11 Restore
In the previous chapter, we talked about how important backups are, but we’d argue that restores are equally important. When there’s a disaster, you need to quickly and (hopefully) easily restore your databases. PowerShell is the perfect solution, because it simplifies bulk actions.
Restores are fundamental for migrations, disaster recovery, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and even testing to ensure restores comply with governmental regulations. This chapter will cover the multitude of ways to effectively use our restore commands both for simplified restores and advanced ones as well. You’ll learn how to do the following:
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Restore an entire instance
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Create scripts that ease disaster recovery
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Quickly recover ...
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