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## Azure NetApp Files
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The [Azure NetApp Files](../../../azure-netapp-files/azure-netapp-files-solution-architectures.md) service is a complete storage solution for Oracle Databases in Azure VMs. Built on an enterprise-class, high-performance, metered file storage, it supports any workload type and is highly available by default. Together with the Oracle Direct NFS (dNFS) driver, Azure NetApp Files provides a highly optimized storage layer for the Oracle Database.
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The [Azure NetApp Files](/azure/azure-netapp-files/azure-netapp-files-introduction) service is a complete storage solution for Oracle Databases in Azure VMs. Built on an enterprise-class, high-performance, metered file storage, it supports any workload type and is highly available by default. Together with the Oracle Direct NFS (dNFS) driver, Azure NetApp Files provides a highly optimized storage layer for the Oracle Database.
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Azure NetApp Files provides efficient storage-based snapshots copies on the underlying storage system that uses a Redirect on Write (RoW) mechanism. While snapshot copies are extremely fast to take and restore, they only serve as a first-line-of-defence, which can account for the vast majority of the required restore operations of any given organization, which is often recovery from human error. However, Snapshot copies are not a complete backup. To cover all backup and restore requirements, external snapshot replicas and/or other backup copies must be created in a remote geography to protect from regional outage.
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To learn more about using NetApp Files for Oracle Databases on Azure, read this [report](https://www.netapp.com/pdf.html?item=/media/17105-tr4780pdf.pdf).
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Azure NetApp Files provides efficient storage-based snapshots on the underlying storage system that uses a Redirect on Write (RoW) mechanism. While snapshots are extremely fast to take and restore, they only serve as a first-line-of-defence, which can account for the vast majority of the required restore operations of any given organization, which is often recovery from human error. However, snapshots are not a complete backup. To cover all backup and restore requirements, [external snapshot replicas](/azure/azure-netapp-files/cross-region-replication-introduction) and/or other [backup vaults](/azure/azure-netapp-files/backup-introduction) must be created in a (remote) geography to protect from regional outage. Read more about [how Azure NetApp Files snapshots work](/azure/azure-netapp-files/snapshots-introduction).
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In order to ensure the creation of database consistent snapshots the backup process must be orchestrated between the database and the storage. Azure Application Consistent Snapshot tool (AzAcSnap) is a command-line tool that enables data protection for third-party databases by handling all the orchestration required to put them into an application consistent state before taking a storage snapshot, after which it returns them to an operational state. Oracle databases are supported with AzAcSnap since [version 5.1](/azure/azure-netapp-files/azacsnap-release-notes#azacsnap-v51-preview-build-2022012585030).
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To learn more about using Azure NetApp Files for Oracle Databases on Azure, read more [here](/azure/azure-netapp-files/azure-netapp-files-solution-architectures#oracle).
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## Azure Backup service
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