How to remove old SQL Server backups

remove old sql server backupHow to remove old SQL Server backups – quick tutorial: 
Managing storage space occupied by your backups is a task that should not require a DBA’s time. 
With SqlBak you can easily remove old SQL Server backups, periodically. 
In this article we will show you how to do this, step by step, so you will never have to worry about old backup files filling up your storage space.

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Best place to backup your data?

best place to backup

There are multiple online solutions where you could store your SQL Server backups, but because there are so many you might not know which one to choose. 
In this article, we will try to go over some of the most popular solutions in order to help you decide what is the best place to backup and store your most important data.

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SQL Server backup to URL (Azure Blob Storage)

SQL Server has a feature that allows you to save a backup immediately to Azure Blob storage, without intermediate storage on a local disk. This speeds up backups and also allows you not to worry about free space on the local disk for temporarily saving backups. The principle of operation SQL Server itself can connect … Read more

Backup best practices — a shortcut

We already know that backups are important for securing your databases from data loss. 
We also have an article about best practices regarding backups, but the article is quite detailed and if you want to take a shortcut and take care of the essentials, then you’ve found it here.

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Backup best practices – a shortlist

backup best practices
If you’re here, then there’s a high chance you already know the importance of a good backup and what they mean to a serious business.
Taking care of database backups is an important and very sensitive job.
This is why we tried to make a shortlist of some backup best practices that you should be aware of when you’re either doing backups or you’re trying to restore them, in order to be covered for any of the common and slightly uncommon situations involving backups.

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Restore SQL Server database remotely

Imagine how cool would it be: you are on vacation on a beach when you receive a panicked email from your client telling you he has lost all his data. You take your smartphone, log in to sqlbak.com, press “Restore” next to the last backup, and in a few minutes tell the client that his database was restored. This is as close to James Bond as a database administrator could ever get!

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