SQL Backup Tools

SharePoint 2010, fully loaded and deployed with Office Web Application, all Service applications, Logging database, FAST Search, Content Databases, and Configuration Databases will have approximately 25 databases stored in SQL Server 2008. That is a huge number of databases to maintain and certainly a lot of content in these databases! To minimize the loss of content, it is crucial to incorporate a solid SQL database backup plan to back up all these databases.

Many options are available to back up SharePoint databases in SQL Server. In addition to Central Administration and SharePoint 2010 Management Shell, SQL Server facilitates the backup and restore of SharePoint 2010 databases with the SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Server Maintenance Plans, or Transact-SQL scripts that can be executed from within SQL Server. Further, a third-party SQL backup engine can also be used to back up these SharePoint 2010 databases.

Although the backup options out-of-the-box in SharePoint give an array of tools to back up the configuration and the content databases; critical SQL Server databases such as Master, MSDB, and TempDB cannot be backed up by these tools from within SharePoint. If a catastrophic event or hardware failure occurs, restoring the full SQL Server installation to the point of failure is not possible unless there is a strategic plan to do a backup and recovery of SQL Server databases.

In addition to the standard backup features in SQL Server 2008, Backup Compression has been introduced.

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