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As admin for an Azure subscription I am getting emails reporting:

Automated SQL Export failed for {server:database} at 9/5/2013 12:00:11 AM. The temporary database copy to export from could not be made.

I deleted this server, without explicitly removing the automated export configuration.

First question: how do I tell Azure to stop trying to do the export?

Second question: newbie mistake (if so please let me know what I failed to do) or bug?

Thanks!

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Just ran into the same thing. Since the export configuration is only present on the settings page for the nonexistent database, this smells like an oversight on Azure's part. - Mike Asdf
Looks like this has finally come to the Azure team's attentions: social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsazure/en-US/… - gruve
And finally today: "This issue has been corrected" - Mike Asdf
We've also had some other issues around Automated Exports where an export cannot be completed/done on a large database (over 130GB or so). Also, many times we would randomly get the message 'Could not load the automated export settings.' on the portal. I believe the Automated Export is still in Preview therefore problems are expected to occur, unfortunately. - ahmed.eltawil

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I believe that this might be because the schema of the database has changed, which has resulted in an object (stored procedure, view, function) becoming invalid.

This problem / solution is elaborated on in another question:

Automated azure sql export fails