Azure data backup how to#

The underlying purpose of backing up data is to allow for recovery from disaster. How Much Backup (and Recovery) Do You Need? The first and foremost responsibility of the customer is to carefully select the most reliable possible provider to make it easier for them to exercise their responsibility. Depending upon what data is lost, a company may suffer anything from a brief period to rebuild the data to being completely driven out of business with many layers of pain in between. That fiduciary responsibility remains with the customer who owns the data.īeyond the contract are the pragmatic realities. Examine any provider’s cloud services contract and you’ll find the clauses that tell you that they take no responsibility for data loss or loss of business caused by data loss.

Responsibility for data integrity always rests with the owner of the data, and never with the service provider. While that may somewhat true and Microsoft Azure claims a 0% annualized failure rate for IaaS disks, it all comes down to asking yourself one key question:

Azure data backup how to#

In previous posts, we covered the growing professional and managed services opportunity around Azure (“ Blue Gold: The Azure Gold Rush and How to Cash In”) as well as best security practices (' Azure Security: Five Planning Tips For New Environments'). This is the fourth installment in a new series on the BitTitan blog, “ The Complete MSP,” built to help IT professionals stay ahead of the Azure curve and accelerate the evolution of your customers’ solutions.