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Backups with Maintenance Plans

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TJ - 29 Feb 2008 01:12 GMT
Hi

I am new to database administration, and I am considering my options
for backups. We are using SQL Server 2005 Standard.

I have done some reading and have determined the right backup scheme
for us is a weekly complete Simple backup with daily Differential
backups.

I would like to set this up with a Maintenance Plan. How do I do this?
- do I set up two Maintenance Plans, one with the weekly backup and
one with the differentials?
- or do I do this with one Plan?
- or is this not possible with Maintenance Plans, in which case I
should just schedule an agent with SQL scripts?

thanks,
TJ
Ben Nevarez - 29 Feb 2008 01:55 GMT
Hi,

You can create a Maintenance Plan for the weekly full backups and another
one for the daily differential backups.

Also, if your databases are smaller than, let us say, 100 or 200 GB perhaps
you can try daily full backups, depending on your backup window.

Hope this helps,

Ben Nevarez

> Hi
>
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> thanks,
> TJ
TJ - 29 Feb 2008 02:06 GMT
ok, thanks

Yeah, the backups are about 2 Gigs, so I could just do them as daily
full backups.
Ben Nevarez - 29 Feb 2008 02:51 GMT
Yeah, for only 2 GB do daily full backups including daily backups of your
system databases.

Hope this helps,

Ben Nevarez

> ok, thanks
>
> Yeah, the backups are about 2 Gigs, so I could just do them as daily
> full backups.
Tibor Karaszi - 29 Feb 2008 10:10 GMT
... and, of course, carefully consider whether you also want to do more frequent transaction log
backups. :-)

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> Yeah, for only 2 GB do daily full backups including daily backups of your
> system databases.
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>> Yeah, the backups are about 2 Gigs, so I could just do them as daily
>> full backups.
 
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