Benefits of Azure Blob Backup
- Data Protection: Azure blob Backup ensures that errors like accidental deletion/corruption of data doesn’t occur, hence providing a layer of protection for your valuable data.
- Point-in-Time Restore: Azure Blob Backup also allows the user to restore data from a different save point. Using this, the user can go back to previous version of any data if any changes to data are made mistakenly.
- Soft Delete: In Azure, by default, when a user deletes a version of data, it stays available for restoring for a certain amount of time. It basically acts like a recycle bin, but for versions of data.
- Enhanced Data Recovery: Azure Blob Backup not only allows user to recover the blobs, but also specific containers, subsets of blobs etc.
Data Backup and Recovery with Azure Blob Storage
Microsoft has various storage types, one of which is Azure Blob Storage. The data stored in Blob Storage can be of various formats including but not restricted to pictures and videos. Blob storage is suited to store unstructured data i.e. the data that doesn’t have a specific structure such as text or binary, on Microsoft’s data storage platform.