[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.

This feature is now available in Preview.
You can read more here.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/continuous-backup-restore-introduction
Thanks.
22 comments
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Mike commented
Thank you for adding this feature! Looks like either the Periodic or Continuous backup option must be picked when creating the Cosmos DB account. Can the Backup & Restore blade (configuration) be further enhanced such that an existing account can be switched from Periodic to Continuous?
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Irene Lam commented
Is the cosmos DB PITR available for preview and how to sign up for it?
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Vinoth commented
Please can you mention the process to participate in the private preview portal.
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Jason Saunders commented
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).
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Hi Min. There is a private preview portal you can use instead. Please contact support for access.
Thanks.
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Min Zhang commented
This is SO needed, it's VERY annoying and so not efficient to call MS support every time for restoring db
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Yohan S. commented
Any official update on this feature please ?
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Mark Beij commented
I was informed that there is a preview planned for june this year. I have no official confirmation though. As an alternative, there is a Proof of Concept available for building something similar: https://github.com/abinav2307/azure-cosmosdb-custom-pointInTimeRestore
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Anonymous commented
Also interested in this feature, we are unable to manage this ourselves and must rely on support.
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Carlos commented
Very interested on this, is there any ETA yet?
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Anonymous commented
Hi team, any idea on when we will see this feature in GA?
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Ed Downs commented
Also interested in ETA on this feature. This is a huge need before being able to offer Cosmos DB for our enterprise customers.
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James Chaundy commented
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?
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Bharath M commented
Any ETA?
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Anonymous commented
update, eta?
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Beij, Mark commented
Any update on this?
Really looking forward to this feature -
Will commented
Same, ETA?
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Jonathan McElroy commented
ETA?
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Alex commented
Is there any ETA?
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Anonymous commented
Awesome that this is planned. Can you provide any details for when this is planned to be delivered?