Hi Mark,
With the latest release Altaro lets you store your files in cheap Azure blob storage, without having to “run” Altaro within Azure. Since the backup data is stored in Azure, you would need to copy it down to your own datacenter when you wanted to restore the backup. You could also restore the backup to Azure, if you were able to configure your services so that they matched your on-premises infrastructure (so that the backup “works” in Azure when you restore it). If you are using VMs or containers which are hardware agnostic, this should work fine.

Thanks,
Symon Perriman
@SymonPerriman
Altaro

Hi Steven,
There are a lot of Azure options to give users choices based on their scenarios. So if you are looking for the cheapest way to store archival backups that you will not access frequently, blog storage will be your best option.

The redundancy options (LRS, GRS, RAGRS) depend on whether these files are important and you need highly-available access. For mission-critical backups, you should have some level of redundancy so that you can access your files. If you want to have protection from a regional disaster which could take out an entire datacenter (such as a natural disaster), then add geo-replicated redundancy.

Since you won’t likely be accessing the files often, use cold storage. Hot storage is conceptually similar to a computer cache for frequently accessed files.

More info at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/

Thanks,
Symon Perriman
@SymonPerriman
Altaro

Kind of…

Am I missing something.. where is the article explaining how we use that data in the event of DR?

Do we have to pull it all back down again?

Can we spin it up as Azure IAAS?

Some pieces missing..

Hi Jatin!

We’re certainly more than happy to answer your question!

In the event of a site failure, like you said, your local backups would be no good. In order to recover from your Azure storage in that instance, you would have to do the below:

1. Setup a new virtualization host at your recovery location, or have one on standby
2. Reinstall Altaro VM backup somewhere within that environment.
3. Under Restore in the application, select “add restore source” in the top right and follow the wizard to reconnect to your Azure storage.
4. Start your recovery jobs.

As far as recovery “INTO” Azure, you are correct, we currently don’t support that today, but we’re certainly looking what comes next for our Azure integration and we’ll be sure to update the our blog to let everyone know when a new update is available.

Hope that Helps!

by the way you guys have an awesome software … i love this