Azure Recovery

Recover Azure Resources

1. From the navigation menu, go to Cloud Resilence > Cloud Assemblies.

   The Cloud Assemblies page appears.

2. Click the Azure assembly that you want to recover.

   The Cloud Assembly page of the Azure appears.

3. On the Timeline tab, click the protected timeline.

   The Protection page of the timeline appears.

4. In the upper-right corner of the page, click Recover.

   The Recover Resources page of the timeline appears.

5. Enter the name of the recovery.

6. Select the recovery profile.

7. Select the recovery type.

8. Select the VPC type.

9. Select the recovery regions.

10. Select the resources to recover.

11. Click Recover to create a new recovery.

Recovery Scenarios

Cloud Rewind covers the following recovery scenarios during the protected resource's recovery.

Same Region Recovery

Using Cloud Rewind, users can recover the entire assembly or specific resource groups.

Same region can be achieved using the following options

Existing VNet: Users can recover all their protected compute, storage, and load-balancing resources to an existing customer-managed VNet. User's can enable this option by selecting the VNet mapping option available under "Advanced Options".

Same VNet: This option allows users to recover resources back to their original VNet. This option is enabled only if you are choosing selected resource recovery.

Create a VNet: Users can recover all their protected resources to a new VNet, which is isolated and created by Cloud Rewind using the same source VPC private configuration.

Cross region recovery

The user can recover the entire assembly or only the selected resource groups to the recovery region. Cloud Rewind creates a new resource group and recovers all the protected resources from the chosen resource group or the entire assembly to the recovery region.

Cross region can be achieved using the following options

Existing VNet: Users can recover all their protected compute, storage, and load-balancing resources to an existing customer-managed VNet. User's can enable this option by selecting the VNet mapping option available under "Advanced Options".

Create a VNet: Users can recover all their protected resources to a new VNet, which is isolated and created by Cloud Rewind using the same source VPC private configuration.

Advanced recovery options

1. Recover scale set without instances: By enabling this option, Cloud Rewind will recover the scale set without instances. Once the recovery is over, the scale sets can be scaled up manually or through Cloud Rewind webhooks.

1. Enable VNet mapping: By enabling this option, Cloud Rewind provides the capability of choosing a custom recovery VNet that already exists in your Azure account. By using this feature, customers have control over mapping their recovery VNet and subnet.

2. Retain Private IP Range: By enabling this option, Cloud Rewind retains all the same source private IPs in the recovered resource. Click here for details

1. Override Resource Dependencies: This option is available only for same VNet recovery. By enabling this option, Cloud Rewind recover only VMs and VM Scale Sets all the other dependencies like Load Balancers, Application Gateways, and Network Security Groups will be overridden with the backup configuration.

Cloud Rewind Recovery Limitations

1. The selected resource's recovery will only recover the resources of the selected “resource groups”
2. For SQL, MySQL and PostgreSQL Servers,
3. Only 'Same-Region' & 'Same-Resource group' selected resource recovery is supported
4. Cross-region recovery is not supported due to Azure limitation
5. For VM's/ VMSS following configurations will not be recovered.
6. Any Extentions
7. Any storage account associated with compute will not be recovered, any fileshares associated will not be mounted.
8. Any auto scaling that is configured will not be recovered.

Delete recovered resources

Cloud Rewind allows you to delete recovered resources using the RESET option. The reset helps to delete the recovered resources and roll back the Azure resources to the original state. It helps to reduce the Azure cloud cost that can incur due to recovery testing.

You can delete a recovery either on demand or by scheduling a reset. To reset a schedule, you can do it while configuring recovery or after the completion of recovery.

1. From the navigation menu, go to Cloud Resilence > Cloud Assemblies.

   The Cloud Assemblies page appears.

2. Click the Azure assembly that you want to reset.

   The Cloud Assembly page of the Azure appears.

3. On the Timeline tab, click the Recovered tab.

4. Click the recovered timeline that you want to reset.

   The Protection page of the recovered timeline appears.

5. In the row for the recovered timeline, click the actions button , and then select Reset Now.

   The Reset Recovery dialog box appears.

6. In the box, type DELETE.

7. Click Delete.

Once the reset action is triggered, the reset status changes to Reset In Progress. After the reset is completed, the changes to Reset completed. The Recovery Logs tab contains recovery and reset logs. It provides all the details of the execution for recovery and the reset process details.