5 reasons why backup and restore doesn’t cut it in dev and test

The provisioning process is a critical part of database development. Redgate's Rebecca Edwards looks at a tool that can remove the pain points of backup and restore and replace them with a more efficient solution can hugely benefit your organization and the quality of life of you and your team.

Google Announces 'Ice Cold Storage'

Google’s approach to ice cold storage eliminates the need for a separate retrieval process and provides immediate, low-latency access to content.

Backup to Recovery

Corrupted Backups

Do you check your backups?

Backups. Are you confident you can restore? Do you have a process that ensures you can recover your systems? Learn how one system works in the cloud.

Script - All Jobs (powershell/SMO)

Script powershell/SMO que gera os scripts de DROP/CREATE para cada JOB existente na instância

Configuring Backups Using Veritas Netbackup with AGs

A short description of our experience with Veritas Netbackup on MS SQL Server AG Groups. This article does not give a full description of the procedure for configuring netbackup but highlights a few pitfalls which we think some people will find very useful.

Protecting Encrypted Backups

Backup Encryption Options

Powershell Script for regular DBA activities

This script will perfrom following tasks :
1. BackUp DB
2. Restore DB from BackUp File
3. Restore DB from DB
4. Create a new DB from Existing Db

It takes care of all the possible failures during these operations, while done manually.