

Here I've set weekly, monthly and yearly backup points to be retained.

Consider what this policy needs to be to meet your organization's needs and you can create different policies for different file shares. You can choose the default Daily Policy or create a new one, to tweak the timing of your backup and your retention points. Azure FileShare will appear as a workload you can back up, navigating to the storage account lets you select the file share(s), and then you're in familiar backup configuration territory! Now you can configure your backup policy.Īzure file share backup default daily policy

As soon as you mention files, you should have a backup strategy in place that meets your organization's restore point objectives and recovery time objectives - this can range from "we need a file that someone just accidentally deleted" to "we need a file from four years ago as part of an audit investigation." This new capability gives administrators the ability to easily restore individual files, without wrangling an entire storage account or virtual machine backup, and control the costs associated with now only backing up the required file shares. Organizations may be looking to use Azure file shares for a number of reasons, such as replacing on-prem hardware or shifting the workload to the Cloud to reduce global connections into one on-prem point. Storing files or syncing them to Azure file share? Azure Backup supports Azure file share as a workload and Backup Center (preview) now includes Azure Files backups in its centralised management pane.īackup Center (preview) Why this is a big deal
