Backup and Restore Strategies
Your restore strategy determines your backup strategy. These operations cannot be planned separately. When you plan what backup strategy is best for your environment, first think about how and where the backups will be restored. This first step leads your planning down a path that will suit your environment and overall requirements better than thinking about backups first.
For example, how will you need the database backup to be available in the event of a restore? It could be in the form of a file on a tape that can be copied to a production location. It could be in the form of a disk that can be mirrored to a production location. It could be in the form of several backup files on a disk, or on several disks. The ...
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