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Learn PowerShell Core 6.0
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Learn PowerShell Core 6.0

by David das Neves, Jan-Hendrik Peters
July 2018
Beginner
552 pages
13h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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Backup, restore, and test

Similar to the SqlServer module command, dbatools also has commands to back up and restore databases. However, it offers a lot more control over the details, and more tooling around backup to supplement them. A few example commands are as follows:

# Backup the databases selectedBackup-DbaDatabase -SqlInstance Server1 -Database HR, Finance# Restore databasesRestore-DbaDatabase -SqlInstance server1\instance1 -Path \\server2\backups# List backup historyGet-DbaBackupHistory -SqlInstance server1# Measure backup throughputMeasure-DbaBackupThroughput -SqlInstance server1

The core feature tool in dbatools relating to backup, however, is the automated backup test command, that enables dbas to verify that their backups actually ...

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