Securing Your Azure SQL Databases: A Guide to Backup and Restoration

Data loss can occur due to various reasons, such as hardware failures, accidental deletions, or even malicious attacks. By implementing a reliable backup and restoration strategy, organizations can mitigate the risks associated with these potential threats and ensure that their data remains accessible and intact.

Azure SQL databases have automated backup capabilities, providing regular backups that are retained for seven days.
These backups capture the entire database, including transaction logs, ensuring point-in-time recovery.

Organizations can extend the retention period of automated backups beyond seven days.
This feature is particularly useful for meeting compliance requirements or addressing scenarios where data needs to be retained for an extended period.

Leveraging Azure's geo-replication features allows organizations to create a secondary database in a different region.
This secondary database serves as a failover option and can also be used for read-only queries, providing an additional layer of data protection.

Microsoft's Azure provides many services via a single cloud, which lets them offer one solution for multiple corporate infrastructures. Development teams often use Azure because they value the opportunity to run SQL databases in the cloud and complete simple operations via the Azure portal. But you'll need to have

Azure SQL databases enable users to create manual backups on-demand.
This option is useful for scenarios such as before a major update or configuration change, ensuring a recovery point is available if needed.