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Splitting a large database for backup

Dennis
12/30/2003 10:00:31 AM

sql server data warehouse: I have a database which is 54GB in size and currently
utilizes a single file group. What is the best way to
split this database so that I can back it up maybe piece
by piece?

I am unable to back the database right now coz' it takes

Re: Splitting a large database for backup

Vishal Parkar
12/31/2003 9:40:07 PM

hi Dennis,

You can stripe your backup sets. meaning start backing up database parallely
on more than one backup devices.
Ex:

backup database northwind to disk ='c:\d1', disk = 'c:\d2', disk='d:\d3'

You can also opt for strategy like, taking full backup on week-ends and
regular backups will be combination of differential or transaction log backups.
So your backups comprises of full, differential and transaction log backups.
Transaction log backups depends upon the recovery model of the database, If your
database model supports bulk-logged, full recovery then only you can take
transaction log backups.

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- Vishal

Re: Splitting a large database for backup

Joe Lax
1/1/2004 7:21:56 PM

Additionally, there's nothing stopping you from adding filegroups to your
database even if it originally was created with only one. You will then have
to move your tables around manually, which will require a certain amount of
fiddling and SQL coding on your part.

Joe Lax

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