Home Forums Database Design Disaster Recovery Copy off original data, even if it is corrupt - before restoring backups? RE: Copy off original data, even if it is corrupt - before restoring backups?

  • This doesn't look to me llike a DR question, much more of a backup/recovery question.

    DR planning usually includes a secondary remote environment that will take over production activity when primary environment is down. E.g. "D"isaster in primary location, "R"ecovery in secondary location.

    Actually, I do prefer to call it Business Continuity planning rather than DR planning.

    Having said that, after reading the posting I'm assuming this is either a very small database or you have a great deal of spare space in your storage subsystem.

    Also, not sure why a full backup is needed every 8 hours - this is impacting performance. How much t-log is generated every eight hours? every 24 hours?

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