Learning Microsoft Azure Storage

Backing up an Azure VM using the Azure CLI 2.0

First off, you have to create a backup policy, which can be done by creating a JSON encoded policy definition and passing it to the Azure CLI, as you will see shortly, or by using the default policy.

To create a new backup policy, run the following command:

az backup policy set –policy <JSON encoded policy definition> -- resource-group PacktPub –vault-name CLIRS

Or, to use the default backup policy, you can run the following command:

az backup policy get-default-for-vm --resource-group PacktPub --vault-name CLIRS

Then, you can start the backup process by running the following command:

az backup protection enable-for-vm --policy-name get-default-for-vm --resource-group PacktPub --vault-name CLIRS ...