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title: MABS & System Center DPM support matrix
description: This article summarizes Azure Backup support when you use Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS) or System Center DPM to back up on-premises and Azure VM resources.
ms.service: azure-backup
ms.date: 07/17/2025
ms.date: 09/11/2025
ms.topic: reference
author: AbhishekMallick-MS
ms.author: v-mallicka
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--- | --- | ---
**Back up on-premises machines/workloads** | DPM/MABS protection agent runs on the machines that you want to back up.<br/><br/> The MARS agent on DPM/MABS server.<br/> The minimum version of the Microsoft Azure Recovery Services agent, or Azure Backup agent, required to enable this feature is 2.0.8719.0. | DPM/MABS must be running on-premises.

> [!NOTE]
> ## Backup of Azure VMs / AWS EC2 and others... Is Not Supported by MABS
> A frequently asked question is whether virtual machines hosted on public cloud platforms such as Azure VMs or AWS EC2 can be backed up using DPM/MABS. The answer is that **these environments are not supported**.
>
> Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) with MABS is **only supported for recovery on the same hardware**. Recovery to different hardware or in cloud environments (e.g., Azure VM / AWS EC2) is **not supported**.
>
> ### Support Matrix
>
> | Scenario | Supported |
> | --- | --- |
> | Recover system state after BMR on the same hardware | ✅ Yes |
> | Recover system state after BMR on different hardware | ❌ No |
> | Recover system state after non-BMR full restore (same/different hardware) | ❌ No |
>
> This limitation is primarily due to the fact that **system state backups contain hardware-dependent information**, making recovery on different environments technically infeasible.

## Supported deployments

DPM/MABS can be deployed as summarized in the following table.
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- [Set up](backup-azure-microsoft-azure-backup.md) a MABS server.
- [Set up DPM](/system-center/dpm/install-dpm).
- [Back up a SharePoint farm on Azure Stack](backup-mabs-sharepoint-azure-stack.md).
- [Back up SQL Server on Azure Stack](backup-mabs-sql-azure-stack.md).
- [Back up SQL Server on Azure Stack](backup-mabs-sql-azure-stack.md).