I’ve been using the backup to azure feature for a short while now and I really like it. Shows I think as this is my 4th blog post on the subject this year! This feature has reduced my stress levels with regard to secure offsite backups. However, so far I have two gripes with it. Firstly, if there is an […]
Read MoreI’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 1 Write on https://somestorage.blob.core.windows.net/somecontainer/MyDb.bak failed: Backup to URL received […]
Read MoreThere 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 […]
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