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Backup/Restore, Simple Recovery model and transaction logs
Hello!
Its time I tried to understand some stuff a bit better. I use SQL Backup 6 to backup a database that's simple recovery model.
When we do restores, we generally restore to a different server ...
SQL Backup or Backup + Hyperbac or ?
We have purchased the DBA bundle, but I'm unclear on some of how I should best use the various tools.
We originally purchased SQL Backup for it's compressed backup features. It sounds to me like H...
Logfile and backup problems?
Last night we had a problem which caused us some issues this morning which partly appeared to be tied up with the backup operation which normally completes in less then an hour appearing to not hav...
SQL Backup Test Utilities for v6?
Hello,
Have the SQL Backup Test Utilities been updated to be compatible with v6? Will they, if they have not?
I'm looking for a way to test if a backup file is corrupt or not(separate from the val...
Validate command line
I'd like to make some modifications to the command line switches we use when performing a backup. Is there a way to validate the command line without actually running the backup?
Thanks
Does a full backup also include the transaction log?
It seems like it is from the restore showing a large transaction log to restore as well. Is it possible to just get the database if it is?
Thanks!
SqlBackUpC in 4.5?
We just upgraded to 4.5 last Friday, and I just now realized that the backup job which depended on SqlBackUpC was failing. It seems like part of the upgrade removed or renamed the original SqlBack...
Restore seems very slow and has strange pauses
We are trying to do a complete restore to one of our servers to recover data, a process that we have to do a couple times a month. The person doing the restore has commented that restore times are...
Does log backup set checkpoints?
I'm now moving my log backups over to SQL Backup, and I can't seem to determine if it sets checkpoints upon backup or not. Our database gets a lot of activity so it's important for us to keep the ...
cmd line backup from remote machine fails intermittently
hello,
As part of my backup setup, I am initiating the database backup to file from a remote machine, i.e. I have a backup machine that starts a batch file on the remote(database) machine, which fi...