Forum Discussion
Backup for Windows 365 Cloud PC
Is there an option to backup user's Cloud PC using Azure backup?
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.
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.
- also worth mentioning that not all types of user data are supported by onedrive like 3rd party application's dbs.
