Manage the Backup Scopes for Azure SQL
The Azure SQL service has been generally available since the March 2025 release. With
Azure SQL service enabled, you can:
- Monitoring jobs: Perform monitoring jobs to retrieve the native Azure backups for databases and update the backup schedule and data retention settings to Azure. Both the point-in-time restore and long-term retention recovery points can be synced to Azure SQL service.
- Direct backup jobs: You can also perform direct backup jobs with Azure SQL backup service to protect Azure SQL databases.
The Azure SQL service trial only allows one backup scope to protect up to 5 databases.
- To create a new monitoring backup scope for Azure SQL, refer to Create a New Backup Scope for Native Azure SQL Backup Monitoring.
- To create a new backup scope for Azure SQL, refer to Create a New Backup Scope for Azure SQL.
- For the existing backup scopes, you can perform the following actions:
- Edit – To edit a backup scope, you can select a backup scope and click Edit button on the command bar, or you can click the Edit button when you are viewing the backup scope details. For details on the backup scope settings, refer to Create a New Backup Scope for Native Azure SQL Backup Monitoring or Create a New Backup Scope for Azure SQL.
- Delete – To delete a backup scope, you can select a backup scope and
click Delete button on the command bar, or you can click the
Delete option from the More actions (
) list when you are
viewing the details of a backup scope. You can also select multiple
backup scopes to delete. When deleting backup scopes, you can select how
to handle your backup data: keep the data and follow the configured
retention policy, keep the data for 30 days before deletion, or delete
the backup data immediately. - Run backup now – If you want to start a backup immediately, you can
select a backup scope and click Run backup now, or you can click
the Run backup now from the More actions () list when you are
viewing the details of a backup scope.