Can anyone offer some advice on best practices around SQL backups, recovery, and replication in scenarios with virtualized SQL servers? The overall objective is to protect our SQL servers against ...

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Our normal practices for backing up SQL servers is to use the regular SQL backup tools to perform full, differential and transaction log backups and this has always worked fine. Recently we performed ...

A couple of months ago, I wrote an article on how to use PowerShell to back up a database within SQL Server Express Edition. Even though the technique that I described in that post works, the script ...

If you are not a database administrator, this doesn’t mean you can’t have amazing SQL Server backup and recovery. In this webinar, Andrew Zhelezko from Veeam will present on a number of capabilities ...

This week, I again had the opportunity to be on the Virtumania podcast with Rich Brambley, Marc Farley and a special SQL server guest, http://www.brentozar.com/ Brent ...

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 ...

SQL Server 2014: Backup to the cloud A new feature, which first appeared in an update to SQL Server 2012, is the ability to back up a database to an Azure URL (blob storage) using T-SQL or PowerShell.