There’s quite a bit of overlap among HA technologies, but they’re typically meant to protect against different things. The good news: many of them work together quite well! Here are the more popular approaches, and what they’re primarily for.
Data folks talk a lot about uptime and “five nines”…a goal which means that 99.999% of the time, the system must be up. The issue is that many companies don’t bother to define what downtime means to them, and what downtime-causing threats are.
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.
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…