How to protect azure databases from accedental resource group deletion

Question

We have a new application in azure and want to be sure that we don't lose the data in azure database. I do understand the backup features, replications and long term storage meets our needs. But, in case a resource group is deleted our backups will also be gone.

Is there any other way to backup in an external storage source. I know there's and export feature too but not sure if it's the best thing to do here.

Answer 1

You can lock the resource to prevent it from being deleted.

Lock can be applied from Azure sql management blade-> Settings-> Lock. Over there you can create a new delete lock.

Check this article for more info.