Instead of Azure Backup

Thanks

Hi SJG66,

Thanks for posting here.

What is your requirement?

Is it for disaster recovery or back-up the VM and its data?

You can replicate be following the below article.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/documentation/articles/site-recovery-hyper-v-site-to-azure/

Girish Prajwal

Girish Prajwal

Backing up and Replicating are two different things and do not offer the same finality.

- Backup is intended to have different copies in time, of your different workloads and which you can use to recover something that was lost/deleted/corrupted. You can return back in time depending on your backup policy. Azure backup will let backup more granular objects like databases and files

- Replication (with ASR) can be used in two cases and applicable only for Virtual Machines (you wont use it to replicate an SQL database for example, but you can only replicate the whole VM, physical server)

• Disaster Recovery : In case, you have an issue/outage with you source VM/Datacenter, you can fail to the replicated virtual machine(s) in Azure. You will have  less choice regarding the RPO (Recovery Point Object), for example you will not be able to fail to a VM state dating a month earlier the disaster
• Cloud Migration : Yo can use ASR if you want to migrate your on-premises workloads (Hyper-V VMs, VMWare VMs, Physical server) to Azure. ASR will replicate your workloads and you can choose to basculate to the cloud with one click.