title: Recovery Services Vault - What does LRS vs GRS apply to in this context?
body: <p>An Azure Recovery Services Vault has a "Backup Configuration" setting to control the "storage replication type" of the vault.  There are 2 options: LRS or GRS storage.  I need some guidance on what this means in the context of a vault.</p>
  
  <p>1) What exactly does the LRS/GRS setting of a recovery services vault apply too when it comes to a vault?  For example does it apply to the settings/configuration of the vault, does it apply to any backup data in the vault?</p>
  
  <p>2) If the GRS setting applies to backup data within the vault does this mean that in the event of a disaster all backup data within the vault will be made available to a secondary region when a failover is triggered?</p>
  
  <p>3) If point #2 above is true what is the point of recovery services vault replication?  Does this just allow a customer to failover whenever they want instead of waiting for Microsoft to initiate the failover?  </p>