Azure Backup 02, Azure Backup MARS Agent

This video starts with an overview of the Azure Backup Agent, also known as the Microsoft Azure Recovery Services (MARS) agent. This is intended for anyone interested in Azure Backups or studying for the AZ-103 or other Microsoft Certification. The video starts with an overview of when to use the MARS agent along with how it works. Next, it goes into installing the agent, configuring, scheduling and running backups. After that, basic troubleshooting is covered along with recovering data and finally, removing the agent and backup date.

The video on setting up Recovery Services Vault is located here:

[Southpaw]

Travis you are like a backup encyclopedia, lots of great content. It would have taken me weeks reading though MS documentation to get this key backup information. Thank you Sir! Excellent job.

[shreyvijayvargiya]

Amazing tutorial. Really clears the concepts of ASR and Backup/Restore. Keep up the good work Travis.

[terrygorham]

Subscribed. Great tutorial. Clean, precise and very straight forward. Well done sir!

[vigneshravichandran]

Great explanation Travis !!! Hope ur videos gets as good fame as u

[vasylmalyk]

How can I get a definitive answer on MARS (not MABS) on how multiple Azure VMs can be managed under a single policy/schedule?

[KaushikRayhere]

Very helpful! One query I have is about the pricing of the storage on Vault, also is there a way to move these backups to archive tier.

[kirmistube]

Can you restore files directly from Azure or the Agent is the only way to go ?

[g-htr]

If the server the MARS agent is installed on dies and there are no backups, is there anyway to access the backups? Could you re-build the server (with the same name), re-install the agent and start backing up with the same schedule, or will this create a new back job?

[erroljanusz]

I believe in a 3rd party backups outside of Azure. Just in case the entire house of cards fall. Kind of like your offsite backup for your on-prem server.

[priyankalilhare]

Do we need MARS Agent for Windows-7 (Azure VM)?? or the normal process of enabling backup on Recovery Vault would be fine??

[pncretin]

Hello Travis. Your tutorials are great and very helpful. I've got a question. Let's assume I have an Azure VM configured and I wanna take the backup of only a particular folder that resides inside the VM. I do not want the backup of VM on the whole. Is it possible to do it? If yes, how can we do it? Thank you in advance.

[flavac]

Hello, great video, but I have a doubt. How do I backup a mapped folder on my server? it's possible? thank you

[mcopat]

Is it possible create multi schedules in MARS?
I explain: I have 10 big folders in my File Server, and I would like to make backup of them in different times (EX: Folder 1 at 01:00am, folder 2 at 03:00am...)

[vivek.padale]

Hi Travis, thanks for the content.
It will be great help if you provide a demo on live automatic DR fail over for a VM in azure or on-prem .

Regards,
Best luck!!!