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Azure Backup: Upgrade to TLS 1.2 or above for secure MARS agent backups by September 1, 2021
Target availability: Q3 2021
Support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 ends September 1, 2021, please upgrade to TLS 1.2 to ensure secure and uninterrupted backups using MARS agent
May 2021
Azure Backup: Operational backup for Azure Blobs is now generally available
Operational backup for Azure Blobs gives you a managed data protection solution for block blobs in your storage accounts.
April 2021
Public preview: Enhancements to encryption using customer managed keys for Azure Backup
Encryption of backup data in Recovery Services vaults using customer managed keys has enhancements in public preview.
Public preview: Backup and restore of Azure VM Scale Sets with flexible orchestration is now supported
Azure virtual machine scale sets provide the management capabilities for applications that run across many VMs, automatic scaling of resources and load balancing of traffic. Scale set orchestration modes allow you to have greater control over how virtual machine instances are managed by the scale set.
General availability: Azure Backup supports backup and restore of Azure Dedicated Host
To protect your valuable resources, Azure Backup now supports backup & restore of Azure Virtual Machines with dedicated host.
March 2021
Backup for Azure Managed Disk is now generally available
Azure Disk Backup offers snapshot lifecycle management to Azure Managed Disk by automating periodic creation of snapshot and retain it for configured duration using Backup policy.
Backup Center is now generally available
Backup Center enables centralized backup management allowing you to monitor, operate, govern, and optimize data protection at scale.
Backup Reports is now generally available
Gain visibility into backup job statistics, consumption trends and optimization opportunities across your Recovery Services vaults.
Azure Backup for SAP HANA: Incremental backup is now generally available
Create cost-effective, faster backup policies with weekly full and daily HANA incremental and protect even large HANA databases.
February 2021
Cross Region Restore of Azure VMs now generally available
Today we are announcing the general availability of Cross Region Restore (CRR) for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) support using Microsoft Azure Backup.
Azure Backup for SAP HANA: Soft limit increased from 2 TB to 8 TB
Now you can protect larger SAP HANA DBs (such as Mv2 – 12 TB RAM machines) with the enhanced data transfer capabilities from Azure Backup.
Support for more workloads, tag based policies now in Backup Center public preview
Target availability: Q1 2021
Backup Center now supports SQL in Azure VMs, SAP HANA in Azure VMs and Azure Files. New Azure Policies allow you to deploy backup at scale based on resource group and tag information.
January 2021
Azure Backup: Encryption at rest using customer-managed keys is now generally available
Encrypt your backups using customer-managed keys for more security and control.
Backup for Azure Managed Disk is in limited preview
Target availability: Q1 2021
Azure Backup offers snapshot lifecycle management to Azure Managed Disk by automating periodic creation of snapshot and retain it for configured duration using Backup policy.
November 2020
Azure Resource Manager template support for Azure file share backup
You can now leverage Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template to configure backup for Azure file shares.
Azure Backup for SAP HANA backup - User management improvements
The permissions required by a Azure Backup user for SAP HANA backup is now much simpler and automatically handled by a simple script from Azure Backup.
Azure Backup for SAP HANA databases now supports Incremental backups – Public preview
Azure Backup for SAP HANA now supports HANA incremental backups which allows you to have faster and more cost-effective backups.
Azure Backup—Soft delete for SQL Server and SAP HANA running in Azure VM
Soft Delete for Azure Backup for SQL and SAP HANA in Azure Virtual Machines is now generally available.
September 2020
Selective disks backup for Azure Virtual Machines
Using the Selective disks backup feature, you get an option to backup subset of the data disks in an Azure Virtual Machine.
Azure Backup support for up to 32 disks is now generally available
Azure Backup now supports Azure Virtual Machines with up to 32 attached managed disks.
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