Automatic backups

Microsoft provides automated backups for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance databases. Automatic backups consist of full, differential, and log backups. The first automatic full backup is performed immediately after the database is provisioned. Differential backups are scheduled to occur every 12-24 hours, and transaction log backups are scheduled for every 5-10 minutes. The frequency of transaction log backups is based on the compute size and the amount of database activity. A full backup is scheduled for once a week:

Figure 4.1: Automatic backups

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Differential and transaction log backups can run in parallel.

Backup storage

Azure SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance keep database backups in geo-redundant storage blobs by default, which are replicated to a paired region. This helps to recover the database in a different region if there is a regional outage in the primary region. You can choose between locally...