Backing Up the Transaction Log
As discussed, the full and bulk-logged recovery models cause transactions to be written to the database’s transaction log. These transactions should be backed up periodically for two main reasons. First, the transaction log backups can be used in case of a media failure to restore work completed in the database. These backups limit your exposure to data loss and enable you to reapply changes that have occurred.
The second reason for backing up the transaction log is to keep the size of the log manageable. Keep in mind that SQL Server is a write-ahead database management system (DBMS) and thus writes most changes to the transaction log first, before it updates the actual data files. This type of DBMS is great for ...
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