Microsoft on Monday announced that Azure Backup for SQL Server had reached 'general availability' status, meaning it's deemed ready for production-environment use.

Microsoft added the option of using the Azure Backup service to provide recovery support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 when those workloads are hosted on Azure virtual machines.

On October 7th, 2015 Microsoft announced the general availability of its Azure Backup Server. Azure Backup Server was previously known as Project Venus and targets backup scenarios for small and ...

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Azure Backup is designed with file-level granularity and longer data retention periods. But the backup agent only supports SQL Server 2012 and later, making it unavailable as an option for SQL ...

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