From the course: Deploying Azure File Sync

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Back up the Azure file share

Back up the Azure file share - Azure Tutorial

From the course: Deploying Azure File Sync

Back up the Azure file share

- [Instructor] Just like our on premises file shares, we need to protect our Azure file share, and we can do that through the portal. The first thing we need to do is create a Recovery Services vault. I'm going to go ahead and create one in the existing resource group. Enter a name for your vault The resource group, and the location, and this is critical. The Recovery Services vault must be in the same location as the Azure file share. Let's pop back into the resource group, and we can see that a Recovery Services vault has been created. Perfect, now we can go ahead, and protect the Azure file share. Start by selecting Backup from Getting Started. Our workload is running in Azure, but instead of backing up a virtual machine, we want to back up an Azure file share, and notice that this is in preview during this recording. A list of the storage accounts in that same location will be displayed. The storage account that we'll select is filesyncsb. The storage account is now going to be…

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