If you run SQL Server on AWS EC2, taking backups remains the user’s responsibility. The different types of backups available are as below:
* FULL Database Backup: This is the most extensive method of backing up your data and involves creating a copy of your entire data and objects.
* Differential Database Backup: A differential backup is based on the most recent, previous FULL backup of the data included in the differential backup. A differential backup captures only the changed data since that FULL backup. This is known as the base of the differential. A differential backup includes only the changed data since the differential base.
* Transaction log backup. This backup type will backup all of the transactions that have occurred since the last log backup or truncation; then it will truncate the transaction log with a transaction log backup; you can restore a database to a particular point in time, aka point-in-time recovery, like right before a data loss event. There are 2 ways to schedule SQL Server backups:
1. Using SQL Agent jobs
2. Using the Maintenance plan.
This blog will explain how to take backups using the Maintenance plan, Steps to Create a maintenance plan in SQL Server.
Step 01: Login to the server using DB Admin credentials
Step 02: Expand the Management Node
Step 03: Right-click on the maintenance node
Step 04: Go through with New maintenance plan
Step 05: Give a Name For the Maintenance Plan
Step 06: Click OK
Step 07:Schedule the Maintenance plan
Step 08: Schedule the Plan for runs per Our requirements. (Weekly, Daily, Hourly)
Step 09: Select the various Maintenance Tasks
Step 10: Select Plan Properties
Step 11: Update the Define statistics
Step 12: Add The task details.
Step 13: Verify the details and click finish. It will create a Maintenance plan and job
Your backups are scheduled on the server, and you can move them to standard storage like AWS S3 for retention.
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