Tag: Backups
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DBA Scripts: Get Backup Size Trend
Part of the DBA-Tools Project. What Your Backup Sizes Are Quietly Telling You Nobody watches backup file sizes month to month, they just watch that the backup succeeded. But backup size is a free, already-collected proxy for data growth rate, and it catches two things a success/failure check never will: a database whose backups are…
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DBA Scripts: Generate Backup and Restore Scripts
Part of the DBA-Tools Project. Stop Hand-Typing Database Names Into Backup Commands Writing a one-off BACKUP DATABASE or RESTORE DATABASE command for a single database is trivial. Doing it correctly for every database on an instance, with a consistent naming convention, the right options, and none typed by hand, is where mistakes creep in: a…
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DBA Scripts: Backups and Recovery
Part of the DBA-Tools Project. Backup and recovery is the one area of SQL Server administration where “probably fine” isn’t good enough, a backup you haven’t verified restores is a belief, not a backup. Nine scripts across this site cover the whole lifecycle: what recovery model each database should be in, whether backups are actually…
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DBA Scripts: Get Recovery Model Audit
Part of the DBA-Tools Project. The Mismatch That Fills a Disk A database’s recovery model is a promise about what kind of restore is possible, FULL and BULK_LOGGED promise point-in-time recovery, backed by log backups; SIMPLE promises none, and truncates the log on its own. The incident happens when reality doesn’t match the promise: a…
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