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Stéphane Eyskens
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Stéphane Eyskens has a developer background and became a solution architect about a decade ago. As a cloud subject matter expert, he contributed to many digital transformation programs, helping organizations get better results out of their cloud investments. As an MVP, he is an active contributor to the Microsoft Tech Community and has worked on multiple open source projects available on GitHub. Stéphane is also a Pluralsight assessment author as well as the author of multiple books and online recordings.
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Ed Price is a Senior Program Manager in Engineering at Microsoft, with an MBA in technology management. He leads Microsoft's efforts to publish Reference Architectures on the Azure Architecture Center. Previously, he drove datacenter deployment and customer feedback, and he ran Microsoft's customer feedback programs for Azure development, Service Fabric, IoT, Functions, and Visual Studio. He was also a technical writer at Microsoft for 6 years and helped lead TechNet Wiki. He is the co-author of five books, including Learn to Program with Small Basic and ASP.NET Core 5 for Beginners from Packt.
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Zooming in on backup and restore

Backup and restore processes are also part of the broader disaster recovery picture. However, you might end up with a corrupted database or accidental data deletion, even in a non-disaster situation:

Figure 3.16 – Zoom-in on backup and restore

Figure 3.16 – Zoom-in on backup and restore

Figure 3.16 is far from being comprehensive, but it should give you the key aspects to consider for a good backup and restore strategy. Figure 3.16 includes four top-level groups:

  • NON-DB PAAS: This top-level group refers to managed services that are not related to database engines.
  • ON-PREMISES/CLOUD VM: This is applicable to both on-premises and cloud-hosted virtual machines.
  • STORAGE ACCOUNTS: AzCopy is usually used to push and pull data to/from storage accounts.
  • PAAS DB: This top-level group relates to database-specific managed services.

We first distinguish database services from other PaaS services, because the way to back up and restore them is...

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Stéphane Eyskens

Stéphane Eyskens has a developer background and became a solution architect about a decade ago. As a cloud subject matter expert, he contributed to many digital transformation programs, helping organizations get better results out of their cloud investments. As an MVP, he is an active contributor to the Microsoft Tech Community and has worked on multiple open source projects available on GitHub. Stéphane is also a Pluralsight assessment author as well as the author of multiple books and online recordings.
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Ed Price

Ed Price is a Senior Program Manager in Engineering at Microsoft, with an MBA in technology management. He leads Microsoft's efforts to publish Reference Architectures on the Azure Architecture Center. Previously, he drove datacenter deployment and customer feedback, and he ran Microsoft's customer feedback programs for Azure development, Service Fabric, IoT, Functions, and Visual Studio. He was also a technical writer at Microsoft for 6 years and helped lead TechNet Wiki. He is the co-author of five books, including Learn to Program with Small Basic and ASP.NET Core 5 for Beginners from Packt.
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