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IamJeffG
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| - You want to preserve the VM's identity, for example IP (and therefore DNS settings), resource name in Azure. | ||
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| 1. You will need a Staging Storage Account: |
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Technically this step also aplies to "Create new VM". Maybe it should be moved up a level
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Just minor fixes. But maybe we should first test-drive after our meeting on Thursday before merging?
| This documentation assumes you've set up Azure Backup on a VM (which needs to be have been done manually). | ||
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Goal
Doc describes how to restore VM from backup in Azure
Toward: https://github.com/ConservationMetrics/gc-forge/issues/81
What I changed and why
Adds markdown doc. Links to it from
azure/README.mdThis includes a little bit of CMI-specific info. I think that's ok.
What I'm not doing here
We haven't documented how to set up Azure backups anywhere yet. (There a step on the POST_DEPLOYMENT_CHECKLIST to do it without instructions how)
LLM use disclosure
None