Striping SQL Server Database Backups

As databases get larger, the time for database backups to complete grows as well. Unfortunately, the time window for your backups may not increase. It could very well be the case that you reach a point where your backups will not finish in a specified amount of time.

Transaction Log Backups

Automated SQL Job to Backup Database(s)

Automate All Database Backups with this script. handle full, diff, and log backups.

Enterprise wide Backup Audit

Enterprise wide Backup Audit that produces backup information in a csv format.

Backup Syntax

Backup SQL Server Databases with a Windows PowerShell Script

In a previous tip on Backup and Restore SQL Server databases programmatically with SMO, you've seen how you can use Windows PowerShell to backup and restore SQL Server databases. In this tip, I will cover how to use Windows PowerShell to generate SQL Server backups

How to identify when a database was restored, the source of the backup and the date of the backup

After restoring a database your users will typically run some queries to verify the data is as expected. However, there are times when your users may question whether the restore was done using the correct backup file. In this tip I will show you how you can identify the file(s) that was used for the restore, when the backup actually occured and when the database was restored.

How to Backup and Restore a SQL Server FILESTREAM Enabled Database

Most SQL Server DBAs have questions about backing up and restoring FILESTREAM enabled databases. In this tip, we will take a look at the steps Database Administrators need to follow in order to perform a backup and restore of a FILESTREAM database.

COPY_ONLY Backups

What are COPY_ONLY backups and why do we care? New author Charles Kincaid walks us through the basics of how you can create one of these backups.

A Technical Case Study: Fast and Reliable Backup and Restore of Multi-Terabytes Database over the Network

Database sizes increase constantly, as do requirements for access and availability. At the same time, it is more important than ever to have a fast and reliable backup and recovery plan in place. This document discusses the challenges of designing a robust backup and restore solutions for very large databases (VLDBs). Using a real-world example, it demonstrates how to make the best use of the backup and restore features of SQL Server 2008 to help create a fast and reliable backup and restore plan for VLDBs over the network.