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Let me Google that for you.
Oh, it's still in Preview.
You have to enable Preview features manually in your Azure account.
Once logged on, navigate to the Preview Features, or here's the direct URL:
https://account.windowsazure.com/PreviewFeatures
Windows Azure Backup is second in the list and has a "try it now" button on it.
After you hit that button ...
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Yes.
RAID (disk redundancy, except in the case of RAID0) is not a backup. You still need to protect your files from accidential deletion, corruption, viruses/trojans and so on.
See the following helpful article: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-features/31745-data-recovery-tales-raid-is-not-backup
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Backup has at least two reasons:
Protection from hardware failure
Protection from software or human errors, or attackers
Do you trust MS to do all the right things to not loose your data under any circumstances? Are you sure you will never make an error deleting data you still need or be victim of a software error or an attack? If no, you need a backup.
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If you need to run MySQL side-by-side with a Windows Service, this implies single-machine deployment on Windows Server. That gives you only a Virtual Machine option in Azure. Here's all of the latest info on Infrastructure Services which includes Virtual Machines. Your vhd would be backed by blob storage (durable, triple-replicated), as well as the data ...
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What you're really looking for are solutions to two different (but closely-related) problems that stack on top of each other:
Configuration management
Deployment automation
There's some overlap between the two, and as you're starting out it will probably be a little bit fuzzy which tools to use for which parts of your infrastructure. Here are some ...
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Good answers from others. Let me clarify what happens with your Virtual Machine in Azure.
Windows Azure has Blob, Table, and Queue storage. These are all considered durable storage in that every single blob (or table entity, or queue message) is triple-replicated within the datacenter, and beyond that, optionally geo-replicated to neighboring data center ...
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