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Posted by Jay on 06/08/05 12:42
"Oscar Santiesteban Jr." <oscarsantiesteban@worldnet.att.net> wrote in
message news:Qgtpe.912601$w62.11314@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> Jay,
>
> The only thing I use the maintenance jobs for are two (2) tasks.
> 1. checking the consistency of the database (usually at 11pm on Sat)
> 2. doing the reindex of the database (usally at 1 am on Fri)
Forgive me if I don't follow your practise. Those hours are the only hours
I'm *not* thinking about DBs :)
I've learned that the transaction log is written to 2 HDD (raid) so it isn't
as bad as I thought.
As a precaution I now back up the transaction log to a USB drive each
lunchtime.
Cheers
Jay
> The rest of the backups I script manually. I create a backup device for
> each database.
> Job #1 - Full Backup of the database (usually at 6pm each night)
> Job #2 - Transaction log backup every hour from 7am to 5pm.
> Job #3 - Full backup of the database to a separate device at 12 noon (not
> all databases)
>
> Oscar....
>
> "Jay" <jazemail@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Hqepe.5753$U4.811596@news.xtra.co.nz...
>> I've recently inherited a position where I am responsible for the
> well-being
>> of some DBs.
>> 2 (much) more important than others.
>> The current recovery model, from what I can tell, is to do a full db/log
>> backup overnight.
>> This .bak file is then written to tape as well as saved on the disk for 2
>> days.
>>
>> Both these dbs are used fairly extensively 8-5pm and losing data would
>> not
>> be good.
>> The db sizes are approx 5gb and 3gb.
>> This doesn't seem like the ideal situation to me. Everything I read tells
>> me... full backup periodically, differential nightly and transaction
> hourly.
>> Agreed?
>> If so then I have 2 questions:
>> 1. Is the best way to do this via a maintenance plan or by scripting and
>> scheduling?
>> 2. What, if any, overhead can be expected with regular transaction
>> backups
>> during work hours?
>>
>> A bit of a pointer to #1 would be appreciated also.
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>
>
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