Hey everyone! I'm currently using Azure Recovery Services Vault (RSV) with Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) to safeguard my backup data. I'm in a bit of a bind and need some clarity on what to do if the primary region for my RSV goes dark. Here's the situation:
1. My backup data is stored in a secondary region, but I can't access it since it's not visible to me.
2. Since RSV is a zonal service, I lose access to it completely during a regional outage.
3. Without RSV, I'm left without an orchestrator or identity access to retrieve my abstracted backup data.
Am I just stuck waiting for Microsoft to recover the primary region, which could take a long time? I'm also curious about the purpose of GRS in this scenario when I can't directly get to my data. Any insights would be greatly appreciated!
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So, typically you can only restore from the secondary region if Microsoft officially confirms that the primary region is down. However, you can look into enabling cross-region restore to avoid some of these access issues. Here’s a link for more info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/back...
Thanks for the link! But I’m not sure this fully helps my situation since CRR only works if RSV is up. I saw something about Azure declaring a disaster—does that mean they'll recreate my RSV in the secondary region using some kind of global metadata?