O365 Backup to Azure - How To?

[marieelieg]

Hello everyone,

How can I back up using Veeam for Office 365 to Azure?

I was thinking of:
1- Install Veeam for Office 365 on an Azure VM.
2- The proxy server will be this same Azure VM.
3- Present some storage (on Azure of course) to this VM. For example: E:\.
4- Create a repository on the Veeam management shell pointing to this storage. For example: E:\backups.
5- Add the Exchange organisation and create backups.
6- Install the Veeam Explorer for Exchange on this Azure VM for restores.

Is my thinking true? If not what is the best practise for this?

Thanks in advance!
PS: I'm using my phone so I apologize for any mistakes.

[Mike Resseler]

All correct

The only best practice I would consider is to scale-out (add another VM as proxy + repository) when the organization grows. Other than that. No comments

[marieelieg]

Noted!

Thanks Mike!!

[vishalgupta]

Hi Mike,

Just adding one more query related to the same topic -

When we have VBO365 running on an Azure VM, does the port requirements remains same? as mentioned in the user guide?

[Mike Resseler]

Hi Vishal,

Yes. The same port requirements apply. IaaS should be considered as on-premises... just running on someone else's computer

[vishalgupta]

Great Thanks Mike.

[IT_Vision]

Hello marieelieg,

We are looking to do the same. Would you be able to share some expected Azure cost to store this data and run the backup VM in Azure?

My organization is an Azure tenant and we have found with previous backup storage to azure (we were sending DPM data to Azure Backup repository) the cost seem to balloon out of control so we ended up stopping DPM to azure backups and going to back to tape. We did make the mistake of setting up the storage to be GRS and not having the option to change it to LRS didn't help our situation.

SO looking for some ideas on what expected cost should be. Azure offers a lot of VM options, but when you start looking at storage transactions I get a bit nervous not really knowing how to predict a cost associated to something like this.

Thank You for anything you care share.

[Mike Resseler]

Hi IT_Vision,

It is hard to tell you what costs will be there. It depends indeed on what VM and the amount of storage you are going to use. Personally I have used it on an Standard A4 but my personal account is not that big in size (I even used smaller VM size)

So look at what your current storage usage in O365 is, look at the amount of users and if you will need one VM or multiple, and then look at the cost. Also, take in mind that we have an image in the Azure marketplace now, so you can deploy it (it comes with the community edition license so free for 10 users) and test out for 10 users and see what the results for your subscription

Hope it helps
Mike

[chi-ltd]

Im looking at this too.
Would it not be easier to have a data disk created on the VM that can be increased when required rather than using azure file share storage account?

[Mike Resseler]

Hi chi-ltd,

Yes. But please note we are working on a better solution for this scenario in our next version

[dwpfister]

We just installed the image from the Marketplace and are testing backing up 2 mailboxes from O365 to a VM in our Azure Tenant. SLOW doesn't even begin to describe it -- you would think from O365->Azure it would be pretty peppy. Is there any tricks/suggestions on tuning/tweaks we should be doing to increase throughput?

[nielsengelen]

David, since you are testing 2 mailboxes, I presume you are hitting the throttling Microsoft has in place. In general, for testing, we advise backuping multiple accounts at once.

Regarding tweaking the VM, the default config should be enough for a small environment however we are adding Object Storage support in version 4 (Azure Blob) so you can offload backups directly into it.