Lab Overview

In this lab, you will learn how to restore a virtual machine (VM) using Azure Backup, a crucial process for ensuring business continuity and recovering from data loss or system issues.

You will step through the process of selecting a recovery point and performing a full VM restoration to recover the VM to a previous stable state.

This lab provides hands-on experience with Azure’s robust backup and restore functionality, enabling you to manage and restore VMs efficiently in case of failures or errors.

By the end of this exercise, you will be able to restore a VM to a previous point in time using Azure Backup and ensure that it is fully operational, which is essential for any IT professional working with Azure infrastructure.

Learning Objectives

• • Gain practical experience in stopping and deallocating a VM in preparation for the restore operation, ensuring no active processes are running.
  • Understand how to choose the appropriate recovery point from available backups, a critical step for restoring a VM to the desired state.
  • Learn how to overwrite an existing VM with a selected recovery point using Azure Backup to fully restore it to a stable operational state.
  • Gain experience in tracking the restore progress, monitoring notifications, and verifying that the VM has been successfully restored to a running state.

Exam Relevance

The skills you learn in this lab are necessary to pass the following Azure certification exams:

• • AZ-104
  • AZ-305