Azure Backup enables vaulted backup for Azure Data Lake Storage for comprehensive data protection

Public Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backup for Azure Data Lake Storage for comprehensive data protection

Azure Backup now supports transferring your Azure Data Lake Storage backups to the vault. A vault stores backups and recovery points created over time. You can define a backup schedule with daily or weekly backups and specify retention settings for how long backups will be stored in the vault. Vaulted backups are isolated from the source data, enabling you to continue business operations even if the source data is compromised by performing seamless restores using existing recovery points.

Key capabilities of vaulted backups include:

• Off-site copy of data: Recover mission-critical data from backups, irrespective of the state of the source data.
• Protection from accidental or malicious deletion: Backups are isolated from the source storage account, preventing accidental or malicious deletion.
• Long-term retention: Retain backup data for up to 10 years to meet compliance requirements.
• Alternate location recovery: Restore data to an alternate account if the source storage account is compromised.
• Secure backups: Built-in security capabilities like soft-delete, management immutability, and data encryption help protect your backups in the vault.

In this limited public preview, you can configure vaulted backups for block blobs in a HNS-enabled standard general-purpose v2 ADLS Gen2 storage account in the regions mentioned here. Support for other regions will be added incrementally. For more details, refer to this article.