How best to push large DB Copies over the wire on a regular schedule

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How best to push large DB Copies over the wire on a regular schedule

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Perry Whittle SSC Guru Points: 234013 More actions · Answer 1

ALZDBA (10/24/2010)
- Why don't you just directly 7zip your existing full backup file(s) ?

that's what i wondered!

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004340 More actions · Answer 2

As a side bar, IIRC, changing the recovery model to "Simple" breaks the restore chain. If this is transfer of data needs to occur on a regular basis, I'd look into log shipping or something other method but I wouldn't change the recovery model to "Simple" if I needed to be able to do any kind of point-in-time restores.

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Johan Bijnens SSC Guru Points: 135369 More actions · Answer 3

Jeffrey Williams-493691 (10/24/2010)
ALZDBA (10/24/2010)
If you precede your fullbackup with a logbackup, wouldn't your fullbackup be smaller ?
No, I don't think a full backup will be any smaller because of backing up the log.

You mean a logbackup doesn't mark completed transactions overwritable ?

If it does, why would a full backup still include these - by the logbackup marked overwritable - log records ?

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george sibbald SSC Guru Points: 104210 More actions · Answer 4

A full backup only contains that part of the log needed to bring the database to a consistent point on recovery.

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