Skip to main content

Notifications

Announcements

Announcing Category Subscriptions!
News and Announcements icon
Dynamics 365 Community / Forums / Finance | Project Operations, Human Resources, ... / Best practices for bac...
Finance | Project Operations, Human Resources, ...
Unanswered

Best practices for backups

(1) ShareShare
ReportReport
Posted on by AW-16070426-0 11
Hello friends. I'm looking for best practices or examples of what your organization is doing for D365FO backups.
 
Do you use Microsoft Power Platform and utilize the 28-day max retention period?
Do you utilize third party tools to extend this retention period? Why? Which one?
Do you backup all environments - Prod, UAT and Dev? What frequency and retention period for each?
 
Thank you.
 
 
  • VaHiX Profile Picture
    VaHiX 3,119 on at
    Best practices for backups
    Consider this article too
  • Jonas "Jones" Melgaard Profile Picture
    Jonas "Jones" Melgaard 1,920 on at
    Best practices for backups
    I cannot go into details, but I have put some functionality into perspective of my vertical.
     
    1: Nope, the Data Archival Framework (DAF) is the way to go for Finance & Operations. The fast track team have some great material, but I like this Youtube video the most, this gives a really great intro to the framework. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0_u8WscIO0
    Keep a look at the Yammer group mentioned in the video.
     
    2: Not really, DAF fulfills financial institutions needs (10+ years).
     
    3: I only care about PROD. UAT and TEST should have current data to test on, and DEV environments can be reproduced at any point in time using version control (Azure DevOps, Github etc) as needed.
    You should consider all other environments that PROD as disposable, and should be able to be recreated at any point in time without consequences for you/your customer.

Under review

Thank you for your reply! To ensure a great experience for everyone, your content is awaiting approval by our Community Managers. Please check back later.

Helpful resources

News and Announcements

Announcing Category Subscriptions!

Quick Links

photo of Muhammad Affan

December Spotlight Star - Muhammad Affan

Congratulations to a top community star!

thumbnail image of a pie chart section

Top 10 leaders for November!

Congratulations to our November super stars!

thumbnail image of the word Tip

Tips for Writing Effective Verified Answers

Best practices for providing successful forum answers ✍️

Leaderboard

#1
André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture

André Arnaud de Cal... 291,359 Super User 2024 Season 2

#2
Martin Dráb Profile Picture

Martin Dráb 230,370 Most Valuable Professional

#3
nmaenpaa Profile Picture

nmaenpaa 101,156

Leaderboard

Featured topics

End-of-life Announcement for Microsoft Dynamics GP

Product updates

Dynamics 365 release plans