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Take a COPY_ONLY backup of TDE protected database on Azure SQL Managed Instance

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May 24, 2019
Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a security feature in Azure SQL Database (Single Database and Managed Instance) that transparently encrypts data pages when they are exchanged between memory and ...
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May 27, 2019

Thanks for the comments and you are right.

I have updated the article clarifying that we are recommending to use automatic backups, point-in-time restore, cross-instance restore, and geo-restore for backups, which keeps you compliant and provide most of the functionalities that you need.