covers now the next one is Windows Server IOS virtual machine recover Windows IOS virtual machines and that obviously is different ways of doing that not just as you mentioned before this is just one part of a good disaster recovery strategy one is the VM backups and then you also have all the services which by the way also like for example for Azure Site Recovery it also leverages the recovery hold as well for doing like disaster recovery scenarios as well and then for disks we also offer like something like managed snapshots in that case as well so you went already through the backup scenario do you want to have another look at this or is that what you already showed us in this case well I showed you how to go off and do the actual configuration of the backup on an Azure VM and how to add a new one into it as well pretty simple stuff to be able to go off the consistency let's actually go through and on my portal machine over here I have my recovery vault which is currently under way and working supposedly let's actually take a look and see what these backups are looking like if I actually go through and see so if I choose backup sorry I've already configured that one my backup infrastructure sorry that's the backup infrastructure for the endpoints the backed up items see how we're progressing finally here's the interface SRVO1 you can see is already backed up and then we have SRVO2 is saying warning initial backup is currently pending but basically that machine is in the process of being configured to be backed up it has not had its initial one completed as of yet in this case this one's not going to complete until later this evening because it's not supposed to run until 9 p.m. but you can basically come through and see the status of that particular machine if it's working or not if it's finished or not so this will be updated eventually as it comes through I don't know about your important data if you have lots of data inside of there but I put some demo data inside these different systems and they're good to go an interesting thing if you haven't had a chance to look at again you had the Mars agent installed as far as how does this look on a VM inside of Azure on the client side or on the server side of things in case you needed to log on interactively to it there's actually not much to see I'll just actually show you my SRVO1 box here as an example when I log in over here and then bring the VM to this side she can actually see it there we go so this is my SRVO1 box is currently up and running just to show you where my data happens to be because this is more so for the recovery piece of things I'll be showing you in just a little moment here but I'll just show you that I do have a separate data drive so it's not just the OS drive I've got a separate data drive that I've mapped as drive Z on my individual box I've got some shares and I have a bunch of different files and demo files that I just threw in there to be able to prove that I do have some data that exists on this individual box I got some pictures and I've got some ever important stuff as well as far as demo files are concerned so let's actually go through and just delete that and then empty the machine's recycle bin as well just to kind of create the problem that we have that will do the recovery in a future step that's coming up but there's no thing that I can configure on the individual box itself that's all done through the Azure Management Portal and done through the recovery vault as well to set up and enable backing up of this particular VM there's no client software to install there's no agents to install it uses the Azure VM agent it's actually a good point to mention if you migrate a VM from on-premises up into Azure if you don't have the Azure VM agent installed on it you won't be able to use Azure backup without having it correctly installed so the documentation does tell you about hey make sure you install the Azure agent on that individual VM so that we can manage it and configure it remotely using this individual box so that's all I want to show you right now I've deleted a folder we'll come back and look at that when it comes time to do a restore in just a little bit and that's kind of all I wanted to show from simply the backup side of things on the Portal differences versus what you see with the full fledged piece of software with Mars installed on an individual VM down in the on-premises world that makes a lot of makes a lot of sense again like as you mentioned it's already using the VM agent which is already like on the machine itself if you deploy an Azure VM now what could be interesting if you actually migrate in some cases if you might depending on how you migrate your service to Azure there's no VM agent installed in that machine in that case you need to like manually go and install that but that's you again like depending on what tool you're using to migrate you will have that VM agent present but I also quickly want to point out because it's an important part here as well and you mentioned that before by default we're using geo-redundant storage GRS for your backups for your recovery world where the data is stored and you can obviously go and change that to like as you said local redundant storage now I want to highlight one important point here and I will show you also where you can actually go and do that and so if you log in into your service world and you go to properties you can scroll down and then on the backup configuration you can go to update and here is on the top you can see here changing the storage replication type and you can also see that there's a new point coming or is there a there is some redundant storage now what is important here to notice is and for you to know before you set everything up if you want to have something different than geo-redundant storage you need to change this before you actually back something up to Azure right so that is why it's now grayed out because I already backed something up so I cannot change it after the fact so that is something really important configure that first make your plan first what you need to do and then go and do that so going down here you showed us already like what is in this module how to actually configure the backup and I saw that you just deleted some very important files which by the way look way more important than my files so there's also obviously then like the other parts of backup which is probably even more important than the backup itself is actually the restore of your data right and so we want to have a look at how you can actually restore files here for example or a whole Azure VM as well and you showed us already on the Azure VM that you deleted a couple of files which you might want to recover do you want to do this now at this point you want us to wait for a little bit longer in the modules just because they do kind of bounce around between topics inside the modules we can do that absolutely later on as well the next thing is like obviously disk level backup and restore so we also have the capabilities to not just like do backups on like file basis but then also do it on disk level backups so if you want to do restore of a virtual machine, complete virtual machine you can do that as well and so that is also an important point to mention that we actually offer that as well good so should we go on to the next unit here and actually keep on collecting those points my friend exactly there are another 100 so that's good so I already showed you how you can for example like set up and schedule a backup using the Mars agent right and again we explained this here again it goes through how you actually do this and how you can set this up but as I mentioned before you could also go and if I switch quickly to my demo here here's my machine again and if you want to do a backup now because now you're in a state where you did actually change something and you actually want to keep that you could just hit the backup now button and then you can select again what you want to backup and then retain the data until let's do until a year almost no not a year sorry a month it's more or less a month now let's keep it a month and then obviously because I already configured that backup now and this is how I manually can now do a backup of these files again right and this will again take a snapshot of that volume again and then transfer the changes to that specific endpoint as well as you can see here it's not a lot I don't have so many important files as I would love to have but at least I can back them up and you can see here that creates a new recovery point for that specific scenario so with that let's go back into the module so this was like the scenario how I can do it like an on-demand file and then obviously as I mentioned recovery also of files so I can actually go out and restore these files so it's just the module goes only very quickly into that on this case here but let's have a look on the other on the next page here on the next unit how we're going to do that so here we are actually like what if I want to do perform a backup or restore up on premises workloads and again we talked about the Mars agent again it goes again in what I just showed you now with modifying the storage replication and that you actually should do that upfront before you actually create the backups that's also why I showed it to you upfront because we obviously have this in this thing and the module also again mentions hey if you want to do on premises backups download and install and register the Mars agent again we went through this before and then as I just did we can run an on-demand backup and now what I actually want to show you is how you can for example restore files on Windows Server using the Mars agent right and again the module as I was going to say you can do the Mars agent for the restore process here and then when you're done that one there that's when I'll jump in and show you how to do the restore from the VMs inside the Azure world because it doesn't use the Mars agent so that's when I'll jump in. Sounds like a deal so again the module goes through and explains exactly step by step how you should do that so in my case they also explains you what happens in the background so you can actually go out and see what recovery points to mount and then actually go and restore these files from there you can then also browse it from your file explorer and see where you can actually go and restore them so you can also obviously go again and this is important what I mentioned before you can also restore that in a different machine right what will happen if for example the whole machine is lost in that case you can also go and do that recovery on another machine as well which is kind of important and again there is also important that you keep that key phrase which I mentioned before very safe because that is what you need to actually then configure that backup as well now let me jump quickly into like my environment here and so if I'm back here so let me quickly show you what important files I have here so if I go here I have here a new file on there is my important file I can just delete my important file here so it's gone and then they can now go and say recover that data and again I will select here I want to recover that on this server again fantastic server names thank you very easy and then I can select here what do I actually want to restore the whole volume or just the individual files and folders in my case I just want to restore that and I want to select the volume where I want to restore or where at the backup and you can see here in like I'm not sure how great you can see it but there are like bold numbers here like the dates like from okay so I can select for example let's go and look back to Tuesday and then I have here two different times when the backup was actually running and then I can mount that recovery point and that will take a moment obviously can I uptake a few minutes but we will see if it's fast because again I don't have so many important files but in case it takes too long we can quickly switch to you until it mounted that recovery point but this will now mount that point so I can actually then go in and copy that file well have a look at that file and then if it's the file I want to restore I can actually go and restore it right it's not just going to like just restore everything in that case so you can see here I have a browse option and so if I go this I can have a look at this and you see now it mounted a this folder here in the e volume or if the e drive name and you can see here these are basically the files from that specific point in time you can also see here the time here for that one and so I'm going to just collect copy that file let's do that let's do it that way copy then I go back to my c drive and now I go to my important files and now I can go and paste it and now I have my file again restored and as I mentioned you could obviously look at this file before that to see if it's really like the right data in it so for example if you think about it's a work document and you edit and edit it a couple of things you probably like you user probably know which but like what is the content of that file so you can even do before you restore it you can do a check right I mean now I restored the file because it was lost or deleted but obviously you could also go and change the version of that file and it's still existing right that's important to note that this works both on Windows server boxes and also on Windows client boxes too you can have this installed on Windows 11 Windows 10 as long as it's 64 bit operating system you're good to go for the agent to install to be able to go through this process I'm going to show them how I do it on my side at this point do you have anything you want to finish up here first? No, that's sometimes good I just want to one point why would you do it on a client side because obviously you want to have the data stored like centrally on a file server or on SharePoint or OneDrive or Teams or wherever you have your data in a couple of scenarios you have this VIPs you have like the executives of your company they probably have the laptops they're working from home, they're working on the roads and they sometimes store files wherever they want to so you can actually go out and back up these machines so just in case something happens to these VIP machines it can be like restored as well and the same thing obviously it's also for lab machines and stuff like that which like to process local files as well very handy to do that Excellent Show me how you do that So from this side of things again these are two VMs inside of Azure that are running Windows Server in this case backed up items I can see I've got my two machines that are protected one of them as I mentioned I just configured earlier today so it's not done it's back up as of yet but the other one has been which is SRVR1 and then when I choose that particular one I can say give me a file recovery so I could go through and do a restore VM and it will actually restore the VM and the data disks inside of a different area on Azure so it does not overwrite the original it literally will create you a special resource group that it puts the VM and the pieces inside of it to be able to go off and take a look at it if you need to diagnose it or you can do a file recovery which is what I'm going to go ahead and do for this one here for file recovery and I get to first of all choose my backup point that I want to do in this case I'm going to go ahead and choose the one that was at 11pm last night as an example here in Pacific time and then I'm going to say here is the script to mount the disks just like you saw with what Thomas did to mount up the drives on the local machine wherever the script is run it's going to be creating the secure connection up to the Azure Recovery Vault to basically mount those drives and I want to show you a bit behind the scenes of what goes on because it generates the script specifically it generates secure SAS token that it uses to access the storage account and that sort of stuff as well it allows me to download that executable when it's done generating and then it gives you this really god awful ugly long password that you have to know and so that long password you have to somehow get it available to give to someone or to make it available to someone through an email whichever it happens to be it's this big long alphanumeric character that's going to give you that's unique to this particular instance so in the background what it's doing it's preparing and mounting those individual storage volumes that are in the back end and then makes it available there we go makes it available to to go to this custom script I can see our admin people in the chat so the various different feeds coming in no no don't send an email okay don't send an email this is just a demo environment here we go I'm going to go ahead and download this individual script file that's unique to this environment and that is going to be one thing that I bring over second thing I'm going to bring over is the password to run the script so here is my VM inside the azure data center notice it has the missing file on it I'm going to go in and copy over because I'm using an RDP connection on this particular box so I want to say copy that individual file and then this is the script file that was copied over and created uniquely by my azure experience inside the portal the second thing I need to have is the password specifically so if I minimize this back down again here is the password I'm going to copy it to my clipboard and then go back into my virtual machine and I'm going to launch this individual box so the script and it warns me says hey please make sure you've got the password for the portal type it in and press enter so I'm going to say edit and paste for demo environment isn't that a lovely long password to be able to have to remember and type in so I guess you could call the person and like read this over the phone that would be more secure than an email right Pierre is that what you want press enter and then it goes through runs a PowerShell script and the PowerShell script is going through and connecting up to it says I need to unmount some volumes and connecting I'm going to say yep go ahead and unmount these press Y the reason why they give me an error message because I ran this demo last night and it's now fixing that because the mount points were created last night they're active for so many days but they're unique to the password so basically you can give this package and give the password to the individual it has to restore the files and it will then go ahead and there we go it's now working it'll then go ahead and leave them running so that you can attach up to them again if you need to because you missed some files for that initial recovery but the neat thing is here take a look at this it actually is using an iSCSI mount point remotely on the Azure side that's what the server actually attaches up to so these are going to show up as an iSCSI disk on my actual box itself and then it's going to warn me hey by the way three volumes have been created for your partitions you've got your data partition you've got your system partition you've got your windows partition as far as drives that are mounted and you're good to go so now if I go back over here there's the license for people that are being using this here if I take a look at my windows pc environment for explorer I now have my F, H and G drives which are what's called so obviously on my F drive sorry my H drive for windows this is my operating system disk that is not where those files happen to exist but that's the point in time last night I actually want the data drive separate drive that was created and then there is my shares folder and then there is the marketing folder and if I open up another instance of explorer to show you my existing system over here this is my existing Z drive which is where my data is this is my shares and notice the marketing is not there all I have to do is simply copy this guy here paste him over here and then my files come across and he's now back up and ready to go and those drives are mounted so I could go back and research back and forth if I needed to if I need to go off and pull off some other drives after recovery to remove the disks and close their connection to the recovery points simply click on unmount disk step in the portal so I can close off this script because I don't need it anymore I could continue to work on this individual system but what I'm going to do now is I'm just going to go and unmount those drives which is this one right here and that basically terminates the iSCSI connection that you were using to have those drives mounted but they will stay present so that you could reconnect back up to them again if you need to but for now this is going to disconnect them takes a little bit of time and then what I find is about a minute or so you'll actually see the drive start to disappear on the client system that's running that mounting script so there we go the mount was successful as being unmounted coming back over here if I take a look at my machine you can see that already my PC is running I have the G drive still mounted the H drive still mounted but they will eventually just drop off the data drive is already gone I'm going to get an error message here in just a little bit saying these drives no longer exist and they will disappear from my box I'll go back to just having my C drive my D drive and then my Z drive will show up on this little box so I'll take a little bit of time to clean up but that's essentially it iSCSI mount encrypted connection to your storage to copy the files down and off as you need them they stay active for seven days as they mention the warning messages you can extend them if you need to but the idea is you unmount them when you're done similar to what you do with the Mars agent just slightly different experience for here inside of the port itself oh that's awesome good old iSCSI to the rescue nice by the way it's encrypted traffic between the system and the termination point the mounting point up inside the azure space by the way I also want to mention there's Alexander who first of all has a couple of comments first of all he says like azure backup is perfect absolutely we'll definitely share that with the azure backup team as well they're going to be definitely happy about this but then he also had a very very good question is there anything ransomware protection behind azure backup solution first of all what he means is actually so this is something which can help us detect ransomware right like that like what happens is like obviously probably it's already working in the background and we obviously take snapshots of that over time and we don't want that right and so yes there is there's actually a whole page describing and we can definitely share the links in the comments how azure backup can actually like help in cases or help in cases to backup and restore and plan for protecting against ransomware right and there is obviously a lot of like tools where not just like in general not azure backup detects this but we have some some systems like for example Microsoft Defender for cloud Microsoft Defender for endpoint or as well which can help detect ransomware and then together for example with Microsoft Sentinel can basically send you alerts when something like that is going on in your environment because you don't just want to protect against ransomware right there's also a ton of water security related issues which you want to take care of and so those are great azure services which we can leverage there as well to actually find out but also just to quickly go back to like okay with azure backup obviously when you have an azure backup recovery point that recovery point is protected in that case that no one can actually go and just like mess around with it right yeah good so you just showed us basically how you can restore files and recover files in azure vm very very simple you can obviously use the same setup also to restore whole machines as well and so in the last unit we actually just have a video about all of this stuff we just showed you so if you want to have a look at how to manage azure with machine backups with azure backup service you can actually go out and check out that video and learn what we just showed here have a little bit more details on that as well but as you mentioned at the beginning of all this setup that we did for this demo environment is actually very very simple if you just have an azure free subscription you can create a recovery vault within that free subscription and then you can go and configure the Mars agent download talking to that recovery vault to run on a lab machine or on some machine you have on premises there's no fancy VPN required there's no fancy configuration of some kind of express route required this will just use network connectivity over the internet if you wanted to to be able to go off and to back up the on-premises machines those machines could be virtual that could be physical I mean technically they could even be in a different hyperscale cloud provider if you wanted to as well it doesn't matter where they are it's an agent that installs that dials back into the backup the recovery services vault so that's how it works and in the azure space all I did was it makes some VMs very simple to spin up a VM of whatever type you like to go off and to do backups and snapshots one thing I did not show you we don't have you don't have the time or the demo built up to do this today is doing a recovery of an entire VM I chose to say back up the file but all it would do is basically pre-create and hydrate a VM using the backup snapshot image of the system that is in question in a different resource group so it does not conflict with your production system in case you need to go off and do some forensics on the box or do some other stuff on that box and then you can have a fully working system that's an identical to that snapshot available and deployed in a custom resource group and you can even name those custom resource groups if you want to with a certain naming convention when you create the recovery vault so pretty simple stuff it's an extra layer protection they don't cover it in this particular learn module but it's something you might want to know for your own proper disaster recovery kind of conversation that you have absolutely absolutely now that's and again also there's like obviously we just scratch the surface here when it comes in terms of Azure backup as we saw I was just going to say we should probably talk about cost not for how much this costs but obviously you're going to be paying for the backup storage for where things are so if Thomas's ultra important files need to stick around for 99 years that's obviously going to take up an awful lot more storage space over time and your storage cost will gradually start to rise as more instances and more snapshots are taking place in those individual systems so just be aware of that the longer your policies are the more the storage cost of the backup side of things happen to cost but as Thomas mentioned at the very beginning there is no cost for network egress so outbound stuff down to the restore of your local box or ingress into Azure that's included the cost of backing up the VM yep absolutely those are important parts and again there's a ton of auto services as you could see where we would go out and say hey like what you can backup right and again we didn't show the Azure backup server there's much more capabilities in that as well but should we actually go and transfer to the knowledge check here as well we're going to get the last bit of the points that you want to do so make sure we do the check here in the slides but then you have to go back and finish it off so you get the extra 200 points absolutely absolutely okay let's see how we do again we're on a delay if you can we've got the ability to take your suggested answers we'll go through this but we'll wait until everyone has a chance to go through and read the screen before we show you what the answer happens to be how about if I take the first one okay so Larissa is responsible for implementing server workloads backups at Contoso she wants to implement an on-premises backup to an Azure Recovery Vault service what does Larissa need to do on the Windows servers that she wants to backup so these are the servers that are on-premises what does she have to do to those servers if she wants to go off and back them up A is going to go and have Larissa download and install the Mars agent and register that particular server by installing with the Vault credentials B Larissa must download and install the Mars agent and C Larissa doesn't need to do anything Windows servers contain all the required agents for inclusion in the Recovery Services Vault hmm let me see here what does it involve for this one here it's to be honest the question is actually fairly simple but then the answer options can be a little bit tricky to be honest so I always go by elimination like if I'm doing a Microsoft exam I do the same thing I eliminate the obvious one so I'm willing to bet that everyone has said that C that's not right otherwise we wouldn't even be here talking about this so C is not the case you actually do have to go and install something so C is not the option that leaves it with an A and B 50-50 chance the crowd is going wild and so far one person has answered with an A and then no one's coming up with B but these are very similar the only difference between them is one's download and install and one is download and install and then configure credentials hmm I think I remember seeing you do something there Mr. Thomas what would you say? I definitely mention it like this is like obviously if you just like install the agent and install the agent then where does it actually transfer the data to I mean at some point you actually need to identify which Azure subscription which recovery world you want to be and that is where it's done in the registration process so with that I would say A is the correct answer Rick so you did a fantastic job there congratulations my friend good job Alexander and also Andrew I think it is yeah both of them came up with A inside the chat stream that I can see here yep absolutely so let's have a look at the next one and so the next one is after creating Contoso again great company Contoso's recovery world service Larissa discovers that she wants to change the storage replication type to local redundant in which situation can Larissa change the storage replication type so that is actually like where we talked about very briefly about how you do this right so A Larissa can change the setting at any time B Larissa can change the setting but only before a recovery world service starts providing protection for items or C Larissa cannot change the setting at any time so I'm going to use my definitely not this answer strategy and I'm going to once again say that C it would be rather restrictive I think if you can never change this ever so C is not the choice would definitely make a silly question if C who writes these things so the other thing is because I showed you this I mean it's also that like unfortunately unfortunately I say it's not A because you can't just change it all the time like there's no mechanism like at the end how you can change so in my opinion I would say it's B I would agree with you for sure because that was what I remember your demo showing us was that it was grayed out because we had already started to provide backup solutions and again this is something that you need to think of because we charge more for geo redundant storage than we do for locally redundant storage but again you have less protection in case one of the region pairs happens to go offline or get wiped out by a snowstorm or by a flood or something like that for some reason so geo redundant literally means like north south east west kind of redundancy where it is significantly further apart than having them in the same zone we don't talk about zones in this environment this does not support zonal stuff it's only between locally redundant and geographically redundant storage so I'm seeing here we got some folks that got it right Mr. Angel McCallan congratulations that was a good answer there I think Alexander also got it as well fantastic some people are playing along with us it's good to have this interaction I even see our good friend and partner in crime here Mr. Wired Canuck Pierre from last week is helping us out by answering questions inside the chat so thank you Pierre I appreciate that absolutely number three Larissa has been archiving and tidying up unneeded backup data she has just removed some backup data from the Azure backup she has been informed that this removed data is actually required to restore some damaged files there is a ransomware attack or something like that who knows they were deleted what are Larissa's options A Larissa can do nothing about it the backup is unrecoverable I love that that would be sad B Larissa can recover the removed backup files data for up to 14 days after deletion so basically you've deleted the instance of the backup of that particular VM in question or C Larissa can recover the removed backup data for up to 21 days after deletion so we've got one highly impossible one and then two are the options I think here I feel sorry for people who joined us late because I think you mentioned that very early on you explained exactly that when we went through the learn module and I have some thoughts here but again let's do it the way as we did it for all the other ones I would again as I mentioned it would be very sad it would be A so I don't think it's A I would definitely not say it's A and then the question really comes down is it 14 days or 21 days so two weeks or three weeks and so this is actually a tough one here I would say in terms of if you didn't listen but however you're here at the very beginning exactly if you didn't hear it we want to know so also people in the chat want to know so be honest I love is listening to my boss all the time so it's definitely be 14 days and 14 days deletion recovery is possible with your system very very good now let's actually make sure Thomas gets his appropriate scores and so can you flip over to the website on Microsoft learn because you've been following along with us and let's make sure he chooses the right answers on the Microsoft learn site absolutely congratulations there again Eric joined us and so is Andrew well Alexander so on the knowledge checks again notice in the top right-hand corner it's gray 200 points are on the line right now so that's helped Thomas out the first question answer was a which is the first one yep second answer the second question talking about the recovery vault service changing the storage types that was a B and then you said it was B for as well 14 day recovery and then hit check your answers and that just gives them boom the score now here's it I'm going to give you some insight or scoop here this was the first time that Thomas answered the question he got all three of them correct it was originally 200 points but he got 400 points just no if you get all the questions right in a knowledge check you actually get two times the points yep you're trying to compete against your peers friends take your time to answer those questions and then get them right to get the maximum number of points and double them by getting them right the first time yep absolutely that that obviously is like a smart thing to do I mean obviously you could click through all this and then just figure out the right ones right but you need to actually take it serious so you get double the points as a reward for doing that and the tip for that one there is go for elimination and then choose the ones that are there go ahead and hit continue there my friend bump then takes you off to the last one for the summary reason why I mention that's because there's another 100 points if you look at the summary and then scroll down to the bottom of that particular page to make sure that you've actually completed and seen that whole thing roll down scroll down come on there you go unlock achievement that gets you your total scores that are there and you're now basically done and yeah rate it did you like this module or did you not like the module let us know yeah that's really great let's give it a fair a good good rating there was some stuff that needed to be kind of cleaned up in there that's not too bad and obviously yep how do you recommend doing that I will always spend some time later on to do that and give you a nice comment about this but again if we have just a quick look again about the summary if I switch back here to the slides what did we look at today we obviously had a look at Azure backup in general we talked a lot about that we showed you how you actually implement recovery walls and what they are for Rick showed you how you actually implement Azure backup policies on the Azure side of things I was basically demoing you how you do Azure like policies on the on-prem machines and then we recovered Windows IS VMs or files from Windows IS VMs in that case so we did definitely a lot here um to do that and then obviously if you look at what we also did perform file folder recovery backup perform a backup and recovery form premises workloads as well as explaining how Azure VM backups or how to manage Azure VM backups with Azure backup so what I actually want to show you again is this link here again if you just joined us on the stream and you want to go through that module and you want to do it yourself you want to get the points yourself you want to go through all this questions again you want to learn and go in the details into what we just showed you here is the link and you also have a QR code here on the page itself where you can scan and then put it up you can do that today you can do it tomorrow or over your vacation days or during work I mean and learn about hybrid backup in Azure and then you can go out to all the folks that have been helping us out and chatting with us inside the chats we do actually read the chats Mr. Hendox C on Twitch we're just delayed we can't actually see them live as they go I'm glad to see that you're actually doing some competition amongst your different friends around how many learn points you happen to have on Microsoft Learn but Alexander was great coming back and asking us questions about stuff even getting some ideas on connecting with us after the fact we have an IT ops talk discord server we hang out on answer questions on Andrew McCallum you've been solid helping us out and going through all these different hybrid modules with us throughout the last couple of weeks so thanks for sticking around and doing some stuff and for all the other people I think we had people that were joining us today from Columbia I noticed also from Nigerian Delta region as well cool stuff it's a lot of fun putting these different options on there are more learn live sessions that are going to be coming up in a variety of topics and on some of the links that we shared there on learn TV you can see future series that are coming up this one wraps up the series that we did specifically on hybrid learning it was a lot of fun going through the stuff that we did and I had great chance being able to connect up and touch base with my friend Thomas I don't think we've really kind of presented like this before have we no I think that was like the first real time we did something together but she also didn't really like presenting it was more like learning together about Azure backup and again I only can say this again like this again was the last episode as Rick mentioned but if you have like missed other episodes if you're not like Andrew and saw all of them you obviously have a link here where you can actually see and go back to all the episodes we already recorded on different topics so you can actually go through all these hybrid infrastructure study hold episodes and then learn about that as well right we have a last couple of moments left before the official stream actually goes off and ends if you do have any questions about backup and restore using Microsoft Azure backup or on premises we're happy to answer them other than that I'm kind of good oh I get to see Alexander is actually coming into us from Brazil that's kind of cool Amari is 10 o'clock tonight from France Bonne nuit Monsieur à la prochaine we'll chat again at some point in time and yeah man it was great hanging out with you and again our friend Jason behind the scenes helping us out he hosts and works on Hello World on Learn TV gonna be kicking up and doing some more episodes of that in the new year do you have any ideas on other topics possibly that we should be covering as like a series we did here we can go off and create some in the new year let us know in the chat absolutely I saw already some comments that someone wants to know more about Azure Arc absolutely happy to help there we need to have about 7 hours of streaming time for Thomas to stop talking about Azure Arc because he's very well versed in it but yeah Rick is right let us know what you want to hear what you want to learn about we can help you there bring the right content for you and again also thank you very much for joining from my site it was a pleasure, a lot of interaction which I loved I hope everyone learned something I definitely did and I hope Rick too so thank you very much Rick for joining tonight and thank you everyone for watching yep thanks a lot