July 9, 2015 at 11:14 am
WHAT ARE BACKUP DEVICES? ANY PERFORMANCE ADVANTAGE WITH USE OF BACKUP DEVICES?
July 9, 2015 at 11:29 am
Well, "backup devices" in general are just the physical media to which you backup your databases.
If you're referring to the logical backup devices you can define (like this), then no, those do not serve to improve performance.
Their main purpose is to give you names that can be more meaningful and easier to use than the paths specified for file system locations, network shares, or tape drives.
Cheers!
July 9, 2015 at 1:39 pm
They're places to put backups. No performance advantage.
May I suggest you get a new keyboard, since your current one appears to have either a broken shift key or a broken caps lock?
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July 9, 2015 at 3:37 pm
GilaMonster (7/9/2015)
They're places to put backups. No performance advantage.May I suggest you get a new keyboard, since your current one appears to have either a broken shift key or a broken caps lock?
Must be intermittent as only two of the OPs three posts are in all caps. 🙂
July 10, 2015 at 2:32 am
sindura.pulimamidi1 (7/9/2015)
WHAT ARE BACKUP DEVICES? ANY PERFORMANCE ADVANTAGE WITH USE OF BACKUP DEVICES?
They're just a way to identify where you're storing backups to simplify code. Nothing more. It doesn't hurt or help performance.
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