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!
Backup permissions: This post will take you through the list of backup permissions a user needs to have in order to be allowed to make the most basic backup operation.
We will also explain what are some of the most advanced options for backing up databases and how you can give these privileges as well to some of your most trusted users.
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…
SqlBak.com presents you a free SQL Server backup types cheat sheet infographic. This cheat sheet clearly explains the difference between Full Backup, Differential Backup and Transaction Log Backup in SQL Server. Feel free to Download PDF or PNG files.
In this article, we will talk about how to backup query results if you are using a database querying application like SQL Server Management Studio.
We will cover multiple possibilities of backing up your results, from those built-in SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) to some workarounds we consider to be more efficient.
Continue to read to find out how to achieve this…
SqlBak.com presents you a free SQL Server String Functions Cheat Sheet. We spent several hours composing it for you. Enjoy!
Encountering a “Cannot perform a differential backup for database, because a current database backup does not exist” error might generate some confusion if you look into your backup log and can see that FULL backups have been successfully created.
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.
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.
In order to organize the types of backups you make from your databases, you have multiple options when using SqlBak.
If you want, for example, to store FULL SQL Server backup on Amazon and differential backups to your FTP folder, SqlBak allows you to do this.
In the below article, we will show you how to do this, fairly easily, through the Task Schedule screen.
