Backup center - Deprecation updates

Author: AbhishekMallick-MS

articles/backup/backup-center-actions.md

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 title: Perform actions using Backup center in Azure Backup
 description: This article explains how to perform actions using Backup center
 ms.topic: how-to
-ms.date: 03/21/2024
+ms.date: 09/24/2024
 ms.service: azure-backup
 ms.custom: engagement-fy24
 author: AbhishekMallick-MS
 ms.author: v-abhmallick
 ---
 # Perform actions using Backup center
 
+[!INCLUDE [backup-center-deprecation.md ](../../includes/backup-center-deprecation.md )]
+
 Backup center allows you to perform key backup-related actions from a central interface without needing to go to an individual vault. Some actions that you can perform from Backup center are:
 
 * Configure backup for your datasources

articles/backup/backup-center-govern-environment.md

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 title: Govern your backup estate using Backup Center
 description: Learn how to govern your Azure environment to ensure that all your resources are compliant from a backup perspective with Backup Center.
 ms.topic: overview
-ms.date: 09/11/2024
+ms.date: 09/24/2024
 author: AbhishekMallick-MS
 ms.author: v-abhmallick
 ---
 
 # Govern your backup estate using Backup Center
 
+[!INCLUDE [backup-center-deprecation.md ](../../includes/backup-center-deprecation.md )]
+
 Backup center helps you govern your Azure environment to ensure that all your resources are compliant from a backup perspective. Below are some of the governance capabilities of Backup center:
 
 * View and assign Azure Policies for backup

articles/backup/backup-center-monitor-operate.md

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 title: Monitor and operate backups and disaster recovery using Backup center
 description: This article explains how to monitor and operate backups and disaster recovery at-scale using Backup center.
 ms.topic: how-to
-ms.date: 12/08/2022
+ms.date: 09/24/2024
 ms.service: azure-backup
 author: AbhishekMallick-MS
 ms.author: v-abhmallick
 ---
 
 # Monitor and operate backups and disaster recovery using Backup center
 
+[!INCLUDE [backup-center-deprecation.md ](../../includes/backup-center-deprecation.md )]
+
 As a backup admin, you can use Backup center as a single pane of glass to monitor your jobs and backup inventory on a day-to-day basis. You can also use Backup center to perform your regular operations, such as responding to on-demand backup requests, restoring backups, creating backup policies, and so on.
 
 Now, you can use Backup center to monitor your jobs and replication inventory as a disaster recovery admin. You can also use Backup center to enable replication for new virtual machines.

articles/backup/backup-center-obtain-insights.md

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 title: Obtain insights using Backup center
 description: Learn how to analyze historical trends and gain deeper insights on your backups with Backup center. 
 ms.topic: how-to
-ms.date: 09/11/2024
+ms.date: 09/24/2024
 author: AbhishekMallick-MS
 ms.author: v-abhmallick
 ---
 
 # Obtain Insights using Backup center
 
+[!INCLUDE [backup-center-deprecation.md ](../../includes/backup-center-deprecation.md )]
+
 For analyzing historical trends and gaining deeper insights on your backups, Backup Center provides an interface to [Backup Reports](configure-reports.md), which uses [Azure Monitor Logs](/azure/azure-monitor/logs/data-platform-logs) and [Azure Workbooks](/azure/azure-monitor/visualize/workbooks-overview). Backup Reports offers the following capabilities:
 
 - Allocating and forecasting of cloud storage consumed.

articles/backup/backup-center-overview.md

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 title: Overview of Backup center for Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery
 description: This article provides an overview of Backup center for Azure.
 ms.topic: overview
-ms.date: 07/30/2024
+ms.date: 09/24/2024
 ms.service: azure-backup
 ms.custom: engagement-fy23
 author: AbhishekMallick-MS
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ ms.author: v-abhmallick
 
 # About Backup center for Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery
 
+[!INCLUDE [backup-center-deprecation.md ](../../includes/backup-center-deprecation.md )]
+
 Backup center provides a *single unified management experience* in Azure for enterprises to govern, monitor, operate, and analyze backups at scale. It also provides at-scale monitoring and management capabilities for Azure Site Recovery. So, it's consistent with Azure's native management experiences.
 
 In this article, you'll learn about:

articles/backup/backup-center-support-matrix.md

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 title: Support matrix for Backup center for Azure Backup
 description: This article summarizes the scenarios that Backup center supports for each workload type
 ms.topic: reference
-ms.date: 03/27/2024
+ms.date: 09/24/2024
 ms.service: azure-backup
 author: AbhishekMallick-MS
 ms.author: v-abhmallick
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ ms.custom: engagement-fy24
 
 # Support matrix for Backup center
 
+[!INCLUDE [backup-center-deprecation.md ](../../includes/backup-center-deprecation.md )]
+
 This article summarizes the scenarios that Backup center supports for each workload type.
 
 Backup center helps enterprises to [govern, monitor, operate, and analyze backups at scale](backup-center-overview.md).

includes/backup-center-deprecation.md

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+---
+author: AbhishekMallick-MS
+ms.author: v-abhmallick
+ms.date: 09/24/2024
+ms.topic: include
+ms.service: azure-backup
+---
+
+>[!Important]
+>The Backup center has evolved to offer advanced BCDR management capabilities at scale. Use [Azure Business Continuity Center](/azure/business-continuity-center/business-continuity-center-overview) for comprehensive BCDR management of your protected resources across Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery. Backup center is no longer available from Azure Portal search. You can go to Backup center from the **Azure Business Continuity center Help** menu. Learn about [switching to Azure Business Continuity Center for your at scale BCDR management needs](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-storage-blog/switch-to-azure-business-continuity-center-for-your-at-scale/ba-p/4246169).