When you use a Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) application to backup files on a volume that includes SQL Server database files, SQL Server records a backup operation in the backupset history table.

AlwaysOn encompasses high-availability and disaster recovery technologies that are also available in SQL Server 2012, including failover clustering and the use of active secondaries for backup.

You can of course also go through the msdb backup history tables and write your series of joins it’ll take to figure out when a DB was last backed up and then save that into a centralized table ...

The aim of this project is to design and implement an automated backup and recovery system for SQL Server databases, ensuring data integrity, availability, and minimal downtime. By establishing backup ...

I have a server running SQL 2008. I am backing up the SQL databases using BackupAssist, which just uses the built in SQL backup tools to save the database and transaction logs as .bak files to a ...

For backups of Microsoft SQL Server databases, DBAs would be well served to turn to Imceda Software’s LiteSpeed 2005.