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Virtual machines

Afi provides comprehensive backup and recovery support for Azure virtual machines, as well as online preview for virtual machine configuration and disk data.

Browse

Inside the virtual machine backup, you can browse its configuration, data volumes, and volume content.

Volume content browsing is supported for both static (fixed) and dynamic LVM linear partition schemes, as well as for partitions formatted with EXT4, XFS, or NTFS file systems.

Export

Configuration download

You can copy or download the Azure-compatible JSON configuration for a virtual machine, as well as for its disks, network interfaces, and public IP addresses, from the backup browse view.

Data download

For EXT4, XFS, and NTFS volumes where content browsing is supported, you can download a selected file from the volume browse view. To do so, select the file and click Download:

Recovery

You can restore a virtual machine or any of its disks from a backup snapshot, creating a new instance with the same or custom configuration. If the original virtual machine still exists in Azure, it will not be affected by the recovery.

Afi displays the recovery progress on the Activity → Tasks tab and notifies you via email once the recovery is complete.

Virtual machine recovery

To restore a virtual machine:

  1. Click Recover in the virtual machine backup browse view to open the recovery dialog.
  2. Enter a name for the virtual machine to be restored.
  3. (Optional) Modify the configuration for the virtual machine. The following options are available:
    • Azure subscription ID, resource group, and location
    • Subnet ID and security group ID for each network interface
    • Remove or assign the public IP address
    • Disk encryption settings for each disk
  4. Click Recover to start the virtual machine recovery.

Info

When you click on Subscription, Resource group, Location, etc. fields, Afi automatically displays a searchable list of the corresponding entities available on the Azure side.

Disk recovery

Instead of full VM recovery, you can restore any of the virtual machine's disks and then attach it to a virtual machine of your choice in Azure. To restore a disk, go to the Disks tab inside the virtual machine backup browse view, select the disk, and click Recover.