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Microsoft (MS) SQL backup is the process of ensuring you have complete and protected copies of all the data stored in your production Microsoft SQL Server databases. These copies should be kept on a different system, preferably in a different physical location.
A MS SQL backup solution will protect SQL Server databases and their corresponding log files and enable database-level recovery anywhere, anytime. The goal of having a MS SQL Server backup solution is to meet your organization’s data retention, data privacy, and strategic requirements while providing support for dev/test and ensuring compliance mandates are being met cost-effectively.
Today, enterprises depend on Microsoft SQL Server for a wide range of essential business functions, making choosing the right backup solution a critical decision. The goal is to protect the data stored on Microsoft SQL Servers against data loss and long-term outages, both of which can incur significant financial and productivity costs.
Unfortunately, many backup products only partially protect MS SQL Server against data loss. In contrast, complete data management solutions provide comprehensive protection for MS SQL Server, while also allowing SQL Servers to be instantly recovered and brought back online in the event of a natural disaster or loss of data.
MS SQL backup is even more important because of recent database trends that raise additional challenges:
You back up Microsoft SQL Server by copying of your database and saving it to a backup file. If you want, you can then move the MS SQL backup to another computer or to the cloud. You need to ensure you have enough capacity available at your target location. You can use deduplication and compression to significantly reduce the size of your backup file.
This backup will be essential if something happens to your MS SQL database. If a table becomes corrupt, or you lose a database completely, you will be able to access and reload the data from this backup. That’s why it’s critical to test your backups to ensure that they are recoverable, and accessible when you need them.
There are three different types of MS SQL backups:
Leading data management vendors with solutions that support database protection allow you to back up your MS SQL databases automatically with a single, software-defined solution that is simple, smart, and secure.
Legacy backup products store each incremental backup as a delta from the previous backup. This creates long, breakable chains and requires time-consuming consolidation to facilitate a recovery. In contrast, a modern solution can instantly recover databases and VMs from any backup because all full and incremental backups are stored in the same format as in the original environment.
When teams choose a modern data management solution, they can store SQL backups on-prem or in any cloud. These backups are immutable, meaning they cannot be accessed by external systems or users.
A MS SQL solution from a data management leader allows you to back up all your SQL databases at once with a single, software-defined platform that is simple, secure, and intelligent. You can create instant zero-cost clones without touching the production database. You can give your developers and test teams access to high-fidelity database data in seconds—all without additional infrastructure overhead.
With a modern data management solution, backup schedules are part of a protection policy.
A modern enterprise solution for MS SQL Server will allow backup data to be stored in a number of storage types, including cloud, local disks, and tape.
With a modern solution for backup, you can use instant global search to find your MS SQL Server backup files.
No one ever imagines that a disastrous situation will occur, but having a plan is imperative. Organizations choosing Cohesity for Microsoft SQL backup can now achieve near-instant recovery time objectives (RTOs) for mission-critical production databases. When human or naturally occurring disasters happen, or a complete database failure causes downtime that will have a significant impact on the organization, rapid recovery of core databases is critical.
The ability of an enterprise to recover from a data disaster can make or break the future success of the business. Here are the many ways Cohesity’s data protection solution for Microsoft SQL Server stands apart from other products: