

There’s no limit to the amount of data you can back up to an Azure Backup vault, but the size of a data source (for example a virtual machine or database) shouldn’t exceed 54,400 GB. For example, backing up 100 GB of data requires a minimum of 5 GB of free space in the scratch location. Compressed and sparse (treated as sparse)Įach machine you want to back up must have local free storage that's at least 5% of the size of the data that's being backed up.Compressed (incremental backups supported).These file types can be backed up with Azure Backup: The DPM server should have Windows PowerShell and. System Center 2012 R2 with Update Rollup 5 or later. System Center 2012 SP1 or later System Center 2012 R2. System Center 2012 R2 with DPM 2012 R2 Update Rollup 3 or later. Storing older data in a Backup vault allows you to scale up your business by storing new data to disk. For DPM running on an Azure VM, Azure Backup allows you to offload storage from the Azure disk.


Steps for preparing Azure, including setting up a Recovery Services Backup vault, and optionally modifying the type of Azure storage for the vault.Prerequisites and limitations for using Azure Backup with DPM.

An overview of deploying DPM with Azure Backup.This article explains how to prepare for System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) backups to Azure, using the Azure Backup service.
