No Backup Strategy. Millions in E-Commerce Transactions. One Question Fixed It.

No backup strategy. E-commerce platform. Millions in daily transactions. The team was sleeping fine until I asked one question: what happens if we lose the product catalog tomorrow? Commercetools is SaaS. But your data is your problem. An automated backup system with Azure Logic Apps - daily exports, validation, restore dry-runs, and a disaster recovery simulation that changed minds. Commercetools has no built-in backup scheduler and no point-in-time recovery. Products, categories, prices, customers - all mutable, all fragile. One bad import script can overwrite thousands of product records in seconds. Without a backup you are rebuilding manually for weeks, and that is if you even know what the clean state looked like. The solution uses Azure Logic Apps to export all critical data types on a schedule into Azure Blob Storage with proper retention. What separates a real backup from a checkbox backup is validation: record count checks after every export, schema integrity verification, and automated restore dry-runs every week. Slack alerts fire immediately on any validation failure. Then came the DR simulation that changed everyone's mind. We simulated a corrupted product catalog…