May 2010
Intermediate to advanced
815 pages
21h 55m
English
book
SQL Server® 2008 Administration: Real World Skills for MCITP Certification and Beyond
by Tom Carpenter
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Chapter 16
Backup and Restoration
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:
- Back Up a Database
- Back Up System Databases
- Restore a Database
- Back Up the Environment
Why create a backup? Numerous reasons exist and some are obvious. First of all, hard drives do not last forever—even when they are configured for fault tolerance. If the hard drive you're using to store your database fails and you do not have a backup of the database, you may lose all the data in the database. Backing up the data regularly is one way to ensure you can recover in the event of a hard-drive failure. Secondly, data can be corrupted through server failures or code mistakes, among ...