Backup schedules

  • Hi we are running fullbackups on every sunday at 2a.m.and transactional log backups

    on monday to saturday at 3:30a.m.i have to schedule diferential backups also on everyday.

    please guys let me know at what time can i schedule.

    Thanks in advance

  • d.srikanth50 (4/28/2010)


    Hi we are running fullbackups on every sunday at 2a.m.and transactional log backups

    on monday to saturday at 3:30a.m.i have to schedule diferential backups also on everyday.

    please guys let me know at what time can i schedule.

    Thanks in advance

    Pretty much whatever time you want. The differential log backups are dependent on the full backup, not log backups.

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  • If these are important databases with frequent activity, then it's strange you are only taking transaction log backups once a day at 3:30 am. If you have a failure or data corruption at 6 pm you may lose everything since 3:30 am.

  • I was thinking the same thing, plus, how the heck big are the transaction logs?

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  • And why the differential backup now? It is apparent that the tlogs are being used as the diff and loss of data is permissible.

    I would consider revising the entire schedule, more frequent tlog backups and daily diffs.

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