For an introduction to backup in SQL Server, see Backup Overview. Backup types The supported backup types depend on the recovery model of the database, as follows All recovery models support full and differential backups of data. Expand table Scope of backupBackup types Whole database Database...
With SQL Server Snapshot Backup, after the initial full backup that is required by SQL Server to establish the backup chain, only a single transaction log backup is required to restore a database to the point in time of the transaction log backup. Furthermore, only two transaction log ...
SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (SSIS) Back Up Database task You can control the backup compression behavior when creating a package for backing up a single database or multiple databases. Log Shipping Transaction Log Backup Settings You can control the backup compression behavior of log backup...
Depending on how long ago the table was dropped, very little information may still be available in the SQL Server database itself. If you do have backups available you should add them here, this will not only speed up the recovery of your data but it will also improve the quality of ...
Learn about the SQL Server backup component, including backup types and restrictions, and also backup devices and backup media.
Atail-log backupcaptures any log records that haven't yet been backed up (thetail of the log), to prevent work loss and to keep the log chain intact. Before you can recover a SQL Server database to its latest point in time, you must back up the tail of its transaction log. The ...
SQL Server provides support for Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) by providing a writer (the SQL writer) so that a third-party backup application can use the VSS framework to back up database files. This paper describes the SQL writer component and its role in the VSS snapshot creation ...
Although the maximum backup size supported by a single block blob is 200 GB, it's possible for SQL Server to write in smaller block sizes, which can lead SQL Server to reach the 50,000 block limit before the entire backup is transferred. Stripe backups (even if they're smaller than 200...
Expand table Security Note SQL Server requires Windows Azure account name and access key authentication to be stored in a SQL Server Credential. This information is used to authenticate to the Windows Azure account when it performs backup or restore operations. The user account that is used to ...
Next, we need to create the certificate, which is achieved with a single instruction : USE master GO -- Creating the certificate CREATE CERTIFICATE Contoso_BackupEncryptionWithSQLServer2014 WITH SUBJECT = 'SQL Server 2014 Backup Encryption demo with Contoso'; GO Similarly, interrogating the sys....