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Tag Archive: Backup

  • Azure Backup for Virtual Machines

    January 10th, 2022 in Azure, Backup, Blog

    Configuring Backups Backups are configured for each VM individually, selecting their own retention policies and routines. They can however utilise the same storage and vaults. 1. Select the Backup option under “Operations” in the sidebar of the VM management page, on https://portal.azure.com/ 2. Give your backup Vault a name, (where the backups will be stored), and select the resource group you’d like it to be in. 3.…

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  • Azure Storage Backup Retention

    November 22nd, 2021 in Analysis Services, Azure, Blog, PowerShell

    This blog is a follow up to a previous blog I wrote about backing up Azure Analysis Services cubes in Azure, that blog can be found here. This blog shows how to implement a retention policy using PowerShell in Azure Runbooks to remove the backups after a set number of days. To create a new Runbook in the Azure portal, go to the relevant Automation account in the relevant resource group and then select Runbooks from the left hand pane. Note you…

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  • Azure Analysis Services Cube Backup

    December 23rd, 2020 in Analysis Services, Azure, Blog, PowerShell

    This blog is a quick guide on how to back up an Azure Analysis Services cube using PowerShell. The PowerShell is used in a runbook inside an Automation account in Azure to automate the backup process. A pre-requisite for this is to configure the backup storage settings, this details the location of the backups. Two parameters are passed into the runbook (shown below), where AnalysisServerName is the server name for the analysis services cube and…

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