workloads workloads Retention options Daily, Daily, weekly, Daily, weekly, Daily, weekly, monthly, monthly, weekly, monthly, yearly yearly monthly, yearly yearly Maximum recovery 9999 9999 9999 9999 points per protected instance Maximum retention Depends Depends on Depends on Depends period on backup backup backup on backup frequency frequency frequency frequency Recovery points on Not 64 for File 64 for File Not local disk applicable Servers, Servers, applicable 448 for 448 for Application Application Servers Servers Recovery points on Not Unlimited Not applicable Not tape applicable applicable What is a protected instance A protected instance is a generic reference to a Windows computer, a server (physical or virtual), or SQL database that has been configured to back up to Azure. An instance is protected once you configure a backup policy for the computer, server, or database, and create a backup copy of the data. Subsequent copies of the backup data for that protected instance (which are called recovery points), increase the amount of storage consumed. You can create up to 9999 recovery points for a protected instance. If you delete a recovery point from storage, it does not count against the 9999 recovery point total. Some common examples of protected instances are virtual machines, application servers, databases, and personal computers running the Windows operating system. For example:
workloads workloads Retention options Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly Maximum recovery points per protected instance 9999 9999 9999 9999 Maximum retention period Depends on backup frequency Depends on backup frequency Depends on backup frequency Depends on backup frequency Recovery points on local disk Not applicable 64 for File Servers, 448 for Application Servers 64 for File Servers, 448 for Application Servers Not applicable Recovery points on tape Not applicable Unlimited Not applicable Not applicable What is a protected instance A protected instance is a generic reference to a Windows computer, a server (physical or virtual), or SQL database that has been configured to back up to Azure. An instance is protected once you configure a backup policy for the computer, server, or database, and create a backup copy of the data. Subsequent copies of the backup data for that protected instance (which are called recovery points), increase the amount of storage consumed. You can create up to 9999 recovery points for a protected instance. If you delete a recovery point from storage, it does not count against the 9999 recovery point total. Some common examples of protected instances are virtual machines, application servers, databases, and personal computers running the Windows operating system. For example:
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