You can enable infrastructure backup either through the Microsoft Azure Stack Administration Portal or via a set of PowerShell cmdlets. You can then use these backups to restore your Microsoft Azure Stack appliance, by using cloud recovery in the event of a total failure of your appliance. Cloud recovery allows your cloud operators and tenants to log back in to either the Administration or Tenant Portal after a cloud recovery is complete.
Cloud recovery ensures that tenants have their subscriptions restored, including any roles and role-based access permissions, plans, offers, and any previously defined quotas for either compute, storage, or network. However, the Infrastructure Backup Service does not back up tenant infrastructure as a service (IaaS) virtual machines or network configurations, nor any storage resources, such as storage accounts, blobs, tables, and queues. So, when tenants log on after the cloud recovery process has completed, they will...