AZ499192 - Generally Available: Agentless multi-disk crash consistent backup for Azure VMs

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Published

Aug 1, 2025

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • July 2025
    General Availability

Product

Azure Backup

Tag

Compliance
Features
Management

Category

Management and governance
Storage

Description

Azure Backup support for agentless multi-disk crash consistent backups for Azure Virtual Machines is now Generally Available.

Agentless multi-disk crash consistent backups for Azure VM allows you to take VM backups without installing additional software like the VM agent or snapshot extension in your VM. If your workload is performance sensitive and can recover from crash consistent backups, this feature can help reduce the quiesce time during backup. You can also use this feature if your operating system is not supported for application or file-system consistent backup.

You can enable crash consistent backups by setting the Consistency Type in Backup policy for your Azure VM.