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One of the very mundane, but extremely valuable tasks that any DBA must perform is the backup and restore of databases. In this post, we’ll look at a sample script that can backup databases on a given ...

ExaGrid, the industry’s only Tiered Backup Storage solution with Retention Time-Lock that includes a non-network-facing tier (creating a tiered air gap), delayed deletes, and immutability for ...

This article is a revised version of the original published January 3, 2005. See Editor’s Note for details. Two major factors drive database backups these days: compliance and disk space. Some ...

SQL Server is at the heart of your company; if it goes down, the results could be catastrophic. However, despite its importance, many IT admins don’t have a solid backup and restore plan in place.

Quest Software has announced that vRanger 6.0, the latest version of its virtual data protection solution which provides backup, replication, and recovery for VMware, now also enables customers to ...

When it comes to recovery from an Exchange Server crash, failure, or database corruption, backups play an important role. So, it is important to define a proper backup and recovery strategy to ensure ...

There’s some good news for IT managers deploying Windows Server 2008: Backup and Restore has been reworked in this edition to leverage the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and block-level transfers ...