Contents tagged with backup

• There is currently a lease on the blob and no lease ID was specified in the request

  Tags: Azure, backup, SQL 2012

  May 21 2013 9:05 PM

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  I’ve been using the backup to Azure feature that shipped with SQL2012 SP1 CU2 and generally it works really well, but a couple of times I have had an issue where I wasn’t able to overwrite a previous backup file and received an error:

  Msg 3202, Level 16, State 1, Line 1Write on https://somestorage.blob.core.windows.net/somecontainer/MyDb.bak failed: Backup to URL received an exception from the remote endpoint. Exception Message: The remote server returned an error: (412) There is … more

• Backup SQL database directly to Azure Storage

  Tags: Azure, backup, DR, SQL 2012, CU

  Jan 25 2013 9:33 AM

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  There is a new CU update for SQL 2012 SP1 and I noticed a very interesting new feature described in the documentation blogged here.

  This is one of two new improvements and it is described as:

  You can now directly create a backup to Windows Azure Storage using SQL Server Native Backup functionality. This will allow users to back up a SQL Server database on an on-premises instance or on an instance of SQL Server that is running in a hosted environment, such as the Windows Azure Virtual Machine. … more