Tag: Backups

  • DBA Scripts: Generate Backup Jobs

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Maintenance & Automation › Maintenance Job Framework A Readable Generator for Full Backups, Log Backups, and Cleanup If you’re already running Ola Hallengren’s maintenance solution, this won’t replace it, but the approach here might still be useful: a small, readable T-SQL generator that…

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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Get Backup Size Trend

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Backup & Recovery 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…

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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Get Last Restore History

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Backup & Recovery A Backup You’ve Never Restored Is a Guess, Not a Plan Every DBA can point to a backup schedule. Far fewer can point to proof that any of those backups actually restore. A backup job finishing green tells you the…

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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Generate Backup and Restore Scripts

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Backup & Recovery 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…

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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Backups and Recovery

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks. 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…

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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Get Recovery Model Audit

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Backup & Recovery 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.…

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    Peter Whyte
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