Blog Post

Azure SQL Blog
3 MIN READ

Backing up a VLDB to Azure Blob Storage

Dimitri_Furman's avatar
Dimitri_Furman
Icon for Microsoft rankMicrosoft
Dec 20, 2018
First published on MSDN on Mar 10, 2017 Reviewed by: Pat Schaefer, Rajesh Setlem, Xiaochen Wu, Murshed Zaman All SQL Server versions starting from SQL Server ...
Updated Oct 28, 2022
Version 4.0
SQLCAT
vldb
Zikato's avatar
Zikato
Copper Contributor
Jan 24, 2024

Hi Dimitri_Furman . When I'm running backup to URL (using block blobs) it almost saturates the network (alongside the regular workload).

 

Is it possible to slow down the upload so it takes longer but doesn't use as much network?