You might have heard of this term, but you don’t know what it actually presumes.
Read this next article to understand what a copy-only backup is and how it fits in the big picture of SQL Server.
SQL Server Backup
How to set expiration date on a backup
The way you set the expiration date on a backup for SQL Server databases is quite easy.
You have two options for doing this. In order to find out, read the following article where we will show you both options.
Mirror Backups
You might have heard of mirror backups, but you don’t know what they are exactly?
Well, in this article we will try to explain in the best way possible what they are, if you should use them and when you should use them.
Media errors during backup or restore
Media errors during backup or restore operations are quite stressful because usually, these tasks should run smoothly.
But just in case you happen to have one such error, then it would be ready if you would be prepared or have a bit of knowledge about these errors before you see them.
Partial Backups
Partial backups are a type of backup which was first introduced with SQL Server 2005.
These types of backups were designed for use with the simple recovery model in order to improve flexibility in terms of backing up very very large databases that can contain at least one read-only filegroup.
Recover deleted data in SQL Server
If you ever have the misfortune of having data deleted from the production database, don’t get upset as there is a way you can recover most of the missing data with the aid of Transaction Logs and LSNs (Log Sequence Numbers).
Here is a step-by-step solution on how to achieve this.
Backup History for SQL Server databases
Having a complete backup history of all of your backup and restore operations can become quite useful at times.
All the data that you might need to be related to this, like who created the backup, at what time, on what media, and many other details are stored in the system databases of the SQL Server instance.
SQL Server 2014 for backups
So, SQL Server 2014 CTP2 has been released and now we can have a look at some of its new features before its official commercial release later this year.
What we’re mostly interested in is, obviously, improvements related to backups and restores. Here is a shortlist with improvements.
At the time this article was written only SQL Server 2014 CTP2 was available, so information related to this subject is limited to only what was known from the perspective of the CTP2 edition.
How to schedule a backup cleanup
This post is a continuation of a previous post where we explained how to do a maintenance plan that will take care of creating backups via a schedule.
Now that we have a schedule that consistently creates backups, we might want to create a backup cleanup schedule to remove older backup files.