{"id":8391,"date":"2024-11-06T22:33:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T22:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=8391"},"modified":"2024-11-06T22:33:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T22:33:38","slug":"longer-term-backup-retention-and-restore-for-business-central-dynamics-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/longer-term-backup-retention-and-restore-for-business-central-dynamics-365","title":{"rendered":"Longer Term Backup retention and restore for Business Central Dynamics 365"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>They need to implement a disaster solution for user mistake. If a user mistakenly has deleted\/modified some data, and they find it out after 28 days (the length of backup-in-time provided by MS) they need to be able to restore from backup and access this data.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They are after a &#8216;handsfree&#8217; automated solution, may be using some APIs if possible<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They are open to storing the backup in a Azure Blob storage for longer retention as long as solution enables &#8216;handsfree&#8217; option.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/BCTech\/tree\/master\/samples\/ExtractData#extracting-data-from-business-central\">https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/BCTech\/tree\/master\/samples\/ExtractData#extracting-data-from-business-central<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BC admin portal allows for the storing of back ups in Azure. Then create a Flow and call the API on schedule and that is it (up to 10 times a month). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/community.dynamics.com\/blogs\/post\/?postid=05472d7a-751f-49b6-8092-0aab91e368ea\">https:\/\/community.dynamics.com\/blogs\/post\/?postid=05472d7a-751f-49b6-8092-0aab91e368ea<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The process involve copying the full automated backups to blob storage, then restore this (when needed) to an on-prem instance BC. From here the client can either migrate data using config packages (BC functionality) or follow the process of &#8220;Migrate to BC Online&#8221; to the latest version. Shared this with client as well, they just don&#8217;t want to touch it and have it working &#8216;handsfree&#8217; (doesn&#8217;t look like we have such a &#8216;handsfree&#8217; solution in the offering)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen theres an open source tool to get info into Data Lake from BC <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/bc2adls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/bc2adls<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a record is deleted from BC, it also by default gets deleted in theData Lake<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/BCTech\/tree\/master\/samples\/ExtractData#extracting-data-from-business-central BC admin portal allows for the storing of back ups in Azure. Then create a Flow and call the API on schedule and that is it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8392,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions\/8392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}