How to remove old SQL Server backups
How to remove old SQL Server backups – quick tutorial: Managing storage space occupied by your backups is a task that should not […]
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SQLBackupAndFTP: the SQL Backup master
Everyone knows that the most important task that any DBA has to be able to do is to take safe and reliable […]
Set 7zip CPU priority to LOW
As you might know already if you’re creating backups and also monitoring your server’s resources you have seen that the CPU is […]
SQL Server Remote Backup
Please see the more recent and detailed articles: Remote SQL Server backups explained or How to backup remote SQL Server database using SQLBackupAndFTP […]
Configure SQLBackupAndFTP NLog
If you encounter a situation in which you run a job to backup your database to Dropbox for example or to another […]
Set Amazon S3 access policy to minimum permission
Due to security reasons, most admins will prefer to create accounts for any system with minimum privileges. So now you might wonder […]
How to lower the priority of 7-zip process
Let’s assume you have a large database and SQLBackupAndFTP is using 7-zip to compress your database’s backups. You might notice that during […]
What is WARNING: Database db-name is SUSPECT?
What is WARNING: Database <db-name> is SUSPECT? You have probably seen databases marked as SUSPECT in SSMS and you don’t know what […]
Set TraceLog attribute of Google Drive destination to TRUE value
When using SQLBackupAndFTP with Google Drive as your cloud storage for your backup files, you might encounter an error that reports “Invalid […]
Amazon S3 destination chunk size configuration
Does uploading your backup to Amazon S3 with SQLBackupAndFTP take a long time? This article will show you what to do to […]