When designing a business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) strategy in Microsoft Azure, protecting your data from corruption, human error, and full-scale regional outages is non-negotiable. Whether you are running Azure SQL Database (SQL DB) or Azure SQL Managed Instance (SQL MI), Azure provides built-in, automated backup mechanisms to safeguard your workloads. There are three … Read more
Point-in-Time Restore (PITR) is designed for operational recovery and short-term resilience, and Long-Term Retention (LTR) is for storing or retaining backups for long term (up to 10 years) The same differences also apply to Azure SQL Database as well as Azure SQL MI. We know that both resources are PaaS services and the backups are … Read more
In the world of cloud-native databases, “Backup” is only half the story. The true value lies in Restoring the database as to recover data quickly, accurately, and with minimal downtime. As SQL MI is a PaaS service offered by Microsoft, the SQL MI user database backups are automatically handled by Azure. Choosing the right backup … Read more