Backup to URL
A great strategy for on-premises SQL Server databases is to back up to Azure Storage. There are many benefits to leveraging the massive scale of the cloud to hold backups.
Benefits
- You can think of using Azure Storage as a cost-effective off-site backup location that is an extension of your own local data center and is highly performant and highly available. With the help of Microsoft, you can quite easily scale your storage account to 5 PB.
- Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) is designed to provide at least 99.99999999999999% durability over a given year by replicating your data to a secondary region that is hundreds of miles away from your primary region, that is, your paired region.
- There are no Storage Array Networks (SANs) or file shares for you to administer and support. Azure services will take care of this, thus reducing hardware administration costs.
- Using the latest version of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) makes setup quick and easy with...