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Backup and Recovery
- Azure Backup and Azure Recovery Services are two distinct services offered by Microsoft Azure for data protection and disaster recovery.
- The backup vault must be in the same region as the data source being backed up.
- ❓Is it a hard requirement that the vault be in the same region as the data source or a recommendation? Ref 1.
- Vaults can be made immutable, which prevents any operations that could lead to loss of recovery points. By default, the immutability settings is reversible. To make it irreversible the setting can be locked.
- In the Azure Recovery Services vault, if you delete any data mistakenly, it goes to soft delete to protect your data and recover backups. It remains in soft delete for 14 days (by default)
- There are two types of backup vaults, there are Azure Backup Vaults and Recovery Servicecs Vaults.
- ❓What are the differences? Ref. 1