Back up an Azure virtual machine (Azure)

by Thomas Bründl

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Environment-Setup

Step1. Resource Group - Creation:

az group create --name it-infrastructure.solutions --location westeurope --output tsv --query name

Step 2. VNET - Creation:

az network vnet create --resource-group it-infrastructure.solutions --name VNET1 --address-prefixes 10.0.0.0/16 --subnet-name SUBNET1 --subnet-prefixes 10.0.0.0/24

Step 3. Windows VM - Creation:

az vm create --resource-group it-infrastructure.solutions --name WIN1 --size Standard_DS1_v2 --public-ip-sku Standard --vnet-name VNET1 --subnet SUBNET1 --image Win2016Datacenter --admin-username lokalcloudadmin --no-wait --admin-password <password>

Step 4. Linux VM - Creation:

az vm create --resource-group it-infrastructure.solutions --name LIN1 --size Standard_DS1_v2 --image RedHat:RHEL:7-RAW:latest --authentication-type ssh --generate-ssh-keys --vnet-name VNET1 --subnet SUBNET1

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/protect-virtual-machines-with-azure-backup/