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How to backup to local drive and network drive simultaneously?
I can backup to a local drive and mirror:
BACKUP DATABASE [xxx]
TO DISK = N'XXXX.bak'
MIRROR TO DISK =N'Network path \XXX.bak'
WITH INIT
--directly to network drive
BACKUP DATABASE [xxx]
TO DISK ...
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How best to maintain SQL log file sizes
I'm somewhat of a new DBA and I'm managing a SQL Server 2012 instance that has a fair amount of activity. I'm running in Full Recovery mode because we need point in time recovery.
Right now, I'm ...
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How can I tell if a SQL Server backup is compressed?
We have recently upgraded from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2012. Under SQL Server 2005 there is no option to create compressed backups as there is in 2012.
If you attempt BACKUP DATABASE ... WITH ...
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SQL availability groups log maintenance
I have a AG with 2 nodes in a site in sync mode and 1 offsite in async mode. I'm having trouble understanding how the logspace is maintained in this scenario. For instance, I'm taking log backups ...
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Backup strategies for zero data loss
I am working on one project and it has around 100K records. We can afford a downtime of 1 day but we need the data to be always available to us in latest state.
I've gone through two options:
1) ...
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Performing a Transaction Log Backup on a Live Database [duplicate]
I have a server 2012 database that has a transaction log that is growing at a rapid rate. i have a job that runs once a day after production hours which backs up the log file and shrinks it.
The ...
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What are the best practices for backing up a secured SQL Server 2012?
I want to state right off the bat that I'm not looking for information on how to backup a SQL Server. I've got that taken care of.
I'm looking for some form of documentation that will tell me the ...
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Restore SQL Server database from .sql files
So we had an encrypted database that puked and killed our whole SQL Server setup. Sucks about our data, but we were smart enough to have our data structures / stored procedures / functions in Git
The ...
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Is it possible to use ExpressMaint with SQL Server 2012 (Express)?
When I try running ExpressMaint on a server with SQL Server 2012 installed, it fails with an error saying it cannot find the Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo libraries (SQL Management Objects). From what I've ...
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Transaction Log Truncation with Copy Only
I have a database backup job set to use full backup with the Copy only option on once daily. The copy only is on because from what I have read that is the only way to backup a database that is ...
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AG and SQL Backups
I am using always on in sql 2012 and have an AG setup. I would like to know if i were to backup the primary database and restore it would that be allowed without taking the cluster down etc.
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Why would a SQL Server 2008 R2 database disable a table index when upgraded to SQL Server 2012
I've restored a database backup in a new SQL Server 2012 server from a .bak made in SQL Server 2008 R2, and one of the tables has it's primary key index disabled. This doesn't happen when I restore to ...
