Backup Strategy for PDF/Vector/Embeddings Database in Azure

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Hello everyone,

I'm fairly new to coding and I apologize if this isn't the right place for my question—please let me know if it should be posted elsewhere.

I'm working on developing a Q&A chatbot that leverages a respected medical database here in Sweden. I've successfully gotten the chatbot to function, but I'm facing a challenge with the database management, particularly with PDFs and their associated vector embeddings.

Here are my two main questions:

1. Is there a way to back up the PDF and embeddings database to Azure? Specifically, I want to ensure that if I need to run azd down followed by azd up, the system doesn't re-analyze all the previously processed PDFs. Is it possible to separate the vector/embeddings database from the main application so that it remains unaffected when I take down the whole application?

Can this type of database be downloaded locally? And if it is possible how can I upload it back to a azure resource group. This would allow me to manually integrate a previously created PDF/embeddings database into the Azure resource group whenever I use azd down.