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SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide
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SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide

by Marek Chmel
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
434 pages
10h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using full, transaction log, and differential backup strategies

The only possible issue when using transaction log backups is that the amount of backups becomes quite big. It has an impact on RTO. This is a measure determining how long the downtime will be noticed before the database is recovered.

In previous sections, we went through a set of backups beginning with full backup and continuing with transaction log backups one by one. The differential backup is added to the backup strategy for better jumps in time. As it was described in the backup part of this chapter, differential backup contains all extents changed from the last full backup. When using this strategy, we can have a set of backups, as shown in the following list:

  • 3 a.m.: ...
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ISBN: 9781786462541