Back up Strategy

  • Note that you can mitigate the downtime by having a warm server, and restore the logs (and fulls) as they're taken.

  • And make sure your backups are on different PHYSICAL media to the database.

    I've lost count of the number of organisations I've seen that partition a large raid array into different drive letters and think that's good enough.

    And schedule regular restores... your last backup is only as good as your last restore.

  • You are right. Need more coffee.

    What I have seen is I/O slowing due to backups being run resulting in "blocking" SPIDs.

    This is of course on a seriously underpowered system that has a high amount of processes running simultaneously.

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