

It can help organizations become more focussed on protecting its critical assets.Ĭopyright © 2019-2023 Solutions Architects, Veeam Software. SQL Server backup methods and best practices Whitepaper DecemSQL Server Backup and Restore in a Veeam environment The purpose of this paper is to describe SQL Server backup in general and also the options you have for backing up your Microsoft SQL Server databases. It involves knowledge on a broad scope of areas like security measures, technology, data management, and people and processes. A good starting point is by hardening key infrastructure components.

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Restoring VMs to an HPE 3PAR with thin disks.Backup Repository HA using Windows Storage Replica.So any help would be greatly appreciated.

Backing up the whole VM is not fast enough with VM snapshot mode. Since the SQL server is very busy, sometimes when the Veeam ABckup failed after 55 hrs of the backup job, snapshot removal process kills it for 3 hours bringing down the entire business with it.ģ. I cannot backup the whole VM due to the below concerns and stumble block:Ģ. So my question is, can I just backup the C: drive and the E: drive only so that I can back it up more frequently like every 6 hours (using Veeam Backup - VM snapshot, no SQL transaction logs commit)?ĭoes backing up the OS and the E: drive containing the SQL maintenance backup file dump is enough to restore it functionally? I've got about 8x SQL Servers VM that is used 24x7 and very big, with some of them is around 12.5 TB in single VM (multiple large VMDK):
