A DBA is only as good as their last backup…or more so, their last recovery. To celebrate #WorldBackupDay on Twitter, I’m blogging on how to backup an Oracle database directly to Azure Blob storage.  Yes, you could backup on a managed disk directly connected to the VM, then copy it off, but Azure Blob Storage is inexpensive and provides considerable speed and opportunity to create an NSF mount to use the backups with other Oracle hosts for cloning, recovery, etc. Configure Blob Storage in the Azure Portal In this example, we have an Oracle database running on an Azure IaaS…