RE: Backing up multiple SQL instance and databases using 3rd party software - Any recommendations

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November 22, 2017 at 2:34 pm

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ffarouqi - Wednesday, November 22, 2017 12:23 PM
Hello,
We are looking to have a centralized software management tool for backing up SQL Server databases that can also provide us with better backup and faster restore times as compared to native SQL. Kindly, let me know if you have any recommendations. I have listed a few that comes off of my head but we are planning to purchase "Rubarik"
- Commvault
- Veeam
- Avamar
- RedGate SQL Backup
- Quest Litespeed

You won't find better backup and faster restore times than the native methods. 3rd party backup tools just make it all a bit easier for people that need it to be easier.

As for a "centralized software management tool" that does this, let me ask.... If you're in a DR situation and trying to get back in business quickly and restores are the only hope left to do so, what are you going to do if your "centralized software management tool" was a casualty of whatever went wrong?

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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