How to Schedule backups in SQL Azure

Question

How can I schedule backups for my SQL Azure DBs. I suspect I need to schedule:

1) Create Database [DBCopy] as copy of [DBlive] 2) Export [DBCopy] to Azure Storage.

The frequency would likely be once a day.

I cannot find an Azure Scheduler to help me with this.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Have you looked into: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sql-bi-sap-cloud-crm_all_in_one_place/archive/2013/07/24/sql-azure-automated-database-export.aspx ?

Under the hood it does the exact same steps.

Answer 2

You don't need to schedule database backups in sql Azure. This is taken care by the service. You have Point in time restore and Geo restore features in Azure.