This was the slide deck that I had used for my presentation on the topic “Lesser Known facts of SQL Server Backup and Restore” at Microsoft India TechEd 2012.

1. Lesser Known
facts of SQL
Server Backup
GO BIG! Amit Banerjee
and Restore
www.troubleshootingsql.com
http://twitter.com/banerjeeamit

2. About Me
SQL Server
Escalation
Services
Community Speaker
Premier Field @ SQL Saturday |
SQL
Engineer based Virtual Tech Days |
Nexus, Backup
out of Bangalore Tech Ed
Simulator, SQLD
IAG
6 years as Configuration
MSFT Manager

3. Agenda
Backup/
Restore Planning Demystify
#TechEdIn | @banerjeeamit

4. Types
Backup/Restore can be done in three different ways
Native VSS VDI
T-SQL Volume Shadow Virtual Device
commands Service Interface
T-SQL Snapshot 3rd Party Tools

5. Native
T-SQL commands

6. Native Backup and Restore
Backup/ Restore
Database
• Full Piecemeal
• T-Log Options
• Differential
• File/Filegroup
Backup Options

7. VSS
Volume Shadow
Service

8. VSS – Volume Shadow
Service

9. DEMO

10. VDI
Virtual Device
Interface

11. VDI – Virtual Device Interface
SQLVDI Types of Backup
APIs Full
Device Config Log
Differential
File/Filegroup

12. DEMO

13. Planning

14. Planning
Document/ RPO/RT
Dry Run O
VLDB
Automate
options

15. Demystify

16. Demystifying
Some unknowns that are worth knowing!!!
BUFFERCOU MAXTRANSFERSIZ
NT E
I/O is frozen on database
msdb. No user action is
required.
I/O was resumed on database Full backup
msdb. No user action is doesn’t break
required. backup chain!

17. DEMO

18. Thank you for time and
patience! Hope you had as
much fun as I did in
presenting the same!
Contact Details
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20. Resources
Developers Infrastructure Professionals
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