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Managed Instance link – connecting SQL Server to Azure reimagined

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Nov 02, 2021
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krunalmehta - yes, today you can make copy-only backup of R/O replicated database on Managed Instance to an URL (e.g. blob storage). In addition, in one of our future releases, we plan to enable Azure to automatically make backups of the replicated R/O database (to Azure backup). Hope this helps.