Backing-up Azure App Services
Backing-up is seen an important functionality for the security reason in Azure app services. Azure app services have backup and restore feature available for standard, premium , and isolated tiers. This feature allowed to make backups manually or on an automated schedule. It is useful for data retention on long-term bases.
The Azure App services can backup the following features:
- The application configuration
- File content
- Databases interconnected for use with the app, including Azure SQL databases, Azure database for MySQL and Azure database for PostgreSQL.
Following steps could be taken to backup app services-
Backup Using Azure Portal
To make the backup of app service using Azure portal follow these steps-
Step 1: In the left pane of web app’s configuration page, under settings, click backup. By default, no backup configured.
Step 2: Under Backup ,click the backup is not configured. Click here to configure backup for your app link.
Step 3: In the Backup Configuration page, enter the following information –
- Backup Storage Click the container in which you want to store the backup.
- Scheduled Backup Click On.
- Backup Every Specify how frequently backups should occur, in days or hours.
- Start Backup Schedule From Specify the date, time, and time zone when the backup schedule should start.
- Retention (Days) Specify how long (in days) the backup should be retained.
- Keep At Least One Backup Click Yes to ensure that at least one backup is always retained.
- User can also backup using the Azure Powershell and Azure CLI.
2. Restoring Azure App Services
Following are steps to restore Azure App services:
- First, list deleted apps.
- Now, List all the deleted apps in your subscription.You also have options to list deleted apps in your subscription-based on filters like Resource Group, App name, location, etc.
- Restore deleted Azure Web App.
- In the below e.g. We are restoring a web app that was hosting a container.
3. Cloning of Microsoft Azure App Services
There are various ways in which user can clone an Azure App services:
Cloning an existing app using Azure portal
- In the Azure Portal, open your web app’s blade.
- Click Tools. Then, in the Tools blade, click Clone App.
- In the Clone App blade provide a name of the new web app, Resource Group, and App Service Plan. Also the user will be able to choose whether to clone a number of source web app settings or not
- After clicking create the platform will start working on creating a clone of the source web app.
- Cloning an Existing App to App Service Environment
In the Clone App blade the customer will have the option to choose an app pool in an existing App Service Environment.
Microsoft Azure- Backing Up, Restoring, and Cloning Microsoft Azure App Services
Microsoft is well known for developing relevant software which are using in today’s time of technology to conquer the demand of users and developers to build up applications. In sequence of it Microsoft introduces Azure well known as Microsoft Azure to make quality applications. In this article, we will discuss Backing up, restoring and cloning Microsoft Azure App Services to use technology in a better way.