You have configured your database backup jobs without any problems. The backups themselves seem to be working, but are the files still where you think they are? How do you know they have not been moved, or worse, deleted to free up some space on your server? And when would you find out that the files were no longer there?
2009-08-03
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This script is basically used in SQL Server 2005/2008 as that version not having the option to perform the same activity in the single window.
2009-08-11 (first published: 2009-07-23)
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When using GUI tools, it seems the DB cannot be restored from a network path. This is actually possible via the script.
2010-05-11 (first published: 2009-07-11)
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Is there any way that my ad hoc backups will not interrupt the sequence of my backup plan?
2009-06-30
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If you are not the only one who takes care of the backups, knowing the backups taken recently is very crucial for a production DBA.
2009-07-01 (first published: 2009-06-19)
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Learn how to minimize downtime while moving databases using Backup/Restore in SQL Server.
2009-06-18
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Ensuring that you can recover your server is critical. Chad Miller shows us how to accomplish daily backup monitoring and reporting.
2009-06-04
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Many shops do full backups of their databases as part of a job within SQL Agent, typically as part of a maintenance plan. This job will often times do all database backups in secession. As such, while you may know how long the job takes, you may not know how long any one particular database takes to have a full backup taken.
2009-05-22
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Have you ever wished that creating a backup on the fly was easier and quicker? Whether you do it with the GUI or with T-SQL, you still have to open up Management Studio, connect to the database, and go through the steps. You have to figure out ...
2009-04-29
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The error message pops up when you try to restore the database to a different server or to a desktop or to a FAT32 file system. Learn a couple of ways for dealing with this error.
2009-04-17
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