Understanding Cosmos DB’s New Point-in-Time Restore

• Cosmos DB updates its continuous backup mode with point-in-time restore capabilities.
• Point-in-time restore capabilities help administrators recover data from accidental deletion or changes.
• Cosmos DB’s point-in-time restore only writes to a new location, limiting its usefulness.

Azure Cosmos DB introduces point-in-time restore capabilities, designed to help recover data, databases, and accounts that were erroneously deleted or changed. However, the process restores the data to a new location, requiring manual effort to find and fix data issues. The features are only available with continuous backup mode and limited to backups taken in the last 30 days.

Overview and Backup Options

Cosmos DB is a multimodal database service designed for distributed data applications that need global scaling and high performance. It can host multiple database formats, such as documents (MongoDB), graphs (Gremlin), and relational data (Cassandra and SQL) in a single account, where they can share scaling and security infrastructure. This makes Cosmos DB ideal for complex, integrated applications that need access to several database formats.