You’ve heard me talk about this many times, in so many different ways, but it’s worth repeating: SQL maintenance lifecycles are important.
People who disagree, disagree because they spend too much time firefighting and don’t have time to really think about it. Don’t know anything about SQL maintenance lifecycles? Let’s touch on a couple of points…today, we’ll cover SQL backup.
Let’s talk about some of the challenges that DBAs face when managing backups with Availability Groups. Then we’ll talk about solving these issues with Minion Backup.
Today I’d like to talk about two topics that get overlooked quite often, the “backups” to the backup, so to speak. First up: proper backup alerting. And second, missing backup recovery.
What’s the most expensive cup of coffee you’ve ever bought? Was it $6, $8, $15? Try a cup of coffee that cost $2,000. And worst yet, it was made at home. Let me tell you a tale of disaster recovery…
It’s easy to backup the ResourceDB with Minion Backup. And while it’s not a setting (yet), it only takes one step. Here, we show you exactly how to do it.