Gilbert Quevauvilliers finds a gap and fills it:
In the high-stakes world of data architecture, where downtime can cascade into real business disruptions, I’ve learned that even the most robust platforms have their blind spots. Just last month, while collaborating with a client’s Architecture team on their disaster recovery strategy, we uncovered a subtle but critical gap in Microsoft Fabric: while OneLake thoughtfully mirrors data across multiple regions by default, other workspace items—like notebooks, semantic models, and pipelines—aren’t directly accessible in a failover scenario without extra steps. For the nitty-gritty on Fabric’s built-in reliability features, check out this Microsoft Learn guide.
That’s the spark that led me down this rabbit hole, and in this post, I’ll walk you through a practical solution: a Python Notebook that automates backing up your entire Fabric workspace to OneLake and an Azure Storage Account for that extra layer of redundancy. Whether you’re prepping for the worst or just embracing the “better safe than sorry” mindset, this approach gives you portable, versioned copies you can restore quickly.
Click through for the notebook, as well as instructions on how to use it.