Add “Pause Mirror” Option to Temporarily Suspend Syncing in Microsoft Fabric

[TiagoQuaresma]

Hello,

Currently, Microsoft Fabric does not provide a way to temporarily pause data syncing for Mirrored Databases while keeping the mirror relationship intact. The only available option is to delete the mirror, which removes all metadata and requires a full re-ingestion if the mirror needs to be re-established later.

A Pause / Resume capability would provide significant benefits:

Key Benefits

• Cost Control: Allows organizations to temporarily halt ingestion during periods of low usage or while performing maintenance.
• Operational Flexibility: Pausing sync prevents unnecessary data transfers when source systems are under heavy load.
• Data Quality & Governance: Enables teams to stop ingestion while upstream data issues are being corrected without losing the mirror configuration.
• No Loss of Configuration: Keeps the mirror relationship, schema mapping, and settings intact, avoiding the need to recreate the mirror.

Requested Features:

• A Pause button that stops all incremental sync operations without deleting the mirror.
• A Resume option that continues syncing from the last successful checkpoint.
• Optional schedule-based pausing (e.g., pause nightly or weekends).
• Clear UI indicators of paused status and last sync time.

This enhancement would bring Mirroring more in line with other Fabric ingestion patterns that already support manual or scheduled refresh control. Thank you for considering this feature.