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Create a Recovery Services vault

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Create a Recovery Services vault

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- [Instructor] Before we start backing up our files and folders in virtual machines, we need a place that will hold our backups. And this is called the recovery vault, and we can create the recovery vault either on the fly, or as we're going to do in this demo, prior to backing up. The first thing we need to do is start in the Azure portal as we are here, and as you can see I have a resource group already called AzureRecoverySolutions. I'm going to go ahead and open that up. And we can see that we have a simple VM here, some networking, and some storage. Nothing fancy. But we are lacking is the recovery vault. And for those of us who've been doing Azure for some time, the first thing we want to do is go ahead and click add and go hey, I'm just going to go ahead and add in this vault. And that would be the wrong step. And it feels very counterintuitive. So let me close this. The recovery vault is actually a service that's already available to us. And as you can see over in my hub or my…

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