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Unstructured data is everywhere, and many businesses are moving their NAS environments to the public cloud, with Microsoft Azure's Azure Files being a popular choice. But like all data in the public cloud, your data remains your responsibility under the Shared Responsibility model. Hi, I'm Michael from Veeam, and in this demo, I'll show you just how simple it is to protect your Azure Files, and highlight some of the granular recovery techniques available within Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure. Let's start with a look at our overview. So the last 24 hours, you can start to see that we've got a few different policies that are now running. Now over to our policies, and in particular, our Azure Files. I've created a backup job or a backup policy already, given it a name, provided the account that has permissions. And now from a resource type, we choose our resource group, our file share, or even our storage account, and then we add that file share into our backup job. If we choose storage account, then you can see that we can add those into here as well. I'm not going to make that change because I already have the job running. We then set up our scheduling options, so daily retention, I want to run this at 6pm, I want to keep two snapshots. On the weekly side of things, I want to just run that on a Saturday and keep one of those. I want to automatically retry failed policies three times. I can also enable indexing of the files that we're protecting. And then we're going to get that cost estimation of what does that look like. There's no data in this file service. I will caveat that right now. Then from an Azure Files point of view, what does the restore look like? We can do file level restore, file level recovery of this. So again, we choose an account that gives us permissions to be able to look inside of that. We can then choose to restore to the original location or to a new location. So you could select a completely different subscription region and file share at that point. We give it a reason for auditing purposes. And it's as simple as that. When I first learned about Azure Files, I thought of it as a big NAS in the cloud. And that's exactly what makes it so valuable. It provides excellent scalability and accessibility for unstructured data, while Veeam ensures that data can still be protected and recovered easily. Thanks for watching and I'll see you next time. Microsoft Mechanics
