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Encryption with Compression
Are the encryption and compression options mutually exclusive? I assume they are, since they always are in other software packages due to the nature of the two operations, but I wanted to confirm.
FIPS / CC Compliance
Are there any plans to have SQLBackup certified against FIPS 140 or Common Criteria? I know that it is using AES 256, so that's a good start, but it would be nice if the app was certified as well.
Threaded Backups and SQLBACKUPC
I recently changed my backups to use multiple threads. The backup files are copied to another location where they are restored automatically by a script that calls SQLBACKUPC. The restore process h...
Feature Requests
I have two feature requests for SQL Backup. The first is that more than one instance of the application can run on the server at the same time. We often have administrators logged into the server a...
SQLBackupC - Mailto
I was wondering what settings SQLBackupC uses for sending mail with the mailto option? Does it use the settings specified in the GUI, or do you need to specify the mail server in the command?
Resource Monitoring
Recently, our backups went from taking 2 hours to taking 8 hours. Nothing has changed in the amount of data being backed up. The only change is upgrading from SQL Backup 4 to SQL Backup 5.1. I'm no...
Mirror Backup with Multiple Databases
We would like to use the mirror backup to create one backup job that creates two backups in two different locations with different file name formats - a wonderful new feature in version 5. However,...
Calling .SQL Scripts
Can I call .SQL scripts from the command line? I don't see the syntax anywhere. I'm replacing a batch file that makes heavy use of SQLCMD to restore databases and run .sql scripts against them.