Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/DataStax/deploying-backups-and-restore-w-datastax-azure-at-albertsonssafeway-gurpreet-singh-albertsonssafeway-cassandra-summit-2016 | Albertsons/Safeway, America’s second largest supermarket chain, relies on DataStax Enterprise for their online customer facing application known as “LOYALTY”. With over 6 Million users and 1 Billion coupon clips per year, Albertson’s Safeway engages its buyers with their shopping experience from Web as well as Mobile app – but how does the organization ensure backup, restore, and redundancy? This talk will explore how Albertsons/Safeway uses DataStax Enterprise for disaster avoidance, high availability, and extremely fast reads/writes. We will discuss how to run customized scripts in OpsCenter to ensure all nodes in the cluster are backed up without incurring performance hits and how Apache Cassandra data can be backed up while running on Azure using OS utilities and the system restored seamlessly without impacting app performance. About the Speaker Gurpreet Singh Data Services, Albertsons/ Safeway Gurpreet Singh is a Cassandra Architect responsible for deploying, maintaining, and tuning customer facing applications that manage data, the most valuable asset in the organization.