http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Content tagged Backup and Recovery, Administering, Strategies posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)This articles makes the case for using SQL LiteSpeed over other backup solutions and presents some notes about why the DBA should manage backups rather than offloading to network administration. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/integratingsqllitespeedinyourexistingbackupinfrast/986/2003/05/12http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/integratingsqllitespeedinyourexistingbackupinfrast/986/Andy had a semi-disaster similar to the one he wrote about last year. Interesting to see the kinds of problems that happen to other people. This article raises some interesting points that are outside the scope of basic disaster recovery, looking at how/when to move databases to a different server and how to reduce the server load dynamically. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/anotherdisasteralmost/881/2003/01/14http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/anotherdisasteralmost/881/This article analyzes the various options available for your backup and recovery process with SQL Server 2000 as well as an enhancement to your SQL Server backup and recovery process using a highly efficient backup and restore utility that provides significant time and disk space savings called SQL LiteSpeed. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/backupandrestorebacktobasicswithsqllitespeed/884/2002/12/23http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/backupandrestorebacktobasicswithsqllitespeed/884/Back in April Steve Jones wrote up a disaster at work. Andy had one this week and wrote up the story too. Copy cat! Pretty soon everyone will be having a disaster and writing a story about it! Give these guys credit for letting you see what happens when it ALL goes bad. Disaster recovery is hard to sell and hard to do, reading the article might give you an idea that will save you some time and/or data one day. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/disasterintherealworld2/747/2002/07/31http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/disasterintherealworld2/747/In this follow up article Andy looks at how maintenance plans report errors and how they actually accomplish what they do. A little snooping with Profiler reveals all! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/sqlmaintenanceplansunderthecovers/686/2002/05/21http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/sqlmaintenanceplansunderthecovers/686/