What's supported¶

Afi SaaS backup for Microsoft Azure cloud provides comprehensive protection for Azure virtual machines, including configuration and disk data.

Virtual machine types supported for backup¶

Windows and Linux virtual machines that support Azure restore points technology (both powered on or shut down)
Azure Generation 1 and Azure Generation 2 virtual machines
Virtual machines of standard and trusted launch security types
Virtual machines with disks encrypted by Azure Key Vault
Windows virtual machines that use BitLocker for OS and data disks encryption

Limitations¶

Backup of virtual machines with ephemeral or shared disks is not supported at the moment (support is planned for Q1 2025).

Virtual machine properties supported for recovery¶

Upon a recovery, Afi fully preserves the original virtual machine configuration (by default), allowing to recover the virtual machine to a custom resource group and location, as well as to override certain properties, if specified.

Currently, the following custom restore parameters are supported:

Subscription and resource group
Location
Subnet and security group configuration for the virtual machine's network interfaces
Encryption settings for the virtual machine's disks

Volume configurations supported for content preview¶

Volume content browsing is supported for static (fixed) partition schemes and partitions with EXT4 and NTFS file systems.

Limitations¶

Volume content browsing is not supported for:

Dynamic partition layouts, such as LVM (Logical Volume Manager) for Linux and LDM (Logical Disk Manager) for Windows
Windows volumes encrypted by BitLocker