How to perform SQL Server backup using SQL Server Maintenance Plans
If you are running SQL Server on AWS EC2, the responsibility of taking backups remains the responsibility of the user. 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 that is included in the differential backup. A differential backup captures only the data that has changed since that FULL backup. This is known as the base of the differential. A differential backup includes only the data that have changed 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 truncation the transaction logWith 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.
In this blog, we 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 Maintenance Plan
Step 06: Click OK
Step 07:Schedule the Maintenance plan
Step 08: Schedule the Plan for runs per Our requirement. (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
That’s it, your backups are scheduled on the server and you can move them to standard storage like AWS S3 for retention.
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