Since the restore points count towards consumed (and billable) storage: "The creation of both system-created and user-defined restore points consume storage. The storage cost of restore points in OneLake includes the data files stored in parquet format. There are no storage charges incurred during the process of restore." we would like to be able to delete restore points.
The current reasoning behind this option not being available is to meet the SLAs. I don't see it as valid reason as by deleting a restore point we acknowledge that meeting the recovery SLA is affected.
We would like to be able to choose between paying for storage or having ability to restore a state from the past.
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Please note, that this should be added under "data warehouse" product but when "data warehouse" was selected, categories list was not loading and therefore we were not able to submit the Idea.
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ajagadishMicrosoft Employee
Status changed:NewtoNeed ClarificationThank you for sharing this thoughtful feedback. Fabric Warehouse system-generated restore points help restore a warehouse to an earlier state and support the warehouses recovery SLA.
Creating a restore point is primarily a metadata operation; it does not create a complete copy of the warehouse’s Parquet data. The metadata footprint is relatively small, and Fabric Warehouse does not maintain full, data-sized snapshots for each restore point. Therefore, deleting restore points would not provide storage savings equivalent to the warehouse’s data size and could affect the recovery coverage needed to meet the SLA. Kindly let us know if you your scenario in detail so that we can work on improving the experience. Thanks!
