In one of my previous posts I’ve noted that the GCP Cloud SQL for SQL Server doesn’t have point of time recovery as of March 2022. As result the default out of box backups can only provide RPO as 24 hours or more. The exact RPO might vary from day to day since you can only specify a window for backup but not exact time. So far it seems like the only reasonable approach to reduce the RPO is to schedule on-demand backups, and in this post I am going to show how you can do that using a couple of different approaches.
