Azure Database for MySQLIntroduction
This blog is the third chapter related to deploying a MySQL infrastructure on the Azure cloud. In addition to performance, we should indeed also consider backup and restore capabilities. The objective of this blog is to present the main backup and restore possibilities offered by Azure through a simple example and show a second backup/restore possibility using MySQL Shell dump utilities.
Backup window and mechanism
Flexible Azure for MySQL generates by default a 7 days server backup retention period. This retention period can be extended up to 35 days or shorten to 1 day. In addition we can decide if you want to have a Geo Redundant backup storage. By default the backups are locally redundant.
It’s important to understand that Azure makes backup of the …
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