Microsoft sql server backup folder

Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Submit and view feedback for This product This page. View all page feedback. In this article. Specify a remote file as your backup destination, enter its fully qualified universal naming convention UNC name.

Choose this option to select a logical backup device. Choose this option to select a tape drive as the backup destination from the list of tape drives that are physically connected to the computer that is running the server instance.

Note that if any file in a filegroup is offline for example, because the file is being restored , the whole filegroup is offline and cannot be backed up.

File backups of read-only filegroups can be combined with partial backups. A file backup can serve as the differential base for differential file backups. Full file backups are typically called file backups , except when they are being explicitly compared with differential file backups. Using file backups can increase the speed of recovery by letting you restore only damaged files, without restoring the rest of the database.

For example, if a database consists of several files that are located on different disks and one disk fails, only the file on the failed disk has to be restored. The damaged file can be quickly restored, and recovery is faster than it would be for an entire database.

File backups increase flexibility in scheduling and media handling over full database backups, which for very large databases can become unmanageable. The increased flexibility of file or filegroup backups is also useful for large databases that contain data that has varying update characteristics. The primary disadvantage of file backups compared to full database backups is the additional administrative complexity. Maintaining and keeping track of a complete set of these backups can be a time-consuming task that might outweigh the space requirements of full database backups.

A media failure can make a complete database unrecoverable if a damaged file lacks a backup. A full file backup backs up all the data in one or more files or filegroups. By default, file backups contain enough log records to roll forward the file to the end of the backup operation. Backing up a read-only file or filegroup is the same for every recovery model. Under the full recovery model, a complete set of full file backups, together with enough log backups to span all the file backups, is the equivalent of a full database backup.

Only one file backup operation can occur at a time. This has worked for me; however, there are issues when I go to restore my backups.

Cannot access the specified path or file on the server. Verify that you have the necessary security privileges and that the path or file exists. If you know that the service account can access a specific file, type in the full path for the file in the File Name control in the Locate dialog box. If I manually enter the entire share path and filename into the 'Locate backup file' dialog that appears afterwards, it works and is able to restore the file - however, this is a large pain in the rear.

This tip should be updated. But now it is back again as you mentioned using Facets. Also worth a mention is the fact you get a chance to set the dafault backup directory during the installation process. Thank you. With the help of this tip I solved my "The BackupDirectory registry key is not configured correctly I also had done a backup for this database prior to changing the location and it still showed the new location using the GUI.

You could also try this to see if the backup for one of these databases goes to the new location and put in your database name and the name of the file for the backup file without specifying a backup location. Sam are you saying that for newer databases the backups go to the new backup location, but for older databases the backups go to the older backup folder?

Just want to make sure I understand the need. This worked great for new databases that are created. However, the default location for databases that existed before the registry change still defaults to the old location. Is there a fix for that? To do what you want, I'd recommend using Red-Gate's SQL Backup as it runs exceptionally quickly, including compression HUGE disk saving , and has a simple "copy to network drive" option you can employ.

The guys here tried local and network-copy using native commands but it became a pain - they were glad of SQL Backup's feature Hope you can justify the minimal expense for what the tool delivers.

Thanks, Mike, it had to be "something different" for 2K. Will give it a whirl on our test box Is there a way to point to a remote server's shared folder s? This will make backup to remote servers and keep a copy standing by for better recoverability.

Currently, I am backing up in the local server SQL and then copying to remote server. There doesn't appear to be an equivalent registry area for 2K.