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 Azure backup offers a comprehensive cloud based  hybrid backup solution that enables backup of not only your Azure VMs, but your files, folders, applications etc both on prem and in Azure. This solution can be used to replace your chunky on-prem backup solutions,  tape drives , backup tapes and the likes. In this blog, I will give a brief overview of the Azure backup service, its advantages and scenarios that it can cater to currently Service highlights: Azure backup is offered as a complete backup as a service offering. Lets take a look at few highlights of the service Cost effective You need not own any backup infrastructure, say services , tools and devices to use this service. You can directly subscribe to the service and pay based on your usage. There are no additional compute charges involved in the service. You pay a fixed charge for each protected instance, and also for the storage that you consume in the cloud for storing your backup data. The egress traffic for rest

Microsoft recommends usage of ARM for all new deployments in Azure. All new developments/features/services will be available in ARM going forward.  But  there are lot of services that are yet to be migrated to ARM. What if one of the services that you want to use is not currently available in ARM and you have already set up rest of your environment in ARM?  In such a scenario, you can always set up a site to site VPN between the classic V1 VNET and the ARM VNET. This process is also well documented: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-networks-arm-asm-s2s-howto/   That being the case,  what if we want to test the interoperability of services and you want to move few already set up VMS in ARM to classic? I know that it is not a very common scenario. Also it is not a recommended approach for production deployment, ARM is definitely the way to go. However, for enabling that test run you might very badly want to do before taking the plunge, we will loo