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In this demonstration,

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we're going to do a very light touch introduction to MABS, the

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Microsoft Azure Backup Server. You saw at the end of the previous

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demo that if you're configuring your Recovery Services vault to

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back up off‑cloud workloads,

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particularly Microsoft ones, that's the exam alert here if you're

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asked about backing up on‑premises Exchange,

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SQL Server, SharePoint, and particularly bare metal recovery. The MABS,

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or Microsoft Azure Backup Server, is a free download.

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It takes a while to install.

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You'll definitely want to pay close attention to the docs and follow it along.

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I have installed it, I should say,

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on a Windows Server 2019 machine. You do have to have SQL Server, so

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got SQL Server 2017 installed on this machine.

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And once you've got the Azure Backup Server loaded up, it's a question

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of mastering the learning curve of the interface,

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which isn't particularly user‑friendly, in my humble opinion. Let me just give

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you the high‑level view of what you've got going on here.

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So if we go down under Management,

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you are going to need to register the Azure Backup Server with the RS vault.

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And again,

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you do that using the vault credentials that we talked about before, you see.

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So we go to Register. Are you using a proxy?

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No.

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Where is your vault credential? So, onboarding MABS into the Recovery

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Services vault is actually the easiest part. More to the point, you need

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to configure disk storage, local storage because the idea is that you can

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do disk‑to‑disk to cloud backups.

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So, you can keep your backups locally and have a copy go

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up to the Recovery Services vault.

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So I've brought in an e‑volume here to serve as my local disk

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storage. And then we can enumerate our protected servers. Looks

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like my agent is out of date here.

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And as you can see,

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the MABS interface allows you to centrally manage the agent

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that you'll need to install on each machine. And you see the

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text is probably pretty small,

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but down below it's referencing DPM DPM administrator console. You're

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going to see some of those things that may scratch your head if you don't

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understand, fortunately, you do, that MABS is simply a stripped‑down

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version of the licensed product, the commercial product, System Center

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Data Protection Manager, or DPM.

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So once you've got the back end up and running,

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you'll want to go over to Protection, and you wind up

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creating what are called protection groups. And I created one

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protection group called SQL‑DPM‑DB,

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where I've enlisted one computer, which is this one, and then

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I've gone in and selected a workload to protect.

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And those workloads can be very flexible, as you can see here.

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I have specifically selected protection in terms of SQL Server

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databases, and I'm right‑clicking a lot, and you can see a lot of

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the options that show up when you do that.

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If you click New, it's going to walk you through creating a new protection group.

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Let me just quickly show you that. I'm going to back up servers, of

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course, and then we're asked to enumerate any members here.

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I've deployed to DC1 and WIN2019.

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We can grab file shares.

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We can grab entire volumes. If there's any workloads, like in this

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case, it's a domain controller, so there's Active Directory. I'm

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just going to grab my shares folder here.

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What does it say? You've already enabled protection for this if

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you want to protect it. I don't want System State. I just want to

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grab this backup of this file share.

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Now if I expand Windows Server 2019, you can see that it's a Hyper‑V

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server, so we can bring up host and individual VMs.

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It's a SQL Server, so we can enumerate that workload.

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This is one of the nice benefits of DPM and Azure Backup Server,

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as I've said before. Do you want to use short‑term protection

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on disk, or do you just want to do online?

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What's the name of the protection group?

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I'll call it DC1‑Shares. Click Next.

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What is our retention range?

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Our recovery point objective? Just verifying if we have enough storage locally

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to handle the backup. Are we going to go over the network?

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Are we going to do it now, later, or manually? Consistency checking,

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select the data source you want to protect online.

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Okay.

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Here's our backup interval. Here is our retention, transfer over the

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network, Create Group, and then we're off and running.

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So that's just a really quick and fast little explanation about how

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to get off the ground with Azure Backup Server.

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But ultimately,

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I think you saw that the vault credential is really what unlocks

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that registration between your local solution,

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whether it's the individual MARS agent, or if it's using the much more robust

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MABS, or Azure Backup Server solution. Ah, looks like I've got an agent

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incompatibility here, and we can go through and troubleshoot that. I'm not

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going to, and you don't have to sit through it. I'll call this demo done now.