Backup Concepts for Azure Data Lake

Azure Data Lake Storage is designed to enable operational and exploratory analytics through a hyper-scale repository There are two different types of Data Lake Store in Azure (Gen1 and Gen2) available at the current date. If a new instance is deployed it is recommended to use Data Lake Store Gen2. The data is replicated so that the backup concept considers the “human fault” component and also the technical backup aspect.

Data LakeGen1

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 is an enterprise-wide hyper-scale repository for big data analytic workloads. Azure Data Lake enables you to capture data of any size, type, and ingestion speed in one single place for operational and exploratory analytics as stated at: https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/azure/data-lake-store/data-lake-store-overview

Data LakeGen2

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is a set of capabilities dedicated to big data analytics, built on Azure Blob storage. Data Lake Storage Gen2 is the result of converging the capabilities of our…