Backup Short Term Retention Policies - List By Database

Gets a database's short term retention policy.

GET https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/{serverName}/databases/{databaseName}/backupShortTermRetentionPolicies?api-version=2021-11-01

URI Parameters

Name In Required Type Description
databaseName
path True

string

The name of the database.

resourceGroupName
path True

string

The name of the resource group that contains the resource. You can obtain this value from the Azure Resource Manager API or the portal.

serverName
path True

string

The name of the server.

subscriptionId
path True

string

The subscription ID that identifies an Azure subscription.

api-version
query True

string

The API version to use for the request.

Responses

Name Type Description
200 OK

BackupShortTermRetentionPolicyListResult

Successfully retrieved the policy.

Other Status Codes

*** Error Responses: ***

  • 400 InvalidParameterValue - An invalid value was given to a parameter.

  • 404 SubscriptionDoesNotHaveServer - The requested server was not found

  • 404 ServerNotInSubscriptionResourceGroup - Specified server does not exist in the specified resource group and subscription.

  • 404 ResourceNotFound - The requested resource was not found.

Examples

Get the short term retention policy for the database.

Sample Request

GET https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444/resourceGroups/Default-SQL-SouthEastAsia/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/testsvr/databases/testdb/backupShortTermRetentionPolicies?api-version=2021-11-01

Sample Response

{
  "value": [
    {
      "id": "/subscriptions/00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444/resourceGroups/Default-SQL-SouthEastAsia/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/testsvr/databases/testdb/backupShortTermRetentionPolicies/default",
      "name": "default",
      "type": "Microsoft.Sql/servers/databases/backupShortTermRetentionPolicies",
      "properties": {
        "retentionDays": 7,
        "diffBackupIntervalInHours": 24
      }
    }
  ]
}

Definitions

Name Description
BackupShortTermRetentionPolicy

A short term retention policy.

BackupShortTermRetentionPolicyListResult

A list of short term retention policies.

DiffBackupIntervalInHours

The differential backup interval in hours. This is how many interval hours between each differential backup will be supported. This is only applicable to live databases but not dropped databases.

BackupShortTermRetentionPolicy

A short term retention policy.

Name Type Description
id

string

Resource ID.

name

string

Resource name.

properties.diffBackupIntervalInHours

DiffBackupIntervalInHours

The differential backup interval in hours. This is how many interval hours between each differential backup will be supported. This is only applicable to live databases but not dropped databases.

properties.retentionDays

integer

The backup retention period in days. This is how many days Point-in-Time Restore will be supported.

type

string

Resource type.

BackupShortTermRetentionPolicyListResult

A list of short term retention policies.

Name Type Description
nextLink

string

Link to retrieve next page of results.

value

BackupShortTermRetentionPolicy[]

Array of results.

DiffBackupIntervalInHours

The differential backup interval in hours. This is how many interval hours between each differential backup will be supported. This is only applicable to live databases but not dropped databases.

Name Type Description
12

string

24

string