I want to phase out the Azure SQL server. However I don't want to delete it the first time, I would prefer to manually pause (avoiding it to auto-start in case of some connection) and after 30 days, delete the server.
How to safely keep the Azure database backup files for 30 days and then delete this server?
How to safely keep the Azure database backup files for 30 days and then delete this server?
Move it down to the Serverless tier and pause it, so you pay only for the storage, or you can also delete the database and rely on the ability to restore a deleted database.
Or you can opt-in to Long Term Backup Retention.
Or you can export the database to a .bacpac file (not a .bak SQL Server backup).
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I have to restore a database of 1 TB size from Production to Development. The current Development database is of 500 GB size and I have 700 GB free space on Development server SQL drive. Now, I should be able to restore the DB to Dev as 500+700=1200 GB space available on DEV. Is this possible or should I drop the existing 500 GB Dev database and restore the Prod backup on DEV?
How come, replacing the existing database by restore, is different from dropping the existing db then restore in MS SQL Server context?
Can anybody please explain?
If you restore into an existing db name, then SQL Server will delete the existing database for you and then create the new (database files) so that the restore process can copy data from the backup to the (newly created) database files. I.e., same thing as if you first delete the database.
(If the existing database file has the same logical name and file size, then the actual file deletion and creation doesn't happen since the "containers" are already there.)
Anybody help me, How to take continuous backup from AZURE portal.(I don't have virtual machine in AZURE) It should be like scheduler running back side and will take back up from sql server in month interval.
SQL Database automatically creates database backups.
If you want it to create backup in month interval, you could upgrade your database service tier to Standard or Premium, SQL Database keeps existing backups until they are 35 days old. It keeps new backups as they occur for 35 days.
For more details, you could refer to this article.
Does SharePoint 2013 restore only from Database?
I have a scheduled script in MSSQL Server to run all database backups daily , and my SharePoint site also require a daily differential/weekly full backup usually happen in Central Administration. I am aware that multiple backups running would break log chain in this case.
If I stop doing backup in Central Administration and let DB does the backup only, would I be still able to restore my SharePoint site (Contents and Configurations)?
Does SharePoint 2013 restore only from Database?
The short answer is no. A full fidelity SharePoint farm backup is mostly databases but there is also configuration information and data that is stored outside of the databases. The Central Admin backup facility (as well as the Backup-SPFarm powershell commands) initiate SQL backups as well as backups of all the stuff that isn't in SQL. That is the only point-and-click (or type a single command) solution.
Could you get away with only having some of the databases to recreate your environment? Sure but then you'd have to have a documented and tested (and ideally automated) process for recreating the farm from the databases.
My case is in SQL Server, I want to take backup of a database. The transnational data in the database is purged based on a retention period, say 90 days. The requirement is to have an archive on another server for up to 10 years, so that user can run ad-hoc queries directly on the stored data. I guess neither creating a replica nor standard backup using SSIS is not beneficial. The question is what sort of solution is the best fit with the requirement?
Try this - You can setup replication from transactional "current" database to Archive database. While setting up replication, you can configure the delete activity to NOT replicate.
Have an empty db on live server. Call it "tempo"
Every 90 days, move data from live db to tempo db
Backup tempo db and restore it on archive server
Copy data from tempo to archive database
Drop tempo db
We are looking at migrating one of our databases from SQL Server 2008 Express to SQL Server 2012. The guy that has been taking care of the database says he always does a detach, copy the files to the new server and attach. This takes the database offline of course.
Is there a benefit in doing that vs. right click backup, copy backup files and right click restore on the new server?
Taking a backup should pull everything without taking the DB offline correct?
Is there a recommended best practice for this?
(New to the MS database world)
You could Backup and Restore
You will still have to "un-orphan" sql-users to db-users.
BACKUP DATABASE MyDB TO DISK = 'c:\backups\MyDB.bak' WITH FORMAT
RESTORE DATABASE MyDB FROM DISK = 'c:\backups\MyDB.bak' WITH REPLACE,
MOVE 'MyDB' TO 'd:\sqlfiles\mydb.mdf',
MOVE 'MyDB_Log' TO 'd:\sqlfiles\mydb_log.ldf'
Change the paths however you want.
I'm not sure about best practice, but I have done this more times than I can remember and never had an issue by backing up the DB, taking the old DB offline, and restoring the backup to the new server.
I guess on really high traffic systems you may want to take the DB offline first to ensure nothing changes during your backing up (new records added etc. which would be lost). If you take the DB offline first then you can't back up the DB, so I guess that's when attaching the individual files to the new server becomes necessary as opposed to just restoring the backup.