Microsoft Azure Backup Server, installed on-premises to back up workloads both locally and to Azure. Multi-user authorisation (MUA) isn't available with it.
Also called Microsoft Azure Backup Server.
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Terms in this definition
- Authorisation
Working out which actions and data a signed-in user or application is permitted, typically via role assignments. It comes after authentication.
- Multi-user authorization
Safeguard in Azure Backup whereby critical backup operations only proceed once a role on a Resource Guard has been obtained; that guard is best kept in a different tenant.
Related terms
- Azure Backup security PIN
Short-lived PIN, valid for five minutes, created from a Recovery Services vault's Properties. Hybrid backups through MARS, MABS or DPM ask for it before critical actions such as stopping protection with data deletion or changing the passphrase; Azure VM backups aren't covered.
- DPM
System Center Data Protection Manager. It and MABS are the hybrid backup servers that the Azure Backup security PIN protects.