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Upgrading SQL Server

Inside The Edge — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:12:47 GMT

There are numerous reasons to upgrade SQL Server. You may be on SQL Server 2000 and have read that Blackbaud

re: End of Support for SQL 2000 and What it Means to You

Ahmed Momoh — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:01:02 GMT

It's about time David. Thank you for the information and guide.I already looking forward to your next post.

Backup and Recovery, Part 2 - Testing your Backups

Inside The Edge — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:57:21 GMT

In my last post , we discussed the importance of backing up your database and we briefly discussed the

re: Backups and Recovery, Part 1

David Johnson — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:02:33 GMT

Honey, one other note. You can post this question on our database\technical forum at http://forums.blackbaud.com to get advice form other Blackbaud database administrators.

re: Backups and Recovery, Part 1

David Johnson — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:58:19 GMT

Thanks for your question Honey.

I cannot say exactly how long you should keep your backups. It depends on how far back you think you may need to go to find missing data. It also can depend on company policy and federal, state and industry regulations.

To minimize the number of tapes that you are storing you may want to consider a Grandfather-Father-Son storage plan (en.wikipedia.org/.../Grandfather-father-son_backup). You can even modify this plan to have a Great Grandfather where every six months (or once a year) you save one of your monthly backups for and then recycle the montly, or grandfather backups.

re: Backups and Recovery, Part 1

Honey Chambers — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Can anyone recommend how long I should be keeping my backup tapes?

re: Backups and Recovery, Part 1

Nicholai Burton — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:54:55 GMT

Good post, David!

For those who don't have an automated backup solution, don't spend any money. You can pay $1100 for Symantec Backup Exec to move your backup onto a tape drive, or you can save that money, use the free function built into Windows, and then spend it on things that further your mission. Just adjust this and set it as a scheduled task to move the BAK or ZIP file after the Management Console creates it:

xcopy "source" "destination" /E /V /Y