Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 03/01/06 00:29

figital (mharen@gmail.com) writes:
> Are procedures with this frequency typical?!

Backing up the log every 15 minutes? Yes, I would expect many shops to
this.

> We usually perform operations like these daily at most.

And many shops do it that way. It all depends on your needs.

I recall many years ago, one of our customers had a fire io a disk
cabinet, and I went there to run DBCC to see if the database was in
shape. It wasn't, but what was worse, when I restored a backup that
also gave me a corrupted database, although it was different errors.
I think we had to go back a week to find a good backup. The customer
was quite nervous and eager to know when we had the database back up.
But that was for the read access, so that they could answer customers
on the phone. The fact that they had to re-register transactions for a
week was no big deal. This being a financial institution, they had
their transacion log on paper so to speak.



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