Database Backup | Varinder Sandhu https://varindersandhu.in Keep it Simple and Smart Tue, 14 May 2013 13:31:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://varindersandhu.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/varindersandhu_favicon.ico Database Backup | Varinder Sandhu https://varindersandhu.in 32 32 22788835 SQL Server 2008 – Database Backup Compression https://varindersandhu.in/2012/04/27/sql-server-2008-database-backup-compression/ https://varindersandhu.in/2012/04/27/sql-server-2008-database-backup-compression/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:48:56 +0000 http://www.varindersandhu.in/?p=2355 Backup compression was introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise. At installation, backup compression default is set to 0, which makes backup compression off by default. To change the default to COMPRESSION, set backup compression default to 1. To revert the default to NO_COMPRESSION, set backup compression default back to 0.

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]]> https://varindersandhu.in/2012/04/27/sql-server-2008-database-backup-compression/feed/ 3 2355 Restore SQL 2008 full database backup to SQL Server 2005 https://varindersandhu.in/2011/07/16/restore-sql-2008-full-database-backup-to-sql-server-2005/ Sat, 16 Jul 2011 09:19:58 +0000 http://www.varindersandhu.in/?p=1336 My friend wants to restore the SQL 2008 full backup to SQL Server 2005. He faced an issue while restore the SQL 2008 full backup to SQL Server 2005. He has a question from me as: Can we restore the SQL 2008 full database backup to SQL Server 2005? Answer:

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]]> 1336 SQL Server – Mirror Backup of databases https://varindersandhu.in/2011/07/09/sql-server-mirror-backup-of-databases/ Sat, 09 Jul 2011 06:42:31 +0000 http://www.varindersandhu.in/?p=1298 It is very common practice to create an exact copy of the database backup and store it to different places so that in case any emergency or misfortune, DBA should have the alternative location to find the backup of databases.  Once a full backup is accomplished DBAs generally copy the

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]]> 1298 SQL Server – Validation of Backup https://varindersandhu.in/2011/04/19/sql-server-validation-of-backup/ https://varindersandhu.in/2011/04/19/sql-server-validation-of-backup/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:16:10 +0000 http://theitarticles.wordpress.com/?p=727 Database backup are insurance policy for a database, we need to ensure that backups created are valid and useful. To validate the backup, we can use following command Restore verifyonly from <backup device> When a backups is validated, SQL Server performs the following steps Calculated a checksum for the backup

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]]> https://varindersandhu.in/2011/04/19/sql-server-validation-of-backup/feed/ 3 727 SQL Server – Backup all the sql server databases https://varindersandhu.in/2011/04/10/sql-server-backup-all-the-sql-server-databases/ https://varindersandhu.in/2011/04/10/sql-server-backup-all-the-sql-server-databases/#comments Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:25:02 +0000 http://theitarticles.wordpress.com/?p=694 Sharing with you script to backup all the SQL server databases Script: DECLARE @name VARCHAR(50) — database name DECLARE @path VARCHAR(256) — path for backup files DECLARE @fileName NVARCHAR(256) — filename for backup DECLARE @fileDate VARCHAR(20) — used for file name SET @path = ‘D:Backup’ SELECT @fileDate = CONVERT(VARCHAR(20),GETDATE(),113) SELECT

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]]> https://varindersandhu.in/2011/04/10/sql-server-backup-all-the-sql-server-databases/feed/ 2 694 SQL Backup Plan with Dynamic file Name https://varindersandhu.in/2010/09/26/sql-backup-plan-with-dynamic-file-name/ https://varindersandhu.in/2010/09/26/sql-backup-plan-with-dynamic-file-name/#comments Sun, 26 Sep 2010 01:26:00 +0000 http://theitarticles.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/sql-backup-plan-with-dynamic-file-name DECLARE @day VARCHAR(5) DECLARE @month VARCHAR(15) DECLARE @year VARCHAR(5) DECLARE @hour VARCHAR(5) DECLARE @filename VARCHAR(500) SET @day = DATENAME(DAY, GETDATE()) SET @month = DATENAME(MONTH, GETDATE()) SET @year = DATENAME(YEAR, GETDATE()) SET @hour = DATENAME(HOUR, GETDATE()) SET @filename = 'D:DATABASE Backupdb_name_' + @day + @month + @year + @hour + '.bak'

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