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Object First’s Ootbi appliances offer immutable S3-compatible storage for Veeam backups, reducing repository build and administration work. They suit teams seeking simpler local recovery, but still require careful sizing, recovery testing and an independent off-site copy.
Time-based backup immutability is now available for Azure SQL Database LTR backups: once the policy is enabled and locked, protected backups can’t be deleted or modified until the retention window ends. But it only covers backups created after the lock.
Microsoft’s new time-based immutability for Azure SQL Database long-term retention backups makes them non-modifiable and non-erasable during the immutability period. That strengthens the trustworthiness of recovery points, but teams still need recovery discipline and tested restores—especially for Managed Instance.
