Forum Discussion
Backup for Windows 365 Cloud PC
Is there an option to backup user's Cloud PC using Azure backup?
- You cannot use azure as a substitute for Onedrive. However, I am confident in azure's ability to protect protect the account. I have severe anxiety and the gentleman was extremely patient and kind while he spoke to me over the phone..
- Oh well that's the thing is I actually do have to pay (no matter what) because Google will lock me out of my account (and even shut down my phone) so I'm glad to see that there is a way to help all that because I was very not ok with all that.
But now to complicate matters I now own an Iphone so I have to do it all learning how to do it from the cloud too hehe.
I did file for taxes as non enterprise because IDK what to tell Social Security like someone needs to teach my kids: the schools were ignoring their mental health.
I can't do this and that and the other.
But I'm also not doing this for profit. I didn't START becoming a Developer for profit. I'm not DISABLED because I can't work. I was offered a job after I quit at Hearthside for 100K a year because I CANT handle the pressure.
That being said....I'm not going to let the skills I learned on my own become profitiable because (sorry to say it) but there needs to be change. I'm not going to be gaining money simply because I decided I can now. If they think I can just go work then they can just donate, now can they. I don't know now that I'm reading more into Microsoft's Diversion Community.
I would still post my lessons for free though as a...moral guide.
When I began on Github it was to modify BL3 and because I have done that and it was in honor of Bay6 who I don't know, they said it was going to remain free.
I decided that was a good idea and that if I ever did some like that I would honor it.
That's also why I was apart of the Web We want project.
- I am doing this myself just because I have been trying to solve issues back from November, when I first became a windows insider. I had to use several accounts. It's a little tricky, and I find it useful as a personal account But, it has phenomenal potential for business. Accounts and their customer service team is outstanding..
- Without a point in time full restore this seems too risky and high maintenance. Forcing the user to remember to put everything in onedrive puts the onus back on the user and in a worst case scenario you can't just restore to last night like a ransomware. You'd be fully rebuilding everything from scratch just like on physical hardware so then the benefits are down to protecting against hardware failure and cross-device switching.
We currently deploy VMs to Azure with Azure backups and that's the primary selling point but its not nearly as simple and doesn't use the modern connection technology without open RDP unless they deploy AVD. Was looking forward to the simplicity of selling and deploying Cloud PC but it seems I'll have to wait for further iterations. Seems like an oversight not to just be able to restore the last 7 or 30 days in a worst case. - No, no need for backups for Cloud PC
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/enterprise/business-continuity-disaster-recovery- I have not seen this. I will have to take a look into it. I'm a little bit Curious how it handles some of the issues I have encountered while among the Windows 11 and office insiders' team.
- Yes, no backup is required for cloud PC, you can save all the user data to one drive, In case of any compute failure Azure automatically identifies compute failures and automatically moves the user workload to another resource in the zone.
- I'm sorry. I do not believe that this is 100% accurate. Not if the user has stored other information in a drive that does not link to a cloud, for example. I'm not sure how it falls under issues of phone number changing, etc.
- EricOrman
Microsoft
A cloud PC is fundamentally just a VM running Windows 10/11 in Azure. With that said, I'm unfamiliar with the Azure backup options but with that guidance you should be able to unblock you. Said a different way, what you normally do on a physical PC will behave same as a Cloud PC.
