Comments on: SQL Server Backup Best Practices http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2007/10/backing-up-sql-server-my-own-mediocre-practices/ Your technology pain-relief experts. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:37:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dustin http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2007/10/backing-up-sql-server-my-own-mediocre-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-33614 Dustin Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:11:47 +0000 http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2007/10/backing-up-sql-server-my-own-mediocre-practices/#comment-33614 Great post! I've been searching around for a backup post like this, especially one that agrees with me. We go straight to tape and yes, just like you said, do not have enough drives to support the madness that could happen if we needed lots of backups all at once. Definitely not local disk, but could you get around the server crash problem with a LUN that you could map to another host? Or should I stick with the \\ and try to fix the network bottleneck with more compression? Great post! I’ve been searching around for a backup post like this, especially one that agrees with me. We go straight to tape and yes, just like you said, do not have enough drives to support the madness that could happen if we needed lots of backups all at once.

Definitely not local disk, but could you get around the server crash problem with a LUN that you could map to another host? Or should I stick with the \\ and try to fix the network bottleneck with more compression?

]]> By: SQL Server 2005/2008 Setup Checklist | Brent Ozar PLF http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2007/10/backing-up-sql-server-my-own-mediocre-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-31735 SQL Server 2005/2008 Setup Checklist | Brent Ozar PLF Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:40:56 +0000 http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2007/10/backing-up-sql-server-my-own-mediocre-practices/#comment-31735 [...] some places use index defrag software, and so on. I’ve written a lot of articles about my personal backup best practices, and one about why SQL native backups suck. (Hey, if I was politically correct, I’d be [...] [...] some places use index defrag software, and so on. I’ve written a lot of articles about my personal backup best practices, and one about why SQL native backups suck. (Hey, if I was politically correct, I’d be [...]

]]> By: Brent Ozar http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2007/10/backing-up-sql-server-my-own-mediocre-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-31328 Brent Ozar Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:37:23 +0000 http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2007/10/backing-up-sql-server-my-own-mediocre-practices/#comment-31328 Yep, I cover Perfmon in detail here: http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2006/12/dba-101-using-perfmon-for-sql-performance-tuning/ Those are the counters to watch during backups. Thanks! Yep, I cover Perfmon in detail here: http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2006/12/dba-101-using-perfmon-for-sql-performance-tuning/

Those are the counters to watch during backups. Thanks!

]]> By: sonny http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2007/10/backing-up-sql-server-my-own-mediocre-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-31326 sonny Thu, 09 Jun 2011 08:51:03 +0000 http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2007/10/backing-up-sql-server-my-own-mediocre-practices/#comment-31326 have you written the article on "how to monitor performance metrics during backups" as you have mentioned here... certainly very useful one. sonny have you written the article on “how to monitor performance metrics during backups” as you have mentioned here…

certainly very useful one.

sonny

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