Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed

Backup Scenarios

Typically, several different types of backups are used in a comprehensive backup plan. These backups are often combined to produce maximum recoverability while balancing the load on the system and amount of time to recover the database. The following backup scenarios outline some of the ways SQL Server backups are used.

Note

Many of the examples that follow utilize a backup directory named c:\mssql\backup. If you are interested in running some of these examples on your own system, you need to create this directory on the database server first before running the scripts that reference this directory. You can use backup and data directories different from the default directory to simplify the directory structure for the SQL Server ...