Partial Backup and Restore
Shawn McGehee discusses partial backups, how they're used, and how to avoid potential problems when restoring from a partial backup.
2012-05-15
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Shawn McGehee discusses partial backups, how they're used, and how to avoid potential problems when restoring from a partial backup.
2012-05-15
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2012-02-21
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The majority of companies that suffer a major data loss subsequently go out of business. Wesley David remembers vividly the day when the organisation he worked for found that they couldn't restore their data, and the subsequent struggles that ensued. Shoulda-woulda-coulda.
2012-02-20
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2012-02-06
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Recently I encountered a situation where the backup drive was short of space on the production server. The policy on the production server was that as soon as soon as the Full Backup is complete, a copy of the production backup is transferred to the staging server using RoboCopy
2011-12-22
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The loss of a company's data is often enough to put the company out of business; and yet backup errors are generally avoidable with the application of common sense rather than deep technical knowledge. Grant digs into memories of his long experience of giving forum advice, to come up with the most easily preventable backup errors.
2011-11-29
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Author Craig Outcalt gives advice on preparing for the worst with a look at what you should consider putting in your disaster recovery plan and why.
2012-12-10 (first published: 2011-09-26)
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2011-10-14 (first published: 2011-08-24)
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2011-10-10 (first published: 2011-08-24)
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What good is a backup if you do not know to restore the backup? In this tutorial you will look at what restore options are available and which options are only accessible using T-SQL commands.
2011-08-19
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