It goes without saying that as a DBA, one of your most important tasks is to schedule and ensure regular backups of your databases. But by ‘databases’ here, we usually mean your user-created databases. But SQL Server also automatically creates and maintains a number of system databases. So should you also back these up? Well, the answer isn’t a simple yes or no …
Backups
Automated Database Backup-and-Restore for SQL Server
As a DBA, you have almost certainly taken a backup from one server for the purposes of restoration on another server. It’s a somewhat tedious and manual process, but most of us are sort of resigned to it and accept it simply as a necessary evil of the DBA role. I mean, it’s not like you can automate the entire process, right? Well, hold that thought …
POS System Backup Made Easy
A POS system backup is an essential task in any kind of business. Keeping your sales data safe for reporting and auditing is something all businesses should not cut corners in or treat with little importance.
When your company relies solely on an information system (database) to store all of its sales data, then it also must take all precautionary measures to protect this data and periodically make backups of the POS system’s database. We will show you how to do this in the article below.
How to quickly restore a database
If you’re looking for an easy way to quickly restore a database backup then you have found the right place.
Take a look at the article below to find out how you can achieve this.
How to export data from a .bak file to Excel
Were you ever faced with the situation in which you had to extract and export data from a .bak file to Excel (.xls, .xlsx, or .csv format)?
Surely if you have arrived here you are facing this problem and looking for a solution. Well, you have come to the right place. In the article below we will show you how you can achieve this.
SqlBak update: The New Dashboard
SqlBak’s dashboard has been upgraded to be a more user-intuitive interface, in order to provide the most essential information in just a quick glance as well as make modifications to the job.
It’s still very easy to create backups, to schedule them, to set custom backup destinations, and of course, all of the other features you will need to make sure your backup process is up to the highest standard. Let’s have a look!
SQL Server backup & restore using SqlBak.com
This video is start-to-finish walk-trough of creating a SQL Server database backup and restoring it back using SqlBak.com. Please watch Full screen.
SQL Server backup report
In this article, you can find a small script that you can use as a small cheat to have access to an on-the-go backup report of your databases.
If you can connect to your database, you can run this query and find out when was the last time your databases were backed up
and when were the last times a Full, Differential, or Transaction Log backup was taken.
But what do you do when you do not have remote access to your databases, but still like to have a quick review of your last successful backups? Well, we’ll cover this too…
How to silently install SqlBak App
This blog article will show you how to silently install SqlBak App on your machine.
We will also explain what is a silent installation and why it could be useful for you when choosing to install SqlBak App on your database machines.
How to backup a SQL Server database to NAS drive
In order to backup a SQL Server to a NAS drive, all you need is to use SqlBak.
Backups are very important, and many organizations have different standards and rules for storing backups, from the more constrained from a security point of view which require you to store them locally (on-premises) to the organizations that allow their DBAs to store backups of their databases onto cloud storage services.
For those organizations that choose to store their backups locally, there are multiple storage solutions, one of which is owning your own NAS.