Backup Agent Auto-Update

Managed Backup offers an automatic update feature for Backup Agent instances. Nevertheless, the automatic update has several limitations.

Plan Your Schedule for Auto-Update

Any plan, regardless of its type (backup plan, restore plan, or consistency check), calls an auto-update service that checks whether any new versions are available. If there is a new version, Backup Agent is updated automatically, then the plan starts.

If another plan is running at the time of the auto-update, the auto-update is skipped.

If you have a tight schedule or long backup chains so that Backup Agent is never idle, the auto-update may never be executed.

Make sure to adjust your schedule to avoid these situations.

Real-Time Backup and Auto-Update

Note that if some of your backup plans have the real-time backup option enabled, an auto-update job will suspend these plans for the time of the update. Once the update is finished, these plans will resume normal operation (scanning for new objects every 15 minutes).