This recipe will cover how to create an on-demand recovery point for backup and archive purposes, and how to automatically replicate it to Azure Recovery Services Vault.
In some scenarios such as updating and patching your server or your application, you want to manually create recovery points for your data. The prerequisites are that you have the online protection enabled for the data source(s) present in your protection group. Please refer to the previous section if you have not yet done so.
- You will be prompted with the
Create recovery poin
t
wizard. SelectOnline protection
from the drop-down menu, and then click on theOK
button: