SQL Server Backup
Best Practices and Articles

Here’s what we’ve put together over the years to protect your data.

• SQL Server Backup Best Practices – my own best practices for backing up databases from the 10+ years I’ve been doing it.
• Back Up To The Network, Not Local Disk – I explain why you shouldn’t write your SQL Server backups to the same disks your data lives on.
• Carbonite Failures – I talked about the problems with Carbonite, and what DBAs can learn from them.  I also followed up on the Carbonite issues after David Friend (their CEO) commented on the blog.
• Journalspace Failure – another dot-com bites the dust because they didn’t have good database backups.
• Ma.gnolia Backup Failures – online bookmark sharing service couldn’t restore from backups, and went under.
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