AZ494438 - Generally Available: Azure Backup for Elastic SAN

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Last Updated

Sep 28, 2026

Published May 29, 2025

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • May 2025
    Preview
  • July 2024
    Private Preview
  • September 2026
    General Availability

Product

Azure Backup
Azure Elastic SAN

Tag

Features
Compliance
Management

Category

Management and governance
Storage

Description

Azure Backup now supports operational backup for Elastic SAN, offering a fully managed solution for backing up and restoring Elastic SAN volumes. This integration helps protect data against accidental deletions, ransomware attacks, and application updates by exporting Elastic SAN volumes to independent Managed Disk Incremental Snapshots. These snapshots are stored in locally redundant storage and are independent of the Elastic SAN volume lifecycle. 

The solution supports up to 450 restore points with 24 hours backup frequency. It is generally available in all Azure regions and supports volumes up to 16 TiB. Long-term vaulted backups and hourly backups are not supported. 

Standard charges apply for Managed Disk Incremental Snapshots.

To get started, visit the Resiliency center and configure protection for your Elastic SAN volumes. 

Learn more.