Azure Backup protection for managed disks that needs no agent, taking snapshots kept in the same region; recovery isn't orchestrated automatically.
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Terms in this definition
- Azure Backup
Azure's backup service, which keeps recovery points, long-term retention included, in a Recovery Services vault. It restores data rather than failing workloads over, which is the job of Site Recovery.
- Managed disks
Block storage disks for VMs whose underlying storage accounts Azure looks after. The only redundancy choices are LRS and ZRS.
- Agent
A specialised form of Microsoft Copilot set up for one particular job, pairing instructions with knowledge and skills. You can create one in Copilot Studio, SharePoint or Agent Builder, and administrators control them from the Microsoft 365 admin center.
- region
A provider-defined grouping in VCF Automation of Supervisors that all share one NSX Local Manager; tenants consume its compute, storage and memory via quotas set per region.
Related terms
- Disk Backup Reader
Built-in role that must be granted on the source managed disk to the Backup vault's managed identity, letting Azure Disk Backup read the disk.
- Disk Snapshot Contributor
For Azure Disk Backup to create and clean up snapshots, the Backup vault's managed identity must hold this built-in role over the resource group where snapshots are kept.