Azure Backup and Restore

In this tip we discuss options that are available for performing backups of SQL Server databases running on Azure SQL VMs.

In this article we look at the steps to follow to do an Azure file recovery.

Learn the step by step process including PowerShell code to restore an Azure SQL LTR backup after the Azure SQL instance has been deleted.

In this article we look at how to restore file shares and individual files using Azure Recovery Vault to both the original location and to an alternate location.

In this tip we will use the Azure Recovery Services Vault to walk through the steps on how to back up Azure file shares.

In this tip we look at the steps to restore an Azure virtual machine that has SQL Server on it.

In this tip we look at how to restore a SQL Server database backup for an Azure Virtual Machine.

In this tip we look at how to backup databases from different Azure Virtual Machines using Azure Recovery Services Vault.

In this tip we walk through a simple example of taking an Azure SQL Database and restoring it on an on-premises instance of SQL Server.

In this tip we look at how to setup an Azure Storage Account and then how to write a SQL Server backup to this storage and also how to restore a database from this storage.

In this tip we look at how to write SQL Server on-premises backups to Azure Blog Storage using a maintenance plan as well as how to automatically delete older backup files on the Azure Blog Storage.

In this tip we cover the steps to take a native SQL Server backup and move it to Azure and restore on an Azure SQL Database Managed Instance.

In this tip we look at the steps to follow to restore an Azure SQL Database from one server to another server.

In this tip we look at the backup and restore options when using Azure SQL Database.

In this tip we look at how we can setup and create a long term retention of database backups when using Azure SQL.

Read this tip to learn how to automate restoring Azure databases using PowerShell.

Read this tip to learn how to create unencrypted and encrypted managed SQL Server backups to Azure.

Learn how to use Azure Blob Storage and AzCopy to store SQL Server backups in the Azure cloud.

Many institutions have the requirement to take a database copy at the end of the month. This allows the institution to look at the state of the database at a point in time. Read how this can be solved for an Azure SQL database.

I need to backup my local SQL Server databases and upload the backup files to Azure automatically. Can this be completed in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)? Is it also possible to delete the local backup after the file transfer has completed? Rea

We recently updated SQL Azure version 11 databases to version 12. After doing so, we noticed issues with point in time restores taking longer than they did in version 11.

We would like to store backups of Azure databases locally, for both local testing as well as possible disaster recovery. Can we use the SMO library with Azure-SQL and is it possible to automate this with PowerShell?

As DBAs, we have the responsibility to backup databases on a regular basis, but we also have to ensure that backups are stored securely and safely, so databases can be restored when needed. In this tip we talk about the features in SQL Server 2012 that su

SQL Server 2012 introduces a new feature to issues backups on the Windows Azure Blob Storage service directly and restore from there when needed. But how does it work and how to get started using T-SQL commands for backup and restore operation?