Simplified backup and instant recovery for Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server backup is the process of protecting and securing copies of all data stored in Microsoft SQL Server databases, so you can recover from outages or leverage the backups for development, testing, or analytics. 
 
A Microsoft SQL Server backup solution will protect databases and their corresponding log files, and enable database-level recovery anywhere, anytime. A good Microsoft SQL Server backup solution should help meet your organization’s data retention, data privacy, and business requirements cost-effectively while making it quick and easy to access backups for recovery and secondary purposes. 

Today, enterprises depend on Microsoft SQL Server for a broad range of essential business functions, which makes choosing the right backup solution critical. The goal is to protect databases from data loss and long-term outages, and avoid the often significant financial and productivity costs that can result. 
 
A cost-effective and reliable backup and recovery solution for Microsoft SQL Server is even more important because of the many data challenges enterprises face, such as:

• Data growth: Growing volumes of data increase the complexity and cost of backing up and recovering Microsoft SQL Servers
• Regulatory changes: Ever-changing compliance mandates like HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI make Microsoft SQL backups considerably more complex.
• Increasing costs: The more data organizations have, the more the business has to pay for bandwidth, storage, and data management.
• Slow backups and restores: As data grows, backups and restores take longer to complete, and performance can degrade significantly. 
• More complex environments: Enterprise businesses store and access data across many locations, including on-prem, edge, and cloud, which can complicate the management, security, and protection of data across these environments.

You back up Microsoft SQL Server by making copies of your databases and saving them to backup files. Or you can move the backups to another location or to the cloud for long-term retention and cost optimization. 
 
These backups become essential if something happens to your databases, or if you need to access the data for secondary purposes without impacting production.   
 
There are three different types of Microsoft SQL Server backups:

• Full backup: This is a complete copy of everything in the database, and it serves as a foundation for other backup types.  
  

• Differential backup: This type of backup contains all the changes that were made to the database since the most recent full backup. This has the advantage of a quicker recovery time, requiring only a full backup and the last differential backup to restore the entire Microsoft SQL database. 

• Transaction logs backup: This type of backup copies the transaction logs, which contain the whole history of modifications to the Microsoft SQL database. If you need to recover a database to a certain point in time, you can use this type of backup.