Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

Overview
This section contains pointers to get started with different solutions for creating backups and recovering from an unforeseen data loss.
In production, you should be using an orchestrator like Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, or Kubernetes in Azure Kubernetes Service.
WorkflowGen files
SMB file shares
You should have at least three different storage share to handle WorkflowGen persistent files. If you used custom SMB file shares, you should have a strategy to back up the disks for the file share. If a problem occurs, you can restore a backup. Don't forget to restore the database data to the exact time as the file share backup.
Azure Files
For Azure Files, see the following documentation on backups and restorations:
​Back up and restore Azure File Shares

​Disaster recovery and storage account failover (preview) - Azure Storage​
Azure Disks
For Azure Disks, see the following documentation on backups and restorations:
​Backup and disaster recovery for IaaS disks​
Database
On-premise database
See the Operations section in the WorkflowGen Technical Guide for information on backup and restoration of on-premise databases.
Azure SQL
See the following Microsoft documentation about business continuity for Azure SQL:
​Overview of business continuity with Azure SQL Database​
Kubernetes
Creating backups and recovering with them in Kubernetes can be complicated, but tools exist to help manage this. Here's an article about backups with Kubernetes:
​Kubernetes: Backups and recovery​
There are two main tools for backup and recovery: 
​Velero

​kube-backup​
Azure Kubernetes Service
As with other Azure Services, Microsoft provides guides for backups and restorations:
​Best practices for business continuity and disaster recovery in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)​

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Overview

WorkflowGen files

SMB file shares

Azure Files

Azure Disks

Database

On-premise database

Azure SQL

Kubernetes

Azure Kubernetes Service