Backup and restore of Windows Azure virtual machines has been a hot topic lately in the events that I’ve been delivering. A few days ago, I published Part 1 of a two-part series on this topic on the Hey, Scripting Guy! blog that covers the first part of the process: safely backing up Windows Azure virtual machine hard disks to cloud-based blob storage.
This article is Part 2 in that series and focuses on completing the end-to-end recovery process by restoring Windows Azure virtual machines from cloud-based backup locations ...
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