Redmond Magazine

PowerShell-Based SQL Server Backups Revisited, Part 2

Let's follow up the last column with a step-by-step breakdown shows how the PowerShell script automates SQL Server backups, manages retention, logs activity and verifies data integrity. In my first ...
Redmond Magazine

PowerShell Based SQL Server Backups Revisited, Part 1

A couple of months ago, I wrote an article on how to use PowerShell to back up a database within SQL Server Express Edition. Even though the technique that I described in that post works, the script ...
GitHub

back-up-and-restore-of-sql-server-databases.md

[!INCLUDE SQL Server] This article describes the benefits of backing up [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] databases, basic backup and restore terms, and introduces backup and restore strategies for ...
note

[DB][PowerShell] Copying SQL Server backups to a shared folder by day of the week

In the production version of SQL Server, I think it is common to configure periodic backups using maintenance plans. While it is possible to specify a shared folder as the destination for the BACKUP ...
InfoWorld

Better SQL server backups

Idera’s SQLsafe — a backup utility for Microsoft SQL Server — was designed to compete directly with Imceda’s LiteSpeed. Similar to LiteSpeed, SQLsafe improves on native SQL Server backups with ...
GitHub

HyperV-TSQL-SnapshotBackup.ps1

# reside on VHDXs stored on a Pure Storage FlashArray Cluster Shared Volume (CSV). An application-consistent # snapshot is taken while SQL Server is running on VM1 (SQL 01), then the cloned volume is ...
Ars Technica

Combining VSS full SQL backup with differential/transaction logs

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 ...