1 question, why don't you use cloudberry to do all this process? why mix 3 when 1 will do?

Cloudberry as ALL Backup solution ONLY backup the data NO RAID configurations are ever recorded.

If a server fails and has to be replaced, you must create the raid 1st, then you can boot from the recovery ISO.

I have also tested and failed. the problem you have is the data has to be "copied" so this is why the recovery is slow. there is no other way around it, Veeam also seem to do this the same way.

once the VM is booted they then need to copy all the data into the vhd's the live server can then be spun up. like you say very time consuming and not good in a BC/DR scenario.

yes, I now believe this is because the VM is a GEN2, I'm going to test with a GEN1 and see :) Unfortunately there is now way to boot from a CD in azure so cannot attempt a repair as you did.

The one I tested was a standard 2016 server, the backup size is<10GB it took over 2 hours for the failover process and it resulted in a black screen, the server didn't recover.

the problem is they NEED to COPY the files, if you have a large VM 1TB say the recover time is going to be hours? in a BC scenario this is too long.

Perhaps someone from CB can put me right?

Hi, managed.

Perhaps add this to the future requests.

there a few :) rude to mention though, our other Image based backup offers < hourly recovery onsite and in the cloud.

For image the "other" solution is better.

I do like the restore to Azure function, having a few problems in testing and its just that a restore, there need to be a way of directly booting the VM from the backup images stored in Azure, get that and your onto a winner !!

Thanks, it nearly answers it ill have a read :)