If you are deploying your own Microsoft Dynamics NAV application on Microsoft Azure instead of CRONUS International Ltd., then you must create a backup of your application database before you start to deploy Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
To create a backup of the Microsoft Dynamics NAV database
Create a backup of the SQL database for the Microsoft Dynamics NAV application.
For more information, see Create a Full Database Backup (SQL Server).
Copy the backup file to the computer that you will use to provision Microsoft Dynamics NAV on Azure.