Azure Devops Services (Cloud) backp

Hi AnnaPR 

the feature isn't there because Azure DevOps cloud provides built-in capabilities for ensuring the integrity and availability of your repositories. But you have to know that if a repo is deleted you have appr. 28-90 days before it is permanently deleted. 

Another solution is to use third-party tools to backup the repo like "Azure DevOps Backup Tool" by  Solidify AB,.... or you can backup your projects by downloading them as a zip to save it on your local machine/server and then upload it to restore them.

An even more structure way is to automate it via a pipeline. 

Here the procedure: https://www.cloudfronts.com/azure/azure-devops-services/backup-azure-devops-git-repositories/

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