{"id":20753,"date":"2017-11-13T15:38:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T15:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=20753"},"modified":"2018-01-20T09:52:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T09:52:15","slug":"azure-backup-mars-agent-system-state-support-is-ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=20753","title":{"rendered":"Azure Backup MARS Agent System State Support is GA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/windows-server-system-state-backup-azure-ga\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> last week that they made support for backing up system state using the MARS agent generally available.<\/p>\n<p>System State backup was one of those \u201cI must have this\u201d features that I\u2019ve been hearing about for 3+ years. Today it\u2019s there \u2013 update your version of the MARS agent and you\u2019ll have it.<\/p>\n<p>With this added backup, you can protect metadata:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Active Directory<\/strong>: Backup your AD so you can do DC recoveries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>File Servers<\/strong>: It\u2019s nice being bale to restore files &amp; folders, but what about the shares?<\/li>\n<li><strong>IIS Web Servers<\/strong>: Protect that IIS Metabase.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Adding System State to your backup policy is easy; either start a new schedule (new MARS installations) or edit the existing schedule. System State will appear in the Add Items box. Select System State and complete the wizard. It\u2019s easy \u2026 the way backup should be!<\/p>\n<h2>Was This Post Useful?<\/h2>\n<p>If you found this information useful, then imagine what 2 days of training might mean to you. I&#8217;m delivering a 2-day course in Amsterdam on April 19-20, teaching newbies and experienced Azure admins about Azure Infrastructure. There&#8217;ll be lots of in-depth information, covering the foundations, best practices, troubleshooting, and advanced configurations. You can learn more <a href=\"http:\/\/amsterdam.cloudmechanix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amsterdam.cloudmechanix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20919\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AMS-Apr-2018-Cloud-Mechanix.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AMS-Apr-2018-Cloud-Mechanix.png 1352w, https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AMS-Apr-2018-Cloud-Mechanix-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AMS-Apr-2018-Cloud-Mechanix-768x407.png 768w, https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AMS-Apr-2018-Cloud-Mechanix-1024x543.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced last week that they made support for backing up system state using the MARS agent generally available. System State backup was one of those \u201cI must have this\u201d features that I\u2019ve been hearing about for 3+ years. Today it\u2019s there \u2013 update your version of the MARS agent and you\u2019ll have it. With &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=20753\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Azure Backup MARS Agent System State Support is GA&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[169,170,148,55,182],"class_list":["post-20753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azure","tag-active-directory","tag-azure","tag-azure-backup","tag-backup","tag-iis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Azure-Backup1.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20935,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20753\/revisions\/20935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}