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Database infrastructures store and manage essential company data. Any downtime of these databases negatively impacts the business and customer experience in many ways. Therefore, it is essential to provide optimal backup and recovery solutions that can handle any unforeseen circumstances that could stall business operations. You can also use backup and recovery solutions to build test environments that simulate production systems for a variety of purposes such as upgrades and sizing determination. The Dell EMC Validated Design team has tested a backup and recovery solution that can support the database workloads discussed in this guide.