Network World

Backing up a database depends on how it’s delivered

How you back up your database depends three factors: how the database is delivered to you, the backup logistics of the database, and the recovery time objective (RTO) and the recovery point objective ...
Ars Technica

Backing Up SQL Server 2005 With Backup Exec

Do you have a BackupExec SQL Agent CAL?<BR><BR>You can't (well, shouldn't) back up the MDF/LDF files directly. If you have the CAL, BackupExec will use VSS to do a snapshot and backup a consistent ...
dbta

Redgate Helps Customers Back Up SQL Server to Amazon S3

Redgate Software has announced that the latest version of SQL Backup Pro now includes automatic integration with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), making it easier for users to store their SQL ...
Ars Technica

File transfer failing (SQL Backups)

I'm backing up SQL databases directly to a UNC path. Smaller (e.g. <5GB) work just fine, larger databases (this particular one is ~27GB) fails. Here is the log file ...