A system failure wipes out all your data, corruption renders your data useless, an error leads to permanent deletion. Remember: Data loss always sneaks up on you. The ...

Our normal practices for backing up SQL servers is to use the regular SQL backup tools to perform full, differential and transaction log backups and this has always worked fine. Recently we performed ...

There exist more than three backup methods. However, the three main include full, differential and incremental backups. The latter two are considered smart backup options mainly because they save back ...

The purpose of backing up business-critical data is to achieve fast backups and restores that are 100% accurate. However, IT administrators have had to compromise between speed and accuracy because ...

With SQL Server 2000, there are myriad choices for backing up your database. Whether your database is small and changes infrequently or very large and changes rapidly, there is a backup strategy to ...

In an earlier blog entry, I talked about “Deprecated” code and I highlighted the fact that the BACKUP LOG WITH NO_LOG and BACKUP LOG WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY statements are no longer allowed in SQL Server ...

My top pick right now, is the EaseUS ToDo Backup, followed closely by Acronis True Image, and AOMEI Backupper, which are also ...

Suppose for a moment that a virus has infected your entire computer network. It has quickly spread through every employee’s workstation, into every document and database file. All your work, all your ...