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!
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.
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…
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.
It’s important to verify SQL Server backup files after the backup process is complete.
Although the process can finish successfully this does not guarantee that the integrity of the data in the backup file is valid.
This will definitely cause some annoyance when later trying to restore the backup file.
In order to avoid this unwanted scenario, you should use verification options …
SQL Server maintenance is just as important as creating backups of your databases.
Unfortunately, there are many companies out there that install a SQL Server database or more without setting up first their maintenance plans.
Everything is perfect as usually at the beginning there is no problem, that is until a problem appears.
Restoring a SQL Server database from a Differential or Transaction log backup can’t be simpler when using SqlBak.
All that you have to do is press a few buttons and the restore operation will be complete. Read the article to find out how.
