Backup sources

Anycloud Backup for Azure supports two Azure native instances, Azure Virtual Machines and Azure SQL Database service. Both are calculated based on a per-instance-model

VM

Anycloud Backup for Azure can produce cloud-native snapshots and image-level backups of VMs. To create backups of Azure VMs, Anycloud Backup for Azure creates backup jobs. A backup job is a collection of settings that define the way backup operations are performed - What to backup, where to store it and when to start the backup job.

SQL instances

To create backups of Azure SQL databases, Anycloud Backup for Azure creates backup jobs. A backup job is a collection of settings that define the way backup operations are performed - What to backup, where to store it and when to start the backup job. One backup job can process multiple SQL databases within different, or the same, region.

Important – Anycloud Backup for Azure does not support back up of databases hosted by Azure Arc-enabled SQL managed instances and SQL Servers on Azure Arc-enabled servers.