I am getting ready to deploy Metallic to my Azure tenant and was looking for documentation to determine if an agent needs to be installed on VM and if so, would I need to use the file server option?
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File level restores on Azure VMs
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+11You don’t need to have it installed for backup purposes, a VM-level backup lets you use several recovery methods, including Guest Files. In this scenario, the backup data is mounted to the MediaAgent, allowing you to freely browse and recover files from any path. More Restores for Azure VMs
However, Azure currently doesn’t support injecting recovered files directly into VMs (unlike Hyper-V). Because of that, an agent is required on the target VM or another recovery destination. Alternatively, smaller files (up to 1 GB) can be downloaded directly through the browser.
Usually, I deploy the agent on file servers or on VMs where restores are frequent. Of course, if database-level backups are required, the agent should be deployed to ensure application-consistent backups.
There’s the sample of Guest files restoration for the VM without agent installed. It works both for Windows and Linux VMs.
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