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[CosmosDB] Be able to manage Backup and Restore with Portal and APIs

Please provide the ability to manage backup and restore on our own.

Restore through support is not clear and inconvenient.

It turned out restore is only available through paid support plan.

This document https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/online-backup-and-restore#restoring-a-database-from-an-online-backup does not say it in any word.

The situation made our customer extremely unhappy.

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  • Vinoth commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please can you mention the process to participate in the private preview portal.

  • Jason Saunders commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Like Azure SQL, we would like the ability to specify in the portal the retention period for PIT backups (example: PITR for 7 day period) and long term retention (full backups weekly retained for 5 weeks).

  • Min Zhang commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is SO needed, it's VERY annoying and so not efficient to call MS support every time for restoring db

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Also interested in this feature, we are unable to manage this ourselves and must rely on support.

  • Ed Downs commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Also interested in ETA on this feature. This is a huge need before being able to offer Cosmos DB for our enterprise customers.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It would be good to understand what the ETA is for this feature - has it moved any further along the planning process in the year since the last update?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Awesome that this is planned. Can you provide any details for when this is planned to be delivered?

  • Rob Reagan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We are currently using CosmosDB as a caching layer and system of record for non-critical data. We won't be able to move to CosmosDB as a system of record until we have a longer backup retention (more than the last 8 hours) and the ability to do a restore without having to contact Microsoft support. We cannot trust business continuity to whether or not the support phone queue is particularly long when things go bad.

    We are 100% fine with paying for additional backup storage since these collections can get really large.

  • Nick Orlando commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I would like the ability (either from the UI or via Support Request) to restore one of the automated backups to a different database or collection.

    Regularly we need to take a backup of a production collection and restore it to a QA environment for testing.

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