How to take Backup of large Database

  • A database is size is 1tb how to take full backup of the database.

  • sudeepta nanda-402098 (1/11/2011)


    A database is very large how to take full backup of the database.

    How "large" is "very large" ?

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  • http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms179401.aspx.

    same approach for restoration.

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    Ashish

  • Well, you can take backups the same way you take them for small databases. BACKUP DATABASE still works. It may be impractical because of the time, but it does work.

    There are lots of options for backing up large databases. You can use native backups and back up and the file or filegroup level. Stripe the backups over multiple physical drives to increase performance there,

    You can upgrade to SQL 2008 (Enterprise edition) and use backup compression, or buy one of the 3rd party backup tools that offer compression (Redgate's SQLbackup or Quest's Litespeed come to mind)

    If you're running on a SAN you can investigate and see if the SAN vendor has a snapshot backup solution for SQL.

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