Disaster recovery strategies in Azure - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Disaster Recovery Strategies with Azure

📖 Scenario: You are working as a cloud engineer for a company that wants to protect its critical data and applications from disasters. You will use Azure services to set up a simple disaster recovery strategy.

🎯 Goal: Build an Azure disaster recovery setup by creating a resource group, configuring a storage account with geo-redundant storage, and enabling recovery services vault for backup.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create an Azure resource group named DRResourceGroup in the eastus region.

Create a storage account named drstorageacct with GeoRedundantStorage replication in the DRResourceGroup.

Create a Recovery Services vault named DRVault in the eastus region within DRResourceGroup.

Enable backup protection for the storage account using the Recovery Services vault.

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Companies use disaster recovery strategies to keep their data safe and services running during unexpected failures or disasters.

💼 Career

Cloud engineers and administrators must know how to configure disaster recovery to meet business continuity requirements.

1

Create the Azure resource group

Write an Azure CLI command to create a resource group named DRResourceGroup in the eastus region.

Azure

# Your Azure CLI command here

Need a hint?

Use az group create with --name and --location options.

2

Create a storage account with geo-redundant storage

Write an Azure CLI command to create a storage account named drstorageacct in the resource group DRResourceGroup with GeoRedundantStorage replication.

Azure

az group create --name DRResourceGroup --location eastus
# Your Azure CLI command to create storage account here

Need a hint?

Use az storage account create with --sku Standard_GRS for geo-redundant storage.

3

Create a Recovery Services vault

Write an Azure CLI command to create a Recovery Services vault named DRVault in the eastus region within the resource group DRResourceGroup.

Azure

az group create --name DRResourceGroup --location eastus
az storage account create --name drstorageacct --resource-group DRResourceGroup --location eastus --sku Standard_GRS
# Your Azure CLI command to create Recovery Services vault here

Need a hint?

Use az backup vault create with the correct resource group, vault name, and location.

4

Enable backup protection for the storage account

Write an Azure CLI command to enable backup protection for the storage account drstorageacct using the Recovery Services vault DRVault in the resource group DRResourceGroup.

Azure

az group create --name DRResourceGroup --location eastus
az storage account create --name drstorageacct --resource-group DRResourceGroup --location eastus --sku Standard_GRS
az backup vault create --resource-group DRResourceGroup --name DRVault --location eastus
# Your Azure CLI command to enable backup protection here

Need a hint?

Use az backup protection enable-for-azurefileshare with the correct resource group, vault name, and storage account.