A central tenet of Disaster Recovery (DR) is that you should always maintain an offsite or off-premises copy of your critical database backups. The logic behind this is simple – if you don’t have access to your premises, for example in case of a natural disaster affecting your area, your offsite backups mean that you can restore them and still have access to your critical data. Let’s take a more in-depth look at cloud-based storage for your SQL Server backups. Continue reading How to set up Cloud-based Storage for SQL Server Backup
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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 create a user for Amazon S3 service that has minimum permissions in order to backup databases with SQLBackupAndFTP in a certain bucket and folder? It’s quite easy…
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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 drastically reduce the time it takes.
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